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Sunday, January 28, 2007 @ 10:25 PM
Do you believe in God? INTERESTING CONVERSATION An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God,The Almighty. He asks one of his new Christian students to stand and..... Professor: You are a Christian, aren't you, son? Student: Yes, sir. Prof: So you believe in God? Student: Absolutely, sir. Prof: Is God good? Student: Sure. Prof: Is God all-powerful? Student : Yes. Prof:My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didnt. How is this God good then? Hmm.Student is silent. Prof: You can't answer, can you? start again, young fella. Is God good? Student: Yes. Prof: Is Satan good? Student: No. Prof : Where does Satan come from? Student : From...God... Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? Student : Yes. Prof : Evil is everywhere, isn't it?And God did make everything. Correct? Student : Yes. Prof : So who created evil? Student does not answer. Prof : Is there sickness, Immorality,Hatred.Ugliness. All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they? Student : Yes, sir. Prof : So, who created them? Student has no answer. Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you.Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God? Student: No, sir. Prof :Tell us if you have ever heard your God? Student: No , sir. Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God.Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter. Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't. Prof : Yet you still believe in Him. Student: Yes. Prof : According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol,science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son? Student: Nothing. I only have my faith. Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has. Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat? Prof: Yes. Student : And is there such a thing as cold. Prof: Yes. Student : No sir. There isn't. The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events. Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat,a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold.We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat.We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat,sir,just the absence of it.There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre. Student : What about darkness, Professor?Is there such a thing as darkness Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness? Student :You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.You can have low light, normal light , bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, is't it?In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you? Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man? Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed. Prof: Flawed?Can you explain how? Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality.You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen,much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life just the absence of it.Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey? Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do. Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir. The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir.Are you not a scientist but a preacher? The class is in uproar Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain. The class breaks out into laughter. Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain,felt it,touched or smelt it?.....No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.With all due respect , sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir.The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable. Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son. Student: That is it sir.. The link between man and God is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving and alive. Saturday, January 27, 2007 @ 9:59 PM
Halim's birthday party`07 =) Went for tution. New teacher. Kind of handsome, but i won't give up Gerrard for him. That's for sure. Rush to woodlands to meet wanting and the rest. Mr Hsu sent me there.Thanks man. If not i will be so damn late. Well, service was fun. The band competition. Sermon and everything! Went to Halim's birthday after service. Saw Huiming and the rest under Halim's block, 882. They were drifting. Well, let me put it this way, Huiming is showing off. He finally got the chance, but cant deny, he is real good. Went upstairs to find the rest. Started eating. Love the chocolate fountain. =D After food, went downstairs for Bball, Soccer and Badminton. Haha.So fun. Many of them played well, hehe. Hidden talents in 2/5! The court was wet and alot people fell. Every1 started laughing one 1 person fell. EVIL* Went up around 6+. To have our games, cutting of birthday cake. Was super duper high man! Cheering and cheering. And LOVE the make up game. WAHAHAHAH. Make the guys look so lady. Look as if they are trying to promote gayism in singapore. Then have the dance performed by birthday boy Halim and Karim. Huiming and Jinying. Funny and fun! After that went for bball and soccer again till 9+ before we left. Haha.More people fell. But was fun though. Have had lots of fun. =) [ Post the photos and videos the next time. So many of them.] Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 9:04 PM
Match against AMK` Story. Today, match against Ang Mo Kio Sec. Great game, 3 cheers for AMK. Well, we lost and i wondered why God din't help us. Despite praying upteen times, asking him to let us win games, we still lost. Just now, while checking mail, came across this 1 and i guess he planned all this. His plan is to let us lose and let me receive this e-mail. After reading it and i was reminded that God is always there and he have the best plan for us. So just have faith in God and we can do it. RSnetball` JIAYOU JIAYOU JIAYOU. ______________ She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said: "How is my little boy ? Is he going tobe all right ? When can I see him ?" The surgeon said, "I'm sorry. We did all we could, but your boydidn't make it." Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer ? Doesn't God care any more ? Where were you, God, when my son needed you ?"The surgeon asked, "Would you like some time alone with your son ?One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes, before he's transported to the university."Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good bye to son. She ran her fingers lovingly through his thick red curly hair. "Would you like a lock of his hair ?" the nurse asked. Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of the boy's hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.The mother said, "It was Jimmy's idea to donate his body to the University for Study. He said it might help somebody else. "I said no at first, but Jimmy said, 'Mom, I won't be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom." She went on, "My Jimmy had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone else. Always wanting to help others if he could." Sally walked out of Children's Mercy Hospital for the last time,after spending most of the last six months there. She put the bag with Jimmy's belongings on the seat beside her in the car.The drive home was difficult. It was even harder to enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy's belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son's room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had always kept them. She laid down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, cried herself to sleep.It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Laying beside her on the bed was a folded letter. The letter said: "Dear Mom, I know you're going to miss me; but don't think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving you, just 'cause I'm not around to say "I Love You". I will always love you, Mom, even more with each day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then,if you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so lonely, that'sokay with me. He can have my room and old stuff to play with.But, if you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the same things us boys do. You'll have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like, you know. Don't be sad thinking about me. This really is a neat place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything. The angels are so cool. I love to watch them fly. And, you know what? Jesus doesn't look like any of his pictures. Yet, when I saw Him, I knew it was Him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD ! And guess what, Mom ? I got to sit on God's knee andtalk to Him, like I was somebody important. That's when I told Him that I wanted to write you a letter, to tell you good bye and everything. But I already knew that wasn't allowed. Well, you know what Mom ? God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to write you this letter. