Last night I went for the Timothy trail. The speaker said that we should not spend too much time speculating what we cannot know for sure in the Bible, but instead focus on what the Bible intended to tell us. I thought it was very true. It's like, the purpose of the Bible is to teach us how to live a good christian life, rather than (for example) give scientific facts on giant lizards that romped the earth and then died out.

But there was something I didn't like about the trail, and it was that people seemed to think I was an idiot. I was challenging their definition of 'righteous' in a certain chapter, which seemed to mean 'genuinely good' to me but meant 'falsely good' to them. After a while they said I was too literary and too obsessed with little details, but hello, there is a world of difference between 'genuinely good' and 'falsely good', and the wrong definition can vastly affect one's interpretation of the chapter.

I hate it when people think that i have no commonsense just because i'm supposed to be intellectual and literary and all!!! I hate it when they think that I cannot get to the truth because of that!!!

And so, when I woke up the next day, I felt like running away again.