D.C. Salmon Summer 2012

So, as promised I'm writing a post about what I did this summer. Don't worry, I abridged the boring parts. ;)

End Of The Year Gathering:

I got a job working at Chick-fil-A: 

Went to M-Fuge camp in Glorietta, NM:

Met the Phillipses as they traveled back from Dallas to California:

Did Omnibus V Secondary as a summer class:

(Hope does not like it when I try to take pictures of her..)

So, overall it was a great summer. I'm happy about all the new people I got to meet and I'm excited about this coming school year. :)

Well now, well now! It seems to be summer time. What do you have to look forward to?

As many of my stalwart 20 members may have noticed it is summer time, and also that my number of posts of been decreasing. Shockingly enough, there is a direct correlation between those two things. The amount of brain activity that goes on and the amount of schoolwork that I do are almost directly proportional. To be totally honest, the reason that I have not posted recently is that I cannot think of anything to post about. This blog is dedicated to mainly theological, philosophical, lituratur-ical, or political topics and I haven't been dealing with many of those fields recently. So I will post what I manage to scrape together this summer. I am doing Omnibus V Secondary with Art Stroh this summer, so I will not only be able to post about the things we learn, but I will also be able to post because of the brain energy that has been fired up by those scholastic rigors.

Future posts you devoted members can look forward to in the near future:

-There are drafts of posts that I have started, and I will write a proper post about the one that is voted to the top. I made a poll for ya'll to vote on and it's at the bottom of the page. This poll includes *every* post that I have started and never posted. It reveals every single one. Just vote for whichever one you want to read. ¿Got it? Good. :)

-I'll write a proper (though somewhat relaxed) post of random thoughts that I have come up with in my mad mutterings this summer.

-I'll write a post about the things that have been going on in my life this summer. I promise pictures.

-Lastly I'll make a post entirely filled with links to websites that I have been using recently with short (or possibly long) descriptions of what they are and why I like them.

Water.. In the sky?

Have you ever thought about clouds in depth? Apart from the obvious "Oh no there are a whole bunch of clouds- it's going to rain"? Think about it. There is water. Clumped together into a giant marshmallow. In the sky. What in the world is it doing up there?

Did someone try to pull a practical joke? Was water cursed by some ancient god who wanted to separate it from it's precious earth for a little while? Did some alchemist make a dreadful error while trying to turn water into gold?  Out of all the random places to put water: Why the sky? Yes, yes, because of evaporation, condensation, vituperation, and so on and so forth. But really.. Water is slippery. You can't even just put water on a table and expect it to stay together in one clump, much less throw it in the sky. Water is also heavy. I've carried packs of water bottles and I've found the it's not the lightest thing. Certainly not light enough to just hang in the sky.

But it does. Most of the water we see in this dry climate is in the sky, yet I have never been worried about walking under a cloud for fear that the whole thing would fall down and crush me like a giant, watery cinder block. And this whole post does not result from a lack of General Science course- I know that it has to do with which phase the water is in. But really-If you think about it- Why can water float just because the molecules aren't close together?

Why? Because that's the kind of God we have. Because He made his creation so that it's perfectly ordered, but still wondrous. Because He can do things like that. He's all powerful after all. We modern (High and mighty look upon the rustic ancients) humans may glory in our science, we may revel in our knowledge and we may put our faith in our own brainy-ness. But all of that is just us playing by God's rules.

"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."

The Scale of the Universe 2

http://htwins.net/scale2/

I found this from a World Magazine website. It's so amazing, even though it's done by evolutionists. When you're looking at it keep in mind that God designed every minute, microscopic detail of the small, and yet he can control the mighty power of the large.

Life and the worth of it

"The child will be born with a disability and their life will be harder then normal. Wouldn't it just be better to abort the fetus? Wouldn't it be kinder to make sure that this baby isn't born with any defects by aborting?" This is an argument often given by abortion advocates in America. Does this argument stand? These pro-choicers would be right in part of their argument, that the child will have a harder-then-normal life. But their conclusion doesn't follow at all.

My family has had a large amount of experience with mentally-disabled folks, and a family that's close to ours has a down-syndrome daughter. I know that being mentally disabled is hard. The daughter of our friends turns 14 this year, but in my minds she is about 8 or 9. She struggles with reading and other mental tasks. I'm not envious of her position, but her life IS worth living. She has set-backs. That's undeniable. But she wouldn't want to be aborted. Every moment she gets to see a brilliant blue sky, every moment that she gets to enjoy playing with her sisters, every moment she takes delight in giving people hugs, every moment she performs ballet, every game where she gets to cheer on her brothers, every moment where she can take joy in the fact that Christ is her savior, every moment she knows that she is loved by her family, every moment where she can take joy, deep or shallow, important or trivial in anything is a moment that says, "Life is worth living."