I figure that if God exists, he A) is not exactly like what anyone believes he is, B) not a ‘being’ of any type that we can imagine.

One of the most telling statements from the Bible that God makes (don’t care if you don’t buy it, I’m just thinking out lo…through my keyboard) is when he is asked by Moses what his name is.  God says, “I Am”.  Since names defined the person in the OT, the best one that God could come up was I Am…a proclamation that his most defining trait was the fact that he exists.

Thinking a bit deeper, names are meant to distinguish the individual.  What does I Am distinguish someone from?  The opposite of existence is (feel free to argue) non-existence or nothingness.  So the only thing that God feels the need to distinguish himself from is nothingness…not people, or other gods, but nothingness.  He’s saying, there are two things…him and nothingness.  And nothingness is nothing, so that leaves just him as the only thing that exists.

So where does that leave us and the universe?  Perhaps we’re just thoughts in the mind of an infinite being that we happen to know as God.  Anyway, take this thought process for what it’s worth…seems like an interesting idea to me.

There are so many things to learn in the world…I sometimes wish that I could stop time and just READ. Here’s a list of all things that fascinate me and I wish I has more time to learn about:

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Math
• Quantum mechanics
• Programming
• Hacking
• Networking
• Animals
• Jungles
• Deserts
• South Asia
• Scandinavia
• South America
• Africa
• Space
• Language
• Cooking
• Hunting
• Fishing
• History
• Mythology
• India
• Political Theory
• Religions
• God
• The universe
• Life
• Love
• Poetry

When I think of the sheer massive amounts of information out there, it is simply overwhelming. I mean, I could pick just one topic that I mentioned and spend the rest of my life learning about that one thing. Take programming for example. You can split that into different languages…like C, C#, C+, C++, Java, Javascript, VB, VBA, VBScript, VB .NET, VB .Net 2005, PHP, PHP4, PHP5, Python, Ruby, Lisp, Perl, SQL, etc etc etc. And that’s JUST A FEW of that languages that exist. Then I could pick just one of those languages and spend a very long time learning and mastering it.

Consider that one little piece of a single topic could take years to learn about, and expand that to cover all the pieces in that topic, and expand that even more to cover all topics…that’s hundreds, if not thousands of years of possible learning…and that’s if there were no new discoveries/developments. I find that exciting and yet depressing at the same time.

I’ve probably been thinking more about this as I think about what I want to do with my life…and the answer that I keep coming up with is EVERYTHING. I want to do everything that I can out of everything that there is. And when I stop to think about what “everything” actually is, it blows me away.

I have to say that this is one of the coldest Octobers I’ve ever experienced. Coming from the mildness that is the Oregon coast, I thought Eugene was cold. Klamath Falls is a completely different story. This place is COLD. (There’s a Minnesotan laughing at me somewhere…) It’s like someone flipped a switch somewhere and turned summer off and winter on. We’re supposed to get a few flakes of snow tonight, and we’ve already had a few little flurries earlier this month. I admit that I’m rather looking forward to this winter when we get some real snow. I’ve been itching to drive around with my 4×4, and I’m also curious to see what Wiley will think of all the snow. Heck, only 6 inches and he’ll be covered up.