Life Outside PLT1

A POST!!! A POST!!!

WARNNING: This post has a man who has almost lost his pants.

Apparently I am ment to make a post about out trip to Burger King today. So here it is. The Burger King on Puhinui Road has been redone. New seats, tables and a new drink dispenser. Also new big paintings of Marilyn Monroe and some other guy. Also there is the new colour scheme. Take it away Jeremy…

[22:12] <Lord_Riff_Raff> BROWN
[22:12] <Lord_Riff_Raff> BROWN
[22:12] <Lord_Riff_Raff> BROWN
[22:12] <Lord_Riff_Raff> BROWN
[22:12] <Lord_Riff_Raff> OMG
[22:12] <Lord_Riff_Raff> BROWN

Ahh ya it is brown… thats about all I can say. Just remeber however lame it might sounds this IS valuable content for plt1 =P

Now to something I actually wanna talk about - CRICKET!!!!

Lou Vincent quit New Zealand Cricket today. He is now going to play in the Indian Cricket League. I remember watching quite a few games he played. This was one of them.

Solong Lou and thanks for all the fish.

Symptoms of a Wet Dog

I took this picture of my family dog (his name is Jock and is a West Highland White Terrier) about a month ago, after it had been raining and since have been trying to come up with an appropriate quote for it. So instead of being creative I just used an old favourite of mine. Click on the image for a larger view.

Red Strawberries

Jeremys 21st II

For more photos click here

Jeremy’s 21st

56 k beware

Continue reading Jeremy’s 21st…

I decided not to jack off tonight.

Here’s what I did with my hands instead.

Colour Perception

Check these out, crazy how they are the same colour:

Proof here:

And another one:

Proof of

Thoughts of Lord_Riff_Raff’s post

I have become aware that a resent post on www.PLT1.com has stirred up a bit of feeling amongst those who hold a strong belief in the church. Now I can see why this might happen. So I wanted to respond to what was written.

I think this will have to be in two parts as there is so much to respond to. This first post will be about the first half of Lord_Riff_Raff’s post. Then latter I will get on to the rest of what was said.

Now as most of you know I have done a bit of study in this area being that I’m in the last semester of my Degree at Bible College of New Zealand. So I think it might be safe to say that I can respond to it.

I have to say that most of the first half is well, right. You don’t have to talk to many Christians to find out that they could not really tell you the Theological difference between a Baptist and a Anglican church. The main reason why some one goes to a specific church is the feel of it. Weather it is friendly, if they feel welcomed, the worship style, and so on. I think the major thing that Lord_Riff_Raff has missed is that most people these days would not see them self’s as Anglican or Baptist they see them self’s as Christian.

But this dose not make it acceptable that people don’t actually understand what their church believes. I see membership to a church as vital. This is for a whole host of reasons. Being able to identify your self with a common group of people who can offer support and advice is one of the main roles of the church.

But why don’t people understand some fundamentals of their faith? Lord_Riff_Raff has used the example of adult and child baptism. Now this should at least cause some thought to be provoked. But as Lord_Riff_Raff pointed out it doesn’t for the most part. I think one of the problems is people are just to lazy to spend a bit of time reading and finding out these things. Gone are the days of 1st century Christianity where it took 3 years to become a member of the church and you would have to know all this backwards. But I also don’t think this would be the answer, or could it? I think we can look at the church leadership for some answers. As are they teaching us or talking to us about these important issues?

Now about that little pretty graph. I have to say that its kinda right. You would find the red sector in most church’s. But isn’t that what is meant to be in a church. If you had everyone with all the knowledge and belief then how would that make it a journey of Faith? It also would raise the question of growth in your church. The diverse nature of the church is what makes it so great. If you were all the same it would make it boring.

But yes from this point growth must occur. It can never say still. We should all ways be in discussion with each other to extend our understanding for what we hold so true to ourselves. This leads into the second half of Lord_Riff_Raff post. Which I will write on soon.

The Role of the Church and the Bible.

From Random Thoughts From a 21 Year Old

There are no pens

Random thoughts from 3am jotted down on a piece of paper sometime in the past few months.

Where do my pens go?

I honestly don’t know. At the start of each year I buy a box of bic pens since I have none left. Either there’s a small blackhole in my room or I should find hundreds of them behind my desk. I have a feeling though that it’s actually because the universe is designed specifically to annoy me.

