char1es.net » Journey http://char1es.net musings of a peripatetic Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:41:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 24 http://char1es.net/2003/12/08/24/ http://char1es.net/2003/12/08/24/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:52:47 +0000 Nathan http://char1es.net/wordpress/?p=23 December 8, 1979
Happy birthday to me.
Thanks Mom & Dad

]]> http://char1es.net/2003/12/08/24/feed/ 0 42 http://char1es.net/2003/10/09/42/ http://char1es.net/2003/10/09/42/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:23:32 +0000 Nathan http://char1es.net/wordpress/?p=12 A friend was praying with me and asked me does the number 42 mean anything to you. I thought about it a bit and started laughing. The reference is from a book called Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The premise of the book is that there was a giant computer built to figure out the answer to life the universe and everything. After 7.5 million years the answer is given and it is 42. Now my first thought was that this was in referance to the emails I’ve been sending back & forth about China since they have all been titled. Life the universe and everything. However after some more prayer I think there is another meaning. See 42 is a nonsensical answer, they really wanted to know what the question was and thus asked the wrong question. So my question has been what should I do. But that is the wrong question–I should be asking who should I be.

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” -John 15:9-10

Incidentally in the book a greater computer is build to determine the question. It happens to be the Earth–the program takes 10 million years to run and is destroyed 5 minutes before finishing.

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