Happy 500! This is my 500th post on PSA 139 That makes PSA 139 my longest running blog ever. This is also my first blog written on my new Android tablet! My laptop has a broken "J" Key. It's frustrating to type on it, not necessarily because I have to mash the j key, but because I almost never ever use the "J" key. How the heck did it break!?
Shrek is on TV now and I have this insatiable desire to escape reality. Not by using
drugs or playing video games... but by Just not being a part of the world of which I am a part ... I would rather be a part of a world where people aren't ruining each other with their vicious selfishness and greed; a world where love exists without fear and insecurity. I want to disappear to a place where I can have Job security, a clean conscience, and no fear for my family's safety and well being. I guess it's not productive to Spend much time imagining a place like that.
Well, spelling and grammar mistakes Minimally corrected, I think blogging on my tablet is a success. The biggest issue I'm noticing is mid-sentence capitalization.
I'm pretty tired. I think it's about time for bed.
I should find a YouTube video or something to celebrate this 500th blog.
-.-The video I want isn't available to view on YouTube mobile.
...
This one will do. I really like this song.
...
...oh...
looks like I won't be able to embed it either. Embed to blogger by Searching YouTube is bugged.
...
fine.
...
Here is the link to the video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NeKJqlD9RpI
it's not much of a video. More like a blank screen with a song.
"At last"
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
After meeting and speaking with so many people who are non-Christian, "pseudo-Christian" and "post-Christian", I've been really considering the possibility of trying to get at least an associates in Biblical studies, so that when I get my doctorate I could ask LeTourneau to let me teach a class on heresy. It's not intended to be a joke; I really think that it'd be a fun class to teach if I ever make it to professor status.
The scary thing is how plausible some of these theories are. That's part of what would make a class on Heresy so cool. I could really challenge people's faith. Heck, who knows. I guess once you know, the only thing you can lean on is your experience. It's like people who believe in "law of attraction" -- if you try it enough times and it works, you start to believe it.
Then again, how real is our imagination, really? If I am totally nuts and I believe that I'm flying around and saving people, even though I'm not; and if you take me to an insane asylum and leave me there, but I still believe I'm a free, happy super hero, then whose world is more real? How much does my world exist, really? Can you be certain that it exists only to me? Lets say I hallucinate the existence of a few people standing in the room with me, and I know their personalities and histories intimately. Do they exist? Would God give them souls? If one of my hallucinations dies, who's do say I won't meet him/her/it in heaven?
I'm not saying I don't believe in absolute truth. Even though we can't always be certain about reality, and even though we might not know the truth, we can know for sure that there is a truth. There is an explanation for existence, and we would be in huge danger if we didn't at least look for it.
This is the primary theory I've been hearing all summer, compiled and greatly summarized.
So... where to start... The important thing to remember here is that these people do not believe Scripture to be 100% God-breathed. They say it was written by men, and although it may have been divinely inspired, it's just a text written by men. As such it's only the authors' best recollection, opinion, and perspective. Most of these people are also skeptical of the committee that picked out which texts are Bible-worthy and not.
Consider a family of fruit flies living in your house. Each one lives like 20 hours or less or something like that. One day, great great granddaddy fruit fly is on the wall next to little baby fruit fly. Granddaddy fruit fly looks up at a passing human and says to baby fruit fly, "you see that being there.". Baby fruit fly listens. "Those beings have been here as long as I've been alive. They were here during my father's life, and his father's life, and his great great great grandfather's life, as far back as our family can conceive. They never age, and they are infinitely powerful to change, create, and destroy the environment. They are immortal. They must be Gods."
Imagine that somewhere out there in the distant vastness of infinite space, there is a wide two dimensional plane, which moves like the smoothly vibrating surface of a lake and the waving of a flag in a constant wind. On this vibrating plane, there exists an entire universe of two dimensional people. You find that plane and find that you are able to see and comprehend all of it very quickly, because you can see every inner working of each organism or machine that exists there. You can bend the plane, punch holes in the plane, fold it, introduce fire or wind to any part of it. With some time, you may even be able to reconstruct the organisms there simply by gathering two-dimensional elements together. The people there will pray to you and call out to you always, and consider you as a potential answer to the question, "where do we come from"?
Punching a hole in a two dimensional plane like that might cause nearby two-dimensional creatures to be sucked out into the third dimension (where their energy, not being enough to sustain three dimensions of matter, would promptly disperse). It would be really similar to a worm hole in our dimension. Shoot, worm holes might be 4th dimensional hole punches in our universe.
