oh crap

extra spicy camobiana food is currently ravaging my insides. it's like there's a party in my stomach and nobody's invited... and it hurts. it hurts oh so bad. :(

indian food

Ok, i couldn't think of a title, so i just put down the first thing i could think of. mmMMmmm.... indian food....

Anyways, quick update: today my ball hockey team lost to andrew's. sucks. they went so hardcore and it didn't hurt that they had lotsa substitutes. got hit on the same spot on the shin 3 times. thot it was gonna burst. hurt like hell. and i'm sure hell hurts lots so that's a testament to how much it hurt.

Church today was on Galations 5:1-15. I was reminded that nothing we do can redeem us. We can't try to follow God's laws alone and expect to be saved - we've all fallen short of God's standard (i.e. perfectness). Yeah that all makes sense to the church-goer. But the pastor said something to the effect that if you're doing anything not out of love, you're doing it out of slavery. HUH?!? He explained that if you are saved and redeemed by faith in Christ, our faith expresses itself through love. Therefore, if we are legalistically being good just to be good people, or following God's commands just to follow God's commands, we don't really get it. We're basically enslaving ourselves to the standards of the old law and trying to redeem ourselves by means that are no longer necessary since we are now freed by Jesus' death on the cross! I guess the application of this is to know the heart of God instead of merely scraping at the surface by legalistically following the old law, which you just can't live up to.

i've got to stop my incessant blogging...

1 Cor 7

Is marrying a sign of weakness?

Here's a link to the NASB version of 1 Corinthians 7. Paul says that "it is good for a man not to touch a woman" or in the NIV version, "It is good for a man not to marry". He later says "But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion". And so if I'm not wrong, Paul is basically saying that if you can't control your "urges", then get married. This leads me to thinking that that doesn't really sound like too noble a reason to get married. Is marriage for the Christian merely a permit to consummate love and therefore only necessary if the Christian man/woman can no longer control his/her "burning passion"?

I profess to not knowing much here. But let me venture a guess anyways. Maybe Paul is just saying 'you know, if you're perfectly fine being alone and have no 'burning passion' for anybody, it would be better for you to remain unmarried 'cos our time here is short and you could better serve God without the distractions that marriage brings along with it'. And then Paul says 'but if God has made you such that you long for more, that is fine. You are beautifully and wonderfully made. So yeah, nothing wrong there. Get married - it is right.' I guess the problem might lie in thinking that sex is perverse (which a lot of it is nowadays, but that's not as God intended it to be). Come to think of it, if I were God, i'd just tell everyone BE ALONE AND WORSHIP ME ALL DAY! Because He tells us that He's sufficient for us; that just as God looks after the birds of the air and the lillies of the fields, how much more will God look after us. But thank God - He gave us a need for fellowship and provides for us accordingly. For example, God made Adam a companion in Eve.

I' m not so sure about Paul's words: "but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world" and basically that the result is that he is somewhat distanced from God. What about power-packed tag-team couples like Edmund and Anne Chan, my dad and my mom, and countless couples who complement each other so well that it makes their respective ministries that much stronger. Paul obviously didn't have the opportunity of realizing what a partner can do to enrich and support you in your love life with God. But maybe his absolute abondonment to God meant he didn't even have to think of that - no need!

I just wonder then, why Christians don't all strive to be celibate and full of devotion to God, as Paul did. In striving for giving God our all in our short livtimes, isn't that what Paul professes to be the best way?

In conclusion, as Paul says, "Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that." I guess each person is alotted a differenct purpose and you just have to seek that out.

At least I have chicken?

Ok, so here's the leeroy jenkins video if you haven't seen it. A 'lil background: these guys are playing the PC game, World of Warcraft, and well, just watch it.

Leeroy Jenkins, you're my hero for going against those WoW nerds. good on ya. too bad you had to screw it up in the end by saying "at least i have chicken" instead of something that might've made way more sense like hmm.... let's see... "at least i AIN'T chicken". GOSH!

Jon's theory

Ok, so maybe it was a combination of taking a long, deliberate walk to Stauffer library while listening to Ben Harper's "The Woman In You" - whatever it was, I came to thinking. Oh, plus I passed by some Chinese girls on the way. So anyways, i now have a theory: Chinese girls sometimes look mean when you don't really know them but say "hi" when you pass them anyways. but it's NOT because they're necessarily mean you see! it's because they're CHINESE! but as carl would probably say, what would I know about that? What, you ask? It's that Chinese people are typically SHY! So what looks to you like a mean glare is really just a manifestation of (almost) harmless shydom! So yes, if you're a guy and are wondering why so so so many chinese girls are mean to you, take heart. it's because they're shy... or you're UGLY! ZING! or if you saw the clip from my last entry, you have a very small.... confidence. could be?

Anyways, I shall call my theory Jon's Actually Stupid Supposition

Why does the white man always steal our girls?

K, i'm not complaining or anything... wait, i am. Just watch this video (Click the link):

Yellow Fever