Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004 12:32 p.m.

and the weird coincidence of the year award goes to...

ok, sometimes coincidences are so weird that they don�t seem like coincidences...i mean, seriously, how weird is the world sometimes?!

so, i'm out here in l.a., out of college, and realizing that i miss learning and decide to sign up for a ucla extension class just for fun. and of all classes, what class do i sign up for? a philosophy of mind class - i know, there's something seriously wrong with me...taking this class "for fun"...what the hell is wrong with me, right? well, i'm kinda excited because i've never taken a class that's been presented from a completely opposite side of christianity. and at ucla of all places! i mean, this is l.a.!! i knew there had to be other interesting characters in this class 'cause there's only so many people in the world who are facinated and really care wether or not we have a mind, you know? AND it's on the ucla campus!! i can't even tell you how crazy it is to step foot on a place this huge!

anyways, so the class has been good so far, really interesting and not as over-my-head as i thought a "secular" class would be coming from my "christian" education. the professor is cool, the other people in the class are cool, it's an overall great time. i don't like to speak much in class since i realize i don't know anything anyways and a lot of people who ask a bunch of questions in philosophy classes are arrogant bastards who usually don't know anything.

but for some crazy reason that i still don't understand i decided to make a comment (after class) to the professor about the weirdness of my religious background as compared with this class. AND come to find out, to make a long story short, i found out that the professor graduated from ACU!!!!! ACU!! do you understand how crazy of a thing this is?! i mean, here i am, thinking that i'm this odd person to escape from ACU without specific religious beliefs and how amazing it is to get to take a class from this "secular" viewpoint, and my own professor teaching it went to the same conservative christian college that i did!!

it's just weird. weird. weird weird. so we talked after class about some of the stuff you'd have to be a student of that particular univ. to understand and how he got to be a philosohpy professor at ucla. he was a religious studies major. how funny. he got married to a girl he met there. even funnier. ahh...good ole ACU...so people can learn to think after leaving that place after all... :)

but isn't it weird that of ALL ucla extension classes, i choose that one? i should've taken a history class like i really meant to, but when i first got the brochure, i just knew i had to be in THIS class. and of all the philosophy professors at ucla, THIS one decided to teach THIS class. and of all the times i don't speak in classes, i decided to say something in THIS class ABOUT MY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION to THIS very professor who understood it!

sometimes things just seem too coincidental to be just a coincidence, but i�m not sure, especially given the context of the very class i'm taking it in, that i can believe it to be anything else. and that almost makes it even weirder.

previous | next