There are many dimensions. We live in the third dimension, and here we are able to directly see the second and first direction. Then, using the distance between our eyes and some subconscious math, we can perceive depth (our own third dimension). Someone in the 4th dimension could easily see and manipulate anything in our dimension -- but there maybe 5 dimensions, or 10 dimensions, or 20, or maybe more.
We know that our universe is composed of tightly compacted energy, held together by frequencies on some invisible medium across the universe. We might suppose invisible strings stretch across everything at once. That is to say, God created the universe and everything in it by first playing a chord on the strings of existence. I'm always hearing differing opinions about whether or not, at this point, God created a big pile of souls for insertion into whatever beast was intelligent enough to deserve one.
So at this point, lets say God has a functioning and organized universe with no life in it. It's just about to finish its Hadean or 'shapeless' era. Right here he looks in and says "man, I'm really awesome. Just look at this cool universe... if only it had a little more flavor..." So he adds life. Most pseudo, or post-Christians I've talked to will say He took his cosmic salt shaker and shook some DNA onto a few planets and watched it evolve.
At any rate, God picks out our solar system for life. At this point, Earth doesn't exist and there's an ice giant called Tiamat in between Mars and Jupiter. God finds a dim brown dwarf star with a large satellite planet ("X") and spins it into a *huge* orbit around our sun (approx 35K earth years to orbit once). On it's second or third pass, planet X collides with Tiamat. The debris becomes the asteroid belt, and a large remaining chunk of Tiamat falls into orbit closer to the sun. The ice melts and that greater halfof Tiamat becomes earth. If you look at earth right over the pacific ocean, all you can see is water. It looks like the earth might be just water. That's because Earth is lopsided. The continental drift is earth repairing the roundness of its solid mass.
At the point of that collision, some would say that DNA from X was seeded on earth, and henceforth evolution brought about neanderthals. This implies the existence of extraterrestrial life, and there are some really cool stories about early human existence, derived from the Sumerian creation narratives. I'll type that story up in another blog.
Anyway, back to frequencies. If it's true that our energy is held together by frequencies on some universal medium, then it's conceivable that IF we really have free choice, then we have the power to modify those frequencies. Similar to the way a butterfly flapping its wings in France might indirectly cause a hurricane in the states, the sound of you farting could indirectly cause a transdimensional shudder or storm.
Ok ok, so lets take all this and draw on it. I'm sure I'm leaving out something, because there's a lot more to tell. But anyway you eventually arrive at this terrifying idea that if there ever was anything to witchcraft, then it's leftover superscience from before the tower of Babel. (Right out of left field, I know. It'll make a little more sense if I ever get to explain more about those aliens later.) Basically, the idea is that if you design an object with perfect proportions and perfect shape, and then make just the perfect resonating sound into it, you have the potential to alter the chord of the universe and do basically anything with seemingly limitless power. Like, drawing a circle on the floor in soap or chalk and then saying the magic words into it. If you don't happen to resonate with existence, then at the very least you might pique the interest of a being in a higher dimension who can act on your intentions.
That all sounds really crazy, and I just realized I forgot to elaborate on that fruit fly analogy. That one also has to do with the aliens.
... This blog is just too long to get into that. I'll do it later.
But interestingly enough, almost everyone I've talked to at least believes that there is a God who literally lives forever and has lots of power, whether or not he's "The Bible God". They just have some really interesting ideas about who that God is. They also mostly believe that Jesus existed, and most of them also believe he had super healing powers.
To put any of my reader's minds at ease: I don't buy all of this. However, the part about Tiamat and the asteroid belt might as well be true. Also, that stuff about higher dimensions seems to be in line with what (extremely little) I know about string theory. I have a lot more studying to do before I make an educated opinion on most of this.
For now, I still believe the Bible to be 100% true. I'm content with Jesus being salvation for sins and such.
"All my life, there you go. Oh please stay, just this once anyway."
The scary thing is how plausible some of these theories are. That's part of what would make a class on Heresy so cool. I could really challenge people's faith. Heck, who knows. I guess once you know, the only thing you can lean on is your experience. It's like people who believe in "law of attraction" -- if you try it enough times and it works, you start to believe it.
