There are people who are very much in tune with their body. I have met people who can pinpoint the (good or bad) effects of some new supplement they started taking. They can tell you which food caused them stomach trouble. They can tell you how something in their routine caused them to feel a bit off. I am not one of them.
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Why Baptizing Little Children is Wrong
I was baptized, when I was a couple days old, into the Lutheran church. My mom was beautiful, my dad handsome, and I had no clue of what was going on. My parents decided to baptize me. The Lutheran faith believes that if you are not baptized, you go to hell. My mom was a very active Lutheran when she was young. That is an exception, normally the Lutheran churches in Finland are empty. People are not very religious. They go to church when they have to, that is when they are baptized, married, or someone dies. My mother was in the Lutheran church youth organization, so she would go…
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Why is There Suffering?
I gained some more understanding this week on why there is so much suffering in the world, and why we have trials. I’ve heard some people say that someone “deserved all the trouble they are in”, or “God is punishing them”, or even that “God is not a loving God because He allows so much suffering.” So, why is there so much hunger? Why do we have refugees? Why are there so many wars? How does all that reflect on God? This week I read in several sources and understood a bit more about this. There are basically three reasons why there is suffering in life; our own mistakes, the…
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Finland – Denmark 5-1!
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Battle of the Books 2014-15 Flash Cards
I was surprised not to find a lot of information and material for the Battle of the Books online. For example sample questions, or flash cards. The American BOB publishes a book list. For each level, they have three versions short (10 books) medium (20 books), and standard (30 books). Here are some flashcards I made. 3-4 Grades Authors and Books Short List Medium List Standard List Practice Questions I only will only read the 3-4 grade medium list books. I will prepare questions for those books and update this page with those questions. If you have practice questions for other books, and would like to share them, I can publish…
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Calling All Statesmen
It seems to me like the society has changed a lot in the past couple of weeks, the trade agreement fast track and the gay marriage, for example. Those changes and the general disposition of politicians are worrisome to me, but maybe not for the obvious reasons. The Trade Agreement The president went against his own party with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Well, there are democrats who think that free trade is good. Maybe in this case it would be good for votes from South-American countries (not really clear, though). The labor unions, definitely, were against it. Republicans support it, probably because of businesses. I think if the US doesn’t invest in education and research,…
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How to Access Absolute Truth
Last week I wrote about absolute truth. This week I read in the scriptures and was reminded of how we can access that truth. The “formula” is quite simple, but there are tricks in the execution. The Formula The way to gain absolute knowledge is to ask God. The scriptures say: For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will enter in by the way, and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do. The formula works like this: You have an honest disposition to find the truth. It doesn’t mean a biased truth, it means you want to find the…
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Absolute Truth
Is there such a thing as absolute truth? I think there is. Some people say it is found with science, but I think that reasoning is flawed. The source of absolute truth is only found outside of our realm, with God. Science is not the Answer to Everything Just because the scientific method is a good way to learn about our physical world, it does not mean that it can discover the absolute truth. Our observations are always limited to our imperfect senses. Our reasoning is biased by our backgrounds. How often has science declared something as a fact only to be laughed at 100 years later? Our Opinions are…
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My Yearly Post About Time
A couple years ago I wrote about different calendar and time systems. Interestingly, I have had my wristwatch in UTC since I wrote that post. Changing to use UTC was not as hard as I imagined. I still use it. Last week I heard about another interesting time concept, the 10,000 year clock. Their implementation is a bit crazy and useless, I thought, but the bigger thought behind it is actually interesting. 10,000-Year Clock I listened to a report on NPR about a guy (Danny Hillis) who is building a huge clock that is designed to run for 10,000 years. The whole story got crazier (not in a good sense)…
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Test-Driven Development
I just finished a three-day training course on Test-Driven Development (TDD) by Industrial Logic. It was jam packed with really great information. Luckily they gave us online access to all the material so that i can review it later. It was too much to digest in the class. I recommend that course to anyone. Often we think that TDD is simply “write the test first, see it fail, then write code until the test passes”. It is much more. How you do things actually really matters. Some major points I took from the training are: Refactoring: You have to stay green in your tests while refactoring. Yes, constantly. Make tiny,…
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