Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Thursday, May 05, 2011
New Blog
Well, I'm starting my own new blog: http://apursuitofbeauty.wordpress.com/
It's to follow whatever God has me do in New York (and anywhere else he might send me). I haven't posted anything yet, but maybe by the time this post is read I will have.
Rachael and Dan, I'm looking forward to updates from your mission as well!
God Bless!
It's to follow whatever God has me do in New York (and anywhere else he might send me). I haven't posted anything yet, but maybe by the time this post is read I will have.
Rachael and Dan, I'm looking forward to updates from your mission as well!
God Bless!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
A New Post!
I just have to since it has been 8 months since the last post. Fall is especially beautiful this year, don't you think? And so I'm going to post this picture that I recently discovered and I think is very interesting. It's called "A Light to the Gentiles" and I'm sure you recognize it as the Presentation in the Temple. Well that is all I have. Enjoy!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Bariloche
Ours is the boat on the right.
The view from Bariloche.
The bus ride back to San Rafael from Bariloche.
From Campamento S.A.C.
Town Square in Bariloche.
Bosque Arrayanes
View from Cerro CampanarioThere is not much going on here on the site, so I thought I would upload some pictures and make it more interesting. Also because Bariloche is so beautiful, you just have to see the pictures. I´d put them all here, but that would take up too much space. I hope you enjoy them (by the way, for anyone who is thinking about a honeymoon spot, I think this one would be pretty great....don´t really know why I decided that, but just because it is so cool). Maddi and I went there on a "vacation" for four days and everywhere we went was had such a great view! We went to the Bosque Arrayanes (the orange trees), took a boat accross the lake Nahuel Huapi (that in the center has ice for a bottom and if you fall in there you could freeze to death really fast), took a ski lift like ride to Cerro Campanario (the top of a mountain), and relaxed on Isla Victoria (me sitting on a half tree in the water, which is Lake Nahuel Huapi - pronounced nawell oowapee).
Sunday, December 09, 2007
The Reason for this Blog
I will tell you a story, that is if you read this.
There once was a girl name Roach (I mean, it isn't necessarily a girl, and Roach is a pseudonym to protect this person's identity.). She/He came up with a plan.
Her/His plan was to go on Blogger, it was a hit at the time, to make a new blog.
She/He would add all of her friends to her team, so we could post random crap.
But more importantly, everyone could still talk to each other through the Internet when they all went off to their own colleges. After three years of being in a existence, the group has split off into their different places. The group's total was eleven, and of those 11, 10 different colleges/mission places is home to them.
The blog however, experienced a long downtime.
Because of the long downtime, some people are questioning why there is a blog.
So I ask you this (if there is a you on this blog anymore), what is the reason for this blog.
It is no longer a place to talk to your fellow friends. There is a new thing for that..and we all know what that is.
Yes, Facebook, is the place to be now. That stupid law school, whatever, student dropped out because his professor didn't think a network website wouldn't work, and sure enough, it did.
I should be doing homework, and studying right now, but I am not. I should be on facebook instead of writing down this post. So, I will see you guys on facebook, and not on here.
There once was a girl name Roach (I mean, it isn't necessarily a girl, and Roach is a pseudonym to protect this person's identity.). She/He came up with a plan.
Her/His plan was to go on Blogger, it was a hit at the time, to make a new blog.
She/He would add all of her friends to her team, so we could post random crap.
But more importantly, everyone could still talk to each other through the Internet when they all went off to their own colleges. After three years of being in a existence, the group has split off into their different places. The group's total was eleven, and of those 11, 10 different colleges/mission places is home to them.
The blog however, experienced a long downtime.
Because of the long downtime, some people are questioning why there is a blog.
So I ask you this (if there is a you on this blog anymore), what is the reason for this blog.
It is no longer a place to talk to your fellow friends. There is a new thing for that..and we all know what that is.
Yes, Facebook, is the place to be now. That stupid law school, whatever, student dropped out because his professor didn't think a network website wouldn't work, and sure enough, it did.
I should be doing homework, and studying right now, but I am not. I should be on facebook instead of writing down this post. So, I will see you guys on facebook, and not on here.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Updates from Argentina
To see photos, access links, and read my updates from Argentina, go to http://www.arkyouth.net/ and click on "Marnee in Argentina" (at the top of the page). Right next to it you will see "Ben in Rome" so you can also keep up on his adventures in Italy.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Fairies
I don't remember if I have blogged about this before or not. Since most people probably only skim read my posts anyways, I suppose it doesn't really matter.