Then again, how real is our imagination, really? If I am totally nuts and I believe that I'm flying around and saving people, even though I'm not; and if you take me to an insane asylum and leave me there, but I still believe I'm a free, happy super hero, then whose world is more real? How much does my world exist, really? Can you be certain that it exists only to me? Lets say I hallucinate the existence of a few people standing in the room with me, and I know their personalities and histories intimately. Do they exist? Would God give them souls? If one of my hallucinations dies, who's do say I won't meet him/her/it in heaven?
I'm not saying I don't believe in absolute truth. Even though we can't always be certain about reality, and even though we might not know the truth, we can know for sure that there is a truth. There is an explanation for existence, and we would be in huge danger if we didn't at least look for it.
This is the primary theory I've been hearing all summer, compiled and greatly summarized.
So... where to start... The important thing to remember here is that these people do not believe Scripture to be 100% God-breathed. They say it was written by men, and although it may have been divinely inspired, it's just a text written by men. As such it's only the authors' best recollection, opinion, and perspective. Most of these people are also skeptical of the committee that picked out which texts are Bible-worthy and not.
Consider a family of fruit flies living in your house. Each one lives like 20 hours or less or something like that. One day, great great granddaddy fruit fly is on the wall next to little baby fruit fly. Granddaddy fruit fly looks up at a passing human and says to baby fruit fly, "you see that being there.". Baby fruit fly listens. "Those beings have been here as long as I've been alive. They were here during my father's life, and his father's life, and his great great great grandfather's life, as far back as our family can conceive. They never age, and they are infinitely powerful to change, create, and destroy the environment. They are immortal. They must be Gods."
Imagine that somewhere out there in the distant vastness of infinite space, there is a wide two dimensional plane, which moves like the smoothly vibrating surface of a lake and the waving of a flag in a constant wind. On this vibrating plane, there exists an entire universe of two dimensional people. You find that plane and find that you are able to see and comprehend all of it very quickly, because you can see every inner working of each organism or machine that exists there. You can bend the plane, punch holes in the plane, fold it, introduce fire or wind to any part of it. With some time, you may even be able to reconstruct the organisms there simply by gathering two-dimensional elements together. The people there will pray to you and call out to you always, and consider you as a potential answer to the question, "where do we come from"?
Punching a hole in a two dimensional plane like that might cause nearby two-dimensional creatures to be sucked out into the third dimension (where their energy, not being enough to sustain three dimensions of matter, would promptly disperse). It would be really similar to a worm hole in our dimension. Shoot, worm holes might be 4th dimensional hole punches in our universe.
There are many dimensions. We live in the third dimension, and here we are able to directly see the second and first direction. Then, using the distance between our eyes and some subconscious math, we can perceive depth (our own third dimension). Someone in the 4th dimension could easily see and manipulate anything in our dimension -- but there maybe 5 dimensions, or 10 dimensions, or 20, or maybe more.
We know that our universe is composed of tightly compacted energy, held together by frequencies on some invisible medium across the universe. We might suppose invisible strings stretch across everything at once. That is to say, God created the universe and everything in it by first playing a chord on the strings of existence. I'm always hearing differing opinions about whether or not, at this point, God created a big pile of souls for insertion into whatever beast was intelligent enough to deserve one.
So at this point, lets say God has a functioning and organized universe with no life in it. It's just about to finish its Hadean or 'shapeless' era. Right here he looks in and says "man, I'm really awesome. Just look at this cool universe... if only it had a little more flavor..." So he adds life. Most pseudo, or post-Christians I've talked to will say He took his cosmic salt shaker and shook some DNA onto a few planets and watched it evolve.
At any rate, God picks out our solar system for life. At this point, Earth doesn't exist and there's an ice giant called Tiamat in between Mars and Jupiter. God finds a dim brown dwarf star with a large satellite planet ("X") and spins it into a *huge* orbit around our sun (approx 35K earth years to orbit once). On it's second or third pass, planet X collides with Tiamat. The debris becomes the asteroid belt, and a large remaining chunk of Tiamat falls into orbit closer to the sun. The ice melts and that greater halfof Tiamat becomes earth. If you look at earth right over the pacific ocean, all you can see is water. It looks like the earth might be just water. That's because Earth is lopsided. The continental drift is earth repairing the roundness of its solid mass.
At the point of that collision, some would say that DNA from X was seeded on earth, and henceforth evolution brought about neanderthals. This implies the existence of extraterrestrial life, and there are some really cool stories about early human existence, derived from the Sumerian creation narratives. I'll type that story up in another blog.
