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The Brand November 16 1995
Kidney stones really test a person's pain tolerance
My mind is running 60 million
miles a minute as I try to come back
down to Earth after being in a disori-
ented state of blah.
The last 17 days for me have been
hectic from A to Z During this deleri-
ous time I have had a kidney stone
attack which was followed by a
week's stay in the hospital and taught
me what pain tolerance is all about
This happened at the most inop-
portune time. We are hitting the home
stretch of the semester and I have
missed some crucial classes as well as
fallen behind on my research papers
and a few tests.
They say that giving birth to a
kidney stone is like having a baby.
Well I don't know if it is all that but
it is definitely the most painful thing
that has ever happened to me. It felt
as if someone drove a spear through
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my lower back. Therethe pain drifted
to the lower left side bf my torso. It
was the most complete pain that I
have ever experienced.
All that I can say is that the Dyess
Hospital staff that care for my attack
did a great job in helping me deal
with the initial pain. s )
Now I just bear minimal painj on
a day to day basis.
I'm wondering if there a cate-
gory for the most x-rays in ajmonth in
ue Guinnes Book of World's Records. I
think I could definitely be a contender
for the record since they track what
seems like every movement of my
ever-so-painful friend Mr. Stone.
That would certainly be a dubi-
ous honor.
A Hostage Countdown
It is now Day 44 of the Hostage
Crisis that claimed my wife's services
to support her Air Force commitment
in Saudi Arabia. It is almost to the
point where I can start counting
down instead of up. When I hit Day
50 it is all downhill.
I got a little scared for her safety
earlier this week after hearing about
the car bombing that killed seven in
Saudi Arabia.
But as with all things in life you
learn to cope with the stress and
strain rseP-
aration with
just a little
bit of com-
passion and
trust thrown
in.
I just
keep count-
ing and
waiting
school is
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Mrs. Hilburn
really a posi
tive way of occupying my time.
It also does not help having her
gone during my Mr. Stone Crisis.
It is just Crisis Crisis Crisis. I
sound like a whiner and that was not
what I was aiming to present.
Oh well I'm entitled. I think I
have suffured enough to speak my
mind.
Article brings up questions about athiest-oriented church
In an article entitled "Atheists :
Defenders of NonBelief " found in
the Nov. 11 edition of The Dallas
Morning News I was intrigued to
leam more about the "Church of Free
Thought " located in North Texas.
This church is a unique blend of
atheists and other skeptics who have
objected to traditional forms of reli-
gion. The founders created the
church to provide "non-believers with
the social and emotional benefits that
religious churches offer .....(1G ) ."
What could be more paradoxical than
an atheistic church?
In pondering this unique phe-
nomenon I began to wonder if our
Christian churches fail to do some-
thing the Atheist "church" does: pro-
vide its members with rational dis-
course to feed the mind. All too often
I leave a church spiritually and emo-
tionally filled but lack a similar ful-
fillment for my mind. Sermons and
Sunday school lessons dictate the
same old discussion on love obedi-
ence grace and sin. Such discussions
are fine and true of course but I can-
not step beyond the fact that I have
heard these religious-moral discus-
sions before. Certainly a church is to
provide a spiritual support and doc-
trinal foundation for the members
but where are the thought-provoking
discussions to nourish the mind?
Hk Kristopher
iKrH columnist
What would such discussions be you
might inquire?
Churches could seriously attempt
to discuss such religious problems as:
How could God allow evil suffering
to exist? What about evolution? How
does one accept those stories in the
Bible which on the outside appear so
much as fanciful fables (e.g. Noah's
story)? What of the eternal destiny of
those who have never heard the
Gospel? On a less philosophical level
social problems should be addressed
by the church; examples include:
teenage pregnancy abortion legaliza-
tion of drugs et cetera.
Considering the scope and mag-
nitude of these questions and prob-
lems one may observe that the
answers posed are not to be stated in
a simplistic Bible-verse manner.
Comprehensive rational and inten-
sive dialogue in a church setting
about such issues should be pursued.
The article related that some of
the members of the Atheist Church
could not find rational answers to
similar difficult questions within the
Christian Church. Inevitably 'logi-
cal" answers in alternative ways (1G).
Like our disillusioned atheist
friends church-goers should not be
content with simple answers: fortu-
nately though discontentment does
not necessarily lead to disillusion-
ment. Instead careful analyzation
and reasoning could supply
Christians with the rational solutions
we need to understand the world.
We live in a world that requires com-
prehensive well thought-out respons-
es to suggestions.
In addition to examining the
problems of the day should not
Christians also evaluate their belief-
system and values for the establish-
ment of reasonable grounds or foun-
dations for belief?
To evaluate our beliefs we need
to ask ourselves difficult questions
like: Why should one believe in God
the Bible? Did the Resurrection
occur? Did Christ really fulfill
prophecy? Is Christianity the only
way to find the Divinity? The only
way we may find strength for our
beliefs is if we hold them to an ele-
ment of doubt and begin to systemati-
cally and rationally examine them.
Perhaps in a way we may find ade
quate reasons to believe in the Gospel
of Christ.
In retrospect we can say that the
presence of the Atheist Church may
teach the Christian Church a few
things. One is the need for churches
to nourish the minds and not just the
hearts of men and women. The other
is the idea that Christian Churches
must not neglect serious questions
and problems which face our reality.
Most certainly the questions we have
covered among myriads of others
should be of primary importance for
a church in a scientific age. Maybe
we should review our participation in
church and examine how we can con-
tribute to the thinking critical age in
which we live. We should be able to
provide an answer and those answers
must not be simplistic ones (See I "
Peter 3:15).
Questions of social religious and
philosophical nature must not be lim-
ited to the purview of thinking non'
believer only.-. Instead these ques-
tions and problems must be
addressed foremost by the Christian
Church. Without doing so we may
lose the most serious sincere and
contemplative people among the
ranks of Christiandom.
t
Kristopher Robison is a senior sociol-
ogy and philosophy major from Lubbock.
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Trenten Hilburn
sports editor
Josh Bowerman
news editor
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workshop advisor
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managing editor
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