Wow. My head is swimming.

I began my online courses today. It's going to be a lot more confusing than I thought it would be. Ugh.

I finally got it figured out that I have three different passwords for all the stuff I need to get to for my courses. Took me long enough.

Taking history over the Internet is going to be tough.

Disciplining myself to do the work when I'm not going to be in an actual classroom is going to be tough.

Writing the papers for Basic Ethics is going to be tough.

Speaking of which. I got my book today and it started a conversation with my mom on ethic relativism. I really hate that word--relativism.

This is what I said to my mom: "Everyone thinks they are right. And since everyone cannot all be right, someone must be right or NO one is right."

I grew up thinking there MUST be one answer and only one answer. That's how school goes! Why isn't life like that? And if life isn't like that, why do schools teach us that there is only one answer?

My mom said that maybe not everyone is right but maybe it isn't just one idea that's right. Maybe some are right. I said, "That can't be right."

My church tells me there's only one answer. Critical thinking tells me otherwise. The world promotes critical thinking. I told Mom, "So there must be something wrong with the church." I add now, "Or something wrong with the world." Both of us can't be right. SO WHAT'S RIGHT?!?!?!?

That's my confusion right there in a nutshell. Everyone thinks they're right. So who's right?

Mom then said we can't know who's right. I said, "Then how do we decide what's right?" She said according to our experiences and blah blah blah.

I'm still frustrated. There has to be a right answer. There can't be multiple right answers. Not when dealing with salvation. Salvation is a matter of life and death. Maybe the other people are right--maybe there is no afterlife and no God and no reason to be here. Then fine. We're all good to go. It doesn't matter how we live or what we believe. But then what if Christians are right? What if there is a God, there is an afterlife, and you either go to heaven or hell in that afterlife. Then it's suddenly REALLY REALLY important to know who's right.

Does that make sense?

I'm so frustrated about all this.

-Stephanie

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