Like my socks. Nearly all of my socks are black gold top socks, I bought like a dozen pairs or so a few years back, except for three old pairs. It still takes five attempts each morning to find a matching pair, as the worst case scenario kicks in each time. Then again, I suppose I could just wear a mismatching pair, it’s not like anyone goes around inspecting people’s ankles.

What annoys me more is that the universe is setup so that I can’t do what I want to. Which is solely fixated on the quest for knowledge. Originally I was considering living forever by extending my own life indefinitely. But it turns out there are some slight technical hitches with this plan. Name that much like Tetris you will lose eventually as you’ll stumble upon a set of circumstances that will result in your death, and secondly people tend to get shirty when you suggest manipulating your own genetic material.

So extending my own life posed difficulties. You could try turning to religion, most of which have some sort of after life presumably giving you spare time to learn everything. But then comes the most terrifying thought of them all. What if you did know? Rapidly I could see my entire world crumbling around me. What would you do next?

The next obvious task would be to try and find out something new, but what if there is only a finite number of things to know? Having proven all theorems, and entertained all trains of thought I can only imagine insanity would result due to the complete destruction of any purpose for the individual. Hence without even scraping the surface on this undertaking you have to stop to save yourself.

Then again it doesn’t matter. We don’t have infinite time to work with. You will die. Inevitable, and you will be forgotten. In the greater scheme of things it’s hopeless . Nobody escapes the absolute failure in that we all perish. The universe will not last forever. How then will you choose to use this short time you have? No point bearing grudges, the only things left to us are what we wish to experience isn’t it?

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And now for things I experienced today. Because I know you’re sitting at work, and you have nothing interesting to do, so you’re slacking off reading this.

I found $25 in my wallet that wasn’t ear marked for anything. So I decided to use it for pizza. Rounded up Mathew, Mel and John and drove from Andie’s flat to Papakura to get pizza at the Sahara Tent. Because a lamb kebab on a pizza is in fact awesome. Also it sounds like a terribly bad start to a joke, ‘A youth pastor, a statistician, a mathematician and a computer scientist wander into a bar’. And then because I tricked people into coming by promising them Royal Crown Draft Cola we then drove off to the Countdown in Papakura.

Pxt courtesy of John, to prove it did happen. I swear there were more kids than adults in that place, the place was swarming with them. Anyway, we got two tubs of ice cream, a 4 pack of royal crown, a packet of ginger kisses and 2 litres of chocolate Primo and drove all the way back to Ellerslie to Andie’s flat. I immediately regret being the driver No booze for me, so I’ll die from heart failure rather than liver disease. Oh well, another day perhaps.

Edit: And this is the photo Jeremy didnt want you to see.

Jeremy: Hey I was saving that for another article

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Random link of the day: Swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls

And if anyone knows where my pens go, seriously would you mind telling me…

Moving House

*sigh* It’s been a busy week.

Well, work wise it hasn’t been too busy. Been slow, but I can’t really do much about that. My job only requires as much as I’m given, which hasn’t been a great amount recently. Just been one of those months

But yes, we moved house Living away from home finally. It’s taken a few months since I finished uni and started working full time, so it was finally time to move out of home. Rob and I have been living together for somewhere between 2.5 and 3 years now, so it wasn’t really a big deal us moving to our own place, it’s just nice that we are closer to town and work etc.

I like the place we have moved into. Not too big, not too small, just the right size for 4 adults (us + 2 flat mates). And the best part is there is the probability of a lan

So I don’t really have much to ramble about, so here is a picture: (click to see bigger)

A Post Longwards Bound

How easy is the task of creating a long post without making use of pronouns?

Not easy at all. Pronouns are like nuts and bolts in a large contraption — metaphorically, grammar. Very useful.

Especially confounding is the following fact: words can belong to multiple
parts of speech, being polymorphic. As a rule, no polymorphic pronouns are
used here. Just for fun.

Consequently, several natural idioms are precluded from use, severely
deforming the tone of the text, worsening as the length increases.

A programmer would relate, if given a similar rule: to not use local variables
in code. Lexical referencing is a powerful technique to have; otherwise
unnatural protracted constructs result.

Fortunately, however, not all referencing is lost without pronouns.
Adverbs can pick up the slack a little. For example, “here”, “thus”, etc are
helpful. Similarly with prepositions (strongly encouraging spatial thinking, for example: see below).

Perhaps circumventing the rules, as described above, makes the exercise too easy.
How about disallowing adverbs or prepositions too?

No wait. Sod that.