I was re-reading The Everlasting Man today and also arguing sort of with someone on facebook. Which, interestingly enough, Chesterton proved to have an answer to one of the person's objections. I haven't brought it up yet on facebook.
The person objects to the idea of God on a few different levels one of which is that the idea of God was forumulated out of mankind's ignorance of the natural causes of Thunder and science in general. That man needed an explanation and God seemed to be reasonable at the time. That the idea of a all-powerful God takes away some of our stress and worry. We don't have to fear death because of heaven.
The basic idea behind this is in part true. Man hungers for something. I don't think that it is as simple as just wanting an explanation. Have you ever read a fairy tale and wished it were true? Even though you know that it would be ridiculous. We want there to be magic and fairies and ghosts. They might not explain anything really, but that doesn't mean that we don't want them to be true. We aren't satisfied with a purely natural world. We have a need in us for it to be supernatural. That need doesn't mean that we made up God. If anything it means God exists. We hunger for food and we thirst for human relationships, in fact there aren't many things that we have a "need" for that don't exist. I don't think that there has ever been any recorded race of people that didn't believe in the supernatural at one point or another. Peoples who had no contact with each other at all had this idea, this need.
Chesterton describes pre-christian paganism as the hunger and Christianity as the food. They are similar in the way that a picture is similar to a real face.
On a side note it is interesting to see that inventing God never really gave us the things that atheists claim we invented him for. We all still fear death, and most of the time get stressed out about stuff too. I don't believe in God because I am stressed by exams and need a job. Those things still stress me because I know that God isn't going to study for me and fill out my applications. I trust that over all things are going to turn out well, but I highly doubt that they will be easy and stress free. That isn't what God promised, in fact he said that things are going to be hard and we will have to bear crosses. Life will absolutely suck sometimes. There is a struggle inside sometimes to just fight through stuff and not take the easy way out. Often times I end up doing the harder more stressful thing because of God. It is a lot less stressful to cheat on an exam or on your taxes ( if you know that you aren't going to get caught). If anything not believing in God seems to easier sometimes.
I was re-reading The Everlasting Man today and also arguing sort of with someone on facebook. Which, interestingly enough, Chesterton proved to have an answer to one of the person's objections. I haven't brought it up yet on facebook.
The person objects to the idea of God on a few different levels one of which is that the idea of God was forumulated out of mankind's ignorance of the natural causes of Thunder and science in general. That man needed an explanation and God seemed to be reasonable at the time. That the idea of a all-powerful God takes away some of our stress and worry. We don't have to fear death because of heaven.
The basic idea behind this is in part true. Man hungers for something. I don't think that it is as simple as just wanting an explanation. Have you ever read a fairy tale and wished it were true? Even though you know that it would be ridiculous. We want there to be magic and fairies and ghosts. They might not explain anything really, but that doesn't mean that we don't want them to be true. We aren't satisfied with a purely natural world. We have a need in us for it to be supernatural. That need doesn't mean that we made up God. If anything it means God exists. We hunger for food and we thirst for human relationships, in fact there aren't many things that we have a "need" for that don't exist. I don't think that there has ever been any recorded race of people that didn't believe in the supernatural at one point or another. Peoples who had no contact with each other at all had this idea, this need.
Chesterton describes pre-christian paganism as the hunger and Christianity as the food. They are similar in the way that a picture is similar to a real face.
On a side note it is interesting to see that inventing God never really gave us the things that atheists claim we invented him for. We all still fear death, and most of the time get stressed out about stuff too. I don't believe in God because I am stressed by exams and need a job. Those things still stress me because I know that God isn't going to study for me and fill out my applications. I trust that over all things are going to turn out well, but I highly doubt that they will be easy and stress free. That isn't what God promised, in fact he said that things are going to be hard and we will have to bear crosses. Life will absolutely suck sometimes. There is a struggle inside sometimes to just fight through stuff and not take the easy way out. Often times I end up doing the harder more stressful thing because of God. It is a lot less stressful to cheat on an exam or on your taxes ( if you know that you aren't going to get caught). If anything not believing in God seems to easier sometimes.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Pirates are coming!!!
So the tickets are ordered. Cost is $6 each, we are going to the NCG in Owosso at 8:00pm. Meet here at 6:45 and we will probably take our van and a car. There are 21 people going thus far.
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