Taking a Break
I realized a few weeks ago that I am burnt out a bit regarding the topics on this blog. My passionate interest in the issues surrounding Christianity, atheism, agnosticism, creation, and evolution can only take the front seat in my life for so long. While I can never really turn off my desire to learn about these subjects, I can feel myself getting overwhelmed with the number of goals I've set for myself simultaneously. I am a full-time PhD student in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and a full-time computer architect professionally. This is enough to fill my time. The Blog and the constant interest in other blogs, books, and podcasts has got to be put down for a while. My dissertation is looming large, and I'm going to try to focus on it for a while.
After having decided to take this break a few weeks ago, I've found it quite refreshing. In the midst of class, work, and dissertation time, I've actually found the time to whip out my axe (electric guitar) and wail away for a while. Good times. Guitar is the other great passion of my life -- yes, in addition to computer architecture, science, philosophy, and religion. I don't know how long I'll be away, but I do know what I'll be doing: working, class, dissertation, and rocking out on my electric/bass/classical/steel-string gutars.
After having decided to take this break a few weeks ago, I've found it quite refreshing. In the midst of class, work, and dissertation time, I've actually found the time to whip out my axe (electric guitar) and wail away for a while. Good times. Guitar is the other great passion of my life -- yes, in addition to computer architecture, science, philosophy, and religion. I don't know how long I'll be away, but I do know what I'll be doing: working, class, dissertation, and rocking out on my electric/bass/classical/steel-string gutars.
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2 comments:
An idea to blog about is your deconversion story. I hope to get around to writing about mine soon as well.
Most interesting, why would a normally bright, well educated young man or woman, spend so much time, research, and energy, to disprove something they assert doesn't exist?
It appears to the innocent that the writer of this research is desperately looking for validation of their newly held position for fear of being wrong.
While it might be impossible to convince anyone of the probability of God, likewise it is just as impossible to prove that he does not exist.
Faith? I'm sorry but there is absolutely no reason for you to have sat down at your computer without total faith that the chair in which you are sitting will in fact hold you. The incidents of chair failures are far greater then the number of scientists that have successfully convinced themselves that there is no God.
Have you done the research on the "something" that leaves the human body at the moment of death? While scientists struggle with this research, trying to explain why, what, when, or who, this spark is, men of faith know where it is going.
You are not dealing with a simple 3Rd dimension by which your simple human experiments can measure, test and prove. As with any good Sci-Fi thriller, God is found in the 4Th, 5Th or 6Th dimensions. Somewhere so fantastic Klingon's, Vader's, The Cage, or The Meld, are only simplistic fantasies next to the amazing discoveries which could be made. If an objective scientist research the scriptures, then using any point of historical miracle, seek the possibilities within the scientific realm for such an item, based on the various schools of knowledge.
May the God of all things illuminate your path.
BOB
Ocklawaha @
metrojacksonville.com
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