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| Sunday, November 18th, 2007
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1:26 am - IT'S ALIVE
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My site/forum/Web 2.0 hellhole is finally back!
www.neoaxial.org
Now, all I need is my own server running to put random crap onto rather than someone else's server... Just for fun of course.
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| Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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10:16 pm - Computer
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Stupid computer!
I don't know what's wrong!
Any hardware people out there? Anyone want to sit on a floor trying to fix a computer I can't figure out what's wrong? Perhaps it's the bent video card, but that's never stopped it before!
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7:23 pm - All you world hunger fucks!
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| Sunday, November 11th, 2007
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11:11 pm
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I heard a song
A song I did not know
In a language I did not know
The song was a prayer
For a people I did not know
For a place I could not see
In a style I could not fathom
And I was in a place I did not know
I could not see
I could not understand
Music was flowing down like rain
Piercing into my very soul
I felt the enter me
Cleanse me
Heal me
Cure me
God was in the music
Working His will in His way
Proclaiming His power
Slaying the demons without weapons
As if they were
Picking up a sword
Without a blade
Picking up a sword
Without pain
Bringing the Word
To this place
The Word as I do not know
The Word as I do not understand
And yet the true Word
The world reborn
In this moment
As I feel the music flow
Through the secret parts of me
I really need to pimp a band. The above is not one of their songs. It's instead how someone felt after listening to their songs! It's an amazing band. Redefines music, and takes the Eastern feel and does it great justice in a Canadian setting. (Seriously, a sitar player from India and some Canadians playing misc intense instruments, it combines perfectly). I've never met someone who didn't get smacked up the heads by these guys!
http://www.aradhnamusic.com/index.html
current mood:  complacent
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3:05 am
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The world's Second Worst Catholic is dead.
He was a great man. So fucking weird, so fucking awesome.
By this person, I mean my grandpa. This is a man who was born in Canada to Irish immigrants. He was poor his entire young life, worked as a miner to keep himself (and his family) out of... well... starvation, in highschool worked so hard he was expelled THEN WROTE ALL OF THE FINALS AND PASSED WITHOUT HAVING THE YEAR, entered the army, survived a fucking world war, and spent his life weirdly. Using his military service's benefits he went to university, and became a geologist. Ended up working for Hardmetals. Ya know, the diamond people. *THE* diamond people. Worked as a prospector, then a salesman. Eventually became one of the more respected people in the company. Which I can't say is a failure.
He had five children. The one who 'failed' I likely respect the most. He's a smart guy, just prefers to enjoy life rather than make money. But he has amazing children, and they've done good things all over.
This is the only man in the world who could get me to dress up in order to simply see him. If I was going to his house I would make sure that my clothing all looked nicer as well as I was dressed according to the weather. His goal was to make his family not have to be poor. All of his children would have the ability to succeed in life. His grandchildren could be as well off as his children. He succeeded. More than most people I can think of. And he definitely won the day.
He always called himself the world's Second Worst Catholic, but he still went to church, and he always trusted God. Good enough for me.
To the day he died he was playing poker, his first sign of aging was the inability to win in Las Vegas, not a bad sign in my mind. He was a poker lover, known by all the people at the local bars. A great guy, and I mean seriously, his ability to figure out people was amazing. So was his ability to bluff them. To the day he died he bluffed everyone about how he felt. Of course, at the same time, he felt great a lot of the time while he was dying. To one of the most intense cancers I've ever heard of. And when he did, he didn't want to spend his last days fucking laying in bed damnit, he wanted to do shit. My mom was acting as a nurse for some time, and he was fucking playing poker with her, and trying to get her addicted to the game as something to do.
Damnit, he was an awesome guy. And he always thanked people for caring for such a crazy old man. Damnit, I need a beer or a scotch so I can raise it to his memory!
It appears this Rememberance Day I will remember the vetran closest to myself. He died not in the war. But damnit he was the greatest man I know. Anyone who treats promotions as "Extra Leave Time and all they'll do is demote me, not an actual punishment" is a great guy. Spent extra time with his family, rather than killing. Or a man who would get himself put on KP so that he didn't have to do something he disliked less. Seriously, what's wrong with that?!
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| Thursday, November 8th, 2007
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10:39 am
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If you meet the Buddha on the road. Kill him.
If you meet Jesus on the road. Break bread with Him.
