Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Jacob makes a friend and thinks of elephants

Hi there, Jacob here



I made a new freind today. He is the other challanger with Taffi on the job. An Alaskan Native, he is def the most interesting challanger Taffi has spoken to. Taffi and he have gotten pretty close over the past few days. They were chilling in Taffis room when he spotted me and wanted a picture with me. :)



No Julie, he is not PC material.



Reasons:


No JC lover

Small hands



haha....but on the whole he is a great guy! Non materialistic. Totally not like other challangers at BP!






We had a scary and busy day today. Not too much to add, accept for the "cre-indian" saying Taffi read to me:



"Only when the last tree has died and the last sea has been poisoned and the last fish has been eaten will we realize that we can not eat money."






So Taffi was listening to another speech today and heard "Always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of Truth" 2 Timothy 3:7



That was a real phrase! Realy dig it. Baaaa! I as a sheep wonder how many people do that. We are always looking for more proofs, more experiments to prove certain theories, even in religious stuff looking for deeper theological stuff.....but our mental blocks, our mental premises prevent us from seeing the truth.






Reminds Taffi (and Taffi told me about it) about the example People have about how all religions are correct. They talk about some blind men who end up feeling an elephant. The one who touches the trunk thinks it is long and squigly, the one who touches the tusks thinks it is smooth and sharp at the corner, the one at the back thinks it is flat and smooth. But in reality, it is a combiantion of all of the above. The argument goes that ..this is how all religions are....all of them have some +ve aspects, some truths. The falacy of this argument is that it is asuming that the final person (the person who is stating all this) is from the vantage point of being able to see the elephant. And that is a super prideful argument (Timothy Keller explains this much better than me..Jacob...baaa)






Ok...done for the day :)








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