Credo
So I've been thinking lately: what principles do I follow in my life? If I had to lay out my identity as a set of rules, what would it look like. Well it'd be something like this:
- Do whatever God asks first and foremost. More importantly, do it because God asked, and not because of any other benefits I see in it. I think this distinction is very important to my identity, because I believe that even if I'm doing something that is good, if I'm doing it for the wrong reasons then I'm not glorifying God first and foremost.
- After God's requests comes uni. God put me here, God pointed me to this course... Not applying myself would be a bit of a breach of trust.
- After all this, I help people. Anyone really, I just enjoy helping people. If someone has a problem, I'll try my hardest to help find a solution. One thing that annoys me about a lot of people is how they're always telling me how much they helped so-and-so, etc. While I sometimes do, I try not to say those things to make myself appear better in front of people. I'm happy enough with simply having helped the person.
- At this point in the hierarchy things get complicated. Right now, here is alternatively filled with self pity and joy in God. Sometimes both within 5 minutes. I focus myself as best I can, but it's hard. There are some memories I've just learned not to bring up, because they tend to depress me rather quickly.
- Right down here comes chasing after girls (not because I don't want to, but rather because I force myself not to). This isn't very important to me at the moment, seeing that I spend almost half the nights in a week going out somewhere, and the other half are filled with assignments. Also I'm quite shy and bad at getting to know people, so it's very hard for me to get to know the girl I'd currently like to get to know. But don't read into this, my interests change almost as quickly as my moods. Mainly because it's all somewhat of a forbidden fruit at the moment and I'm not considering things seriously.
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OK, I just got back from a youth group meeting. It was razy, as usual, and featured stu jumping on half of us. We got a lot of stuff sorted out, including timetables, responsibilities and weekly themes. All in all, it was probably our shortest and most productive meeting to date. I feel like kind of an organiser; I was the one pushing for a lot of the details to be written down/responsibilities handed out. Not sure why it was just me, but I really do like to see plans that we've committed to set in concrete. If people know who's responsible for what, then it's harder to forget or become confused.
Anyway, enough serious stuff. I have finally learned the secret to prayer as an umbrella! Unluckily for me, the prayer is planning. See it don't work if it's a spur of the moment thing, but if ya know where you need to be and when the following day, then a prayer and night and a prayer in the morning and things will be arranged. It's really quite good. If only I had the foresight to ask for my clothes to finish drying before it rained again too.... oh well.
I reviewed the next generation videogame consoles today too. Some may find my judgements superficial, but bare in mind that I devoted more than 2 hours of my time to this comparison. The Nintendo Revolution wins without a doubt, the schmick black box and backwards compatibility all the way to original nes is a sure winner.
Bringing up a close second is the playstation3, also compatible back to playstation1. Unfortunately, the ps3's controller suffers from some strange disease. Most reviewers refer to it as the "batarang" but every time I see it, all I can think is "wang". Also, the ps3 can drive up to 2 HDTV screens and simultaneously view more than 100 movies. But I hate channel surfing, so it only gets second.
Bringing up the rear is the xbox 360, rather geriatric in comparison to the other two consoles. There is no guaranteed backwards compatibility, but microsoft claims that bestsellers (whatever they are) will be able to run on it. Also, the controller looks like it had one wedgie too many in its highschool years. It's interesting to note that the ps3 and xbox360 both use the same cpu chips (IBM CELL... ok so the ps has 1 more powerful one and the xbox has 2 less powerful ones) and the Revolution uses another IBM chip of as yet unknown origin. I suspect it's a CELL based chip.
So now I'm off to have dinner and go to teh starwars opening screening! WOOOO!!!!
- Do whatever God asks first and foremost. More importantly, do it because God asked, and not because of any other benefits I see in it. I think this distinction is very important to my identity, because I believe that even if I'm doing something that is good, if I'm doing it for the wrong reasons then I'm not glorifying God first and foremost.
- After God's requests comes uni. God put me here, God pointed me to this course... Not applying myself would be a bit of a breach of trust.
- After all this, I help people. Anyone really, I just enjoy helping people. If someone has a problem, I'll try my hardest to help find a solution. One thing that annoys me about a lot of people is how they're always telling me how much they helped so-and-so, etc. While I sometimes do, I try not to say those things to make myself appear better in front of people. I'm happy enough with simply having helped the person.
- At this point in the hierarchy things get complicated. Right now, here is alternatively filled with self pity and joy in God. Sometimes both within 5 minutes. I focus myself as best I can, but it's hard. There are some memories I've just learned not to bring up, because they tend to depress me rather quickly.
- Right down here comes chasing after girls (not because I don't want to, but rather because I force myself not to). This isn't very important to me at the moment, seeing that I spend almost half the nights in a week going out somewhere, and the other half are filled with assignments. Also I'm quite shy and bad at getting to know people, so it's very hard for me to get to know the girl I'd currently like to get to know. But don't read into this, my interests change almost as quickly as my moods. Mainly because it's all somewhat of a forbidden fruit at the moment and I'm not considering things seriously.
***
OK, I just got back from a youth group meeting. It was razy, as usual, and featured stu jumping on half of us. We got a lot of stuff sorted out, including timetables, responsibilities and weekly themes. All in all, it was probably our shortest and most productive meeting to date. I feel like kind of an organiser; I was the one pushing for a lot of the details to be written down/responsibilities handed out. Not sure why it was just me, but I really do like to see plans that we've committed to set in concrete. If people know who's responsible for what, then it's harder to forget or become confused.
Anyway, enough serious stuff. I have finally learned the secret to prayer as an umbrella! Unluckily for me, the prayer is planning. See it don't work if it's a spur of the moment thing, but if ya know where you need to be and when the following day, then a prayer and night and a prayer in the morning and things will be arranged. It's really quite good. If only I had the foresight to ask for my clothes to finish drying before it rained again too.... oh well.
I reviewed the next generation videogame consoles today too. Some may find my judgements superficial, but bare in mind that I devoted more than 2 hours of my time to this comparison. The Nintendo Revolution wins without a doubt, the schmick black box and backwards compatibility all the way to original nes is a sure winner.
Bringing up a close second is the playstation3, also compatible back to playstation1. Unfortunately, the ps3's controller suffers from some strange disease. Most reviewers refer to it as the "batarang" but every time I see it, all I can think is "wang". Also, the ps3 can drive up to 2 HDTV screens and simultaneously view more than 100 movies. But I hate channel surfing, so it only gets second.
Bringing up the rear is the xbox 360, rather geriatric in comparison to the other two consoles. There is no guaranteed backwards compatibility, but microsoft claims that bestsellers (whatever they are) will be able to run on it. Also, the controller looks like it had one wedgie too many in its highschool years. It's interesting to note that the ps3 and xbox360 both use the same cpu chips (IBM CELL... ok so the ps has 1 more powerful one and the xbox has 2 less powerful ones) and the Revolution uses another IBM chip of as yet unknown origin. I suspect it's a CELL based chip.
So now I'm off to have dinner and go to teh starwars opening screening! WOOOO!!!!
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