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

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.

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.

Children of God

I've been thinking of late, well, for a while no, about how we should be Children of God. The idea just dawned upon me one day, sorta out of nowhere. I thought about how kids are so innocent, and how when we grow up we become corrupted by the world.

Like kids don't care about waht they're wearing, where they fit in isocially, whether they're popular. They don't debate on religion or doubt anything. My youth leader, Samuel Danger, said how when you're with kids they're so truthful, they don't lie. I realised that we lose all this when we grow up. We lose this dependance.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to grow up, it has to happen some day. But just how we should be chi;dren of God, almost literally. Later after I ghad this thought, one night at youth, there was a talk about being children of God, and the speaker said how children have dependance on their parents, like we should have this dependance on God.

Just some thoughts I've been having.

Back baby!

I recently returned from my annual youth group camp. And to be honest, I never wanted to leave, or go back to society ever again.

And now that I've returned, I've got this sinking feeling, that I really do want to withdraw from society. Coming back reminds me of how much I missed - I much I wished didn't exist. I really want to go back and stay back forever, and not worry about anything, and be in constant fellowship with mates. And to have sermons everyday.

And seeing the huge amount of stars was great. It's something that a good 80% of Western society misses out on, which could sway thousands out of thinking that everything that's in existence is a mistake. God created it, and so far, it's one thing in this world that we've yet to ruin, and probably never will. They're amazing. El_josho agrees.

In recent news...

I saw that pre-schools are going to start teaching kids the Aboriginal origins stories. I mean, what? I'm all for reconciliation and equality, but this seems too far.

In a society where more and more scripture classes in schools are getting smaller, as the entire world becomes more sceptical, we wanna terach kids the Aboriginal Dream Time stories just for reconciliation?

If this were the 7-Day Creation story that was being told, parents would be in uproar, claiming that we have no right to indoctrinate kids with religion, yet look at what's happening. Another reason why I don't understand people.