It has struck me as something of a moot point that religions in opposition to each other will in their turn produce literature to ground their own views and the possible views on the faiths that either an independent person or a person of another faith may have on such faiths. This has been brought home to me in such a fashion through the article How to become a Jehovah's Witness by Kenneth Guindon. Throughout this article, Mr. Guindon - who is an excommunicated Jehovah's witness himself, now turned Baptist Minister - proceeds to rant on a bias diatribe against any potential supports of the Jehovah's witness movement - officially the Watch Tower Society. He likens the process of becoming a witness to seven crude steps through which he belittles every action that such people take. Now, I am in no way attempting to lean towards a negative nor positive side in this matter as at this point, I am observing from a reasonably disconnected point of view - as at the time of this writing I attend the Uniting Church of Australia. However, it is to my mind that I believe that if people find some solace in their dedication to their faith and that in doing such tasks or performing certain actions that their faith might dictate they feel a sense of forefillment or "oneness", then it is to their own responsibility and conscience that any repercussions should be placed. For all the time that I have spent subscribing to the doctrine of the UCA, I can say that though in the response to the fact that I am a Christian and that I subscribe to Christian beliefs, most people don't turn a second glance my way. But when announcing that you are one of Jehovah's Witnesses, you are almost always to be criticized and in some cases abused for your beliefs.
My apologies for my readers who are not particularly religiously affiliated, but I felt that I needed to have a little bit of a rant as it were. I also concede that this entry may spark some measure of conflagration amongst some of the more forthright of you readers, but I must mention again that I am in no way attempting to establish an official standing, simply making an observation.
I have proved to myself that it is impossible to actually do anything of substance throughout the holidays. IN a previous entry, I mentioned that I wished to finish learning Ruby, as it is increasingly becoming a frustration to me, my lack of programming ability. Well, true to my speculation, I have yet to even approach a ruby book to patch up those holes in my knowledge, which is to my own detriment. In addition to this, I have to finish a 1500 word Drama assignment where I am modernizing the Greek play The Frogs which was written by Aristophanes in 405BCE and a speech for English where I am in the roll of a political commentator debating the quote taken from an Australian text: "We all live in the same country but we're different".
I caught up with my friend Kathryn who I haven't seen for quite sometime and as events transpired, we have not hung out for about 2 years or so. Therefore, we managed to cover topics such as people, chocolate, death, people, computers, relationships, people, icecream, pets, MSN and people. IN doing so, we both unanimously agreed that people are generally a negative influence on the two of us and thusly they should mostly disappear on a global cataclysm of some description.
Well after that waste of 573 words, I'm going to go and play with my dog. Ever since we went for a walk this morning, he has been sitting around in a lethargic stupor. Maybe he hates people as much as I do. Hmm, ahh well, time will tell.
Showing posts with label programming. Show all posts
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Friday, September 19, 2008
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Blogging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever noticed those blogs of people who think they're being cute when they post little one paragraph posts like "Oh my gosh, I bought a new T-shirt today! It was uber uber cool! And Savannah was all NO WAY and I was all YES WAY. Anyway, got to go! XOXO" Its these types of blogs which pepper Live Journal to the point of annoyance. You will more than likely find blogs of people who thought they'd be cool and create a blog in 2003, post one entry and then just ignore it in the intervening 5 or so years. It allows for quite a strenuous process of finding a username of choice.
For those of you who follow me on twitter, you would note that I finished a math exam to which I termed was "approaching like a bull on viagra". Being the last examination of the term, it left me at somewhat of a loss. I mean, I won't say that I am one of these studious students who come home every night and get right into the books and study for 1.5 hours per night or what have you, but I have done quite a bit of extra work over the last week and coming home yesterday afternoon I sat down with a math book open next to me and realized - in a moment of utter clarity - that I left the tap running all day. Ha, I bet you weren't expecting that now were you? Hmm? No, didn't think so.