Anyway, back to frequencies. If it's true that our energy is held together by frequencies on some universal medium, then it's conceivable that IF we really have free choice, then we have the power to modify those frequencies. Similar to the way a butterfly flapping its wings in France might indirectly cause a hurricane in the states, the sound of you farting could indirectly cause a transdimensional shudder or storm.
Ok ok, so lets take all this and draw on it. I'm sure I'm leaving out something, because there's a lot more to tell. But anyway you eventually arrive at this terrifying idea that if there ever was anything to witchcraft, then it's leftover superscience from before the tower of Babel. (Right out of left field, I know. It'll make a little more sense if I ever get to explain more about those aliens later.) Basically, the idea is that if you design an object with perfect proportions and perfect shape, and then make just the perfect resonating sound into it, you have the potential to alter the chord of the universe and do basically anything with seemingly limitless power. Like, drawing a circle on the floor in soap or chalk and then saying the magic words into it. If you don't happen to resonate with existence, then at the very least you might pique the interest of a being in a higher dimension who can act on your intentions.
That all sounds really crazy, and I just realized I forgot to elaborate on that fruit fly analogy. That one also has to do with the aliens.
... This blog is just too long to get into that. I'll do it later.
But interestingly enough, almost everyone I've talked to at least believes that there is a God who literally lives forever and has lots of power, whether or not he's "The Bible God". They just have some really interesting ideas about who that God is. They also mostly believe that Jesus existed, and most of them also believe he had super healing powers.
To put any of my reader's minds at ease: I don't buy all of this. However, the part about Tiamat and the asteroid belt might as well be true. Also, that stuff about higher dimensions seems to be in line with what (extremely little) I know about string theory. I have a lot more studying to do before I make an educated opinion on most of this.
For now, I still believe the Bible to be 100% true. I'm content with Jesus being salvation for sins and such.
"All my life, there you go. Oh please stay, just this once anyway."
Saturday, July 13, 2013
ETA: Oh! Almost forgot to mention this! Happy 10,000 pageviews, Psa 139! I know it's not a lot compared to most sites, but it's kinda cool to me :) I'm almost right at the number tonight. Also, this is my 498th post, so 2 more and I'll have to post like a celebratory something or something for the 500th. /ETA
So this is just a little embarrassing to write about, but I figure there are two types of people who read my blog: people who know me well enough to not care, and people who don't know me at all.
I watch a decent amount of anime. I'm not a crazy anime fanboy, but I watch. Usually, I prefer Anime that's a little (or a lot) on the weird side, with plots that don't necessarily have to make sense, but should definitely have some meaning, and lots of action -- like Samurai Champloo, Darker than Black, Serial Experiments Lain, Elfen Lied, and Cowboy Bebop, to name a few of my flavorites.
These days, I've been watching Thundercats (the old, 1980's series). I know.. Thundercats... but it's actually kinda blowing my mind. I mean, when it's time to fight, they actually move around. It's unlike almost all of the Anime I've seen (aforementioned flavorites excluded), where each 2sec bit of fighting is pooped on by 10mins of talk -- and yet, it still maintains a reasonably interesting plot.
I know what you're thinking: How can a TV show have both action and plot in one episode?! Well, I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking that the reason you're confused is because modern television is crap.
Albeit, the Thundercats don't actually kill anyone (yet), and that's the source of most of their problems. If they'd just killed the bad guys in the first 5 episodes instead of spanking them and sending them home, the series would probably have ended there. However, that lack of extreme violence doesn't subtract too much from the interestingness of the fight (another mind-blower, right?). It's because the show was intended to be interesting for a variety of age groups. It's tame enough for kids to watch, but it's not so boring that you're gonna wish you were being slapped on the sunburn instead of watching with your kids (or friends, or on your own, whatever the case may be).
Anyway, that's my pitch for the Thundercats. Hope you guys don't have a nerdy anime-fanboy image of me now. For real, I don't wanna be thought of like that. Stop it.
Also I had another nightmare last night.
...
I'm going to bed. Good night.
"Please don't keep secrets from me."
So this is just a little embarrassing to write about, but I figure there are two types of people who read my blog: people who know me well enough to not care, and people who don't know me at all.
