Can Christians have healthy pride?

There are many differing opinions and contradicting thoughts (even in our own minds) about pride in the Christian community and the world at large. We hate overly prideful people, even though we love politicians, movie characters, and rappers who have money or chops and aren’t afraid to talk about it. I think that’s what they call “swagger”. We as Christians know pride to be the first sin ever committed, even predating the forbidden fruit, and yet we clean our houses before company comes, don’t eat fast food around our friends, overdress for job interviews, and do other things to keep up appearances in the service of our pride.

Do we have “sexual needs”?

Let’s think about why God created sex. Was it simply for temporal pleasure, or was it to procreate? Obviously, sex does a good job of both when it’s between a consenting man and woman within the context of marriage, as God designed. But do we have sexual “needs”, and, if so, what purpose does it serve?

Are scraping and spinning ethical SEO?

Defining the Term “SEO”

Before I get into this, I know there are many of you who don’t know what the title of this post means, so let me explain it very quickly. SEO stands for “search engine optimization”. SEO is the study of how to get your website to the top of the search engine results for a particular search phrase. For instance, if I make a website, say, thecrazychristiansite.wordpress.com, I want to appear high in the search results for phrases such as “Christian philosophy”, “blog”, etc. I know most people aren’t searching those phrases, but hang with me here. If my website is properly SEO’ed, I will show up high in the search results. You with me so far?

The time of time zones is over

Photo by NIST

I think we’re all well aware that the earth is divided up into 24 individual time zones, each one one hour earlier than the time zone to the east of it, and one hour later than the one to the west. By dividing the earth up this way, the sun rise is at pretty much the same hour of the day all over the world. If you are in Florida, and the sun rises at 6:30 am, then if you travel to India, it will still rise at around 6:30 am.

The Problem with Time Zones

Book Review – Talent is Overrated

This book changed my life and outlook on life more than any other book outside of the Bible! Written in 2008 by Geoffrey Colvin and subtitled “What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else”, this book tackles a huge question that we’ve all wondered and guessed at, but probably haven’t put our finger on: what makes some people great at something and other mediocre? Colvin takes on the popular, thoroughly ingrained idea that some people are just born with a particular skill and happen to discover it as a child, and that’s why they are rocking it and we aren’t.