I've been trying to work out how I might successfully use my time wisely these holidays. Because I usually end up with a distinct lack of cohesion by the end of the period - this time being 2 weeks. Although I am going down to Melbourne to visit my friends Cassie and Ashleigh so it should turn out to be quite enjoyable. But for the remaining time that's left to me, I'd rather like to get stuck into structuring some of the programming languages I have started learning over the years and then put down because I haven't had enough time to complete. My brother is pressuring me to learn groovy and grails, which - to put it crudely - is virtually a modified Java port with remotely ruby syntax. But when looking at the resources available, it requires more of an object orientated hierarchy understanding and personally, a bit of Java experience. So, putting that aside I really want to finish learning ruby as I never really got to consolidate it and then if I manage that, to go on to do ruby on rails and finally, WX ruby or ruby cocoa, depending on whether I am in a windows frame of mind or a mac frame of mind. Speaking of mac, I also need to familiarize myself with the applescript language as it would prove to be quite useful if I go into mac permanently. For those of you who don't use macs, I would probably liken applescript to something along the lines of batch scripting for windows or for linux users, I suppose bash. The annoying thing is that I want to learn so much but school tends to get in the way. At the moment, here are the languages that are on my todo list:
So, my work is kind of cut out for me at the moment.
Ah, I think I can hear some people stirring in the house, so I better get up and do something useful at least. This entry has been brought to you by Bootcamp and a reasonably smelly ... wait for it ... sock! Ha, another unexpected turn of events.
Have you ever noticed those blogs of people who think they're being cute when they post little one paragraph posts like "Oh my gosh, I bought a new T-shirt today! It was uber uber cool! And Savannah was all NO WAY and I was all YES WAY. Anyway, got to go! XOXO" Its these types of blogs which pepper Live Journal to the point of annoyance. You will more than likely find blogs of people who thought they'd be cool and create a blog in 2003, post one entry and then just ignore it in the intervening 5 or so years. It allows for quite a strenuous process of finding a username of choice.
For those of you who follow me on twitter, you would note that I finished a math exam to which I termed was "approaching like a bull on viagra". Being the last examination of the term, it left me at somewhat of a loss. I mean, I won't say that I am one of these studious students who come home every night and get right into the books and study for 1.5 hours per night or what have you, but I have done quite a bit of extra work over the last week and coming home yesterday afternoon I sat down with a math book open next to me and realized - in a moment of utter clarity - that I left the tap running all day. Ha, I bet you weren't expecting that now were you? Hmm? No, didn't think so.
I've been trying to work out how I might successfully use my time wisely these holidays. Because I usually end up with a distinct lack of cohesion by the end of the period - this time being 2 weeks. Although I am going down to Melbourne to visit my friends Cassie and Ashleigh so it should turn out to be quite enjoyable. But for the remaining time that's left to me, I'd rather like to get stuck into structuring some of the programming languages I have started learning over the years and then put down because I haven't had enough time to complete. My brother is pressuring me to learn groovy and grails, which - to put it crudely - is virtually a modified Java port with remotely ruby syntax. But when looking at the resources available, it requires more of an object orientated hierarchy understanding and personally, a bit of Java experience. So, putting that aside I really want to finish learning ruby as I never really got to consolidate it and then if I manage that, to go on to do ruby on rails and finally, WX ruby or ruby cocoa, depending on whether I am in a windows frame of mind or a mac frame of mind. Speaking of mac, I also need to familiarize myself with the applescript language as it would prove to be quite useful if I go into mac permanently. For those of you who don't use macs, I would probably liken applescript to something along the lines of batch scripting for windows or for linux users, I suppose bash. The annoying thing is that I want to learn so much but school tends to get in the way. At the moment, here are the languages that are on my todo list:
So, my work is kind of cut out for me at the moment.
Ah, I think I can hear some people stirring in the house, so I better get up and do something useful at least. This entry has been brought to you by Bootcamp and a reasonably smelly ... wait for it ... sock! Ha, another unexpected turn of events.
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