I watch a decent amount of anime. I'm not a crazy anime fanboy, but I watch. Usually, I prefer Anime that's a little (or a lot) on the weird side, with plots that don't necessarily have to make sense, but should definitely have some meaning, and lots of action -- like Samurai Champloo, Darker than Black, Serial Experiments Lain, Elfen Lied, and Cowboy Bebop, to name a few of my flavorites.
These days, I've been watching Thundercats (the old, 1980's series). I know.. Thundercats... but it's actually kinda blowing my mind. I mean, when it's time to fight, they actually move around. It's unlike almost all of the Anime I've seen (aforementioned flavorites excluded), where each 2sec bit of fighting is pooped on by 10mins of talk -- and yet, it still maintains a reasonably interesting plot.
I know what you're thinking: How can a TV show have both action and plot in one episode?! Well, I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking that the reason you're confused is because modern television is crap.
Albeit, the Thundercats don't actually kill anyone (yet), and that's the source of most of their problems. If they'd just killed the bad guys in the first 5 episodes instead of spanking them and sending them home, the series would probably have ended there. However, that lack of extreme violence doesn't subtract too much from the interestingness of the fight (another mind-blower, right?). It's because the show was intended to be interesting for a variety of age groups. It's tame enough for kids to watch, but it's not so boring that you're gonna wish you were being slapped on the sunburn instead of watching with your kids (or friends, or on your own, whatever the case may be).
Anyway, that's my pitch for the Thundercats. Hope you guys don't have a nerdy anime-fanboy image of me now. For real, I don't wanna be thought of like that. Stop it.
Also I had another nightmare last night.
...
I'm going to bed. Good night.
"Please don't keep secrets from me."
Friday, July 12, 2013
Haven't blogged much this summer. I think these days I've been venting more to Dan, Chowon, and Gavin, with the occasional coworker.
These days I'm concerned, more than normal, with my future. The idea keeps inexplicably appearing in my mind that I'm wasting my resources. I don't mean money; I mean food, sleep, life, and existence in general. When I think about my ideal future, two things come to mind: first, Chowon, with a family, a nice house, and a job; second, a weathered man on the sidewalk holding a sign that says "The end is coming! REPENT!".
My prayer these days is this:
God, please open the doors to the path of your will, and compel me to enter them. And close the door to every path that you don't want me to take. Please put and keep people in my life who will encourage me to live in the best way for your kingdom, and who will hold me to a standard of goodness and righteousness.
Thank you, God, for all your blessings. Please help me to use what you have given me wisely. I love you, God. Let me never forget the kindness you have shown me.
"I miss you."
These days I'm concerned, more than normal, with my future. The idea keeps inexplicably appearing in my mind that I'm wasting my resources. I don't mean money; I mean food, sleep, life, and existence in general. When I think about my ideal future, two things come to mind: first, Chowon, with a family, a nice house, and a job; second, a weathered man on the sidewalk holding a sign that says "The end is coming! REPENT!".
My prayer these days is this:
God, please open the doors to the path of your will, and compel me to enter them. And close the door to every path that you don't want me to take. Please put and keep people in my life who will encourage me to live in the best way for your kingdom, and who will hold me to a standard of goodness and righteousness.
Thank you, God, for all your blessings. Please help me to use what you have given me wisely. I love you, God. Let me never forget the kindness you have shown me.
"I miss you."
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Back from my first week at the solar field. It ranks pretty high on my list of the coolest stuff I've ever been a part of. There isn't actually a list, but if there were, then that would be on it. They told me that it was a relatively small solar field, but it was the first one I'd ever been on. From one side of it, you can't see the other side easily.
It gets around 120 F out there, and it's as dry as... a desert... so I drank ~10 water bottles per day while I was working, give or take a few depending on how windy it was. Some days were more windy, so it was easier to stay cool.
It's not good for the type of panel we were using to be exposed to light without the generated power being used by something, so they had several large resistors connected which turned the power directly into heat -- and that made things even hotter out there.
My dad suggested that instead of resistors, they aught to just buy a bunch of air conditioners. I think that typical air conditioners wouldn't use enough power for what they need, but they might be able to get a good deal on some older, very-low-efficiency ACs for a pretty good price... right? Then again, with 100G resistors going for only 35$ each, they're probably getting the best deal doing what they're doing. Anyway it was a fun idea.
