I like certainties. But right now, I just don’t know…
Ohh, how I love cornerstone (bible college near my town). It has the best people I know bar none..
I think I may have an excessively long post in the not too distant future about them which no one will read or care about as they don’t know these brilliant people. Well, sucks to be you! Well, not really, but it is pretty damn awesome I know them xD
Tonight I saw the wreckage of a car which drove off a 5m drop. Demolished the front end and bent the chassis. I’m fairly sure someone is being airlifted right now with spinal injuries.
I knew there was a reason I don’t drink and drive.
Beautiful Kate
Not many movies get to me or affect me at all. Not majorly, but this one did a bit. Although I was invited to a 21st in the last 15 mins, so after going to that most of the emotional effect has gone now.
Beautiful Kate is beautiful. Movie and character. Heck, I’d totally go for a girl who looked like that. Not stereotypical hot, but cute, fun and sincere. She’d be both best mate and girlfriend material, rolled together into one convenient 5’-something package.
The weird thing is, after watching it, I couldn’t see her as a girl in that kind of light. At all. As I was seeing through Ned’s eyes, she was my sister. It was one of those times where you begin to love a character, but only as a sister, which is remarkable seeing I’m an only child. I’d go as far as to say I miss her.
I understand her actions although I don’t condone them, then again I don’t condone all of my own actions. But the massive pit of despair it causes, its just so real. We’re so human, and fragile. To be honest, I think this movie is almost a testament to the hardship of those who do live so far out. Its not easy by any stretch of the imagination. Right now, I’ve got so much respect for those who do.
If you can watch this movie without feeling something, without feeling like you should be crying (I wasn’t close at all, but its that very feeling of sadness), you’d be a stronger man than I. Totally recommend it to all Australians to get an idea of our extreme county cousins.
Ps. There are numerous sex scenes, but they aren’t there for the sake of being dirty.
Why’d I got to the pub after youth group? Now I’m just questioning everything.. And by everything I mean who I am, and my opinion on alcohol and friends. Fun, fun, fun.
Anonymous asked: Heh. See if you can guess :P I'm only anon because I gave my tumblr password to my friend for the HSC :) But that hasn't actually stopped me going on tumblr... now I just go through all my friends' tumblrs manually... :)
Well, that rules out Mark, Emily, and Morgan.. And you’re certainly not Leekspin. This leaves only Mona and Steph. But seeing as Steph hasn’t used hers in the last 6-odd months, I’m going to say Mona.
Hey Mona! :P
Anonymous asked: How's studying for the HSC going? :P
Who are you? :/ Only 5 or so of my followers know I’m doing the HSC, and no-one else knows what my tumblr is. (Nor will they ever know! Muwahaha!)
Also, my study so far is horrible. I need more motivation! Eh..
unkaglen asked: Thanks for the follow, Your tumblr is tumbling along quite amazingly, so I'm following you back. Bam! It just got real in here.
Everytime I come to read this question in my inbox (I procrastinate a lot), I just smile. That last bit, captures you’re writing character brilliantly.
Keep that brilliant advice coming Unka Glen!
14-billion-years-later asked: Interesting post. The thing I'd like to point out is that if you think the universe would be paradoxical if it's been around forever (which is an interesting definition if you say that time started then too). Then isn't it just as paradoxical to say that God has been around forever? Or did God have a creator as well? Once we reach that situation Occam's razor tells us that either the universe has been around forever or it spontaneously generated which is my theory.
I see you’re point. But its too illogical for me to think that there is no reactant from the ‘original’ product to occur. That just doesn’t fit to my satisfaction. Anyway, if you look at parts of the Bible, the do match up oddly to the whole Big Bang. Ie, a trillionth of a second after The Big Bang, all energy/matter was in the form of light, which coinsides with ‘And God said Let there be light’. Its funny like that.
This is where that ‘faith’ comes in, and that something intangable and indescribable which makes me believe.
Why I believe in Christianity and Science. [Reply]
This is going to be too long for an ask, so this is my reply to this post. My major complaint about religion.
Nice. That religious post wasn’t subject to any prejudices about what religion entails, was it? Well, here’s my attempt at explaining why I believe in Christianity, yet I’m all for sciences.
Firstly, religion isn’t creationism. I don’t believe the earth is only a few thousands of years old, as science has backed up without any real doubt. I see the Genesis story as a metaphor. I’ll come back to this as its fairly bloody big.
Secondly, God isn’t a human. Jesus, God’s son was made in the form of a human so we could relate. Also that was the point of Jesus lowering himself to our level. The King serving the servant, essentially. And as for us creating images of God in our form, its natural. Really how else would we imagine someone we haven’t seen? We see ourselves on the surface of planets too, but that’s the phenomenon called pareidolia.
Just a note, but don’t you think that their arguement for God would be that we’re on the ONLY bit of the universe possibly inhabitable by us? Just a thought. Still, no matter where you look in the universe it seems pretty amazing and beautiful in one way or another.
As for how I personally stick my faith and logic together is this (rightly or wrongly); You would believe that the laws of science are fixed, (whether we know them or not). So if you have the same experiment, under the exact same conditions, you will get the exact same result. But the differences may be so minutely small we can’t tell nor measure them, and this is how we get error and variation. With me so far? Its like a chemical equation. Reactants —> Products.
So from this, we can say the products are dependant on the reactants, right? So whatever the result is, it was determined by the situation immediately prior, as have been determined by the never-changing laws of science. But that situation was similarly caused by the one immediately before it. Continuing this on, we could say we would reach the beginning of time. The Big Bang. [I know this has doubts, but it is the most accepted theory of origin. Plus if there is no start to the universe (ie, its a never-ending cycle), doesn’t that make everything a paradox?]
Going with The Big Bang and what come to so far, you could say that the situation the universe exists in now, was pre-determined 14-ish Billion years ago. It is one massive chain-reaction. The greatest Rube Goldberg Machine of all time if you will.
So what caused The Big Bang? What caused the beginning of time? It goes against and reasonable logic to suggest that everything came from nothing. Even Shakespeare’s on my side on this one “Nothing will come from nothing” - King Lear. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the only way I can see anything innitiating The Big Bang is a God, because God is timeless. (On a completely personally level, I see this like Dr Manhattan in the comic book Watchman. He views all of time like its laid out in front of him, never having a specific time himself).
That said, ‘God’s plan’ fits scientifically. Its all Science, and I believe I’m justified in thinking predetermination is real. As for God helping us when we pray etc, has he already initiated whatever? And by that I mean 14 billion years ago, with all the flow on affects being pure science. After all The Big Bang wasn’t a uniform explosion so there is room to move.
Admittedly, there is that ‘faith’ people talk about. There is something about going to Church and seminars or hanging with my youth group which is amazing. Nothing I can explain, and I don’t think anyone can. Sorta like that feeling you get when people are staring at you from behind and you know they are. I can’t justify it, but I can testify to it, much like so many Christians do.
http://documentaryheaven.com/did-darwin-kill-god/
Here’s a good documentary I’ve watched about how they can work together. I respect the fact that you don’t believe, but please don’t rule it out because of science.
Heck, I’m all for Science. I have no problems with looking at the world from the view of process and scientific method. In fact I’m intending on studying a BSc (probably majoring in Chemistry) next year. But its that thing I just can’t explain that keeps me with my faith too.
A good friend of mine once told me, ‘Science is how things happen, and God is why they happen.’
