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Name: David
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Interests: Writing, drawing, swing dance, and music.
Expertise: Jack of all trades, master of none.
Occupation: Student at IUPUI, Crap-on-foot
Industry: Rental (HURL!)
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  starman3604
Member Since:
3/30/2006
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| In five months, I'll be 23.
That's, like, halfway to OLD.
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| Do you think that if more people were to consider how small they are, they might better see the greatness of God?
I currently live in a beautiful apartment on the second floor of a
building on the corner of Meridian Street and Fall Creek Parkway on the near north side of downtown Indianapolis; which is in the approximate
geographic center of Indiana, a state in the Midwestern United
States of America- a nation near the center of the North American
Continent, which is situated on the Northwestern Hemisphere of the
Planet Earth.
Most readers of this post will find this information sufficient. If you wish to visit from a more distant location, please read on.
Planet
Earth is a terrestrial, life-supporting planet, approximately 93
million miles (150 million kilometers or 8 light-minutes) from its
star, designated "Sol." Sol traverses an orbit of nearly 26,000
light-years from the core of its galaxy, a spiral known as The Milky
Way.
Intragalactic travelers should have no difficulty finding it. However, if you are planning a visit from a more distant location:
The
Milky Way itself comprises half of a binary system - the other half, a
galaxy dubbed "Andromeda." This binary system inhabits a loose grouping
of galaxies known rather uncreatively as "The Local Group," nearly 10
million light-years in diameter and a part of the Virgo Supercluster,
which should be easily accessible to any interuniversal travelers.
The
savvy traveler who wishes to visit Planet Earth or any other part of
the Milky Way galaxy should be made aware of its perilous and uncertain
future.
1) The Great Attractor may well swallow up the Virgo Supercluster. A time frame for this event has not yet been established.
2)
A collision between the binary galaxies Milky Way and Andromeda has
been predicted for some time now; it seems imminent and may even happen
sometime within the next three billion years! Earth, along with its
solar system, may be ejected during this event.
3) The sun of the
planet Earth is set to expand to red dwarf size almost one billion
years thereafter (4 billion years from the current date). A complete
destruction of the planet is unlikely; however, the sudden increase in
heat will likely cause the planet to be uninhabitable.
So you should plan your trip immediately! See the wondrous bounty that is Planet Earth before it is destroyed!
Don't forget your towel.
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| Oh, hush. It's been over a month. I've got to go to Raxacoricofallapatorius to bring in the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. He's being controlled by some Daleks.
Yeh. Doctor Who is awesome.
I need a Tardis...
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| It's been almost two months since I've updated at all...longer than that since I've done any REAL updating.
God's moving. He's got me placed in a life that's really growing me...this summer has made me teach myself how to be more self-sufficient in my Christian walk. But it's also made me realize how insufficient I really am.
Our pastor at Christ Community Church of Carmel did a sermon series last month about Jonah. And really, it was quite illuminating...especially as the rebuilding of my faith from a childish sham to a mature reliance on Christ's perfection continues.
Since I can remember, I've always seen Jonah as the hero of his own book. He's the good guy, obedient to God (after a couple of false starts), and at the very end I just figured they left out the part about how he repented and rode off into the sunset.
But that's not entirely true. Jonah is actually quite the repulsive character. He refuses to follow God until his life is in danger; even then, he preaches to Nineveh only as the prerequisite to God's destruction of the city, which he considers worthy of nothing but death. He finishes the preaching campaign (which his heart wasn't in), the town repents (which I assume is entirely God's doing, given Jonah's lackluster preaching), then goes up on the hill to watch the town be destroyed. He yells at God when it's not, even going so far as to be angry at God and suicidal when the VINE next to him is killed. Ick. What a jerk.
So who's the good guys? Who is obedient to God's call?
1. The crew on the ship to Tarshish. They recognized that the power in the storm had to be from Someone infinitely more powerful than their pagan gods...so they asked Jonah to explain who this God was. They repented and pleaded for mercy, tossing Jonah overboard.
2. The big fish. Not a whale, it swallows Jonah, then spits him out on the shore, entirely on God's command.
3. The city of Nineveh. As soon as God imbues Jonah's words with His spirit, they hear it and respond by repenting in sackcloth and ashes.
4. The vine. It grew on God's command to shade Jonah from...
5. The sun. It rose and set at God's command to bake the ground below.
6. The bug. It ate the vine on God's command.
So the entire story - except for Jonah - was obedient to God!
Well, who are we? Which element of the story do we most relate to?
As Christians, we - sadly - most often relate to Jonah. We are rebellious, and we want those we hate to be destroyed by God.
But we are no better. We can be just as disobedient.
So when God's will is accomplished - even if he uses us - will we rejoice in the streets with those God used us to save? Or will we sit on the hill, pouting and waiting for God to destroy our enemies?
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Calvin and Hobbes was the best comic strip ever. It finished its run in 1995. Spaceman Spiff, Calvin's alter ego as portrayed here, and Hobbes, the tiger in the last panel, are two of my favorite characters he created.
What a great strip.
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