It looks like the desert has fewer living things per square meter than most of the other places I've been... but in terms of its usefulness, the desert is a very practical place to live now. There are not very many mosquitos, and things don't rust very fast out here. It's very livable because of the incredible technology we have -- like for drilling wells and running power-lines. This whole area is a triumph of human ingenuity. I can see myself buying land here and staying for a long time.
My partner in the solar field (actually it's more like I'm his partner) is a great guy. He has very interesting ideas about religion and what's best for the world. I like his approach to finding out new things. He says we should question everything as much as we can. He is Mexican and was raised Catholic, and so he has a really funny way of integrating Catholic culture into his regular conversation. For example, when we needed our supervisor's signature on a work permit, he asked the supervisor to 'bestow his blessing' on the permit. And later in the week he "baptized" me under the name "chunk", because he said that anyone who works for Vertech and goes to the field gets to be baptized as "chunk" and is allowed to call the other guys at Vertech "chunk" as he wishes thereafter.
I'm heading out to the field again on Monday for one more week. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be with the same partner in the same field, but this time we're going to be many times more productive, because I will know what I'm doing from the very beginning.
"'If my body goes, then to hell with my soul.' We don't even know the difference."
It gets around 120 F out there, and it's as dry as... a desert... so I drank ~10 water bottles per day while I was working, give or take a few depending on how windy it was. Some days were more windy, so it was easier to stay cool.
It's not good for the type of panel we were using to be exposed to light without the generated power being used by something, so they had several large resistors connected which turned the power directly into heat -- and that made things even hotter out there.
My dad suggested that instead of resistors, they aught to just buy a bunch of air conditioners. I think that typical air conditioners wouldn't use enough power for what they need, but they might be able to get a good deal on some older, very-low-efficiency ACs for a pretty good price... right? Then again, with 100G resistors going for only 35$ each, they're probably getting the best deal doing what they're doing. Anyway it was a fun idea.
It looks like the desert has fewer living things per square meter than most of the other places I've been... but in terms of its usefulness, the desert is a very practical place to live now. There are not very many mosquitos, and things don't rust very fast out here. It's very livable because of the incredible technology we have -- like for drilling wells and running power-lines. This whole area is a triumph of human ingenuity. I can see myself buying land here and staying for a long time.
My partner in the solar field (actually it's more like I'm his partner) is a great guy. He has very interesting ideas about religion and what's best for the world. I like his approach to finding out new things. He says we should question everything as much as we can. He is Mexican and was raised Catholic, and so he has a really funny way of integrating Catholic culture into his regular conversation. For example, when we needed our supervisor's signature on a work permit, he asked the supervisor to 'bestow his blessing' on the permit. And later in the week he "baptized" me under the name "chunk", because he said that anyone who works for Vertech and goes to the field gets to be baptized as "chunk" and is allowed to call the other guys at Vertech "chunk" as he wishes thereafter.
I'm heading out to the field again on Monday for one more week. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be with the same partner in the same field, but this time we're going to be many times more productive, because I will know what I'm doing from the very beginning.
"'If my body goes, then to hell with my soul.' We don't even know the difference."
Sunday, June 2, 2013
I have a business trip~~~~~~~!!!! :D
I'm so stoked x)
I get to go work on a solar field. Idk if I'm allowed to say which one, but they need their panels worked on. Face-to-face client interaction~~! I've got a helmet, a vest, 2 pairs of safety sunglasses, new shoes, and a camelback, and I'm ready to go!
This summer has been great. God's blessing me left and right with favor and time and love and opportunity.
Right now, my prayer is for my friends, the shuttle drivers: For my morning shuttle driver, that he'll see how beautiful his life is; that he'll love his job; that he'll think-through and structure his priorities productively. For my evening shuttle driver: that he'll wake up and say only what he believes, instead of just believing what he says; that he'll see that life and the universe is not as complicated as he thinks it is.
So I was thinkin... if the moon is in orbit so that one side is always facing us, then why are there round craters on the side that faces earth?
"Language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in. It's great for solving problems after it creates a problem."
I'm so stoked x)
I get to go work on a solar field. Idk if I'm allowed to say which one, but they need their panels worked on. Face-to-face client interaction~~! I've got a helmet, a vest, 2 pairs of safety sunglasses, new shoes, and a camelback, and I'm ready to go!
This summer has been great. God's blessing me left and right with favor and time and love and opportunity.
