Westboro Protest Alternative

So everyone has heard about Westboro Baptist coming to school to protest. Like everyone else it really is frustrated that someone would say that VT deserved that for our sins. Everyone knows that April 16 caused a lot of pain in the Hokie Nation. It is frustrating that people will come to our school, our home and protest that tragedy. What pisses me off even more is that they do this in the name of God. I just want to clarify that they are an extremist group and that most Christians don’t say that God hates gays because the truth is that God loves everyone. If He hates gay people why would he send His Son to die on the cross to save the world. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he gave His Son and whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” It doesn’t say He gave the world to the non sinners because if it said that then God would have no reason to send His Son. Everyone sins! I am sorry if you get annoyed with this blog, but it needs to be said and I feel that people need to know the truth about God and not the abstracted views of this radical group. If the people of the Westboro church were truly Christians they would see that what they are doing is pushing people way from God. I again with most people on how to handle this event. Ignore them! Go and spend your time helping Rely for Life. The reason they are doing it is for the attention so don’t give it to them. There is a video posted on Collegiate Times, online, which shows how a young man used the Westboro protesting to raise money for different charities. I think that Relay for Life is a great way to do the same thing and it is something positive that VT can do to ignore this protest.

Have you ever watched someone get the shit beat out of them and there was nothing you could do? You feel helpless, sad, and pissed off; especially if it is someone you love. Before you think that I watch someone get their assed kicked let me say that it was a game and she was not actually beaten up. So Delta Zig had their Egyptian Expedition last week and it was concluded by field games with the sororities. Egyptian Expedition is their philanthropy. Sarah participated in one of the field games with her sorority. It was called gladiator. It was exactly like the game from American Gladiators when the challengers would have to try and get balls into bins before the gladiator knocked the ball all of their hands or stopped them in some way. Well as you can see in class, Sarah not very big. I missed her first match of Gladiator and she said she did well; she had a few slide tackles and played aggressively. I was proud of her. I am glad that she felt good about how she played. I watched her next two matches and let me say that it looked brutal. The first Gladiator battle had these two huge defenders out on the field. These girls were bigger than me so they towered over Sarah. As she would try and run around them they would put her on the ground somehow either by throwing her, pulling her shirt, or just pushing her. All they were supposed to be doing is pulling a flag off of her from around her waist. Her head hit the trash cans a few times which looked horrible from where I was. And what made it worse for me was a girl beside me was giving them a hard time for not getting up fast enough or putting their flags back on fast enough. That just frustrated me! Then in the next game some %#$&@ kept throwing her flag across the field when they were only suppose to drop them where they grabbed it at. I felt so bad for Sarah and it was very difficult to watch her being thrown on the ground and getting frustrated. I was so proud of her though. She never gave up and would always get up as fast as she could. I know she had fun, but I hope she never decides to do something like that again.

So I just go t some horrible news from my friend on Facebook. A friend from my high school is going on a date with a guy, but not just any guy. This guy is annoying, weird, awkward, borderline stalker. I will not tell you his full name one because that could be bad for me and two I do not actually know it. So this guy, let’s call him Ike, went on a People to People trip with me the summer before my junior year. We went to France, Italy, and Malta. Throughout the whole trip he said stupid things. He would brag about things you should not brag about; he lied about drinking a whole bottle of Absinth in one night. I am sure that is possible for some people because it was not that big of a bottle, but he was not tipsy at all. Yes, he is rather large, but he would still get drunk. It is Absinth and it is illegal in Virginia for a reason. Anyways, he is a really annoying person. I feel like I have certain responsibilities as a friend to let her know what kind of a person he actually is, but I feel like she should be able to make her own decisions. I think if they went out and it did not go well that he would be like a creeper and just bother her and other people from our high school which I do not want to happen. I just do not know what I should do. What would you do? Let your friend go out with someone and find out for themselves that the person is a weird creeper slash stalker guy. I also do not want Ike to start hanging out with our friends from high school come to visit. They do not deserve to have to put up with Ike and his stupid comments. I think I am going to say something to m friend. She needs to know how he really is and if she still wants to go out with him that is fine, but I have to let her know.