Category: Do I have to?

Not torn between two worlds

It’s strange how not posting a blog in a little over a week feels like I have been underground for months… in the digital world. I don’t like that. I also do not care that much, especially when things in the non-digital world take up my time such that I have less to spend in the digital world.¬†

Sure I like the digital world, and this post is not meant to even address how much more or less I like the non-digital world than the digital world. It is just to remind me in my dislike of feeling detached that I much rather feel connected to my non-digital purposes.

I think I know that… no, I don’t know

I get annoyed by our culture’s observing of forces that lead to change and of reviewing the psychological explanations that contribute to a person’s or society’s development. What else should I expect though? Apart from an understanding that all things consist in and from God who has created all things these observations are empty. They (the observations) seek to explain things without any answers. If answers are given then they are empty as well.

Truth is reality whether we like it to be or not… regardless of my or anyone else’s opinion, or knowledge, or study. If I wish, or believe, or think with all my might that you, who are reading this text, ¬†never existed, it will not change the truth that you exist. If we try with all of our might to use the study of the physical world as our system of knowing things and remove God from it, it does not change the truth that God is and that God created. If I am emotionally engaged by the God of the universe and someone else is not and they say “that’s good for you, but I don’t get anything from God” that doesn’t mean the truth of God is not there.¬†

So how can all of the cultural observations and psychoanalysis be relevant apart from a correct understanding of truth as reality and the foundations of that truth originating in the God who creates the beings who are trying to study the physical (or spiritual) world. All study is empty without it. Therefore everyone who says otherwise must strive to prove God does not exist or not in the manner in which we suppose (as He has revealed).

Fantasy Football Hates Me

I thought this was my year. I was so close. I was doing so well. I was first in the league for so long… even going into the playoffs. I was completely dominating the competition. Then in the first week of the playoffs I got DomiNated. My brother Nate (whos team is appropriately named DomiNate) beat me in the first playoff game which determines who will go to the championship.

So now I am looking at my team and making some adjustments but I am just playing for 3rd place. It takes all the excitement out of it. Nathan has won once before and he is playing against a friend who has never won… so I am not sure who to root for. I would like my friend who has never won to win but I also like to root for my brother. I usually always want my brother to win… unless he is playing me… of course.¬†

So I will go another year without the championship trophy… despite having a killer team for the last 3 years. The winner of our league gets dinner paid for by everyone else so it is still fun to get together with the guys. Last year we went to Eastland Cafe¬†and had a blast. So cheers to all of you fantasy football losers out there. There is always next year, Lord willing :).

President Bush Would Be Great At Dodgeball

Haha… President Bush makes me smile. I just watched the shoe tossing event. Bush effectively dodges both shoes, brushes off the secret service guy, and after says “All I can report is, it is a size 10”¬†and then later he said¬†”I didn’t know what the guy said, but I saw his sole.” Ha. I think I would get along with President Bush real well.¬†I thought it was a stark comparison to what would have happened under Saddam… no doubt.