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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.


MAIN THEMES

On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.

On Christianity
I’m convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let’s not plant the cross before we carry it. I’m not trying to con you.

On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.


OTHER THEMES

On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.

On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.

On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.

On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?

On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.

On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.

On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?

On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.


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Friday, February 04, 2005
FORGIVENESS

i confess - i have a very "bad" strategy when it comes to forgiving people. but i find it a very effective. i seldom find it hard to forgive someone for something bad they do. but whether or not it is a theologically sound strategy is another matter altogether. so, what is it that i do to make it so easy to forgive? well, it goes something like this:

she has a demon.

what?! well, yes. she has a demon. well, that's if it's a girl of course, he has a demon, if a guy. it makes for very easy forgiving. why would he do such a thing? how could she say that? oh, it's not her. she has a demon.

fantastic! everyone is forgivable. it's not them. responsibility is completely stripped off from their free will and placed on some ghoul, some evil, some spirit which seemingly overrides the said perpertrator's choice in being a crappy person. is this sound theology? certainly not! it negates the fact that we are held responsible for our wrong actions, and right ones. it negates the fact that when our Lord judges, He's gonna go "you did it - don't blame it on something else". surely, on judgment day, when Christ in all His glory judges, no one can actually hold up a defense by claiming "i had a demon". hahahaaa... imagine the roar of laughter that would resound in the afterlife at such an excuse. it is lame. yes, i know this. and i also know it's not biblical.

so, eventhough it's so easy to forgive someone in this way, is it how God wants us to forgive? no. surely not. but it's so effective!!! i'll find it really hard to consider forgiving someone without this tricky method, because, well... then i would have to really forgive. but i guess just as Jesus freely (and really) forgives, i too should do the same.

what a shame. i actually thought i was so good at it.

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