Dribble and Such

The Squash plant survived. It is on the back porch. It is hot in our apartment, in the 80s, so we got a window unit. It is still hot, but slightly less so. Today I got to know Kerry Holton. He will be a good friend. We are on the same page about a lot of things, and, better yet, we are not on the same page about everything. If everyone agreed about everything no one would learn anything. No one would think and no one would grow. How boring life would be. We seem to agree about the important stuff anyway.

I'm still hot. I'm going into the living room to sit in front of the window unit.

The Lement of the Squash

They laughed at me. Said it couldn't be done. As we speak I have two respectable sized squash growing on my plant which spent its entire life indoors with nothing other than soil, water and the light from the window. There are also several tiny squash starting to develop.

Now the bad part. This is actually two plants. i grew them from seed, two seeds planted together formed two nice plants. One was weighed down by its fruit and broke nearly in two at the base. That was yesterday morning, I splinted it and today it looked like it grafted together and would survive. Also today I discovered it is entirely infested with worms and gnats. I don't understand, the thing has never been outside, how could it possibly have worms? Nevertheless, it was not just a few but a full on infestation, which means it must be taken outside. I can not have that in my apartment which already has a bug problem. While carrying it outside the splinted plant broke in half. I am sad about my squash, the two vegetables may never ripen. I got so close and all this happened, I really think that if the problems had not all come at once they could have been handled.

I know it sounds hippy but there is a satisfaction from growing food from seed. It takes time and effort and i want my vegetables.

God Chart

I visualized several ways that Christians view God. I don't know that any of them are invalid, but I think some may be more valid than others.

Fire with Fire

I think that there are different realms of reason. One has to use reason appropriate to the situation or the outcome is invalid. For example; If a person wants to talk about poetry, it is inappropriate to call into question the poem’s legal fortitude. Likewise a person does not site the symbiotic pattern of a warranty in court.

Conservative Christianity often argues that the ‘day’ spoken of in the Genesis 1 account of creation is a 24 hour rotation of the Earth. It would be invalid for a person to speak of poetic meaning in order to present evidence against this position because the person believing this is basing their position on the denotation of the word ‘day’ (in English, we will leave the Hebrew alone). Therefore, a person wishing to discount this opinion would need to do so using literal interpretation of this text without calling in outside evidence. Simply, this opinion has to defeat itself or else it can not be discounted as invalid.

Until yesterday that was where I stood. Never mind what I think about it personally, I could not discount the opinion using only interior/ non-poetic reasoning. That is, until I stumbled across reason in the text.

The definition of a day is one rotation of the Earth. This rotation is based on the position of the sun. The sun was not created until the 4th day, therefore it is self defeating to say that there was a literal ‘day’ period for the first 3 ‘days’.

Any rebuttals?

Couch

Sara and I have a futon couch to give away if any one is interested. Its not in great shape but it looks okay. Our rabbit chewed on it in a couple places and its not all that comfortable. It is, however, free. If any one needs a couch/futon let us know soon because we are going to put it outside with a 'free' sign in a few days.