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Thought of the Day

CalvinDude — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:43:43 +0000

Here’s a question my brother once posed to me, along the lines of how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. In other words, it’s a good question but not necessarily one that’s worth thinking about! Here it is:

Since God knows everything about you such that no part of you is beyond His capacity to think about, if God were to imagine you in your totality, would that object which is God’s imagination of you be self-aware?

An Observation

CalvinDude — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:55:44 +0000

Typing in programs that feature autocorrect functionality ultimately results in me typing less well overall.

A Thought

CalvinDude — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:06:46 +0000

Given the somewhat caricaturized summary that Arminians primarily emphasize the righteousness of God while Calvinists primarily emphasize the sovereignty of God, one may very well state:

Arminians are concerned with the goodness of God while Calvinists are concerned with the greatness of God.

Perspective

CalvinDude — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:37:22 +0000

Had this little couplet pop into my mind:

Everything that is, when seen through time’s lens,
Was built on the ashes of all our might-have-beens.

Seems to be a truism. Or, as The Offspring might say, a Half-Truism.

Where Does Time Go?

CalvinDude — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:36:18 +0000

You’re not old until you ask that. So I guess I’m old now…. :-P

Spamers Are At It Again

CalvinDude — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:24:55 +0000

While I have a good program that helps to cut down the amount of spam I receive, occasionally the spam-bots wise up and alter their programming and, for a few weeks, I get flooded with spam again. It’s like an arms race in biology.

Except it comes to mind that really Darwinism only works in computer theory, when you can boil everything down to one or two essential factors and create an arms race out of it. In biological systems, there are more factors involved (something that Darwinists continually forget) meaning that an increase in one aspect does not necessarily translate into an increase in fitness across the board.

But with computer programs and spam bots, the theory works just fine.

Interesting Juxtaposition

CalvinDude — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:26:42 +0000

First we have this headline:

Xbox Gamer Dies of Blood Clot After Marathon Session

Obviously, the takeaway from this is: If you stay inside, you will DIE!!!!

Then we have this article:

S.C. High School Football Player Dies After Practice.

Obviously, the takeaway from this is: If you go outside, you will DIE!!!!

Truism

CalvinDude — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:39:20 +0000

I may regret having done the right thing…but I’m never sorry for it.

Hmm

CalvinDude — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:53:29 +0000

Sometimes, I think that the evil machines that write spam must think the average person is really stupid.

Then I remember who’s in the White House.

The machines are right.

Quick Observation on Profanity

CalvinDude — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:40:29 +0000

For the Fourth of July, I visited my grandparents and one of the many topics of discussion happened to briefly touch on the subject of profanity. For instance, my grandmother said she always considers the s-word to be profane, even after I pointed out that it has identical meaning to other words not considered profane (e.g., “dung”) which she has no problem saying. (A quick aside: to my mind, this makes no sense, as it makes the sound or letters of a word morally objectional rather than the content of the word.)

In any case, I was thinking today and remembered the song The Bad Touch by The Bloodhound Gang. This song is available on YouTube, but I’m not linking it here and wouldn’t play it for my grandmother despite the fact it contains exactly zero words commonly classified as profanity. Why? Because the song, without using a single profanity, is more profane than any “four-letter word” that my grandmother would dislike.