NEW POST! hah.

So today I was reading through an old Facebook message between myself and someone else. I was astounded that I had ever written anything so clever. I suspect you'll be astounded too, so I'm going to copy and past the highlights of the message.

(Person)

"hey...

you don't know why my torrents sometimes stop at a certain point and won't download any further than that, do you? "

(Me)

" yep.

It's because when you download torrents, you are downloading from whoever has the file, but you're also uploading to whoever else is downloading.
so.
You're uploading even though you don't have the whole file.
That's the way it is.
One person starts with the whole file, a few people download it, then the first person stops uploading it. Then, people keep downloading it, but only one or two people actually have the whole file.
If they go offline, bang! If no one has the complete file, everyone downloads till they have whatever the last person online who has the most of the file has. Understand?
Anyone can download whatever of the file is actually being uploaded, but when the only people who have the complete file go offline, you're screwed. Unless they come back online.
The people who have the whole file and are uploading it are called seeders. The people who are downloading and uploading at the same time are known as leechers.

did that explain anything? "

Am I smart, or what?

End of post.

Spock your fives!

I've got a cupboard with cans of food,

filtered water and pictures of you,

and I'm not coming until this is all over.

-

Death Cab For Cutie - We Will Become Silhouettes

Have any of you seen the new Star Trek movie?

I'm young, so I never watched Star Trek on tv, but still, I greatly enjoyed the movie.

The special effects soundly thrash Avatar's "groundbreaking" visual special effects.

(fun review of Avatar here - serious review here)

Just saying.. Spock is pretty epic.

I found out how to "Spock" a five dollar bill last week.

What an adventure!

(speaking here of Where's Willy)

"In 2005, the Montreal Mirror described the hobby as the most joy to be had with the five-dollar bill since the illegal defacing of Laurier withSpock ears"

Not a CHANCE! Spocking is infinitely more fun.

Find out how!

Speaking of Spock..

He's pretty cool.

more Avatar review links here.

look through them, they're interesting.

http://thatsrightnate.com/2010/01/06/avatar-the-worst-movie-ever-made/

http://kottke.org/09/12/avatar

http://1001tales.posterous.com/avatars-kitsch-conscience-why-this-is-a-bad-m

http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/avatar-this-is-what-400-million-gets-you/

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:http://blog.spout.com/2009/08/20/10-movies-avatar-unfortunately-resembles/

Morning came when I was sleeping.

esterday.
Yesterday I had a small operation on my left great toe. I had my deeply ingrown toenail removed. Hopefully, I hope, that it will never come back. If it comes back, all this pain I'm in will have been worth nothing. This isn't the first time they've removed my toenail. This is the worst it's ever hurt. Last week they did the same to my right great toe. It's funny how quickly you forget how much pain there is involved in this.
I'm glad that I'll (hopefully) never have this problem again.
I'm thankful that after a few days, the pain will be gone and I'll never have to again experience this plague of three years.

The nurse wanted to have a good time with the roll of gauze. I didn't have the heart to stop her. She was most definitely enjoying herself.
They gave me Endocet for the pain. Endocet is an Oxycodone. An Opiate. Much like Morphine.
Hurray for Endocet.
Or not.
I only hope that it's enough to make work bearable. I work 12-8 today. I think it's a disposable shift. If she wants to, she might send me home early. Maybe. Maybe not. The problem is, I have too much pain for just a little bit of Endocet, that means, to work, I'll need to take a lot. If I take a lot, I'll be too high to work.
Hmmm..
A quandary.

It's only time

I'm looking for new pants. Black pants. Not Jeans. For work. 30-32 Waist, 32-34 Leg. Do you know where I can find such pants? I'm thinking Ebay.

I shaved today. I hate shaving. Do you hate shaving?
Do you find our beardless culture unmanly? where most people don't have beards? I think beards are manly. And Presbyterian.
Someday, when I'm a man, I'll grow a beard. I'm not concerned with how it will look. It will be beardly. Manly.

I work today 2:30-10. Everyone should visit me. See my smooth shaven face. Boy, that sounds weird. But it's not weird, is it?

A new friend of mine introduced me to The Magnetic Fields
This song is incredible, and you should listen to it.

It's Only Time

-
The Magnetic Fields

Why would I stop loving you

a hundred years from now?
It's only time.
It's only time.

What could stop this beating heart
once it's made a vow?
It's only time.
It's only time.

If rain won't change your mind,
let it fall.
The rain won't change my heart
at all.

Lock this chain
around my hand,
throw away the key.
It's only time.
It's only time.

