Two things constituted yesterday for me:
The End — The last theoretical part of the last
semester at the Berufsakademie. The last examination. The last
lecture (in that order). Fittingly the last two both were “Linux
für Fortgeschrittene” (“Advanced Linux”). But as Martin put it (thanks for the kudos btw!) there
was not much new to be learned in the main study. After the
official part Kathrin, Florian, Timm and I went home to Timm to
watch a movie (Bill Murray and Geena Davis in “Quick Change” which
I can recommend to everyone), play cards and generally have a good
time.
A nice woman accosted me in the train after I gave a paper
she was holding a hard look: “Folge dem Christus”(“Follow the
Christ”). She offered me an invitation to a three day event. I
politely declined and after being asked why I answered that I am a
staunch atheist. She then went on to tell me how she
thinks that the universe fits so well together that it must be
created by someone and I said that I have no problem with everything
being fundamentally meaningless and that I give meaning to my life
myself, i.e. bettering myself and the whole of humanity. We
discussed a little bit more, but after only two stations I had to
get off the train, and to my surprise said something to the effect
that I really like to continue the discussion (which I did) but that
my station was coming up.
Well, what do you know? There are other christians who want to
persuade you than the “Partei der bibeltreuen Christen” (“Party
of bible-adhering Christs”) or the man standing at times at
Mannheim Paradeplatz or Bahnhof shouting that Christ will save you
if you live your life according to his teachings. And apparently
not all want to persuade you to live a life which picks certain
parts of the christian bible (and ignores others completely…
selling your daughters into slavery, anyone?) and interpret them
according to their anyhow settled beliefs which is the worst kind of
hypocrisy to me.
And even though I wrote a lot more about my “religious”
encounter, concerning my study I still want to say:
Booooyah!
