Thoughts on Conversion

I don't understand why militant Atheists more deeply indoctrinate themselves into Atheism... I mean, they do stuff like read books and listen to seminars and watch programs about Atheism. If Atheism is supposed to be the lack of religion, why do they "grow in faith" the way every other religion does? And beyond that, the fact that they go out of their way to try to disprove other religions to "convert" people to Atheism just makes no sense to me.

Along the lines of conversion and such, I think it's funny the way "Christian conversion" works. I mean, all anyone has to do is get you to argue with them and you automatically lose. If you win an argument, you lose. If you lose an argument, you lose. Conventional means of getting another to see your opinion is lost in the Christian faith and your only tool is the love of Christ and living out your faith and letting the Holy Spirit do his thing. As soon as you start trying to change someone else, you fail. You should be living by example, not trying to change peoples' mind. This is lost in America, for the most part, and runs rampant among high-schoolers and super-conservatives. It's scary that our witness is lost because people insist on trying to argue people into the faith.

I could go deeper but I'm too tired. :\

(Small Realizations) Pt.2 of ?

I went shopping at Fred Meyer today and figured two very important things out:

I found [and purchased] this face wash that has a pulsing LED light in it. Some people would ask "Why do you need that?"...



...But my question is: Why don't all my hygiene products have lights in them? Get on it, America.

Another thing: Why don't more people wear boxer briefs? They're so much better than boxers, and I can say that with confidence after only wearing them for a few hours.

AND ANOTHER THING: Why have I never heard of E for Explosion before? Thanks to E█████ D███ I've found this awesome dreampop band. So glorious. ON SECOND THOUGHT after listening to the lyrics, this band is incredibly stupid. I still like the music though...

Change is a Burden

Not for me, for most people. I'm talking about changes on the internet and in technology. Primarily, people who complain about Vista, or the recent redesigns of last.fm and Facebook. This was sparked by being invited to a group on Facebook called something ridiculous like "1,000,000 UNITE AGAINST THE NEW FACEBOOK!" more like "HELLO WE ARE IGNORANT AND AFRAID OF CHANGE!"

Seriously, get over it. The only reason people don't like it is because it's new. It's always that way and people still don't get it. When software changes, in most cases, it's going to stay that way, and it's always like that. The change is for the better - we would still all be using Windows 98 if that weren't the case, and there are still people that use it because they can't grow up and learn to adapt. They suffer the consequences for themselves in using outdated software, so there's really no reason for me to get so fired up about this, I just don't like seeing people being so helpless and clueless.

Update for recent changes: Listen to yourselves, whining that you want the old Facebook back when a few months prior you were whining that you wanted the old old Facebook back. You'll adapt to this like you've adapted to that.

I suppose this can be translated into real life as well. You can figure that out on your own.

(Small Realizations) Pt.1 of ?

This post is for things I've realized in recent minutes, days, or weeks...

I forget what I'm going to say a lot.

I don't like it when someone, myself included, brings up something great from my past. It's a wonderful thing, except then I want to go rush out and buy it so I can relive that experience. Currently, it's Guitar Hero II and I can't find it anywhere. Lots of my possessions are acquired this way.

I need to find a way to pray that makes it so I don't get sidetracked so easily. E████ suggested that I "pray in color" which means doing things visually like drawing or writing or looking at pictures. Sounds good.

My dad and my brother don't get along. I hope I'm not going to have to deal with this my whole life.

Controlling Foobar on my desktop from my laptop via foo_httpcontrol.dll is probably one of the coolest things I've done recently. Sitting on my couch changing my music with my laptop is amazing[ly lazy of me oh well].

Energy drinks don't make me more energetic, just more talkative and prone to silliness. They are also good at making me stay up really late and write on my blog because I don't feel tired.

The belt loops on jeans hurt my tailbone. :(

I don't like watching movies during the day, it makes me feel unproductive and uncomfortable. This doesn't stop me from being unproductive anyway.

I feel kind of purposeless right now. I guess just because I have no schedule to stick to until school starts.

I miss man nights on the basketball court with K███ and A██████.



P.S. I am no longer single. Meet E████. Here's us being dead serious because R██ R████ is a serious business kind of restaurant - no joke.