Right now, my prayer is for my friends, the shuttle drivers: For my morning shuttle driver, that he'll see how beautiful his life is; that he'll love his job; that he'll think-through and structure his priorities productively. For my evening shuttle driver: that he'll wake up and say only what he believes, instead of just believing what he says; that he'll see that life and the universe is not as complicated as he thinks it is.
So I was thinkin... if the moon is in orbit so that one side is always facing us, then why are there round craters on the side that faces earth?
"Language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in. It's great for solving problems after it creates a problem."
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
So I'm considering whether or not I'll make my Facebook profile public. I found out that Vertech checked on it, but couldn't read anything interesting. I guess my Facebook would neither hurt nor help my case... unless they have a problem with my political views being "solipsism".
I have been having really adventurous dreams lately... and one nightmare. Night-terrors aside, I haven't had a normal nightmare since I was like 7 years old. The only thing I can think to attribute it to is the lack of exercise I've been getting. I'm going to start jogging on a t-mill every evening for 10 minutes right after work.
But it means I'm gonna want to get a mp3 player... because treadmills are about as boring as watching soundless television and listening to people pant nearby. I don't want to jog outside because I don't quite like the AZ heat yet. This dryness is going to take a while to get used to still. Someone told me to drink two water bottles every 3 hours I spend outside.
I haven't actually bought a commercial electronic from a vendor for maybe 2 years. I don't actually know what good prices on mp3 players are. I'm a computer engineer, not a computer trend-watcher. Knowing about the latest gadgets doesn't benefit me directly unless I have a schematic for them or know I can afford them... at least, so I thought.
I really didn't want to spend money on that kind of stuff, though. I can't imagine myself using an MP3 player productively at LeTU. Nearly the only time I'm bored enough to want one is when I'm stuck in class for hours on end, trying to cope with the way I'm expected to learn while sitting still forever.
The player would be nice if I'm working on any long-hour projects in the panel shop, but I keep getting mixed signals on how long I have left working in the shop, and I don't want to be in the habit of wearing earbuds if I'm about to learn something complex.
I think I offended both my bus-drivers. Idek how to respond to them anymore. It's like they both just really need someone to talk to, and I'm the only person stuck in the car with them regularly enough to get to know them well enough to hear about their thoughts. However, I'm not well enough acquainted with either of them to be hearing that nonsense about how I should move in with whats-his-face next year. I told him that I'm getting married, which should have translated to "no way", but he said "great! So you can get married and split rent with me!". ... ...... oh well. I only have about 2.5 more months of "mmhmm"ing and "oooh"ing it. I've endured much worse in the past.
"More gels?"
I have been having really adventurous dreams lately... and one nightmare. Night-terrors aside, I haven't had a normal nightmare since I was like 7 years old. The only thing I can think to attribute it to is the lack of exercise I've been getting. I'm going to start jogging on a t-mill every evening for 10 minutes right after work.
But it means I'm gonna want to get a mp3 player... because treadmills are about as boring as watching soundless television and listening to people pant nearby. I don't want to jog outside because I don't quite like the AZ heat yet. This dryness is going to take a while to get used to still. Someone told me to drink two water bottles every 3 hours I spend outside.
I haven't actually bought a commercial electronic from a vendor for maybe 2 years. I don't actually know what good prices on mp3 players are. I'm a computer engineer, not a computer trend-watcher. Knowing about the latest gadgets doesn't benefit me directly unless I have a schematic for them or know I can afford them... at least, so I thought.
I really didn't want to spend money on that kind of stuff, though. I can't imagine myself using an MP3 player productively at LeTU. Nearly the only time I'm bored enough to want one is when I'm stuck in class for hours on end, trying to cope with the way I'm expected to learn while sitting still forever.
The player would be nice if I'm working on any long-hour projects in the panel shop, but I keep getting mixed signals on how long I have left working in the shop, and I don't want to be in the habit of wearing earbuds if I'm about to learn something complex.
I think I offended both my bus-drivers. Idek how to respond to them anymore. It's like they both just really need someone to talk to, and I'm the only person stuck in the car with them regularly enough to get to know them well enough to hear about their thoughts. However, I'm not well enough acquainted with either of them to be hearing that nonsense about how I should move in with whats-his-face next year. I told him that I'm getting married, which should have translated to "no way", but he said "great! So you can get married and split rent with me!". ... ...... oh well. I only have about 2.5 more months of "mmhmm"ing and "oooh"ing it. I've endured much worse in the past.
"More gels?"
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