Wednesday, July 30, 2008

slow cat

my spotted frostsaber can only run 6 kph (or about 3.75 mph). Seems kind of slow to me.

annoying software

most I agree with:

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-3513_11-202392.html

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Knowledge of Good and Evil

I thought of something after reading The Shack concerning where “Papa” is explaining that he didn’t prevent Missy’s death for reasons that couldn’t be understood now. But I thought of one that is easy to understand. If God intervened in all cases where evil is occurring (which is what most people want), then we wouldn’t really know evil, which is what Adam gained for us when he ate the apple. You can't really know something until you experience it, which is unfortunate in the case of evil. But because Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we “get to” know evil, because God won’t go back on his word about the tree. If you look at it like that, it makes God’s command “don’t eat from the tree” more of a “don’t stick your hand in the fire” type of command. Less arbitrary, in other words. Then we have the consequences of disobeying God: death; and the consequences of eating from the tree: knowledge of good and evil.