I’d gone to bed about 3:20 am with my sweet butterball kitten Pepper and was cuddling with her, telling her how much I loved her.
I’ve often wondered if we’ll meet our pets in heaven.
I mean, the first Eden had animals, so why shouldn’t the restored Eden?
What does this suggest about our design as persons?
Were we created to be in constant, intimate relationship with one another?
Some Cool Personality Tests and Sites
My thoughts about the whole bookmarking concept, adapted from a Firefox add-on comment.
I noticed a lot of overlapping in the Bookmarks / Notes / Reading categories. I’ve been thinking about how I use the web and what I hope to accomplish.
Here’s what I came up with …
Socialism sounds like a great idea — Free stuff, right and left. Just think how cushy life would be if someone else paid for everything: food, shelter, clothing, medical.
It’s just like living with Mom and Dad. No rent, no job, no responsibility — no problems, right?
But living with your folks definitely has its drawbacks. Sure, they pay for everything you need — but they get to decide what you need and they don’t really care about all the stuff you want.
Here’s a comment I made on BehindTheName.com about my name, Sunny:
As a 45-year-old woman with the name Sunny on my birth certificate …
Sunny is an excellent name for a girl. For one thing, it’s easy to pronounce (unlike my surname). It ought to be easy to spell — I always say, “Sunny, like the weather” — but folks always want to put an ‘i’ on the end or spell it like the boy’s name ‘Sonny’ (Do I LOOK like a boy? Not!).
I’m going
though an online Evangelism Boot Camp from The Pocket Testament League*.
In the first lesson they suggest you describe what your life was like before you found Christ and how it has changed since. This was a little difficult for me because I don’t have a specific conversion event: I was raised Christian and have grown in my faith over time.
As believers, we do undergo a transformation at the point of our salvation but we are also under the constant revision of ‘sanctification’ throughout our Christian walk. Stories about the conviction of the Holy Spirit (a holy attitude adjustment) can not only show a before/after but also show what it means to be a Christian — that being saved doesn’t mean you’re perfect, just forgiven and open to God’s correction.
The Supreme Court of the United States released its decision on the topic of gay marriage on Friday (article).
The majority view (p. 6-39) supported gay marriage as a constitutional right, thereby nullifying any state laws addressing the issue.
The minority views (p. 40-103) included the opinion that this was fundamentally and constitutionally a states’ rights issue and the prediction that this decision would inevitably be used to restrict religious liberty.
For context, it should be noted that gay marriage was a total non-starter just a generation ago. Opinions on the topic have been evolving over the years, to the point that many states have legalized civil unions between members of the same sex and some states have taken up legislation regarding gay marriage or had referendums on the topic.
I somehow ended up reading the article How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done by John Perry and found myself nodding the entire time.
In the article, John Perry, a former professor of philosophy at Stanford University, describes his ‘structured procrastination’ method of utilizing his procrastinating nature to get stuff done.
I was rereading my Sunny, Bible Christian post the other night and decided to Google ‘Bible Christian’ (with quotes) to see if anyone had turned it into a denomination yet.
Turns out, according to Wikipedia, Continue reading
On the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 test from the Gallup Organization, my top five strengths are:
Strategic, Ideation, Learner, Input, and Intellection.
Here are some characteristics of my strengths:
Well, to begin with, I was blessed with a strong Christian mother … Continue reading
Another thing (previous post) that bugs me is when so-called scientists fail to use error-bar language when they talk to the media. They speak with such certainty that the public automatically accepts their conclusions without considering the limits of the research.
Over-certainty may lead the public to believe that the science is settled, that the scientific community is in agreement (consensus) on the topic. Often this is NOT the situation. Continue reading
Something that really bugs me is how the news will announce the findings from some research study but fail to draw the proper conclusions.
EXAMPLE: I once read an article about research that found a correlation between children who have nightlights and children who wore glasses. The article immediately jumped to the conclusion that having a nightlight causes vision problems in children — but that causation was not found in the research! Continue reading
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