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Thank God the election is finally over, and now the rest of America can get on with their lives.

I understand, to a certain degree, the behaviors of some friends of mine, but most of the behavior that I witnessed is just uncalled for. Relax people, please. What’s the huge deal? It’s a president. Yes, I understand that it determines our future. Eventually though, I think that you’ll come to realize that your vote doesn’t matter all that much. But that’s just my opinion. I have no problem with people voting. At all. But the hatred associated with presidential elections in itself is immoral and wrong.

Calm down please, and realize what things are truly important in life.

Thanks, xkcd.com

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The Acer Aspire One…

http://kennethreitz.com/acer-aspire-one/

my attempts to capture the world in which we live

I’ve recently come to identify myself with the hacker community. While I have always considered myself to be apart of this, I recently have become slightly more… enabled in certain areas.

The typical Protestant work ethic is that is a “value emphasizing the necessity of constant labor in a person’s calling as a sign of personal salvation.” I must heavily disagree.

The principles of the hacker ethic are:

• Access to computers — and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works — should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-on Imperative!
• All information should be free.
• Mistrust authority — promote decentralization.
• Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
• You can create art and beauty on a computer.
• Computers can change your life for the better.

I couldn’t agree more…

Our society seems to be lacking quite a bit of respect. People have a tendency to mock at each other, naming certain groups as superior to others…

Why do we do this?

it’s pretty sickening when you think about it… I mean, why would any single person think that they are better than someone else?

White collar workers have a tendency to look down upon laborers, while the middle class, suburban soccer-moms spite at drug abusers and the like. The church is often accused of this as well – and is often guilty.

What hypocrisy.

I feel this way about patriotism honestly. What gives us the right to say that we think that America is the best country in the world? Are we not all bound by the same human limitations as everyone else on this planet?

Why would anyone pledge their allegiance to a flag???? I don’t say the pledge of allegiance – I think there are few things that are done so mindlessly in our culture – aside from people meaninglessly referring to God…but that is of course merely my opinion – and aside, is quite understandable.

We call ourselves “ Americans“… are the inhabitants of South and Cental America not also “Americans”? What about Canada?

Think about that. Please.

~ by kennethreitz on September 12, 200

Here’s an old report that I wrote in 9th grade about Kaballism. Interesting stuff.

I recently went on a missions trip to Cherokee, NC. While there, I was in charge of the team’s ’spirtual development’, so I wrote these devotionals. Enjoy!

Please Note: All passages are taken form Eugene Peterson’s The Message: a paraphrase bible.

The Way vs. The World

How We are to Live as Christians pt. I

How We are to Live as Christians pt. II

Christ-like Attitudes Towards the Lost

Evolution?
Certainly, through various scientific methods of experimentation and observation, the basic theory of evolution is, in fact, valid. But evolution cannot, in any means, be the source of life, as people often make it out to be. Evolution does exist however.
Animals and humans alike all adapt to their surroundings – often the changes in the animal kingdom can be quite drastic. This is the theory of evolution at work. The findings of Darwin from his studies of the Galapagos Islands are indeed valid and are scientifically accurate.
But it cannot be the source of life as we know it.

Body systems are so incredibly complicated and intricate, it is impossible for them to have evolved over time from simpler systems. The organs that make up a body system certainly cannot sustain themselves, or even function, without all of the other organs doing their part as well. Any creature would die if it did not have a heart – or a liver – or a kidney – or a spleen, all working in synchronous harmony. Life is irreducibly complex. In order for animals to reproduce and sustain themselves, they must function perfectly on their own. It is simply not possible for evolution to be the source of life.

So where DID life originate from?

Let’s take the big bang theory–the precursor to life-originating evolution–and let’s say, for this essay’s sake, that it is correct. Any plausible theory that makes any logical since involves matter, some way or another, as the world as we know it is composed of matter. This matter is changed, moved, morphed, or arranged somehow and *poof* we have that magical spark that is life, and from there on out, we have what we have today.
Now think for a moment… where did that matter originate from? Where did the energy necessary for any kind of movement, reaction, etc. come from? It had to have been created/placed there somehow. But matter cannot generate more matter from itself or cause itself into being. Nor can energy. So where did it come from?
The only logical explanation is a something else. And that something else must be created by something else. This infinite loop is the only answer.

Let’s get a bit more technical with this. In mathematical terms, everything must have started from something. Zero cannot by multiplied in any way to equal anything but itself, zero. This proves that there most have been something here to begin with which could generate this matter. Something is infinitely greater than nothing. Zero cannot equal Infinity. Infinity equals infinity – nothing else can. There is no other logical explanation. So our universe originated from an infinity. But what is this infinity?
This infinity is a Creator.
But who created this Creator then?

Infinity is, by it’s nature, only capable of rendering infinity. The Creator is not only infinite, He is infinitely infinite. His infinity is the source of his Infiniteness. He is the source of His own power, the “perfectly efficient machine”, and the end of the equation. He is the infinite beginning and the infinite end to all things, and the only logical explanation.
This is a Creator who is omnipotent, omniscient, an omniinfinite. A Creator who is infinite in majesty, power, and grace. The epitome of infinite perfection.

This is God.
And that is why I call him Lord.
And that is why I have devoted my life to bring glory unto his name.