Wow. What A BFF.

Overheard:

My friend and I are very close. We spend about five days a week hanging out and my daughter calls her Aunt Larissa. Well, we were hanging out watching a chick flick while the baby was sleeping and so we decided to give each other back rubs. I took off my wedding band and put it in the dish by the bed so it wouldn't get oil in it. She was the only person in my house besides my kids. I just remembered my ring was there, went to grab it, and it's gone!! I would think my DH did it to like remind me to be more careful, but he hasn't been home from work. What should I do???

This Person Missed A Lot of Sunday School

Overheard:

I'm going to come right out and say - I pick and choose from the Bible. I don't think it makes any sense to take everything in the Bible literally and feel you have to follow everything in it to the letter - there's not a person on this planet who does that. However, I think it's important to know why you follow particular parts of the Bible and not others.

For instance, you read a passage in the Bible that says you can't eat X, so you decide you're not going to eat X ever again. But why aren't you supposed to eat X? And who wrote that section of the Bible and who were they writing it to? Is that section of the Bible intended to apply to you?

The Bible isn't a "how to" book on how to live your life - if it were, it would be very difficult to follow it given all of its contradictions. The different books came from different authors, were intended for various audiences, etc. I think it's important to understand what's going on with the Bible beyond the words on the page so you can understand how the Bible applies to your life.

The Heart of the Matter

Hypothetical:

Your child receives a heart transplant and your extended family wants to know where the heart came from and what the age of the person was that donated the heart. Is this necessary info in the whole scheme of things? Why or why not?

What Was That Thing Called You Made On Your Wedding Day? Oh Yeah...a PROMISE...

Overheard:

I often hear people talk about divorce as though it's a bad thing. People say things like "just look at the divorce rate these days" to supply evidence for all sorts of ways in which they believe that values are eroding.

Meh. I say what's so bad about divorce anyway? Are climbing divorce rates really an indicator of our population's plummeting morals? If so does that mean that ppl who get divorced somehow have lower moral standards than people who don't divorce or that they did something wrong or bad?

Whose Choice Is It?

So a woman/couple decide, for whatever reason, to use a surrogate to have a baby. They enter a legal contract. Sometime during the pregnancy, they discover the baby is 'not perfect' (whatever that means).

Does the mother have the right to tell the surrogate to have an abortion (if abortion is the mother's preference) ?

Could a court force someone to have an abortion, in this case or ever?

So the Punishment *For* Murder Should Be...?

Overheard:

You talk about a value for life - but probably believe in the death penalty. I can't get my head around killing a healthy adult for a punishment. It seems incredibly cruel and barbaric to me, it is murder.

No, It's Just Double The Tax...

Overheard, while shopping the 25% off sale at The Gap:

"Is it 25% off each item or 25% off the total purchase of these items on sale?"

Response to overheard, from Gap Saleslady:

"Off each item!"