Holidays

Begin Thanksgiving family madness; wait for further instructions...

Space, time and God.

As mentioned earlier by my fellow catechumen James Thursday evening there was quite a crowd gathered at my home.

I felt a little out of place discussing this subject with Dr. Suketu Bhavsar a rather brilliant Ph.D. in Theoretical Astrophysics, but I did anyway.

Basically he is teaching a course at the University of Kentucky concerning time travel. This sparked my interst and we engaged in a dialogue describing his views and some of the concepts and questions posed by students.

One student who is a budding philosopher brought God into the equation, asking did God create time and then the universe or was time there before the creation of the universe. Which is an intersting question to posit. I myself really only entertian two notions in the area of God and time.

ONE: Time does not actually exist. It is a construct of human intellect to reconcile our linear existence with a non-linear universe. Or rather we are creations that were meant to be eternal; since the fall of man our eternal natures have been sullied and we are forced into a linear life that is contrary to our original purpose. So we have created the idea of time to deal with the disparity between what we intuit should be, and what actually is.

TWO: That time is a bi-product of the existence and soverignty of God. As my friend Kevin Basil has once stated, he favors a creation view that includes evolution, the only problem for him is that for evolution to function chaos must be present. Unfortunately the presence of God is the total absence of choas.

That being said, the concept of time as we know it today is a natural manifestation of God. Time orders things and events, without it there would be chaos; time flows from God, so God is not in our out of time he is the source of all that is: God is the fountainhead of all reality and time.

Anyway, I am an artist and writer, so if you have problems with my views of time and space in relation to God, please let me know where I am erring. I will let you guess which one of these ideas I am currently favoring.

Stupid Dotster

Well for all of you that have figured out how to get here without utilizing the url ChrisJDavis.org, welcome.

It seems that the Domain registrar Dotster has borked my re-direct again. So until they flesh this out only those who relalize that this site is actually at personal.concepthause.com will be able to read my stirring and worthwhile... chaff that I put out.

Which Theologian are you?

Well look at that, apparently I am St. Augustine.

Can't win for losing

I have added the really nifty recent referrers to the sidebar, which is a good thing.

Unfotunately the search string pattern used by google.com is not valid (X)HTML

Have you no shame?

Yeah I know it has been awhile since I have blogged about my first artistic love; Sequential Art or comics for you less pretentious.

Honestly the state of comics for the most part creates a large vaccuum, and so don't warrant a post by me.

But today true beleivers, I have ran across a subject that shakes me to my very foundation. Marvel, the only comics publisher that really means anything anymore, has dained it appropriate to screw Stan Lee; one half of the team that is responsible for the greatest Super Heroes comics the world has ever seen.

Apparently Stan Lee contracted with Marvel to recieve 10% of the profits from any movie based on characters he created. Marvel stiffed him on Spider-Man, stating that they had seen no profit from the most successful comic book adaption ever. Spider-Man has already grossed 400 million in the US alone.

Find the whole story at MSNBC.com

New Feature

I added a really simple, man I am not impressed with myself for writing it feature to the sidebar.

Under the icon of St Demetrius the Wonderworker of Murom, you will find a link that will load the Feasts and Saints for today form the OCA website.

It is so simple a four years old could have programmed it, which I guess one did, since I act like a four year old more times than not. Basically it is the URL of the ODBC query page with a echo date php declare. When generated this gives you the URL you need to retrieve the Saints and Feasts.

Like I said, I am embarresed at how rudimentary this script is. But hey, it works.

M$ Licensing

I found this site concering M$'s icensing model via MeanDean's HealYourChuch.com Website.

It refers to the new licensing model that M$ has moved to, as well as outlining the confusing history of licensing with the beast.

Here is a little snippet from that site:

More ammunition to switch to Linux and OpenOffice; or just buy a PowerMac.

Writing Continues...

Well I now have all of chapter one and the beginning of chapter two up.

Things seem to be going well, I am enjoying the writing and I haven't run into any walls yet; which is a big concern for me since I am writing this all off the top of my head.

You can find it in the usual place.

Writing like a madman

I have updated the in progress page for my novel Daeon with the entirety of Chapter 01.

All in all I have to say I am enjoying this. Daeon is not going to be the next great american novel but I think that I am really growing beyond my fears of dialogue and everyonce in awhile I churn out decent prose.

I am definately going to publish it when finished, if only to have one for my shelf.

Be ready for a read, chapter one is around 5,000 words.