Abstraction

I love Sarah. I like 300. I hate homework.

Justification?

I have thought very hard whether I am just justifying myself about this whole church thing. My conclusion is that, as of now, I believe that my thoughts on church that I expressed previously are the truth, or at least close, but that I should nonetheless remain wary of my conclusion until I am back in stride in my walk with the Lord. Any who read my previous post should, likewise, remain wary if they are also not keeping their paces with God.

I can find no convincing argument that a Christian must attend church. I have been searching for a while now. There are only two arguments that I believe to even be worth considering:

• The New Testament assumes that all Christians attended local churches.
• We are called to fellowship with other Christians.

I do not disagree with either of these points. Christians, in fact, did attend local churches because it was assumed that they would, and it is very important to commune with other Christians. I disagree that either of these two points mean that church is a requirement.

God commands us to honor the Sabbath, something that I (and most other Christians) often seem to simply ignore. Let’s make something clear: attending church is not honoring the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of rest and fellowship with Man and with God. Sundays are rarely about rest, and church is all-too-rarely about real fellowship, let alone filling the entire day with it. The fact is that Christians of the early church did not attend church to get their “Bible fix” for the week as most Christians do today. Church as it exists currently is not the Church of Christ (no reference to the denomination intended) that it is meant to be. The Church should be fellowship!

Instead of attending church, maybe it would be better to honor the Sabbath instead. That means fasting from work and just living with God and brothers and sisters in Christ for the entire day, not going to some service, sitting and standing whenever everybody else does, listening to some boring guy preach the same things repeatedly every few weeks, and singing songs that have been sung too often to feel special anymore. In fact, there is not even any requirement that the entire day be spent in fellowship with other Christians (though with God all the time, certainly), and it may even be better to spend the day performing good deeds, even if they involve work. The Sabbath is not as inflexible as most would be led to believe, but I still hold that church attendence does not satisfy the criteria, nor would the attendence of a modern church even be allowed on a Sabbath day. It’s just too distant from the real purpose of the day.

I hate it when an ambulance is trying to go down a busy street, everybody is pulling over and stuff, and then some idiot pickup driver doesn’t understand the difference between pulling over and simply stopping in the middle of the road and blocking the ambulance even more than if he had just kept going.

I’m in the process of cleaning and possibly reorganizing my room at the moment. I mentioned this (in a somewhat geeky way) in #io on Freenode, and Steve Dekorte gave me the previously posted quote. Appropriate, and also would be good to apply elsewhere.

This is a nice outlet.

It is convenient to have a channel of expression that doesn’t feel like it requires a lot of work and effort. Other blog services seem to emphasize long, thought-out posts. That’s not a bad thing, but usually I just have one thing to say at any given time.

If only they hadn’t sold out to the trends of so-called ”Web 2.0.”

How am I supposed to make a future for myself if all I ever do is homework?

I just watched episode 17, ”Company Man,” of Heros.

Best. Episode. Yet. The series just outdid itself.

Repository Semantic Idea

It would be neat to have a repository where every revision is treated as a branch, making it possible to allow anonymous commits without necessarily screwing up the mainstream project. Guest-submitted patches can then be merged in on a case-by-case basis. This would also allow for a more intuitive understanding of the internal layout of a repository with a clear separation of the time and space domains.

Taking it even further, there could be a “universal” repository that could function as a sort of twisted combination between SourceForge.net and Wikipedia. There could be an initial revision that is just blank, with each project being just a new branch off that first revision, and so on.