Years falling
like grains of sand
mean nothing to me.
It's only time.
It's only time.

If snow won't change your mind
let it fall.
The snow won't change my heart,
not at all.

(I'll walk your lands)
I'll walk your lands
(And swim your sea)
And swim your sea

Marry me.
Marry me.

(Then in your hands)
Then in your hands
(I will be free)
I will be free

Marry me.
Marry me.

Why would I stop loving you
a hundred years from now?

this is the last time

or so I said

just as the last time before

not that I meant to return to this

it seems to just

happen

and I'll say it again

never again

from the heart

never again

and never again

means never again

tomorrow

tomorrow

I'll never again

Question: Did Eve misquote God?

Answer: She didn't misquote God.

God's Command:
Genesis 2
15.The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
16.And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
17.but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Eve's Quote:
Genesis 3
2.And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
3.but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
4.But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
5.For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6.So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
7.Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

God commanded Adam not to eat of the fruit. That means he was not allowed to touch with intent to eat it either. God actually commanded that Adam may not touch it with the intent of eating it. Then comes Adam's relation of the command to Eve. He probably told her the the meaning of what God said, and possibly not God's actual words.
The command: God commanded that Adam may not eat the fruit.
following that, is the meaning of the command.
Meaning: You may not take and eat it.
Wait a minute, God didn't command Adam that he may not take the fruit, only that he may not eat it.
Yes he did. God's command INCLUDED taking it. How can you eat a fruit without taking it first? The exact same thing with the word "touch". God's command INCLUDED touching it with intent to eat of it.
God commanded Adam not to touch or eat of the fruit. God didn't say the word touch, but it was a part of the actual command. This is not an interpretation of the command, this IS the command.

Yes, Adam SHOULD have stopped her. Yes, he SHOULD have spoken up. But he didn't.
This was where his sin started.
The fall happened within the course of a few minutes. There is no way that they could have refuted what the serpent said. They didn't know the difference between good and evil, they had no idea that what the serpent was saying was evil. They would have blindly accepted anything anyone said. The only thing they knew for certain is that they were not allowed to eat the fruit. Their sin was disobeying God's command. The serpent never told them that God hadn't commanded them not to eat of the fruit. He stated that had God lied to them and was only keeping the fruit from them so that they wouldn't become equal to him, knowing the difference between good and evil. . Eve's and then Adam's sin was in disobeying God's simple command. Don't eat it.
Adam and Eve's sin started with Adam's silence and continued with him eating the fruit, leading to God's curse and subsequent promise.

Did Adam love Eve?

Answer: Of Course!

Genesis 3:18-25
18.Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
19.Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20.The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
21.So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22.And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23Then the man said,

"This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man."

24.Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25.And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.


God made Eve for Adam.
The perfect gift for a man with no human companion.
You'll see by what it says in verse 18, that God had planned this little surprise for Adam perfectly.
First, He says "I will make a helper fit for him". So you see, He planned to make Eve. Secondly, in verse 19, he makes every animal and brings them to Adam. This is to show and familiarize Adam with every animal, their strengths and beauties.
In verse 20, God reveals his hidden purpose in giving Adam this task, it's to show him that Yes, these are glorious and beautiful creatures, but none of them are suitable to be a companion to him. This is for closure, so to speak, So that in Verse 22, when he God brings Eve to him, he knows that she is incomparable in beauty and in mind to any other creature God had made.
This is to avoid confusion, I believe. To refute any thought that Adam would be better off with a animal to serve him, that no one might think that she was "bad for him".

Eve was not only the first human being that Adam saw, she was also female, handmade(literally) specifically for him, and she was naked. When Adam first sees her, he sings a joyful song about her.
he says;
"This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man."

He says "this at last..." because directly before that, he had just looked at every animal that God had made, and there was no suitable wife found for him. This at last! After going through every creature God had made, Finally there was a helper for him. Finally, A WIFE!
Make no mistake. Verse 23 is not an expression of sorrow, nor of resentment, nor of coldness, this is pure and right joy. Finally, a companion. Finally, a wife.


Not only did Adam love her, but he was proud of her. Made from a part of him, how could he not be proud? Not just was she made for him, but she was beautiful. Beautiful in every way. The prototype of women. Adam could be proud of her for these reasons:

1. He had the first woman.
2. She was physically perfect, humanly speaking.
3. She was made for him.
4. She was made from him.
5. She was the most beautiful woman ever to be created past, present and future.

Adam had never seen another woman before. He had no reason to think that he could do better than Eve, no reason to think that there was another, more beautiful woman that he could choose from. She was his standard of beauty. And she was beautiful.

Then End.