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15 Pre-dating Questions

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Good timing…

 

These are better than any set of 21 questions that I’ve heard.

I actually recorded 17. I’m guessing that he grouped them differently than I did. Either way, the content is the same. I need to answer these for myself whether I allow myself to pursue a relationship or not.

  1. Is the Bible 100% God’s Word and only his Word?
  2. Jesus, is he God in the flesh and did he die for the sins of the world and rise on the third day.
  3. Salvation, is it only by grace through faith in what Jesus accomplished, not of any human work?
  4. Are you a Christian? If so, why did you become one, how did you become one, when did you become one and how do you know that you are really in the faith now? Support your answers with scripture.
  5. Would the last girl you dated say that she is a better Christian after having dated you?
  6. Are you willing to sit down with the ministers at my church so they can talk to you about your spiritual maturity and your intentions with me before we go any further in our friendship or relationship?
  7. Would the last girl that you were involved with recommend other women that need direction, leadership and spiritual strengthening to get involved with you? Why or why not? If so, can I have somebody call her to verify her answer?
  8. If we were in a relationship, how would you be able to tell if I began idolizing our relationship over God and what would you do to help me get back on track?
  9. If we got together, what things would you do to ensure physical purity in a relationship?
  10. If I wanted to pursue a 100% hands-off relationship, that includes no kissing, no hugging, no holding hands or massages to ensure purity and focus, how would you feel about that?
  11. Could you guarantee that I will spiritually mature and grow because I entered into a relationship with you? If yes, how do you know? If no, why should I be with you?
  12. If one morning, I woke up and were no longer cute, had a flat chest, no hips, no butt, no curves, my hair fell out and my teeth weren’t straight… would this be a challenge for you and how would you deal with it?
  13. What areas in my life do you see that I need to grow or mature in my life do you see that I need to grow or mature in and how can you build me up in these areas?
  14. If you and I were to enter into a relationship, what would be the spiritual goal or purpose of what you were to expect us, those around us and God to get out of our relationship? Have you fulfilled this goal in past relationships? How do you know that you will fulfill this goal with me if we get together?
  15. If we got together, would you be ok with having an open relationship where we sit down with ministers from my church every month and give an account of how our relationship is going along with answering any spiritual or purity questions that they may have for us?
  16. What is God’s purpose in dating and marriage?
  17. Do you have a history of getting with a girl primarily because you are lonely, the girls are pretty, or other reasons that aren’t Godly?
 

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Resolutions et al.

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

I don’t take part in new years resolutions for two reasons.

  1. I don’t understand why I should wait to start something that will benefit me.
  2. The changing of a second does not offer sufficient motivation for me to do anything.

That said, I have accumulated several life goals in the past few months:

  • My initial goal in this subset of life goals was to regularly attend church service and related events. I’ve been struggling with this for some time. I finally came to realize that I need to spend more time with the body of Christ (read Christians) in order to maintain focus on God.
  • Give more effort to having proper quiet times. I need to be dedicated enough to not miss them and to find actual an actual quiet space to devote to study.
  • A natural result of the previous is the desire to spend more time with Christians during periods other than regularly scheduled fellowship.
  • Be open to dating. I’ve fought the matter for some time. I’ve decided to treat it like I once did swimming which I once feared.
  • Learn to dance. If you know me, you understand.
  • Gain comfort with singing. You might say that I am rhythmically challenged.
  • Put effort into reaching out to people. I usually find myself willing to chat but, not willing to start conversations.
  • Text/IM less. I want to have actual conversations. This means that I will either need to talk to people in person more often or call them on the phone. My order of preference is:
    1. In person
    2. Tele (via voice or video)
    3. Text/IM
  • Be more driven to get regular exercise instead of just the weekly climbing activities.
  • Be more health conscious. The habit of my country is to not be concerned with health until problems arise. I’d like to be more proactive in this and other areas of my life. Even though I am vegan, it is easy to eat without being aware of the specific nutritional value of the food that I eat.
  • Be far more diligent about my academic pursuits.

The important thing is that I can do this. I’m figuring that single goals often get dropped because they aren’t related to any other goals. So far, my spirituality related efforts seem to help each other. My health (including fitness) goals are also seeming to support each other.

 

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Its official…

Monday, December 12th, 2011

I concede to that one thing. What is that one thing? Some know, some others will soon know and the rest may become aware of the result without knowing that it is the result of any concession.

  • My curiosity has been piqued.
 

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Midterms, a long week, malware and Tron

Friday, November 4th, 2011

This week semester has been insane. I started the semester by needing to rapidly recover the functionality of a failed computer lab setup as well as hunting a great deal of license information for various software packages. The labs were eventually functional. Unfortunately, this resulted in a very sparse study allotments. Computer Science being a heavy topic means that only a little studying results in a deficient understanding. I imagine that the grades of both of my midterms this week suffered horribly at my hand.

In other news, I am trying to figure out how to generate a password file for VisualSVN; I may have just found my answer. I had to generate md5 passwords earlier during the semester for another tool; this current need is very different. This research was quickly interrupted.

I somehow managed to forget to install a Windows Live Movie Maker in one of the labs. I’ve spent a good portion of this week muddling through manually installing the software via a series of *.msi files. This was very messy and though it installed the main program, several prerequisites were skipped which prevented the actual program from running. Windows Live Movie Maker is also dependent on Photo Library which would also not run without the dependencies. I eventually found info about a full installer for Windows Live Essentials which accepted switches that can be used to modify installation parameters from the command-line. In the words of Mayfield, “where do you learn that?” He is essentially inquiring as to where the info is initially publicized.

My command-line parameters for Movie Maker:

wlsetup-all.exe/AppSelect:MovieMaker/q/log:c:\admin\logs\MovieMaker.log /noHomepage /noSearch


The next thing is to update the hardware in one of the labs. I have a student tomorrow so we are going to rock off with new tech. Mayfield has volunteered to help me to get the systems setup on Sunday, we’ll see what happens.


One of the relatives called over the weekend about some malware on her system. These buggers are getting slick with the settings that they modify. IT folk gone rogue. This set modified the registry to hide nearly every user file and application. Some settings had to be manually reconfigured after the removal of the malware. One the the guys at my job reported a similar problem.


While that was scanning, I watched Tron: Legacy for the nth time. I noticed during the scene when Sam was looking for Zeus that Sam was mocked and attacked for being the son of the creator. Upon realizing this I recalled a conversation with The Pants about this movie being a metaphor for the coming of Jesus Christ. I initially didn’t think that it was. I still don’t think so for that matter. However, that depends on how knowledgable the filmmakers were on the topic. Jesus wasn’t targeted merely because he was the son of God. He was targeted because he caused a lot of noise (via people favoring and following him and such) in his era.


While I was writing this I should have been doing one of two other pertinent things. I need to prepare a lesson on Microsoft Access for Saturday and I need to read my chapters for school so that I don’t have a repeat performance of my midterms during finals week.


EOP



								
 


				


				
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On giving

				Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

				

					
And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. http://bible.us/2Cor8.10.NIV



								
 


				


				
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