We Are the Knights Who Say...What?!

I'm actually kind of suprised to see that no one has used this movie in their blogs, though I could have just not seen it. Although the title's a reference that everyone gets from one the "funniest" movies in the universe, I personally don't think the movie itself is that funny. I find the funniest part of that movie to be in conversations about it, but that's just me. 'Tis but a flesh wound!

I recently walked in on a bunch of kids on the bottom floor of Wright lounge watching this movie, and
for some odd reason that I couldn't explain to you even if I tried, this reminded me of what Leeper's been talking to us about. Not only this week, but in lectures weeks past as well. I have both pros and cons about his talks (or should I say "our" talks) and I wanted to voice my opinions, because that's what these blogs are for.
        Please don't sue me for this, Leeper, but one of your lectures you gave the 2nd week of school (I think) was so good that I had to record it so I could remember it later. It was the one talk about how we should delve into the culture that we have been placed in and live righteously instead of trying to avoid hardships and trials completely. How phenominal! It makes me angry when I see people who become lazy by sitting at home doing nothing, and sheltering their kids from life because they have no desire to be involved out there with the "evils" of this world, or any other part of the world whatsoever (welcome to my neck of the woods) than actually step out and live for God among people. But instead, they sit and watch the world from inside their trailers, never go out, even for church, and say "Praise Jesus". I know that's not what your were implying in your lecture, but it's what it reminded of where I came from. I live for lectures and conversations filled with intelligence.

        Another thing I found incredibly ironic is how this past class you said "if you and your friends got together and had conversations like this all the time..." I almost burst into laughter in the middle of class. I hope one day you hear my friends and I have a conversation, because we go far beyond what you'd imagine from people our age. We have the deepest intellectual conversations with one another one such an immense scale, that people who walk by and hear us will sometimes stop just to listen. It's ashame that none of my friends were here now, you'd love to hear us.
       
          Although the majority of Leeper's points in his lectures are great, recently I can't help but feel some inner sense of irritability when walking out of his class. I have never been one to believe the traditional b.s. will get you into Heaven, nor I have ever agreed with it, or the "Christian" superstitions that follow. But I do have a twinge of uneasiness when he talks so liberally (not the political term of the word), and I honestly can't explain what I mean by that. I'm horrible at explaining things, but I have a feeling that I'm not the only one in class who has felt this way, though I might be. There's something about what Leeper has been saying recently that tweeks some unease to my very core, which I fully understand isn't always a bad thing.
         Though I don't always take Leeper completely seriously when he speaks so passionately, (I honestly don't think he wants us to) there's something that I personally am reading between the lines of what he is saying, though I'm not sure what, that makes me uneasy.

         By no means do I dislike Leeper, nor am I complaining about him or his class. In fact his class is one of my favorites (because it's pretty much a free-for-all). I believe Leeper wants us to think for ourselves, and though we won't apply everything he says to our lives, whether we agree with it or not, there's definitely a large amount of truth to what he says that we can carry with us for the rest of our lives. Just because I don't see eye to eye with him on everything, I most certainly believe that we as a class can learn a lot from him. I merely wanted to share my honest opinions to show that I can and do think for myself, and don't take everything that everyone says and automatically label it as truth. I also wanted to see if anyone else was brave enough to comment and say if they noticed anything similiar to what I've noticed. They say that if you put 'just sayin'' at the end of any "offensive" sentence or speech, it automatically makes it okay to say. So, I'm just sayin' lol.
        I definitely do not want what I have written to be blown out of proportion in any way.