The Law of One Price

I’ve often heard people who need such things pondering why it is that American drugs are so expenseive, while the same drug, by the same company can be so much cheaper coming from another country. The assumption was always that the American system was somehow gouging the Americans and that the foreign country price was the more “natural” price for our drugs. The FDA was somehow involved. Of course, the FDA kind of supports this idea when their only argument against importing Canadian medicine is that the FDA can’t ensure how safe it is.

No one ever mentioned to me before that drugs are cheaper in Canada because of price controls.

Now [Jane Gault](http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005124.html) has hit me over the head with a discussion of the obvious.

One down fifteen to Go

You know you’re sore when you can feel the individual muscles contracting when you walk up stairs.

You know you’re a science/mednerd when you can name the individual muscles.

Soreness = good aerobic workout in class yesterday.

I was going to write this tomorrow but today is close enough to being the end of the first week of classes that I don’t think it matters too much. I’ll only have one class tomorrow anyway. Continue reading “One down fifteen to Go”

You Will Save the Humble

I was studying about something completely different when I came upon this, and I thought I would share it:

>Now these were the last words of David.

>Thus says David the son of Jesse;
>Thus says the man raised up on high,
>The anointed of the God of Jacob
>And the sweet psalmist of Israel:

>The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me,
>And His word was on my tongue.
>The God of Israel said,
>The Rock of Israel spoke to me:

>>‘He who rules over men must be just,
>>Ruling in the fear of God
>>And like the light of the morning when the sun rises
>>A morning without clouds,
>>Like the tender grass springing out of the earth
>>By a clear shining after rain.’

>Although my house is not so with God,
>Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
>Ordered in all and secure.
>For this is all my salvation and all my desire;
>Will He not make it increase?
>(2 Samuel 23:1-5)

David gives this incredibly beautiful picture of what the character and quality of a ruler of men should be like, literally what God himself has declared by David’s mouth. Then he goes on to say, basically, “And Lord knows, I’m not like that.”

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A New Year

Christmas is over and 2004 is gone. KB has gone home and I have another week of vacation before heading back to Charlotte myself. It feels odd to be almost finished with school again. I have an extremely light semster with my hardest class being microbiology (one of the hardest classes in the science department according to many students), but honestly, 12 hours is still only 12 hours.

Most people make New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of a New Year. I honestly don’t ever remember writing down a resolution before and I don’t really want to start now because I know that whatever I resolve to do, I can’t do on my own. So many people start out with good intentions each year but without God it’s useless because we are so incredibly weak on our own. Continue reading “A New Year”

Love and Justice

I don’t know if it’s appropriate to publish my homework, but if I’m going to put so much effort into an article on theology, I’m sure not going to let only one person read it.

Here was my second question in my email conversation. As you’ll see, I probably only answered half the question. It’s a good thing that I’m only graded on actually having the conversation, and not on content, because after 1500 words, I quit!

Here it is:

>For your second response I would like you to reflect on the relationship
between God’s love and justice. Where do these two meet most clearly and
does this affect the way we present the gospel?

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Agape

Busy and tired I am I am. Busy and tired I am.

I’m working frantically on school right now. I had to get an extension to get all my work done, so I’m working it for all it’s worth.

But since I haven’t posted anything in weeks, I thought I’d post a snippet of my homework. Below is a part of my interaction requirement for my Theology class. The question I’m responding to is:

>What does it mean to say that God is love (that is, that God both acts lovingly and is in his essential being Love)? How does this relate to (pick one or more):
>1. The doctrine of the Trinity
>2. God’s holiness and human sin
>3. What it means for His creatures to love Him
>4. The cross

My answer is long and meandering because *I* am long and meandering.

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