Name:Allan Country:United States State:New York Metro:New York City Birthday:3/20/1983 Gender:Male
Interests:I like donuts, but not the crispy kinds.
I like movies, but not the scary types.
I like rabbits, but not the rabie ones. Expertise:none Occupation:Student Industry:Engineering
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three in one: God. Kind of like how water can be solid, liquid, and gas at the triple point. (Thanks Karen for this illustration!)
*********************************** A simple harmonic motion physics problem explains a lot about our lives. We often time oscillate between what is good and bad but no matter where we are or in which direction we are moving, we have a vector that will constaintly point to the a fixed point, the center, our center, God. (Thanks Kunle!)
*************************************** Our lives are like pieces of music. We all make some kind of sound, some kind of noise with complicated signals.
Although the sound looks complicated, we can take the fourier transform of the signal. This lets us see the frequencies that make up the sound...the values, motives, beliefs, etc. that make up who we are.
"The faith that changes the life and connects to God is best conveyed by the word 'trust.' Imagine you are on a high cliff and you lose your footing and begin to fall. Just beside you as you fall is a branch sticking out of the very edge of the cliff. It is your only hope and it is more than strong enough to support your weight. How can it save you? If your mind is filled with intellectual certainty that the branch can support you, but you don't actually reach out and grab it, you are lost. If your mind is instead filled with doubts and uncertainty that the branch can hold you, but you reach out and grab it anyway, you will be saved. Why? It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch." -Tim Keller, The Reason for God pg.234
I made this "No-Spill" Mug for a class project. This mug lid will open only when it senses your lips (or body) at the lid. The idea is to eliminate the hassles and worries about opening and closing your mug lid, especially with one hand, such as when you are driving or carrying something with your other hand.
"Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation." -C.S. Lewis "The Four Loves"
"Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity. You see, I know now. Even as a child you did it. Instead of saying you were sorry, you went and sulked in the attic...because you knew that sooner or later one of your sisters would say, 'I can't bear to think of him sitting up there alone, crying.' You used their pity to blackmail them, and they gave in in the end." -The Great Divorce, Chapter 13, C.S. Lewis
Lewis has a great way of making me realize the sins in me.
Great Pyramids
Stone Hedge
Coral Reefs
Great Wall
Easter Island
Amazon Rain Forest
See the Northern Lights
Grand Canyon
Active Volcano
Mayan Ruins
Aztec Pyramids
African Safari
Rocky Mountains
Japan
Singapore
Things left to do in NYC
Wax museum Trump towers Historical walking tour Jazz club
Lion King Broadway musical Avenue Q
