It has. Though I'm still young, and it's a cliche answer, I'm not afraid to die. And not just because I know where I'm going, but also because I know God will take care of those I leave behind too.
Monday, January 31, 2011
How much do "eternal concerns" affect your daily decision? Which areas of your life are least influenced by your faith in God? Which are most?
Eternal concerns are the most important part of my life. Though I may slip and sometimes loose focus, I'm committed to regaining that focus even if I fail.
My work probably encompasses the area in which I'm best and worst at it. Best at doing projects and doing His will, worst at trusting that He'll supply my family with everything it needs through the work.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Do you know with certainty where you are going to spend eternity? What is the basis for your certainty?
Yup. Heaven. Jesus gave up his life so that I could go. It's not something I could have made for certain on my own.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
How do you respond when people treat you unfairly?
Honestly, it stings. But I don't react to it. I just absorb most of the time. There are breaking points, but the majority of the time it'll hit me in the chest like a thud and I'll feel bad later.
But what really gets me going is when OTHER people are treated unfairly. That kind of thing makes my blood boil. My gut reaction is to grab the nearest object and smash it to little bits, ideally over the head of the person doing the harm. It's not healthy, and I'm working on it, but I'm very protective.
Friday, January 21, 2011
When has God worked good in your life despite your blindness and deafness? How would you explain to a non-Christian what God has done for you?What should be our motivation in witnessing to others of God's grace in our lives?
Well, I'm only 50% deaf, and not blind at all, but even despite that, God has been very good to me.
I explain it just like I would to a Christian. One of the bigger problems I see Christians having is that they seem to feel like they have to talk differently around other Christians. Saying phrases like "washed in the blood", "sanctified", "repentance" and "salvation". Regular people don't use those words. So I don't see the point in using them to explain my faith.
My motivation is that I think that it is what God calls me to do. It is one of my responsibilities as being a Christian.
Have you ever misplaced something, only to discover it "right under your nose"? What and where was it? Why did you fail to see it right away?
That happens all the time. I'm pretty forgetful, so I have to develop systems to remember where everything is. For example, phone in my right pocket, wallet on my left. Keys on my left belt buckle. Headphones under the phone.
1.What collectible item do you treasure he most? Why that one? 2.What do you keep that your parents or spouse would rather you threw out?
Hmm. I collect some things, but I'm not really tied to them. If my house went up in flames, I would probably mourn the loss of my computer the most, with all my art, journals, and designs. Even those I'm trying to catalogue entirely online anyway.
Tamika would rather I didn't keep the extra computer stuff around. But that's easily parted with.
What is the closest brush with death you ever had? How did it make you feel?
Honestly, there have been so many, I'm not entirely sure which was the closest. I can't say that I felt fear. I can't recall feeling in fear of my life since I was really little, and even then... It's more of a feeling of urgency, I guess. Aldrenaline. Just "uh oh. This isn't going to work. Time to move!"
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
When was the last time some smooth talker convinced you to do or buy something that was against your better judgment? What did you learn from the experience? What did the lesson learned really cost you?
That doesn't happen very often. I'm pretty obstinant about spending money needlessly, probably because we didn't have a whole lot growing up.
Monday, January 17, 2011
How many long lasting promises keep you going at work? Home? What limited contracts get you worried about the future?
For work, the promise of good projects, good pay, and good coworkers do it.
For home, the promise to love me forever, and to never give up.
I'm not really worried about contracts for the future, to be honest.
How can you "remember your creator in the days of your youth"?
It's a call to remember who God is while you're still young. You don't need to be old to start learning about spiritual things.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Do you think being gay is a sin? a
I don't know if it is a sin or not. But then, it's not my job to decide.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Did you know that there are only 344 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes and 12 seconds till Christmas? :) <3
No I didn't, but I feel much more educated now. :)
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Could something as good as going to church and saying your prayers actually be offensive to God? How so? What does please the Lord?