If you meet Yahweh on the road. Wrestle with Him.
If you meet the Holy Spirit on the road. Accept It's Gifts.
If you meet a stranger on the road. Invite them into your house.
If you meet a wounded man on the road. Heal them.
If you meet a beggar on the road. Give them what you can.
Basic precepts. What if I meet you on the road?
current mood: amused
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| Monday, November 5th, 2007
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8:28 pm - Soapboxing
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Sometimes we need to practice our skills resting on a soapbox. I really like this place. It means I can be anything I want. I can feel the rain on my flesh as I stand here. Feel the cold against my skin. And I stand on my soapbox, facing off against your own. Perhaps I can throw my mind and ideas, or perhaps I can throw out meaning. Perhaps I don't have to care anymore.
Perhaps this is simply a silly box I am standing on.
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| Sunday, November 4th, 2007
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1:05 am - Christianity Post
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Ok, so eventually I had to do this. I had to make something to do with theology.
So, I expect to get shot down for all of this, but really, think of this in a method where you do not have to accept God, although at the same time, for most of it, God's existence helps. And since I wont try to prove that, assume it for the argument please, or simply ignore that parts that rely on it.
Oh, also, never forget, I am completely wrong on all of this. I will defend it with everything that exists in my schema of existence. But at the same time, I know the universe is much deeper than I can ever grasp in my mind, beyond that, deeper than I can grasp in a Live Journal post, especially when I try to both define Christianity and .
Ok, so, firstly, as a Christian one should not believe that this is a moral action. This has nothing to do with the creation of the universe, morals, goodness, evil, right and wrong, absolustism, relativism, or anything else in existence that it really could mean.
However, it does interact with these things. All of them. It interacts with how I put two lego bricks together. The thing is, lego doesn't have that much to do overall. Everyone knows how to put them together, looking to God while part of Christianity does not really affect the action. Whereas, in the case of morality, every action we take should be affected by this. If we choose to do things the Christian outlook must be in that action. Now this doesn't mean what most people think it does. Firstly, it actually is a liberating theology, one which gives the freedom most people don't associate with Christianity, and hell, I don't associate with Christians. Most Christians believe there is a strict code of Morality and that's all Christianity is. I know too many people too willing to harm people, but in ways that they feel are good. Going around insulting people, because they're not Christian, or attempting to guilt people in converting, this is in fact something that instead of healing the world or helping people, or spreading love, the things that Jesus spoke of, they are in fact the opposite. Harming someone, even if your intentions are good, is instead a very simple form of justifiable harm and hate. Or on the view of Creation, as Galileo said, (bear with me, I only know the content of the quote) I do not believe that a God that would create us with senses would ask us to forgo their use. Now, we can simply look at the Earth and see basic things. HOWEVER if we assume the existence of God then we can assume that Occam's Razor would remove certain very difficult aspects of evolution and replace them with God. Of course, at the same time, matter cannot be created or destroyed, and the unmoved mover arguments. So, I will state that generally, if you are Christian it makes more sense to believe in a God who can create the universe and did, but at the same time created ways for it to change. Perhaps I should use the programming analogy of God giving all creatures a script and then letting the script be added to by events, thereby creating the mutations we see. Simply AI theory, interestingly, since we're trying to create a model for the universe, I really shouldn't be using something that tries to model the universe, that would be silly.
Anyway, there's a whirlwind tour through what I feel is Christianity. Now the heavy stuff. Morality. I know, I said this doesn't matter to Christianity, but since so many people are struggling with the concept, including and especially Christians, I would like to chuck it out there. We can take a look at the universe and see there is obviously good and evil. I mean, seriously, if we take the example (the done to death example I might add) of the Holocaust, we get a very simple example of evil. I *wont* prove it's evil. In fact, my point is that I don't have to. Everyone will agree with me. Even the raving, frothing at the mouth, angry, relativists agree with this. But yet, if I gave the example of perhaps a single person who's life was better for the Holocaust, they likely WOULDN'T back down. Again, there is the simple reason that they know it was evil. This is an absolutist view of the world I would think. And also, I think that it is the one that makes sense. In every situation there is a right and wrong answer, and this answer is based on, well, essentially the same number of things that would be used to predict the movement of a particle. There are millions of actions and reactions and intentions and pains and loves involved. These things all affect where this is the right or wrong answer. Therefore, instead of trying to define good and evil, perhaps we should define what is moral, what is helpful, and what people should be doing.
