If there’s no longer any dragons to slay or mountains to scale, the world would be so boring.
I used to get depressed over the state of the world, going to sleep with troubled thoughts. Now, I go sleep with the assurance that I still have dragons to slay the next morning.
Life is fun again.
Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humans are confused beings. They want people to believe in them, but they don’t want to shoulder the burden of expectations. They want to be trusted, yet have nothing demanded from them. They want to belong, yet do not commit.
As though it could be mutually excluded.
There are no thornless roses in nature.
“There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.”
-Steve Jobs
If you need to see it to believe it, you’re probably catching up behind me.
This is hilarious. You can tell that they are really going for the kill this time – they even mobilized atheists to pray!
I don’t care if it’s “slacktivism” but this Facebook campaign is incredibly funny: launching DDOS attacks on God by simultaneous prayer
As you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Founation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October.
This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus, the Egyptian god, Ra etc etc) with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).
The prayer minute will be at exactly 8pm (Eastern Standard Time) and 9am (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday 8 November 2009.
Whether you are a Christian or not, I think this stuff is for FAIL blog!
While I was here, one of my biggest lament is that we Singaporeans are too sheltered. Our impressions of the world are mainly extrapolation from the paintings of the media and Hollywood culture. It doesn’t help that western culture is often vilified by the government and their press – just ask the media students.
Yet, all these are true. Most of us do not have a single clue about the world we are trying to reach – especially Christians. It is like trying to conqueror the Everest that we picture in photographs – sincerely inaccurate, realistically out of whack.
It was only till when I arrived here, I understood what it mean to live as a Canadian, to adopt a western perspective and even behave like one of them. Armed with the new worldview, I was determined to bring it back to my sheltered peers. However, what surprised me today in class was the the responses with regards to the films we watched regarding China, Malaysia and Indonesia. These people talk about these appalling sights of the dirty streets and the poor living conditions with such unjust and disbelief. What seems to be the usual neighboring sights to me were different paradigms for them. The Montrealer speaks of his visits to Indonesia as eye opening and perspective altering – to me, that is just Indonesia. It’s funny, but it seems like we are not the only ones who are overprotected.
We are all sheltered from each other.
Now that I have been entrusted with this fuller picture of the world, albeit it being one that is still far from completion, I wonder how am I called to steward this privilege.
After all, I am a child of two worlds.
Sarek: [to Spock] You will always be a child of two worlds, and fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose?
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