#424 I feel like the modern church, and a lot of ORU (not everyone, relax), puts too strong of an emphasis on purity for teenagers and young adults and not a strong enough emphasis on things like how to be married, how to build strong life-long relationships, and stepping out of your comfort zone to a place where God's light is dim. Not trying to hate on anyone particular in any sense. I have a close friend who grew up in the church, focused on purity like the youth group taught, and is in a terrible marriage because the church this person was a part of failed to emphasis (or, possibly, she neglected to learn) some other important things and taught that purity was the absolute way to obtain a successful marriage. This is just my opinion, but it's something that I haven't been able to shake for a few years, and it's bothered me more than once. I'm more than willing to be corrected. I just wanted to say that and I want to know some various opinions on the matter. Thoughts?

#423 My sister and I got engaged at the same time, which was really super awkward saying that we're seven years apart. She got married at 19 and I got married at 26. She was dating a guy for a year and they rushed into marriage so they would be "pure." I was in a stable, loving relationship with a guy for six years. I was with him through both his LSAT and bar exam, as well as his first paycheck at his law firm. I work as an ER nurse, which I love (super weird cases in Florida keep me up during my night shift, haha). Of course, we graduated years ago, so the fact that I'm writing this on my alma mater shows how peeved I am. I just had a baby. I found out I was pregnant a couple months after I got engaged. She's beautiful. We were going to buy my dream beach house, but decided to buy one in a suburb closer to my husband's job because of the baby. I took up the night shift because he works during the day. We had to make sacrifices, but she's worth it. We're doing great financially. My sister, on the other hand, got pregnant on her dang wedding night. Seriously, she didn't even last one night of sex without getting knocked up. Now here's the point of my confession: my mother cried and screamed at me when she found out I was pregnant. Me coming out about my pregnancy was a controversial issue that created strife in my family. My whole entire church knows I had a baby "out of wedlock" even though I had more stability and money than most of their own relationships. For goodness sakes, you know you're doing well when we bought a car three months after I gave birth. My sister? Everyone showered her with "congratulations!" gifts when they found out about four or five months after her wedding (yeah, it took her four months to figure out her period stopped. smart one). She and her husband live with my parents in her old room. He's graduating with a theater degree, and she works at panera. My mother asks me to take marriage advice from my sister because they did it the "right way." Seriously. People are so caught up about the legality of it all, that they didn't even bother realizing that she wasn't ready to have a baby. She wasn't even mature enough to keep her hospital job for more than a month. To them, first comes love, second comes marriage, then comes a baby. This whole experience taught me how screwed up the church mindset is when it comes to sex and legalism. Instead of making it about the marriage, they made it about when we signed a US marriage certificate that didn't even exist when the Bible was written. I'm hurt, and I don't know what to do to ever gain my mother's trust back. I already feel like she loves my sister's daughter more.

#422 I need viagra...Im 21 years old

#421 I just want this frikan semester to be over

#320 today I'm skipping all my classes to watch all the new cartoon network shows on netflix. sorry professors, I got priorities.

#319 I pee'd in the pool at the AC

#418 I eat organic food, take care of the environment, take herbal supplements, shop at teavana, and do yoga all the time. I have had people talk to me on numerous occasions on how I'm letting "spirits in." It's really annoying, and I honestly do these because I read the Bible. It's really sad how the only people who really take care of their bodies and the earth seem to be non-believers. I go to Whole Foods and I've had some professors tell me that place was for "hippies." Why does Whole Foods scare off Christians? I tell people I use paper instead of plastic and I get laughed at by "christians" who apparently think that I'm wasting my time, even when God specifically condemns those who don't take care of his earth. But I must be really bad because I have piercings and tattoos. Christians seem to have this idea that having a tattoo of scripture is wrong, but eating junk food is not. If you let me know that I'm destroying my body by getting tattooed, I will remind you of the fact that you're eating disgusting processed food with hamburger derived from cows standing knee-deep in their own feces. Then throw the wrappers away in a trash can to be taken to a giant landfill. Yeah, I bet God is really impressed.

#417 I swear to god oklahoma's weather is like the hipsters in ORU, fucking unpredictable and downright annoying. The only thing the sun doesn't have is a fucking $200 sector 9 longboard and obnoxious neon colored tight jeans that are two sizes too small for their gonads.