Posts made in March, 2008
Followup 2: Meaningless Meanings
I think that I think too much. Wait a minute! Oh well. I was pondering my post on meaningless meanings and I thought that it sounded kind of bleak, in a way. I still think that it is true in our human experience but I also think that there are things we experience that don’t follow this pattern. A comment was left on the original post that pointed out that the words “I love...
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Sorry about the lack of a post yesterday. Even though I was off work I was still quite busy. My wife started her new job yesterday and I spent quite a bit of time at a car dealership. If you have been reading my blog for a while you may know that I have been wanting a truck. Ever since we bought our house I have found time after time where a truck would be very handy. I almost purchased...
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I was reading some news items on the internet yesterday and this one popped out at me. It seems that many Christians, according to this article, have lost the meaning of sin, and therefore the meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ. Some of the numbers are really quite surprising. This makes me very thankful for the church that I am a member of. Happy...
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“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.” –Paul Johnson Words and their meanings are something I have thought about at length and written about here as well. It seems that the more a word is used the less weight it has. They become commonplace and meaningless. Why does this happen, you ask? A good place to start looking is...
Read MoreMistborn: The Final Empire
Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe I have found my new favorite author! I have now read Brandon Sanderson’s first two published works and both of them were absolutely amazing. You can see what I thought of his first book here. Mistborn: The Final Empire is the first book of a trilogy of which the first two books are already on the shelves. The final installment will be out in October...
Read MoreHow Should a Christian Respond?
The Eliot Spitzer scandal has recently caught my attention. Usually I despise news stories similar to this one because they typically don’t deserve to be in the news. Most of it is just sensationalism. This is an interesting case though. Mr. Spitzer was the governor of New York and before that he was a prosecutor. But before that, he was a husband, but that obviously wasn’t...
Read MoreInspecting Your Walls
As I have mentioned before, we are studying Nehemiah in the Sunday school class my wife and I are attending. This week a very interesting idea came up. We are in chapter 2 where Nehemiah goes out to inspect the walls of Jerusalem before starting to rebuild them. He doesn’t do this as a parade in front of the rest of the city, instead it is done secretively in the middle of the...
Read MoreCatan Histories: The Struggle For Rome
I love a good board game. I guess it is because of all of the interaction you get to have with the people with which you play. I particularly like a good strategy game. I found a game a while back called Settlers of Catan and it became an immediate favorite for me, my wife and many of our friends. Catan Histories is a very fresh take on the Catan-style games. Add in a bit of history and...
Read MoreThe More Frightening Option
The popular theory of global warming that is being latched onto espouses human responsibility and, therefore, human control. We have the ability, through various means, to correct this. We have a choice. The idea suggests that the choices we made in the past have led us to where we are today and we must make additional choices to fix it. We are in control. Knowledge that one is in control...
Read MorePosting Goals
I don’t know if you noticed last month or not, but February was my most posted in month ever. I had set a goal for my self of posting five times a week (a total of twenty posts) and I did it. I hope that the content didn’t suffer too much due to trying to churn out a post a day. As I reviewed this goal I realized that it had a flaw in it. I don’t think I have enough...
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