I've got too much on my mind, so I'm going to write some of it out so that there will be room for new thoughts. Is it too late to talk about BYU's honor code? I know Brandon Davies is so last month, but I'm going to anyway. While I was at BYU, the school of my heart, I signed the honor code. At least once a year I put pen to paper and said that I would abide by the peculiar rules of dress, consumption, curfew in a sense, honesty, etc. Every time I did it I knew there would be a rule I would break It's funny how I blamed BYU, the way I saw it they were making me lie. If anyone asked me -do you kick males out of your house at midnight Monday through Thursday, and 1:30 on Friday? I would have replied, no. But I signed the contract regardless. I thought it was a dumb rule, so I didn't keep it. I'm not sure how much it would have mattered, because most of my roommates didn't keep that rule either. So my male friends would have to go, but their friend's would have stayed? You can see how it gets tricky.
Well I was thinking about this situation I used to be in, and an idea struck me...
In Doctrine and Covenants 89:3 it says that the word of wisdom was, " Given for a principle with apromise, adapted to the capacity of the bweak and the weakest of all csaints, who are or can be called saints.
Maybe the honor code is similar in that it was written for the weakest of us all? I'm okay with that. There were times where I really should have just gone to bed, life would have been easier.
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I agree one hundred percent :)
Oh yeah. I have to say I always thought the quote about standing in a circle and giving my word to never leave was a little...too much. I would not die in a circle because I promised not to leave. But the honor code is something I agreed to live by and for the most part, I did. That is until I got engaged...yikes. Heh heh.
i was one of those roommates. And the funny thing is that i paid so little attention to the "honor" code that i didn't even know the rule was 1:30 on friday.
Also, even though i didn't pay attention to it, the thing that really bugged me was that it wasn't really about "honor" because they encouraged you to tattle tale on other people and don't the scriptures say to live by example and not ratting others out?
But as a side note, one time i was hanging out in john and ryan's room at 2 and come wandering out and there's the bishop having a meeting in the living room. he just smiled and said hi and we chatted and i don't think either of us realized until later that i probably shouldn't have been there. but it was like 4pm and i was just using johns computer or something.
there's some nap time ramblings for you.
oh and i liked seeing adam and others appear on the ghazamoradi blog.
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