Sure. If you're not sincere and just do it for show, that probably not the best way to get in His good graces.
If you found out the government was bugging your home, what would you immediately stop saying or doing?
Probably talking about the government bugging my home. :D
Monday, January 10, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Hello. Thank you for all the good questions. Do I know you at all?
I don't know. I don't know who you are.
What proof and evidence can you supply that proves atheism is accurate and correct?
Atheism is a belief, not a truth to believe in. Atheism is the belief that there is no God.
However, many atheists are reactionary against a Christian society, not founded on a deep conviction that there is nothing spiritual about the world.
I would doubt very much that there would be this many atheists if Christianity weren't the norm in the USA 50 years ago.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
what do you think the of lego games?
I've never played any of them. But I love Legos with a passion.
which 80's sci-fi show should get a new series?
I actually didn't watch any of the old series, because I didn't watch a whole lot of TV. But I did read. And The Martial Chronicles (by Bradbury) as well as the Robots stories (by Asimov) both need to be put to the screen.
how is the new year going for you?
Not too shabby. I could use more rest. But I think that's normal.
I hate Miley Cyrus!!!!!!
Hate is too strong for me in this case. I just won't listen to her music or buy her paraphernalia.
1.What is the most daring thing you have ever done? What made it so daring? 2.When it comes to risking, how would you describe yourself?
When I was 15 years old, my father and I built a snowmobile for me. I collected the parts for a Skidoo Elan, the smallest snowmobile that Bombardier ever built.
Several of the elders my family was close to had them when I was a kid; Noah Einish, Tommy Einish, Johnny Uniam… Even Giles Porlier owned a set of the newer ones. But by the time I could actually afford gas, Bombardier had stopped making them. Very few running ones were left in Schefferville.
I scrounged around everywhere to get parts.
I got a motor from McGill, a frame from the dump, bogey wheels from an abandoned house, handlebars from a pile of garbage I came across, skis from Aaron Einish’s wrecked Elan, a headlight from a ’55 schoolbus, and my mother made me a new leather seat from an old one I’d rescued from a bad encounter with a husky dog.
I named it The Monopod.
The engine was a ’77, and had been modified with the governor removed. Even in the bitter cold, with a $45 tank of gas curling up in smoke behind me, I would ride to school and park the machine proudly next to the sleek multicoloured rockets my classmates rode. I remember the vice-principal Doug racing along next to me in his Nissan, clocking my speed. 55mph, faster than any other Elan.
I remember my dad and I dragging the Monopod into the back of our pickup truck and hauling it out to our cabin at Iron Arm for Goose Break.
Aaron Einish had brought out his brand new Mach II, a sleek yellow and red beast of a machine that would be far to heavy to ever dig out, but was so powerful it never would anyway.
Elans were built to ride nimbly on top of the snow; the Mach II would just plow through it. We raced up and down the lake all week, Roger Nabinicaboo eventually joining us in his Elan. His was a newer one, and ’92, but it never had the governor taken off of it. I beat him every time.
Goose Week begins when a patch of water out past the island eventually opens up, with enough water for Canadian Geese to land. Men set up gooseblinds around the hole against the forest, and call for the geese.
You have to park your Skidoo on the near side of the island, and trek along the edge of the forest to get there; the noise of the machines would scare away the geese.
No fires to keep you warm, just hot tea in thermoses. Even conversation is kept to a bare minimum.
We kids had no interest in such stoic silence. We thundered up and down the lake near the cabins, pausing only to watch the dotted V’s make their way slowly across the warm grey April skies to the open water, and certain death. We didn’t mourn them much, we knew that soon we’d be eating them with hot buttered raisin bannock.
As the week went on, more ice began to melt on the lake in other areas. A patch opened up at the stream mouth near Tommy and Annie Einish’s cabin (Aaron’s grandparents).
This was perfect.
The narrow strait separated the nothern half of the cabin line from the southern.
Aaron thought of it first. He had seen his big brother Jeremy do it first.
