This chapter has to do with idols and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. We learn that idols are nothing.

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. (1 Cor. 8:4)

There is no God but one, so whether we eat or we do not it doesn’t make a difference.

Game is 天色＊アイルノーツ or Amairo * Islenauts. This game isn’t actually translated into English. It probably will be one day, but as long as it’s in the hands of translation companies and fan translations are taken down, then this game will probably not get into English. Why? You might be able to figure it out yourself with a little digging. The deeper reason is that Americans are Puritans. This is a pure visual novel, no gameplay. It’s also Yuzusoft, so you kind of know what you’re getting.

Let’s check in on Ukraine today.

Top comment on video.

Gahahahahahahaha.

Sometimes I get the impression that Ukraine is fighting as much a PR war than a conventional war. Some things they do and say are so absurd.

I feel like if there’s one thing that Japan really taught me it’s that fun things are simply fun. Maybe this sounds obvious, but I think the average person in this country doesn’t really behave that way. You don’t need some greater reason. People spend their whole lives fretting about productivity and about how they can better make use of their time. Self-help books fly off the shelves, and you see people filling their free time on advice about how they could potentially make their lives better. I think it’s just sad behavior. Every time they try to enjoy something themselves they have a guilty conscious about it and can never really get immersed into it. It results in people that don’t really have hobbies of their own outside of possibly their family or whatever is on television that night. And even with television they don’t really care about what they watch, to them it’s more a distraction to rest themselves mentally, so they can be in a good place to return to what they think “really matters”—their job. They think this is what adult behavior consists of. That’s not to say be a hedonist, but Utilitarianism teaches that the end of human life is pleasure and pain. It means the best activities are those that are easily available and don’t cause harm to those around you, course being an activity you enjoy. It means playing video games is no more noble than reading philosophy or playing the piano. If you do often read philosophy or play the piano it should be because you enjoy it, not that you think there’s some inherent value in the activity itself, and that by suffering through it it makes you a “higher “person.

I was talking to somebody the other day and I thought his perception about something of Christianity was misleading. People often say of Christ that he came for the weak. I think when people think of the weak they think of the poor, elderly, sick, etc., except I think this isn’t quite right. I wrote the following about this.

I meant to say something before, but I think you misunderstand what exactly “weak” is. Weak doesn’t literally mean the poor, the sick, the elderly, etc. There is a fundamental difference between Christianity and Islam. That is God’s judgement and his standard. For Muslims they think that God will balance out their good deeds and their bad deeds and if they did more good than they did bad then they are good people, almost like weighing on a scale. Christianity is different. God’s passing mark isn’t 20%, not 50%, not 99%, it’s 100%. Doesn’t make a difference whether you follow 50% of his commands or 99%, both are failing. Christians believe that Christ died on the cross to give us grace. God had to send his Son to redeem humanity in his eyes for God to do good for humanity. He wouldn’t be righteous if he encouraged wickedness. It was the death on the cross that brought us grace for our sins—grace is an undeserved favor from God. “Good” people have the delusion that they’re decent and upright people because they compare themselves to their neighbor, or they say something like “there’s many worse”. They think God will judge them by the standard of their neighbor. This is not the case. But they think it and it causes them to convince themselves of their own self-righteousness. “Good” and “successful” people are the least likely to accept God because they’re the most bound up in their own delusions of self-righteousness. Bad people know they’re no good, and consequently don’t have the same arrogance that “good” people do, so they’re more likely to accept God and be introduced into God’s kingdom. God knows that man can’t live up to his standard of righteousness, so the goal of a Christian life is not to measure good and bad deeds, but to earnestly seek both God and righteousness in simplicity with a pure heart. For such people God loves and will introduce into his kingdom.

Bet you didn’t know Korea invented pizza.

Now, I think with this blog I intend to use it more like twitter, so most of the stuff I put here will probably be short. I also don’t intend to focus on any particular subject, this is more general. Oh course, there probably will be topics that I like and gravitate to. I will post on no fixed schedule. I’ll just post when I want to and about what I want to. Since it’s associated with my name I won’t be completely honest about some things/not talk about them. I don’t really care whether anyone really sees this or not, it’s more for me to have somewhere to put stuff. I like the idea of twitter, but I don’t like its atmosphere or really the people on it, so I thought this might be interesting. Hopefully the server runs okay and I don’t run into too much issue now that everything is working right as I’m typing this. Was quite a hassle trying to set this up. Think if I did it in the future though I’d have a better idea of what to do. I’d had lots of experience with Linux on the desktop, but not too much with running a server and exposing things to the internet.

I’m not entirely entirely sure if these verses were the inspiration behind the title of this movie, but given that in the funeral scene Christian hymns appear to have been sung, it would certainly make sense.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. (Eccl 3:1-11)

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