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Random.  Uncoincidentally, this is not the second time to post this one :)

Pictures from winter camp

Winter camp 08

For what it's worth, I have no regrets posting this right now.

Short and sweet.  I don't push for loquacity after reading so much (Job, worldmagblog, google's favicon)

-Petr

More Theocracy

Well, I finally found the lyrics to the longest track on the album that I was listening to last night. I thought surely somebody would like this.

link

And in case you should want to listen to it -- with the music

Mirror Of Souls

-Petr

)Edit(
But this wouldn't be right without mentioning one of their other works.
another link

Did I mention the election? I won't.

Here on the couch, typing this up and watching Monk.  Really strange one too.

I finally figured out why Evelyn puts "now playing" on her blog posts.  I can guarantee that this post would be much different were I listening to LOTR.  But I'm not, I'm listening to Theocracy (another one of those rocks bands -- quite good this one).

Anybody who noticed the date mark on the previous post would know that it's been a while since I visited this blog.  In fact, this is the first time since reinstalling Ubuntu that I've even looked at it.  But here I am :)

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So in the back of a car last night I was listening to said band (Theocracy) and thinking about reality (space and time and so on).  If man is limited by space and time, then there's so much that can't be seen!  Sure it seems obvious, but scary at the same time.  Each moment in one place is one more moment that can't be spent somewhere else, doing something more or less worthwhile, seeing somebody that may not exist otherwise, as far as the person observing is concerned.  Each moment comes and goes, and is gone forever.

So reassuring to be working for the one that made it all!

What is this thing knowledge?  Isn't it all next to nothing in the big picture?  One moment I'm thinking, gee, what is it like to throw yourself out of an airplane with nothing keeping you from hitting hard save something strapped to your back?  Most people will never know from experience.  Is it such a good thing to know so much?

(man, so many questions.  Note to self in future posts: try to clarify without asking so much :-)

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

Nor his knowledge!  So he knows hows to assemble the world's first perpetual motion machine.  What do I care?  The only knowledge I need is this
"Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."

This and this alone is the most important in this life.  Decisions now apply to all eternity.

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So then, an update on recent events?

Christmas was great, if *comparatively* uneventful.  None of us went anywhere.  Mom's side of the family came over Saturday.  No traveling to OK this year :(


The 27th, the same Saturday just mentioned, Ross and I went with several other scouts to GWP Winter camp.  I was responsible for helping with two different merit badge classes, and took two other.  One was a combination of two, so for teaching and taking, I ended up with 5 total.


The pictures look good.  I'll post them soon.  Maybe edit this post later when I get them up.


So tomorrow, at 5AM I'm leaving for Houston.  I need to get rest.  Bye!


-Petr