How dangerous the Tree of Knowledge is?
I have this little game in my PC called BounceOut or PoingPoing. The rule is simple, one has to line three or more balls with same colours to eliminate them until the number is up. The catch is the time limit. The higher your level, the higher is the number of the balls to go and it'd become more difficult to find the balls with same colours to line up. You just become more panic as the time go on until....boommm......it explodes and the game is over.
I love playing this game whenever I get bored in the office (pssssttt....don't tell my boss!!!). I could tell how high the level of my concentrating mind from how fast I find the balls to go. For a long time I'm never tempted to cheat the game, even though many times I get frustated in failing to find only three balls to go to finish a level. I found this a continuing new challenges everytime.
One day, when I almost gave up in finding the same colour balls to go, I accidentally pressed the little button named Panic in the bottom of playing field. Suddenly the balls moved and...there, the balls found themselves their companion and I could move again. A lamp lighted up inside my brain......"So, this is a little cheat to help players, and I never knew although I've seen this little button from the beginning!" Yup....I took a fruit from the tree of knowledge and ate it. And the little game was never the same again. The challenge is still there, but I know now that there is a little help waiting in the wings.
It's only a game, it would never harm other people nor any other living creature. Imagine if it happened to serious things like technology or even law.
Passage Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Big, brave steps in starting my journey in 2008
The first big step was changing my phone number. I had kept the old one since first using a cellphone. My sister gave it along with the cellphone, because she wanted to buy a new one. I have three times changed my cellphone ever since, but never the number. Too much trouble, that's what I thought.
But in this last 3 years I had some bad, painful experiences that I just want to close the chapter and throw away all of the things that would remind me of them. Get a new number is one of them. Yes, it makes a little trouble in telling my new number to many friends I have and wish to keep contact with. But, I do hope the bravery in changing my number will inspire myself to dare anything else, out of this comforting box I have hold on for so long.
The second big step was celebrating new year eve with friends out of home. Usually, I spent the event at home, watching television which always perform good programs and films. This time I decided to join my brother and several friends from the youth church choir at an italian pizza parlour, dining, singing, having a good time together. This maybe one of our last times to get together, because there would be much changing in 2008 that would make us go to different ways. It was a big step because it has cost me much money than usual! All just for celebrating new year's eve!
The newest brave step is happened this afternoon. I bought the latest and the last book of Harry Potter series. Brave, because I bought it despite of the usual logical thinking in saving my money as much as I could. Not to mention that actually I've broken before this month even ended its first week. But, I've promised myself to get the book as a christmas present for myself, and I did hold on as long as possible, waiting till there is a discount price for the book. And the moment is now....so I bought it this afternoon and got 20% off the normal price!!
But in this last 3 years I had some bad, painful experiences that I just want to close the chapter and throw away all of the things that would remind me of them. Get a new number is one of them. Yes, it makes a little trouble in telling my new number to many friends I have and wish to keep contact with. But, I do hope the bravery in changing my number will inspire myself to dare anything else, out of this comforting box I have hold on for so long.
The second big step was celebrating new year eve with friends out of home. Usually, I spent the event at home, watching television which always perform good programs and films. This time I decided to join my brother and several friends from the youth church choir at an italian pizza parlour, dining, singing, having a good time together. This maybe one of our last times to get together, because there would be much changing in 2008 that would make us go to different ways. It was a big step because it has cost me much money than usual! All just for celebrating new year's eve!
The newest brave step is happened this afternoon. I bought the latest and the last book of Harry Potter series. Brave, because I bought it despite of the usual logical thinking in saving my money as much as I could. Not to mention that actually I've broken before this month even ended its first week. But, I've promised myself to get the book as a christmas present for myself, and I did hold on as long as possible, waiting till there is a discount price for the book. And the moment is now....so I bought it this afternoon and got 20% off the normal price!!
Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Worst Christmas, ever!
Being on choir's duty for the lastest mass, in the evening of Dec 25,
missed all of romantic feeling of christmas carol,
being yelled by the Priest just because the present congregation gave an applause for our performance,
said it had ruined the sacred moment of praying,
said it isn't our church tradition
said that everything done in a mass should be only for God's Glory, none else
...............
But how could someone appreciate what God has done without see it happened to something real?
How could something good happened without God's blessing?
And more basically...........
What's wrong in giving an appreciation, or a thank-you for an obvious hardwork done for our own benefit?
Worse, the priest wasn't even our own parish priest!
Hope this won't damp the spirit of the newcomers in this youth choir!
missed all of romantic feeling of christmas carol,
being yelled by the Priest just because the present congregation gave an applause for our performance,
said it had ruined the sacred moment of praying,
said it isn't our church tradition
said that everything done in a mass should be only for God's Glory, none else
...............
But how could someone appreciate what God has done without see it happened to something real?
How could something good happened without God's blessing?
And more basically...........
What's wrong in giving an appreciation, or a thank-you for an obvious hardwork done for our own benefit?
Worse, the priest wasn't even our own parish priest!
Hope this won't damp the spirit of the newcomers in this youth choir!
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Don't lie, please!
So many years making friends through internet, I still couldn't understand why people have to lie about himself. Why pretend single if you're already married. Why flirt when you're not free to continue it through.
It is not fair. Not for your spouse. Neither for your new friend. It is one step to start an affair, a preliminary act to break an already established relationship, a first step to hurt other's feeling.
It is not fair. Not for your spouse. Neither for your new friend. It is one step to start an affair, a preliminary act to break an already established relationship, a first step to hurt other's feeling.
Listen to your heart
Generally, I am one of the person who rarely act spontaneously, need quite much time in taking decisions especially if it would affect my entire future. When I am faced to more than one options, I sort of let the flow taking me as far as it could until the critical time when I really have to choose my next direction. This way, I could give myself the sufficient time, more or less, to listen what my heart wish me to do for the best.
Every religion surely would say that God never leaves his people alone. He would always be gladly to show us the way. It is us, His people, who always fails to recognize what He says, because we rarely provide even a little time to keep silent, calm down, give Him a chance to talk and give us what we need to know.
People says that God speaks through your heart. The trouble is to recognize that it's really, really your heart speaking, not your emotions nor your desires. Sometimes I called the voice of God as instings or feelings, the other times I recognized it flowing through my logical mind. Either way, I always try to listen and follow it. But, there were also times that I just did something spontaneously, ignoring the alarm bells of my feelings and finally ended with disaster, more or less. Oh, well, I am only human after all.
Every religion surely would say that God never leaves his people alone. He would always be gladly to show us the way. It is us, His people, who always fails to recognize what He says, because we rarely provide even a little time to keep silent, calm down, give Him a chance to talk and give us what we need to know.
People says that God speaks through your heart. The trouble is to recognize that it's really, really your heart speaking, not your emotions nor your desires. Sometimes I called the voice of God as instings or feelings, the other times I recognized it flowing through my logical mind. Either way, I always try to listen and follow it. But, there were also times that I just did something spontaneously, ignoring the alarm bells of my feelings and finally ended with disaster, more or less. Oh, well, I am only human after all.
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