Philosphers, Enlightenment, Doubt, and Confusion.

My classes today included, Intro to Sociology, Western Civilization Since 1660, Honors Lit, and Acting. Three out of my four classes talked about, wait for it... The Enlightenment!!

The Enlightenment came about with the discoveries that the Earth orbited the Sun, the principles of gravity and inertia, and that sickness was not caused by bad blood. And so came a new style of thinking!!

We had to read Descartes's first two Meditations for my Honors Lit class, it was incredibly difficult to get through, but I did it. The one part I understood was his point of, basically, I think therefore I am (Cogito, ergo sum). But during class today, we went over more of what he had written.

His objective was to show that God truly did exist, but he went about it in a very odd way (at least it's odd in my opinion). He began to doubt, his body, his senses, and soon his very existence. He claimed that everything was an illusion and there was a malignant being trying to trick him into believing he was real, all while even doubting God. This all led up to him saying, "I am--I exist: this is certain; but how often? As often as I think; for perhaps it would even happen, if I should wholly cease to think, that I should at the same time altogether cease to be." In layman's terms, I think therefore I am.

On a side note, he used really long sentences in his Meditations, sentences that were about 10 times longer than they should have been!!!

All this added together lead to a lot of confusion from me, but I'm hoping that as this semester goes on, I will become better at understanding what it is all these Philosophers and Theologians were trying to say!!! I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

On a lighter note, my Pretty Little Liars mid-season finale party was fun!!! Me and three other girls all sat in my dorm room watching the finale and talking about what we thought had just happened or was about to happen. Let's just say that January seems really far away right now!!! Also, we have all decided, these three girls, my roommate, and myself, and other girls on our hall if they want to come; that we are going to go see the movie Abduction when it comes out, probably the weekend after. We're going to dress up, go to Olive Garden, and go see the movie!!! It's gonna be a BLAST!!!!

At the moment I think I have one follower to my blog, thanks Shelby for following!!! I hope that you get something out of my ramblings on Descartes. I can only post so much on the blog specifically for the Honors class, especially since I'm kinda scared to post my thought where my ENTIRE class can see how greatly uneducated I really am!!

With a great dislike for the Biology class I have to attend tomorrow, I will now sign off!!

Thanks for reading,

~Meghan Johnston

Who am I?

This is a question I DESPERATELY hope will be answered during my four years here at the University of Mobile located in Mobile, Alabama. Of course, I obviously know a few things about who I am, like my name, age, weight (which I will NEVER tell you), height, year in college, etc. But there are many things I don't know about myself yet, one of those things, is Who I am in Christ, and I am desperately searching for that answer.

As of this moment, I have to get up for my first class of the day, Intro to Sociology, in about 6 and a half hours, and I don't do well with very little sleep, so right now, I'm going to tell you who I am from the information I already have.

Name: Margaret Anne Johnston, though I really prefer being called Meghan!!!

Age: 18

I'm a Freshman, with about 19 hours already under my belt thanks to Dual-Enrolling during high-school. I will probably consider myself a Freshman until next August, when I will be beginning my second year of school; hence, I'll then be a Sophmore. (Did I just use hence in the right context?)

I'm a Sociology major, my concentration is in Criminal Justice. Bet you can't guess what I want to do with my degree :). In all seriousness, I want to become a Homicide Detective for the Police before one day, hopefully, going to work at a Federal level as a Special Agent either for the FBI or NCIS. (Don't tell my dad though, he'd think it was great that I wanted to work for the Navy. Even though technically I wouldn't be under Naval employ.)

I am a Christian, though I have been having problems figuring out exactly what I believe. Not that I doubt anything the Bible says, just that I am trying to figure out exactly how to apply it to my life.

I am a TV fanatic!!! Give me the name of a really good television show, something with suspense, the supernatural, or Law Enforcement, and I will be hooked within two episodes. Then I'll watch every episode of the show that has aired and become just as rabid a fan as any of the shows other fans. Chuck, Pretty Little Liars, Bones, Castle, The Lying Game, White Collar, Psych, and NCIS are the shows I'm currently hooked on, and I've only JUST started watching NCIS.

I can't think of anything else to say, and I kinda need to go to sleep so I can get up and make it through 6 1/2hours of classes tomorrow! There is one thing to look forward to tomorrow, my Pretty Little Liars mid-season finale party in my room.

If you read this, thanks!!

Meghan Johnston