Aaron gunned his engine, picked up speed, and then at full throttle, skimmed across the water.
The depth at this point was easily 50 feet, near the marshy lagoon fed by the stream.
Safely on the other side, Aaron called to us.
Roger gave me a nervous glance, but then gave the engine an extra prime, and started for the water.
His Elan reached peak speed right about when he hit the gap, but he wasn’t able to speed up any faster. The machine seemed to grow sluggish as it made it’s way across, but he was able to to reach the ice shelf on the other side just in time. He grinned at me, but his face was whiter than mine was.
I hit the brake, then the throttle, and peeled out in a 180 and took off in the opposite direction. Aaron and Roger booed and howled after me. After about 500 feet, I hit the brake and spun again, shooting back toward the gap at top speed.
My skis rattled against frozen chunks of torn up snow, and I struggled to keep it pointed in the right direction.
I hit the water.
Momentum carried me across half way, and then the Elan’s track kicked in and churned the water underneath, pushing me further forward.
The ice shelf was partially covered in the overflowing water, and I was feeling pretty good.
The shelf began to disintegrate. Chunks of ice broken up by my track began appearing behinds.
All of a sudden, the entire shelf tilted up! The weight of my Elan bore down the the shelf, swinging my end down like a see-saw! I opened the throttle up all the way.
The track kept trying to grip the wildly swinging chunk of ice, but kept breaking off!
I leaned forward, hanging over the handlebars, trying to bring more weight to keep the shelf from flipping entirely over.
The engine began to strain. I could hear the bogey wheels inside the track screeching, seizing up as ice began caking up on them.
With a lurch, the track took hold.
The Monopod crawled up the ice, and as it did, reset the balance and the shelf came crashing down in a wave of icy water. The machine pulled forward, shot over the crack, and I came skidding to a steaming smoking stop in front of my friends. The Elan, exhausted, wheezed to a halt.
I took the forest trails to get home.
I'd say I'm pretty daring.
Do you have grandparents? if so what are they like?
I have a grandmother from my fathers side. She's pretty awesome. She shares the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II (same day, year, everything) but she plays tennis, swims laps in the pool every day, beats everyone at the senior center at billiards, and rides her toboggan down the hills next to the school while the kids are stuck inside. :)
what tv shows do you think handle Christianity best?
I don't watch much TV, and the shows I occasionally do watch don't handle it well at all.
Friday, January 7, 2011
how did you find me here on this site?
I didn't find you. I still don't know who you are. Every day I get new questions from you. But if I don't find out, it's ok. I like the questions.
whoever trusteth in the lord, happy he is. proverbs 16:20 :)
Very true, but that's not the whole verse! Heeding the Lord is probably the most important part.
1When you were a child, where did your grand parents live? How often did you visit them? 2What are couple of things you remember about your grandparents?
My grandparents on my father's side (Babchi and Jaju) lived in Connecticut. We got to visit them nearly every summer.
My grandparents on my mother's side (Grandpa and Nana) lived in Florida, thought my grandfather died when I was very young. My grandmother passed away later on.
I remember swimming in Babchi and Jaju's pool all the time, and swimming around and around my grandparents whenever they joined us in the pool. I used to swim to the bottom of the pool and just lay there, looking up at the surface. Peaceful.
I remember visiting Nana's house in Florida, and her parrots. Grapefruit for breakfast from a tree (or maybe my aunt's tree). I remember my bed was out on the sunroom on an old orange and brown tweed couch, and that I could see into the living room from my bed, and I would lay watching Nana watch Gilligan's Island and Golden Girls until I went to sleep.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
What are your five 'bring to a desert island' albums?
Hmm, that's tough. I probably would make mix albums, simply the DJ in me. And that I can't think of an album that I would listen to all the way through.
I'd do:
Groove (Lounge)
Techno
Rock Upbeat
Hip Hop
and Soul
What was one of your favourite bed time stories when you were growing up? Who read it or told it to you?
