We can touch a mountain with our hands
but we cannot put our arms around it
as we could put them around a tree
or something else not too large for them.
To grasp is to embrace it in one's thought;
to know something is sufficient to
touch it with one's thought.

we dun need to be able to comprehend God completely before we can know God...

Shld i do philosophy?? To me it's very interesting... yet it seems to be useless...tellin the rest abt it, they'll simply shrug it off with a sacrasm... but wad weightage have peoples' views??

Cogito, ergo sum

watched the debate thingy... in chinese... but at least can catch lah (wad they sayin i mean...) anw... so sian lor... that sun yet-sun uni won the debate... think they neva debate well leh...

but heard a sweepin statement from the other uni... haha... and i have to say that the guy who got the best debater of team A really spoke welll..... even fer the previous debates he spoke fer.... haha.... very li hai...

very xian mu all those good debaters... will i eva becum lyk dat??

by a teacher durin a test...

u can look up in inspiration
or look down in desolation
but never look sideways in desperation

Loads of stuff dat i wanna share today...

Firstly... sth i learnt from moi quiet time... dunno why din blog it in da morning, but anw...

1 Peter 3:3-4
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

Yeah. Yesterday, at debate meeting, sam was tokin abt people having this aura around them... (prima facie, it sounds weird and shldn't be wad db8ers say) but on 2nd thought, it really make sense. The impression a person gives is regardless of the kind of clothes he/she wears. It springs out, rather, from the 'aura' that person has... And that aura, primarily, is determined by this person's character... this aura, secondarily, is determined by this person's personality and dress sense and 'cool'ness...

What matters most is actually the primary. The secondary only comes about because man, you and i, are still sinful and judges, still whether we admit it or not, by appearance.

We need to be more concerned about our inner beauty, our character, rather than how we dress or whether it's pleasing to people's eyes... Inner beauty, at the end of the day, is paramount.

This marks the end of the firx part of my verbose entry today...

Secondly... i've decided to pick up reading (again). It's not the firx time i've decided to pick up reading... but i really wana make it a long one. I've virtually realised that i ain't so smart, ain't so mature, and ain't so linguistically able. But that was a long time ago. I've only come to realise this realization today, by reading. Guess it was Halim dat inspired me to read about philosophy, but it was actually jacob who brought me into the world of philosophy, causing me to fall in love with it...

And so, i picked up a book on philosophy... the greatest thoughts of mankind, in hope of simplifying things, manifested in a book. I was amazed, in fact awed, at the thoughts that were being brought forth by some of the greatest thinkers...

Cogito, ergo sum

Too many words that i could not spell it out... i think, therefore i am... all i can say to summarize...

Food for thought
Imagine an advance in science that enables a mad scientist to extract your brain, and then maintain it in a vat of chemicals that sustains its normal functioning. Imagine that the scientist can deliver inputs to the normal information channels (the optic nerve, the nerves that transmit sensations of hearing and touch and taste). Being good-natured, the scientist gives information as if the brain were lodged in a normal body and living a reasonable life: eating, playing golf, or watching tv. There would be feedback, so that for instance if you deliver an 'output' equivalent to raising your hand, you get 'feedback'as if your hand has risen. The scientist has put you into a virtual reality, so your virtual hand rises. And, it seems, you have no way of knowing that this had happened, since to you it would seem just as if normal life was continuing.

I'll take it that you're still reading. Great. You might try peering into your own mind, as it were, to catch the essential 'you'. But, remembering that the 'you' is here separated from normal marks of identity (your position in space, your body, your history), it seems there is nothing to catch.... Who am 'I' essentially..?

.overwhelmed.
Christmas is comming!!! And i really feel very burdened about bringing non-believers to the services... They're why all of us are working so hard... Christmas is not commercialised for nothing... They are commercialised in sucha way dat even non-believers feel lyk goin church at this time... We need to bring people to God because God is real! and He is good...

People matter to God.

And i nida go buy Christmas prezzies...

tomms got debate... den choir... den i'll kana shpdin... wah... this week lyk suddenly got lotsa debate stuff and choir practs... tink cuz nida prep fer the SRJC invite and the Xmas service!!!!

Xmas service is gonna be SOOo...... nice........ i'll get all my frens to come... muahahaha...
Tomms i'll be speakin fer the sparrin session... havn't really go and prepare yet.... gee... gettin pretty nervous now.... summore got jacob lor.... betta go prepare later... dun malu moiself... haha....

Dun feel lyk eatin my dinner.. recently i lyk eat fer the sake of eatin... so sick... the food lyk not appetizing... sigh.... so sad... for myself...

Was hangin arnd wif the choir peeps... den got tis pair of bros... they v farnie... one guy like to use rolled up paper to hit peeps' heads... another one like to do the crow flyin action in the opposite direction... haha.... they look pretty farnie together.... think it's quite fun to have siblings... esp one you can really relate to and share to... dunno why i not very close to my bro... diff frequency... haha... nvm...

Woke up todae and my nose started running... i'll sneeze lyk every two min... then mucus would start flowin flowin flowin...

then my mom gave me this super powerful medicine that stop practically all my sneezing and mucus flowin... however, it made me super drowsy... firx time i felt so drowsy... felt lyk i'm floatin and my limbs aren't really within my control... farnie feelin... haha...

anwz, *yawnz* feelin tired now. But i seriously think that i should study... hmmm, skh's startin and i havn't been studying... v bad testimony... noe all my frens are studying hard at home... and if i dun study i'll get very poor results fer 'A's... sigh.... shall go study!!! Jia you!!!