Do you ever get that feeling when coming out of anything medical related that you should of said something else to one of their questions? Like, you got out of the doctors, and then think out what the doctor asked you, and you think about your answers, then are like "AWWW NAWWW" when you realise you probably should of said something?
I got it just then when I got out of the doctor's. I coughed a bit, and then remembered how he asked me if I had a cough, and then I thought "AWWW NAWWW".
Ah well, too late. Hindsight is 20/20. And there were all these Swine Flu alerts everywhere as well.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Like Gordon Freeman, minus the sweet goatee...
Yeah, I lost my voice yesterday, on my birthday of all days. Yeah, it got worse throughout the day, until finally at night I really couldn't say anything at all unless I pushed word out through my diaphragm. Yeah.
So i thought, while also thinking about one of my heroes, Gordon Freeman, about how easy it would be to be a mute. I mean, like how you would never say anything you didn't mean, or swear, or put anyone down with your mouth.
But then I also thought about how much it would suck not to be able to talk at all. To never express yourself, or use the phone, or anything really at all that require communication.
James 3:9-12
The mouth is both a dangerous tool and an amazing tool, yet we continue to abuse it, most of the time saying things we don't mean, or are careless with what we say. We really do need to try and control our mouths, no mater how hard it is, and try not to be the small spark that sets the great forest on fire.
So i thought, while also thinking about one of my heroes, Gordon Freeman, about how easy it would be to be a mute. I mean, like how you would never say anything you didn't mean, or swear, or put anyone down with your mouth.
But then I also thought about how much it would suck not to be able to talk at all. To never express yourself, or use the phone, or anything really at all that require communication.
James 3:9-12
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
The mouth is both a dangerous tool and an amazing tool, yet we continue to abuse it, most of the time saying things we don't mean, or are careless with what we say. We really do need to try and control our mouths, no mater how hard it is, and try not to be the small spark that sets the great forest on fire.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
For the love or the money
Recently, after talking in real life about how my attempt to troll the PC Powerplay forums failed, mainly due to me posting in the serious discussion thread in all caps. Which I only posted in the "Questions about Chrisitanity" thread, mainly due to me getting angry and wanting to post things that would get my normal account banned, which I didn't want. And I posted, on my original account, how Christians witnessing and attemping to convert others is out of love, not money or selfish reason. There was the usual arrogant atheist response (involving an explanation of SCIENCE and LOGIC to me). Eh, I got over it.
Back to the talking in RL again, my friend who is also on the forums saw this post, and then after saying the forums don't need a troll (which they really do, because right now they're downright boring 90% of the time), he mentioned my post, which everyone got in uproar over and started saying "No they don't, they just want the church to make money" and all this other stuff I forgot. The one quoted is the one that stuck.
I mean seriously, lets get this first point out of the way. I gain absolutely nothing if my church makes more money. Seriously, I don't, and people don't just give straight away when they join a church, do they? I mean, the church isn't there just to make money. What do churches do with money, tell me? Yup, not much, mainly just staff and building costs. No, we're not building some superweapon or something crazy, and we're not a company like the Catholic church is built up to be.
The church is there to be a hospital for the sinners, not a refuge for the saints (I think that's how the quote goes). We are out there telling people about Jesus because of the love we have for you that we don't want to see you spending eternity in the wrong place. That's how I see it.
Back to the talking in RL again, my friend who is also on the forums saw this post, and then after saying the forums don't need a troll (which they really do, because right now they're downright boring 90% of the time), he mentioned my post, which everyone got in uproar over and started saying "No they don't, they just want the church to make money" and all this other stuff I forgot. The one quoted is the one that stuck.
I mean seriously, lets get this first point out of the way. I gain absolutely nothing if my church makes more money. Seriously, I don't, and people don't just give straight away when they join a church, do they? I mean, the church isn't there just to make money. What do churches do with money, tell me? Yup, not much, mainly just staff and building costs. No, we're not building some superweapon or something crazy, and we're not a company like the Catholic church is built up to be.
The church is there to be a hospital for the sinners, not a refuge for the saints (I think that's how the quote goes). We are out there telling people about Jesus because of the love we have for you that we don't want to see you spending eternity in the wrong place. That's how I see it.
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