My dad read to us nearly every night for years, and I loved it. He read us Where the Wild Things Are and Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel when we were little, and the Chronicles of Narnia and Cricket in Times Square when we were older. Those are still my favourites.
Thoughts on sex only after marriage and purity rings?
I don't think sex before marriage is a good idea. Too many messed up emotions and messed up expectations.
I missed the whole purity ring thing. Honestly, it seems a little hokey to me, but I guess if it helps remind you...
When you were growing up, what were mealtimes like in your family?
Pretty regular. We had breakfast around 7:30-8 as I recall. And lunch was always at noon, and dinner was at 5. We all sat at the table too, which I always liked.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
What's the oldest piece of clothing you still own and wear?
A tiny rosewood cross with a heart in the center of it. I found it at the dump when I first started really following Christ. I was reading the Magic Bicycle series at the time, and the similarities were striking.
I had it on a silk cord so tight that I couldn't take it off. I wore it for something like 11 years straight.
What was your favorite TV show as a child?
I loved old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons. Anything by Fred Quimbly.
Have you gone to a my Justin bieber concert? if you have what was your favorite memory?
Never. If I went it would be the opposite of a favorite memory.
!f you could take the day off and spend the next twenty four hours anywhere, where would you go? Why?
Definitely Bali or Tahiti. And while I was there I would look for some kind of employment so I could go back.
How long do your New Year's resolutions last before you break them?
Haven't broken it yet! But then my New Years Resolution is to get up every time I fall. :)
What age do you figure was ( or will be ) your halfway point in life?
50. I've always thought I would live to be 100. Not really sure why.
By the year 2050, What current necessities do you think will be obsolete? why?
Sadly, I don't think any of them will be obsolete. Some might be eradicated in "developed" countries (European & North American), but unfortunately I still think there will be people still in abject poverty.
How do you feel about the place where grew up? How did it shape you and prepare you for the future?
I love the place I grew up. It was a very difficult place to live as a kid, but ultimately, it, and the guidance of my parents, shaped me well. I like who I am, and among many other things, it helped me prepare for that.
how do you happen to find random people such as myself? And thanks for the question, as a Christian you help me voice my beliefs and challenge me in how to answer! :) I just got back from Church camp and very much enjoyed answering your questions.
I'm not sure! I thought it was you coming to me. Either way, I'm glad you enjoyed my responses.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Would you rather vacation at the beach or in the mountains?
I really love both. A mountainous coastline with sandy beaches and warm water would be the perfect environment for me.
I'm a little curious, what life experiences gave you an adversarial view of organized religion? Humans are all about organizing, setting standards, forming healthy habits... health insurance, democracy, daily toothbrushing, receiving grades in school.
I don't have an adversarial view of organized religion.
yea i bet. what else do u help people with?
A lot of things. I fix computers, do drawings, and a whole lot of Graphic Design.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
o ok that makes sence :) thanks your such a big help in my life right now :)
Who is this? Why are you asking these questions anonymously?
thats all i have to do? ask god to come into my life. Will i feel a change??
No, that's not all you have to do. Jesus describes it as being born again. Though it tends to be a cliché term now, it essentially means you have to become like a baby again, throwing off all your old sinful ways and following the ways of Jesus.
How much you feel a change is up to you. It's like going on a new workout plan. If you don't work at it, it's not going to do much. You've got to have commitment.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Would you rather own a luxury yacht or a private jet?
Yacht. I'm not really concerned with the arrival, the journey is more fun to me.
What was your favorite toy to play with as a child?
Definitely Legos. We had two and a half giant rubbermaid bins full at one point. My brother and I built entire cities with them in the room that we shared. It was some of the best memories I have with him.
What religion are you? (Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, etc) and if you are not Catholic, is it near what your religion is?
Christian.
Catholicism is very close to it. So close that you can be both. But then, you can be both Jewish and Christian too (they call themselves Messianic Jews).
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