Tonight is the first all-nighter of, I believe, my college career. That is, if it indeed ends up being an all-nighter. I have a Calculus III assignment due tomorrow, a Dynamics test tomorrow, and 10 papers due tomorrow in Social Psychology (of which, at the beginning of this night, I had done 6). Poor planning on my part. Also, I am driving some students to the Airport through SCAB's airport transportation service at 0500 tomor--correction: today. To keep me awake, I have two energy drinks: the standard Guava Rockstar (my energy drink of choice) and a Monster Rehab (which is a line of Monster energy drinks with a tea base). I don't usually enjoy Monster (and I am not too much this one) but I kinda like the black tea-lemonade-energy drink combination. It is definitely something that is an acquired taste though. I am saving the other for last and drinking the Monster first.

I do believe in the limited capabilities of words, but I believe even more in the power of them. Words bring great ideas to their knees and transfer them from one mind to another through the audible voice. Without them our ideas would run wild without any bounds or limitations. It is as if we are trying to catch a school of fish and we focus on trying to catch every fish rather than trying to define which fish we should (and can) catch. Words are the net that we throw out to show where an idea begins and ends and how it is different from this idea and that one.

A change in pace...

I have decided to write more here on this blog. We'll see how long this idea lasts and if, in fact, it is a good one at all. If it does not last, I apologize and, enjoy what you can with what is here. If it does last, enjoy what is here and maintain patience as I try to procure a habit for posting on here.

Previously this blog was simply a place where I would post good quotes. I've decided to still do that, but, in addition, whenever I feel like ranting about something, I'll do it here (instead of ranting to someone else in person, which I am not necessarily fond of doing because it attracts a lot of attention to myself).

Today I read through II Corinthians 4. Very interesting and moving passage. A lot about how God saved humanity and how we are not worthy of such an act. I would encourage the reading of it.

"It's odd that the word 'Atheist' even exists! I don't play golf, is there a word for 'non-golf players'? Do 'non-golf players' get together and strategize? Do 'non-skiiers' have a word and come together and talk about the fact that they don't ski? I can't do that. I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson (Self-proclaimed Agnostic)

"To live with the mysteries of faith requires that we do not demand of God that we be able to comprehend His being. We must in the last analysis accept that as the heavens are higher than the earth or as a mature adult's understanding is higher than a toddler's, so God's ways are higher than our own."

- Psychology through the Eyes of Faith

"Likewise, many artist, composers, poets, mathematicians, and scientists achieve creative insights as images. Peak religious moments, too, are sometimes experienced inarticulately; later the person struggles to express the mystical experience within the confines of language but finds it, as the apostle Paul reported, "inexpressible." If words are sometimes the mere containers of ideas, they are nevertheless containers that shape the thoughts poured into them.”

- Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith

"Or consider the adjectives that people are fond of piling up before the word 'Christian'. It is not enough to be simply a Christian. One must be an evangelical Christian, a mainline Christian, a Bible-believing Christian, a born-again Christian, or even a really truly born-again Christian. One scores additional points, it seems, by piling the adjectives on top of one another. Thus we have Bible-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, and even a few really truly born-again, Bible-believing, Bible-teaching, evangelical Christians."

- Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith