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Friday, August 8, 2014
Sunday, July 27, 2014
The Same Old Church Story
I went to church this morning, like I have done probably over a thousand other times in my life, and I heard a message much like I've ever heard a few hundred of those times, if not more than that. While I've never had the best attention span to focus closely on every single word a preacher says to really fully understand what he's trying to stay, I'm pretty good at understanding the general purpose of messages pretty quickly.
This preacher was reading and preaching out of Matthew 5, the Sermon on the Mount. If you're curious, you can read it...
Monday, June 23, 2014
The Marshmallow Test
Read about an old psychology test that Stanford did in the 60's and 70's. It was called the Marshmallow Test and it was all about the need for instant gratification affects how successful a person is in life.
You can read the full details on this Wikipedia page, but I'll explain it real quick.
So basically they brought a bunch of kids into a room by themselves and put a marshmallow (or cookie or pretzel, depending on what the kid liked - which was good to hear because I've never really liked marshmallows so I didn't think that would have been...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Almost Predestination
It's been awhile since I've posted here - I feel like I've had to say that at the beginning of a lot of my recent posts here; I guess I just haven't been thinking too originally recently, which is too bad.
I just got back from spending four nights and five days in the 'fabulous' city of Las Vegas, which was a lot of fun. We gambled too much, I lost more money that I would be willing to confess to my mother, and my liver isn't offering me any thanks you's for what I fed it while I was there, but now it's all over the trip at least inspired this...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Donald Sterling and Rob Thomas
Haven't been writing lately, so for today I'm transitioning this blog into a place where I just give my opinions on anything. This isn't going to be insightful, motivational, or interesting, it's just my opinions on a few things. If I like it maybe it'll be my new thing.
Everyone knows about all this Donald Sterling crap that's been going on for the last month. The Los Angeles Clippers owner insinuated that he was a racist on a private phone call and the tape of the call got out to the public and everybody went bezerk over it. I have opinions...
Friday, April 4, 2014
Happiness is a comparison thing
Everyone wants to be happy. If you asked everybody in the world what the purpose of life is, I'm sure the answer 'to be happy' would be near the top of the list. Everyone has different idea of what that looks like, even people in similar situations. If you compared what happiness looks like now to what it looked like a thousand years ago it would be tough to even say the two are the same thing even at the very root.
Think about this for a second. Say you were the only person on earth. You never knew another human, you never even knew that another...
Thursday, April 3, 2014
When are we actually 'blessed'?
So I'm moving my blog back here because I can't post from Medium at work.
This post is pretty specifically about Christianity. I'm not interested in creationism vs. evolution arguments, so if you have a problem with my inability to prove the whole reason behind what I'm writing - go read some blog about seashells or go whine about the How I Met Your Mother season finale on Facebook with the rest of the world.
You hear Christians say how 'blessed' they are all the time. We get a promotion at work and we say how blessed we are. We get good grades...
The best things in life
I’m 23 years old and still relatively inexperienced, so for me to come on here and say I know all about what’s good and bad in life would be hypocritical. But there have been a few life lessons laid in front of me and one of them in particular has stuck out to be recently.
Looking at a slightly bigger picture of life, it sure seems like the best things in life are things that take time to achieve. They are things that take a lot patience, will-power, and hard work to get. That’s why healthy food doesn’t taste good, and why you can’t just do a...
Reaching for unreachable
I saw this quote on Twitter the other day, and I don’t know exactly what it was but it said something to the extent of the following:
Don’t get upset about having flaws, and don’t criticize others for having flaws. Flaws are what makes humans unique; they make life interesting.
It was probably worded a bit better than that, but that’s all I can do for you right now.
Anyways, I saw that and my mind immediately started thinking about it. We all know that nobody is perfect. There is not a person in the world that hasn’t made a mistake or done...
128 Hours
The whole education system is about getting you to a place where you can excel after you graduate. But ‘excel’, they mean you can make enough money to support yourself and eventually a family while not completely hating your life at work. If you chose the right major, that’s not very hard to reach, in fact it’s really easy, especially if you have some people skills.
Choosing the right major can be tough though. I’ve come to realize that no 18 year old kid knows anything about life and they really shouldn’t have all the say in what major they choose....
Actually knowing what you’re talking about
I've always been a bit picky about certain things… mainly things that like no one else is picky about. I hate when people use expressions wrong, like saying “I could care less” when they actually mean that they couldn't care less, and other things of that nature. Most of it has to do with words and the way people say things, which leads to this post.
Went to church tonight and they did that song “Scandal of Grace” (chill out this isn’t a religion based post), and at one point I looked at the words and I’m like wait why are they calling it a scandal?...
Figuring it out on your own
I’m reading “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis, and it’s honestly one of the coolest books I've ever read. Basically, Lewis writes a bunch of letters as if a demon were writing to his nephew, who’s also a demon. The demons are in hell, and they are each assigned one person to try and trip up. So C.S. Lewis gives up the picture on the other side. Being a Christian my whole life, I've found that everything comes at you from the same perspective with the same words, and that really makes important stuff hard to really understand. This book really...
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