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I only seem to manage to consistently blog when I’m in a certain mood.  If things are going great, I tend to forget about it. If things are bad, I don’t blog anything significant because I don’t feel like I want to publicize all my feelings. That’s a change from my wistful days of youth; I used to advertise everything.  Now I don’t.
But things are not bad now by any means.  I just decided to let you all know that.  And you all is…well, this isn’t really a place most people know to read.

I’d like an opportunity to cut my mind free and drift.  It relaxes me.

I’m halfway considering throwing my resume up on teh interwebs, and seeing where the wind takes me.  By the wind, I mean God. But wind is more poetic. And like most engineers, I’m very poetical.

Strange that this top-secret place where I post my thoughts and feelings…I can’t post, because I have too many feelings.  I can’t even anonymously post the strain and pain my brain has been feeling.  Weird.  The other secret is that I have a top secret google docs page where I keep all my top secret writings.  So only me, God, and the GOOGLE SERVER ADMINISTRATORS can read those.

Regrettably, I’m still spending much too much time in the ANGRY DOME.

if you need me today, you’ll find me in the ANGRY DOME.

(an interesting change from my previous post)

My morning commute was interrupted by this:

My initial reaction was frustration and anger.  I quickly realized that was useless, and, ultimately, incorrect.  Why isn’t my initial reaction to smile at the glory and beauty of nature and be comfortable relaxing for a few minutes watching a wonderful scene?

There were probably about 50 geese altogether.  They decided to walk across the road at that time in that place.  There are some things in nature and life you just can’t control.  I need focus on not just accepting that, but fully embracing it to see the beauty and peace of not being in control.

This is has been stewing in my brain for awhile, resparked by a conversation I had with a fine female last night.

To inform you: I rarely cite.  If you don’t know where something is from, then be BETTER READ. Or just type the phrase into Google and it’ll give you all the necessary background.  People don’t actually read links to source pages anyway; you might as well do your own research to find out if I’m correct rather than relying on my interpretation anyway.

What is the purpose of the Church, specifically, the Church in America? Henceforth, Church will be spelled lowercase, but I do think I mean for it to have an uppercase connotation.

If the Bible is interpreted in the traditional sense (as you, dear reader, surely do!), then worship that God finds acceptable is taking care of widows and orphans in their distress (and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world).

God’s working/mission has always been directed towards the poor, hurting, sick, grieving. The church’s primary goal is to accomplish God’s goals; hence caring for those who need it (widows, orphans, those being eaten by the **AAs, etc).

Roughly a third of American paychecks are eaten up by social security, medicare, etc…a variety of social welfare programs instituted in the Depression era to “…promote the general welfare [of the American people]”.  Pre-Depression, I’m pretty sure America existed.  We got started in the sixteenhundredsomethings thanks to the French, right?  There was no nationwide healthcare coverage, unemployment, social security, etc.  People STILL flocked to America to work hard and make it big.  So, what’s the deal with this stuff now?
That’s not my point though. My thought was more…what happened to the unemployed/unemployable?  Well, they found jobs.  Granted, this was easier when there was a manufacturing infrastructure in place.  For a laborer, there was labor to be had.  There wasn’t an aversion to what are now “tech” jobs.  Plumbers, electricians (did God invent electricity in that time period? I hope so.) and the like were fine, noble professions.  People did work, and there was something to PRODUCE. Not just empty marketing, advertising, redistributing of wealth based of off fake money/credit as there is today.

However, people get hurt.  Caretakers die.  People get sick.  Life situations happen to screw people up, and there was not government social programs to take care of them.

The church was able to do its job.  It could take care of those who needed help, and watch out for the poor and homeless, as Jesus did, and as God mandated. But now, religious institutions are neutered.  Caring for these folk is now in the public domain, and religious institutions can’t even be directly involved, where it was once their primary purpose to BE the involvement.

Now, churches are free to develop their building projects, debate endlessly over the type of music to sing, and argue over the color of the carpet in the new building.  And that new girl is so incredibly awesome.  I think I’m going to try to date her.

Read them. You’ll be a better person.

I’m going out of my way to “change”. Not my underwear.  Just to experience “nonsense” (debatable) things that won’t hurt me, and might help me.

This week, I already got a fajita burrito with barbacoa instead of a steak burrito at Chipotle.  I also ordered a different dish than usual from a local Thai restaurant…I substituted flat noodles for my usual rice.

This lets me live life TO THE MAX.

IN OTHER NEWS

TWITTER FAILWHALE: IRAN!

Twitter is less useful than purported.  Does the previous sentence have proper structure? Anyway, it’s purportedly the only real way to get information about crazy things like the Iranian election/fallout.  If you follow #iranelection , it’s nearly impossible to get anything valid out of.  Furthermore, Twitter is unregulated (by nature), so it’s easy for Iranian government officials/evil Ira-nazis to pretend to be the unwashed masses and spread information.  You have NO IDEA if you’re following someone for real, or getting fed what THEY want you to hear.  THEY are also censoring the interwebs and media, so neither is there any hope for “real” news coverage…not that the mass media is worthwhile anyway.

People spamming #iranelection (which is 99.9% of people), even with good intentions, really do destroy any avenue of sharing information.  Yes, it’s cute when you share your hopes about the dreams of a free Iran in the form of a haiku.  Isn’t it ironic your beautiful hopes and poetry all combine together into an unreadable, unruly mashup?

PS, following me on twitter (name: wangahrah) is pretty useless since I rarely update.  It’s always a gem when I do, so you’ll have to weigh the final costs yourself.