Andrew Smith

Book in question: Philosophical Issues in Adventure Education.
As you can clearly see, the cover is atrocious. (Almost like my spelling of the word 'atrocious' before I used spellcheck.)

Upside down or not, this book's cover is still ugly. To add insult to injury, then people have to go and write long, boring books about nothing in particular. It makes me wonder if they had a point in the first place. Or maybe they were writing and their dog ate half the manuscript they started back in the 1890's, and they were only able to recover parts of words that they somehow tossed into the new book via incoherent sentences.

P.S. I didn't actually read the whole book, I sort of just skimmed it, and that's when I did it... I read a page.
It might not be as bad as I made it out to be. Oh well. Regardless of any useful information the book may or may not contain, the cover is still ugly. Unfair? Yes, why yes I believe so.

This is what I wanted to say, with a song.

Truth: is an expression, symbol or statement that matches or corresponds to its object or referent.  Truth must correspond to reality in order to be true.
Absolute Truth: “Something true for all people, at all times and in all places”

This proves two points in the search for truth. 
1. Existence (To be aware of yourself proves existence)
2. Reason  (To think about yourself proves reason)
3. Relativism is self-defeating:
The relativist believes that subjective truth is true for everyone, not just from them. This is the one thing they cannot believe, if they are relativist. Therefore, if a relativist thinks it is true for everyone, then he believes it is an absolute truth. Therefore, he is no longer a relativist.
 
2. Relativism is full of contradictions.
If Billy Graham believed God exists and an Atheist believes God did not exist both would be right. God would have to exist and not exist.  If the Christian believes Jesus died on the Cross and Muslim believes Jesus did not die on the Cross, both would be right.
 
3. Relativism means no has ever been wrong.
With Subjective truth, no one could ever be wrong since there is no standard for right and wrong. As long as something is true to holder of truth, it is true even if it is wrong for someone else.




Today at our bible study we watched "Everything Is Spiritual" by Rob Bell. Okay, this is a thinking man's delight. Even if you dislike Rob's other stuff, (Nooma videos or his books) this is golden. He crams so much into a two hour period, so polished, like a Steve Jobs keynote speech for a Macworld conference. Hah.

I admire the way he thinks about things in the duality of the material and spiritual. Plus he has this smooth analogy about the 2-D world (based on Flatland) we live in but as humans we are the only creature with both a physical body and a spiritual being at the same time. The juxtaposition is fascinating. (ie. a bird or a tree has only physical and angels have only spiritual.) Anyway. Watch it already. It's amazing.

From Threadless, a really awesome t-shirt company.

Nikola Tesla, inventor/discoverer of many uses for electricity (IMHO he did more than Einstien for mankind but doesn't get proper credit) once said that he doesn't consider himself very intelligent person. He just worked on every single thing that interested him ten times more than anybody else. In his opinion that was the key to his success. People who love what they do get others to pay money to watch them enjoy life.

If you get a chance, rent The Simple Life Of Noah Dearborn. (It relates to this post. Trust me. Heh.) It's funny and has a great story. There's some really good lines. I'd give it a 4 out of 5 stars.


This week has been one great week for my movie career, it's hard to believe one connection in a small town can get you so very far. Never judge people too quick; I've got a bad habit of sizing people up fast. A lot of times I don't even realize I'm doing it. However, sometimes the person you least expect has more connections than you can imagine and can get you some incredible jobs and/or contacts if you'll just be friendly and look sharp.

Okay, I was going to post about what I did this weekend... <_<

But against my better judgement, I opted not to.




I thought, you know, a couple days from now and the world is going to talk about Valentine's day and how I need to polish up my handwriting so I can write a decent love letter. (Someone did tell me that actually. Love letter to who?)






I took calligraphy for a while, but just so I could make a fake degree. ;-]














The Ladies Man Of God, (AKA Mark Lowry) has a couple tips for all you single christian homeschool guys out there.

*Disclaimer* the 80's just called, they want their music videos back.






So do you guys think I should do something a little more serious next time? Maybe throw out a few of my favorite pickup lines? Qualifications for the ideal woman?

We just had the presidential primaries just a couple days ago here in Oklahoma. There are some who take these things VERY seriously.


And then... those that think otherwise.
Take a look a this unedited chat transcript.

Kind of crazy these elections eh?

Methinks the candidates should settle it with a fisticuffs match.

Verily!
Or a umm...
UFC champeenship?
Presidential Edition.
LOL

Hah
Iron Obama vs. the HuckaBeekeeper
Those are the best wrestling names I can come up with

Obama vs. Yo Momma.

Haha
Exactly

Me like.

So, who do you think is going to win?

Yo Momma.

I can't say, for security reasons... Who participated in this chat. I will just say that one, or quite possibly both were named Andrew Smith. =)


In other news, apparently I released a Contemporary Christian album...




I believe it may have something to do with THIS. bahaha.

Cover design by my good friend Josh Osborne.


Really the best thing you can do, besides maybe studying the candidates enough to make an INFORMED VOTE, is prayer.
God might not care about the Superbowl, but he is interested in Government. After all, He did institute it.