Up early, got to Java lecture, sat through Java lecture listening to something I learnt when I was about 16 (if you want to think more of me, I taught myself this part from books, not taught by a person). Overall not at good as normal but it's gotta be covered. Surprisingly enough, most of the class don't care. I've managed to identify at least 12 people that do care, they're all in the same lab as me which is rather handy. After the lecture I sat down in the Anglesea buidling for an hour before going to see my tutor. After seeing him (he said I can use him as a reference which is kinda neat) I carried on sitting down. While sitting down I did of course peruse WoA and spent my time very well making an extended Timetable. There's a slightly higherquality version here for those with a nicer connection (might not display as nicely in IE either, it's a .png). As there's currently no key for it, the yellow going to red gradients represent when I anticipate travelling, the yellow to green is also travel. One is to Uni, the other is from, you can work out which direction is which. Also note that the Tutor session is every other week (I missed it last week so went this one to catch up). Also, I have this semester 2 or 3 labs sometime in Thursday afternoon, they're one off but quite long. For those that think this is really snazzy and want a version for their timetable, I'll happily make one for free. There's one problem. I will know your timetable and can ambush you as you walk around Portsmouth (assuming you live here). After the Tutorial/WoA session I went to Software Systems, we're learning about UML and it's not making a vast ammount of sense. By that I don't mean that I can't understand the language, no, I just find it hard to see where I will use it. I somehow come to a conlcusion without using it and it all works nicely. Still, if I'm going to get a placement next year it might be worth putting in the extra effort here. As clearly labeled on the timetable I walked home and umm, did a lot. By "a lot" I mean that I had a nap. Walking back in I attended Digital Electronics. Last year this was a subject that I struggled with a fair bit, it's not my strong point. Today we were doing diagrams on the board, seeing as I use a text editor you'd think this was a problem. Not so! I found a solution (based off of my experiance of programming languages) that allowed me to represent the diagram in text. After Digital I attended more Software Systems but by the end was too tired to to go to the Data Coms tutorial so instead walked home. I walked home with a gentleman called Mathew whom I met last year at Langstone, it was quite nice (he's still living in Langstone so was happy to have company for the first half of the walk). Getting home I had a delicious and nutritious pot noodle dinner (nutritious for a programmer anyway) and spent the evening working on my PHP tutorials for the denezins of WoAm, though, the tutorials are open to all and apparently easy to understand. If you're interested, go to here to see them, you don't have to register to read them, though if you want to post replies to a topic you will, we've had problems with spam bots and this was the only way to solve it (combined with a custom Spambot blocker I wrote). Now for why the title says that Jesus is beating Hallow's Eve. Very simply, my housemates said that I could deal with Trick or Treaters. A sum total of one group turned up but I enjoyed it. The two girls (yes, girls not ladies) were dressed as something meant to be scary, the parents stood at the edge of the path to our door keeping a watchful eye on them. Out of the house came something that actually was scary (me in shorts, t-shirt and no shoes or socks). Rather than give them sweets I asked them about why they were supporting Evil and started to talk to them about Jesus. Sadly the children were too high on sugar to understand any of it but the parents both heard it all. They felt they'd met a weirdo and took their children away. Strange that, I didn't realise they wanted sweets until they told me, I just assumed they wanted to hear the good news. Well, maybe that's just me being optimistic. I didn't give them any sweets (they walked off before I could think of anything, that and I wasn't finnished talking about the Gospel). Tomorrow will hopefully be a fun day, I've got a special Faculty of Technology meeting, the one that I'm the rep for that I got voted for. Better yet, I get to miss a lecture for it (and they'll have free food there!!!). |
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Jesus: 1 - Hallow's Eve: 0 - Tuesday
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
Most parents consider Halloween a harmless bit of fun - but religious maniacs accusing them of supporting evil, as something rather sinister. Perhaps next year you could hand over some sweets and a tract explaining, in less emotive terms, why you do not support Halloween celebrations - after all the idea is to persuade them, isn't it?
Yep, I agree with your mum on this one Teifion.
Even Gabriele Amorth, the senior exorcist of Vatican City, said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph:
“if… children like to dress up as witches and devils on one night of the year that is not a problem. If it is just a game, there is no harm in that.”
And remember that the festival was 'Christianised' in the late 9th Century, so you could always take that tack!
Sometimes known as All Hallows, meaning roughly ‘All Holy People’, October 31 it is a time for Christians to remember people who did great things for the Church, but who do not have a saint’s day of their own.
The following day, All Souls, is sometimes called ‘The Day of the Dead’. This is a day to remember all people who have died, whatever sort of lives they led.
Your ever-knowledgable, if not-that-hot-at-chess uncle brett
Next year I will ensure I have a small pile of sweets and a slightly larger pile of Christian tracts.
Phil from Eastney was apparently giving out cider to the children...
lololol you're a fucking lunatic pal. halloween is a a RELIGIOUS festival you arse. nothing to do with satan or whatever. christ, you have been brainwashed by those fucking christians.
Before I reply to your comment, I'm not going to expect you to reveal your name as you're clearly anxious to hide it, however, it'd be nice to know where I know you from or how you know me.
Hi Teifion
As Mr Pottymouth eloquently asserts Halloween has always been a religious festival. However, as far as I can tell, this stunning piece of research is one that that I don't think anyone on blog is actually disputing :-)
The problem Christians have with Halloween is that the original celebration can be traced back to the ancient Celts, whose belief systems often conflict with those revealed in the Bible.
For the Celts, the 'bright half' of the year ended around November 1 or on a Moon-phase near that date. October 31st is the last official day of the bright half of the year, the next day meant the beginning of Winter, which the Celts associated with human death, and with the slaughter of livestock to provide meat for the coming Winter.
The exact customs in each Celtic region differed, but they often involved the lighting of bonfires and the reinforcement of boundaries, across which malicious spirits might be prevented from crossing and threatening the community.
Many European Pagan traditions hold that Halloween is one of the times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent.
It is not just Christians who have problems with Halloween. Jews and Muslims frown on it for similar reasons to our own.
Ironically, some members of the Wiccan traditions feel that the modern Halloween is offensive to real witches for promoting a commercialised and stereotypical caricature of them.
That is most ironically funny Brett
I find Haloween offensive as it means I have to get off my warm sofa and answer the door to some horrible kids that are begging for sweets.
When I beg on the streets, the Police always move me on and give me a caution - where's the justice in that??
Post a Comment