Perhaps, we should define a certain thing with which to measure good. Some have posited that the best way to do this would be to reduce the amount of suffering in the universe. This is however horrible, since in fact in my opinion suffering is pointless. Creating suffering is likely evil, but every relativist has a 1001 ways that is not so... why? Because the universe is defined by the creation of love. Things that are good create love. Giving of yourself selflessly and unconditionally as well as simple regard, respect, admiration, and desire to praise unconditionally and selflessly. Is that love.
Ok, let me define a term here. I am going to use the word Africa. Why? Because I am a dick like that. People should know Africa is a continent, not a country. People should know there is well off countries in Africa. People should, finally, also know that there are poor countries outside of Africa. But, when I say Africa I mean "everyone who is in a place where they can barely keep themselves alive as well as have no power as a person".
Anyway, in Africa we can have people who are suffering. They can be completely without power, and everything else. They can see others around them and love them. In fact, these people, suffering, are more likely to love those around them than people who are not. This is the creation of love within suffering. These people are not eliminating suffering, yet they are doing good. However, the act of causing suffering cannot be done in love in almost every situation.
Perhaps, the best way to change the power struggle is best fixed by doing this: "The West" (that which is the opposite of Africa as defined above) should use it's money/resources to get groups of people from Africa to come here, set them up in houses or hotels, and pay for their food/whatnot. Essentially then, put them on a missions trip. Where then they minister to us. Teach us and give us a new perspective on life. And then, when they go home, they've had time where they were well fed etc. And at the same time, people could be given a new love for these people. And unconditional love may make people more willing to change. More willing to help. More willing to bring our world into a more love based rather than money based place. But that's a tangent.
In this model of the universe, there are reasons to kill or reasons to die. Reasons to die are reasons that stem out of love. As a Christian who has given as much love as they can it is quite simply to die for a cause. We know, through Jesus, that we will be going to be a time of waiting for the renewal of the Earth. This will be a joyous and loving time of wait. So, we can die without fear. We also, know that we cannot bring love to the Earth if dead, and therefore should do everything we can to stay alive, since if we are still able to give love, we would be reducing the potential for love, so it would be an immoral act. At the same time there are cases, the kind of case where'd you'd have to be forced to live or die actually, where if you do die you might be able to create more potential for love. Now, for killing. What I will refer to as Justified Killing is not justified and at the same time also one of the highest expressions of love anyone can give. Justified Killing is when you believe that the life of another person is more important to you than other people. Since all people are equally important, stating that is in fact huge, and something that no human should be saying without good reason. And therefore, if you are to be forced to kill to protect their lives, then, well, it would be the ultimate expression of love to another person. However, it would be a lack of love for every other person on the earth. Therefore, in my world view, this would force the action to be morally neutral, or a actually morally wrong act.
Ok, I think that's all I know on Christianity and how it affects morality. But I don't know. Anybody want to challenge me? Anyone want to agree? I hope so!
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| Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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6:27 pm - OMFG LJ TALK
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I am hereby posting through a fucking bot! Using GAIM! HOLY CRAP ON A STICK! This is awesome, it means I don't even need to think. Crap... This is just awesome enough I may start using it!
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| Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
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9:46 pm - HOLY SHIT - I rock
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For a test that is the first on Google I think I win.
100% of the world is less geeky than I am.
Fucking scary!
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| Monday, February 19th, 2007
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5:19 pm - There are days when even I need to post here
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| Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
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11:40 pm - ALMOST FORGOT A SHAMELESS PLUG
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I escaped from the Dungeon of Silverwizard!I killed Sunrise089 the gelatinous cube. I looted the Armour of Humanitarianism, the Sword of Urban Dead, the Armour of Philosophy, the Dagger of Computers, the Wand of Nexus Wars, the Dagger of Theology and 8 gold pieces. Score: 8 Explore the Dungeon of Silverwizard and try to beat this score, or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon... |
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| Monday, July 24th, 2006
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9:04 pm - You better not care
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You better not wish to see all of my thoughts and feelings and crap here.
I am not going to use this, this is going to be space to interact with other users, especially ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) scarecrowster 's End Times blog, as well as the Surrealist's LJ games.
No point at all to reading this journal, except for finding those links.
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