Drifting away almost imperceptibly with thoughts of a peaceful day
Oh how rare the moments that rejuvenate me, awaken, and enliven my soul
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Absolute Truth
SO MANY things I’ve seen and heard over the past month makes me question many things that I thought I knew. Nothing about my religion, but many other things. There seems to be quite a push for me to question absolute truth. I’ve been studying absolute truth, and as I do I note MANY “cover-ups”, “conspiracies”, and “things aren’t as they seems”.
Evil abounds. Many well intentioned people are under the influence of darkness. Destroying families. Slowly corroding religions. Destroying Christ’s divinity.
Perception, while it creates a reality in thought and belief, does not and can not change absolute reality. Just because a lie is told over and over, DOESN’T make it true. Power, money, control, greed, lust…they seek to create a “real world”, but those things can never change how the world really is, the way things really are. Truth exists in spite of the dark one’s very subtle and deceptive claims to the contrary.
I have a feeling that we believe what we feed our souls most…I would rather not find out if I can read, view, and think about darkness and come out unaffected. Studying daily from what I know in my heart to be the words of God therefore is of invaluable import. Slumbering in the night so that I can be protected from the minds wanderings through strange paths is of similar importance.
Thus, I ride home now from another late night of feeling that there’s more for me to know “out there” and disregarding the above mentioned vitals.
Brain Dump
Alright, so I couldn’t find a single blog of mine (I have a bunch of different topiced blogs) that would allow me to express the wide variety of thoughts that I’ve had today…actually, this whole week. Therefore, I’m going to Brain Dump here and make sense of it all later.
Before I start I have to say that I’m online almost all day long. I go from one job to the next and EVERYTHING is online. The word WIRED came to my mind today as I sat and had a small break from everything.
I didn’t know that I could actually FEEL an emotion called wired. Well, I had that feeling today and with some of the things I’ll talk about here, I actually welcomed that new emotion, with some reservations of course.
Technology
I get so excited to learn of the new ways to interact with information on the web. I’m very intrigued by RSS Feeds and the multitude of ways that I can display them. I’ve got a ticker streaming across the bottom of my Firefox browser that lets me see the headlines of sites that offer RSS feeds. This allows me to do my work and every once and a while see something of interest without having to stop and go to another site to keep checking headlines.
Right now I have streaming my blog, so pretty soon I’ll see the title Brain Dump cruising across my screen. I have web topics from WebMasterWorld and world topics from NPR. I’m pretty excited about it all.
I LOVE Firefox and the extension that I can add onto it. If there’s something that I want my browser to do, I can probably find a plug-in that does it. Anything from allowing me to see more information about a website, to putting controls to my media player right in my broswer. IE is funny, smart I guess, but because I don’t really like it, funny. They’ve all but copied Firefox’s entire layout in their newest browser update. Dirty rats…anyhow.
Health
I’ve been getting more and more excited every day about the great possibilities in the heath industry. I feel that there are leaps and bounds to be made with diagnosis, brain imaging, and altogether keeping very close tabs on our health.
A while back, maybe 8 months or so ago, I drafted up some plans for a personal health monitoring system. Tied to a vast database of disease information. The idea would be to monitor key bioinformatics and compare them against the rhythms and patterns of a healthy individual. If one began to show patterns of higher than expected blood sugar levels, blood pressure, or any number of other key measurements there would be a notification set up, an alert to a potential disruptive health issue.
Yeah, lots to still think through, but I CAN’T imagine with all our technology why we’re not catching things before they happen.
Family
Melissa’s got a new photography site and family blog.
Mindy’s having a baby and just sent us ultrasound images.
Christy’s moving off to AZ, just threw a going-away for her Sunday night.
Talked with Dad about politics. Seems that we share some of the same views.
we will Cast our Pods
Once upon a time there was a podcast to be created. We took on the challenge and everyone rejoiced.
Canadian Geographer
So, I was riding in the car with a new Canadian best friend. It just so happens that I work with a Canadian too. I asked him once where he was from and he said Alberta, or maybe it was Ontario. Oh well, either way, I then asked him where that place was. He continued to give me a Canadian Geography lesson. I was pretty stoked to say the least. Seems that I know all about Canada now. They’re pretty much the coolest people ever. I mean look at ’em! What other country can boast of having bands as cool as Bare Naked Ladies and Arrogant Worms? Um, none I think. Canada’s the only place.
Alright, down to brass tax. I know I kinda hinted at it in the previous paragraph, but I am feeling a strong urge to tell you flat out. I’m a Canadian Geographer. There, I said it. I know that some may mock, but never can I say that I didn’t follow my convictions.
Now in saying that I started the Canadian Geographer’s Club I want you to know that I can’t claim Canadian citizenship. I can only hope that someday I will be extended honorary citizenship, knighted, or even just given some plain tickets to the great white north.
Anyhow, let it be known that the Canadian Geographer’s Club is in session. Dues are not required, unless you’re not a Canadian OR a Geographer. In which case, you can’t join, sorry.
Oh, PS. Strange Brew makes me laugh. And if you do a search for “Rehpargeog Naidanac”, I’ll be number one. I’ll bet on it.