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going to drop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked Him 'Where was He when I needed him ?' "God said He was in the same place with me, as when His son Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His children. Oh, by the way, Mom, no one else can see what I've written except you. To everyone else this is just a blank piece of paper. Isn't that cool ? I have to give God His pen back now. He needs it to write some more names in the Book of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper. I'm sure the food will be great.Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don't hurt anymore. The cancer is all gone. I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see me hurt so much, either. That's when He sent The Angel of Mercy to come get me. The Angel said I was a Special Delivery ! How about that ?Signed with Love from God, Jesus & Me. (Let's see Satan stop this one.) Take 60 seconds and repost this,within the hour, you will have caused a multitude of believers to pray to God for each other. Then sit back and feel the Holy Spirit work in your life for doing what you know God loves "When you're down to nothing, God is up to something." Friday, January 12, 2007 @ 10:50 PM
LLLOONNNG time ever since i last posted. I'm not MIA-ing from blogging. Just kinda lazy and busy to blog. Recently played bball alot, well, Ofcourse, training. Almost everyday? Today went to school. HAPPY~ In the end, no healthy lifestyle. BAD WEATHER. Raining. BOOOO~ Class, nothing much though. As lame as usual. After school, training. ARGH. Stupid weather. We gotta walk around the school to find place to train. Ok. Some parts censored here. Just a phrase will do. " Give me the respect and you'll get yours." Then talk to buddy. Weiwei and Joelle. Thanks guys. Went back, continue to train. Then lunch with Row, Mad, buddy and taufiq. PS. DON'T EVER HAVE LUNCH WITH TAUFIQ. He will make you laugh, and laugh and laugh. NON-STOP. Haha.Really cheered me up. THANKS ALOT. :) After lunch, HOME! Went for tution. As crap as usual. Lols. Haha. Wednesday, January 03, 2007 @ 3:30 PM
1st Day of school. Well, first day of school. Kind of......Fun? Did nothing actually. Went to school. Saw Row when i got down from the car.Haha. We actually did planned to meet in the canteen. Morning assembly. While settling down, everyone was talking. I was like, nothing to say? Well, not much conversation with the one infront(Jiehua) and behind me(Meihui). Not that i don't like them, we're classmates for a year already right? Just that we have .no common topic? Haha.Just don't click with them. They don't talk my stuff and i don't talk theirs. Assembly.. -Mrs Pang's speech. -Introducing new teachers. -Teachers who got promoted. -Morning announcement. -Spot Check. and Blahs. Went back to class. -Sitting arrangement. -Attire. -Play. After recess. Continue our chit-chatting and playing. Last period was Art. Met our new art teacher.Mdm Lis. Kind of like her though. Need to intro ourself. Gotta say our name. Name a artist we know. A piece of the artist's work. Preference type of art. __________ Me: Hi, my name is YiHui. The artist i know is Picasso. Don't know any of his work. Know his name because my sis always claim that she is Picaso. -.-" Class: Laughing* Me: No inetrest in any form of art. Teacher: well, we shall see. Me:(thinking) "HAHA". -.-" __________ Netball meeting. Concerning sat CCA open house. Mdm Mathews became our netball teacher in charge too. So now theres 3. Congrats to the following people. Doreen- Captain Simin-Vice Captain Haiza- Vice Captain Peiting & her beloved and TALL teammate!- Sec 1 & 2 captain. Haha. So have some training. Not some actually. A quite tiring one. Until 2+ 3. All those evil people left me to keep everything! ARGH. Then HOME! Monday, January 01, 2007 @ 11:18 PM
Five (5) lessons to make you think about Five (5) lessons to make you think about the way we treat people. ___________________ 1 - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady During my second month of college, our professorgave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school? "Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen thecleaning woman several times. She was tall,dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our quiz grade. "Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careersyou will meet many people. All are significant. Theydeserve your attention and care, even if all you dois smile and say "hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. 2. - Second Important Lesson - Pickup in the Rain One night, at11:30 p.m., an older African Americanwoman was standing on the side of an Alabama high way trying to endure a lashing rainstorm. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her, generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The mantook her to safety, helped her get assistance, andput her into a taxicab. She seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down hisaddress and thanked him. Seven days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, agiant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached.. It read"Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes, but also my spirits. Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband's bedside just before he passed away... God bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving others." Sincerely,Mrs. Nat King Cole. 3 - Third Important Lesson - Always remember those who serve. In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much lessa 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop andsat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water infront of him. "How much is an ice cream sundae?" he asked. "Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled is hand out of his pocket and studied the coins in it. "Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?" he inquired. By now more people were waiting for a table and thewaitress was growing impatient. "Thirty-five cents," she brusquely replied. The little boy again counted his coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream," he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill onthe table and walked away. The boy finished the icecream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the table. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish,were two nickels and five pennies.. You see, he couldn't have the sundae, because he had to have enough left to leave her a tip. 4 - Fourth Important Lesson. - The obstacle in Our Path. In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see ifanyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came byand simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way. Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushingand straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticeda purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand. Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improveour condition. 5 - Fifth Important Lesson - Giving When it Counts... Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at ahospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare & serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who hadmiraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the little boy if he wouldbe willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes I'll do it if it willsave her." As the transfusion progressed, he lay inbed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did,seeing the color returning to her cheek. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away". Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her. _______________ Most importantly. "Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when nobody's watching." NOW more than ever - Peace...Pass It On @ 11:02 PM
New year. New resolution. HAPPY NEW YEAR! School is reopen-ing soon. On wed. So, new year, new resolution for the year. ___________ *Work hard and see Hope church grow. *Have more siblings of christ in school. *Good grades *RSnetball will stay united and all of us... -Imrprove our stamina -Improve our skill -Win North- Zone *Stay happy (: ___________ Well, not sure if that's all. Might add on to it later, when i think of it! All the best people! |