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It’s been a while since I have posted anything, but not for lack of having things to post about.  It’s simply that I have been working on a million projects at once as usual.  As you may know, NaNoWriMo comes every year in the month of November.  The challenge is to write a novel of at least 50,00 words in one month.  You have from the 1st of November until the 30th and you have to come out with a complete novel to win.  Despite the fact that it sounds crazy, it’s perfectly doable if you are dedicated to doing it.  In fact, I was way ahead on my word count all the way through the 15th.  By that point, however, I had also started a blog, joined a band, and started writing an ambitious Facebook application.

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One thing that I love is learning foreign languages.  Ever since I started learning German on a whim some six or seven years ago, I have been completely enamored with studying languages from other places and people.  Hence I have used a lot of the language learning software and methods that are out there.  A more recent addition to the sphere of language learning is a site called LiveMocha.  I have been using it for a couple months now and will discuss my opinion on the site here.

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Almost three weeks ago, I did something very important to better my life.  I quit smoking compulsively.   It had been something I wanted to do for a long time, but just didn’t for some reason or another.  I guess I thought it would be hard.  I thought it would change my life, and I wasn’t ready for a lifestyle change.  Now I wonder what took me so long.

I started smoking when I was about 16 years old.  That means that I have been smoking for about 16 years now.  I didn’t smoke compulsively at first, of course.  I can’t remember when that happened.  I guess it creeps up on you.  I would say it was probably around the age of 19 or 20.  Until three weeks ago, I don’t think a day has gone by since I was 19 in which I didn’t smoke a cigarette.  Before long, I was smoking a pack a day easy.  More if I was drinking or incredibly bored or something.  After all that, I stopped smoking compulsively in just one second.

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I have learned a lot in my long day of having a blog.  Things have changed rapidly.  I switched from WordPress.com to Blogger at one point.  Later, I decided to abandon Blogger because the interface sucks and host it on my own site using WordPress.  I’ve gotten five visitors and one comment.  It’s been a wild ride, that’s for sure.

One of the things I learned was ‘link to a lot of other people’s blogs.’  In my first blog post, you may notice that I was goofing around and putting links to everyone and their mother just for the fun of it.  That strategy really paid off, and got me my first commenting visitor!  I went and checked out his blog and, as it turns out, it’s actually somewhat interesting.  It’s still a blog and has things like his perspective class list sitting in there for no reason among the more interesting things, but it’s not bad for being a blog and I added it to my links section.  Thus the other thing I learned was ‘blogs can be somewhat interesting.’  This particular person posts a lot of stuff on the free will vs. determinism debate.  Specifically he has a lot of stuff from the biological realm.  Just check it all out for yourself here.

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One of the leading criticisms of the Christian conceptualization of God is that he is omnipotent. Without omnipotence, Christians would have to admit to a much less powerful God than what they suppose exists. There have been various arguments for the impossibility of omnipotence.

Most of them boil down to this: Can God create a rock that is too heavy for God to lift?

That seems on its face to completely disprove omnipotence. The answer to the question has to be yes or no. If it’s yes, then God would not be able to lift the rock and would therefore not be omnipotent. If it is no, he would not be able to create the rock and would therefore not be omnipotent. Airtight argument right? However, I’m actually going to disprove that argument.

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This may sound strange from someone who is quite clearly writing a blog as evidenced by the fact that you are now reading it, but I really hate blogs.  I literally hate everything about them.. They are quite possibly the most useless thing that has every come out of anything.  They don’t spread information because they’re about as reliable as locker room whispers, no wait probably less so.  All they do is feed some asshole’s big ego.  Blogs are like feminist poetry readings.

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