Against Nothingness

If Yesterday Were the Last Day If yesterday were the last day of school, everything would have made sense. I woke up early Tuesday morning to what I thought was the sound of crickets; a lot of them. Which is a little weird when your inside the city, nearly downtown. I quickly forgot about it, but when I left my house the sound was loud as ever. To my surprise, at the end of the alleyway, maybe 10 feet above the ground, were dozens of birds wheeling around in a tight circle for no apparent reason. As I know nothing about birds, I thought it looked cool, and did my best to prevent thoughts of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” from entering my mind. That effort was to no avail; I looked around, and thought the trees looked weird; it took a minute, but I soon saw what was making the noise. Nearly a dozen trees, with no leaves on them, had a bird on every branch, twig, or space. Cool and creepy; my pace quickened. Soon I was past them, though they later flew over my head, goin...

The Day After Tomorrow? There is a new movie coming out this summer, which I think looks good, called The Day After Tomorrow and as you have probably guessed, it is a post-apocalyptic (or during the appocalypse) movie. Based on global warming, huge climate change caused by the drastic change of large ocean currents due to polar melting, some of the trailer's most stunning scenes are of New York buried in snow. Looks cool. Why do I bring this up? Well, I heard about a new environmental problem. Yipee!! Ever heard of ocean dead zones? They are near the top of the list of emerging environmental problems according to the UN-EP. To much fertilizer and chemical runoff gets into areas of the ocean, accelerating the growth of algae, which then dies, consuming oxygen, and eventually up to several square miles of ocean has no oxygen. In the last 10 years the area of known dead zones has more than doubled. On top of that did you know that 14% of the world's population relies o...

It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine were then surcharged with belief in the supernatural, miracles were everywhere. Thus they would explain away the significance of the popular belief that our Lord wrought signs and wonders. But in so doing they set themselves a worse problem than they evade. If miracles were so very common, it would be as easy to believe that Jesus wrought them as that He worked at His father's bench, but also it would be as inconclusive. And how then are we to explain the astonishment which all the evangelists so constantly record? On any conceivable theory, these writers shared the beliefs of that age, and so did the readers who accepted their assurance that all were amazed, and that His report "went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee." These are emphatic words, and both the author and his readers must have considered a miracle to be more surprising than modern critics believe they did. Yet we do n...

As you might have guessed, if you read into the previous post, and if you noticed the comments on The Heresy , I have recently been reading more about the situation in Iraq. With the goings on with Clarke and such, how could I not? It seems that everytime I delve into the issues surrounding the war and occupation they have all gotten worse. The report on my last post details many of the misleading, and outright lies, from the leaders in the U.S. If what Clarke says is true (go here or here or here , and thanks to Leighton at TheHeresy for those links. Also check out this for some comments on how the WhiteHouse is responding to Clarke, and many more links to follow if you want), well thats just more fuel on the fire. I get more and more cynical about the government, ours, the U.S., or anywhere. I mean, I know that government can't really change people, or the world, but I used to think that honesty wasn't to high of an expectation (naive, i know). I may disagree ...

If you care about/are interested in the Iraq war and Bush and all that, you might want to check out: This report by minority staff, special investigations. Its from the House of Representatives webpage.

Jesus communicates Heart is expressed through words The darkness within (A butchered Haiku. Can you do 6-6-5? its still 17 syllables...?)

The primary cause of the [denominational] divisions is the institutionalism and organisationalism of the churches, which, without vivifying the life of the believers in them, smothers or drives it out of the ekklesia, and makes [the churches] merely dead institutions. Christians who really have life in Christ cannot exist within such a corpse and will at last have to come out of it. But in almost all cases, those who have come out of dead institutions want to have in their place another institution or other rituals and ceremonies, only repeating the same error. Instead of turning to Christ Himself as their center, they again seek to find fellowship and spiritual security on the very same basis that failed, not realizing that it is the institution that is killing, instead of producing, life in Christ. Even the Bible itself is interpreted and understood in various ways, and so always becomes the center of sectarianism. Just in the same way, dogmas and creeds cannot bring Christian unity,...