I'm doing 39 things
Keeping on track
2 years ago
I have been sleeping in a better pattern. Although tonight I am a bit off seen as how it is almost 2am.
Mark's Life List
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1. sleep properly
3 entries . 2 cheers23 people -
2. have fun
2 entries . 2 cheers2,978 people -
3. speak japanese
4 cheers285 people -
4. Send off my Tax return forms
2 entries . 2 cheers1 person -
5. write a book
6 cheers26,284 people -
6. travel the world
1 entry18,613 people -
7. play the piano
1 entry . 3 cheers1,131 people -
8. get out of debt
1 cheer11,102 people -
9. help others
2 cheers778 people -
10. make a new friend
2 cheers700 people -
11. Become a better programmer
1 entry . 1 cheer950 people -
12. figure out what i want to do
1 entry . 2 cheers134 people -
13. save others from the use of cell phones
2 entries . 1 cheer1 person -
14. meditate
1 entry . 2 cheers2,801 people -
15. conserve nature
1 entry . 2 cheers12 people -
16. Start my own business
1 entry8,664 people -
17. see an ivory billed woodpecker
2 cheers6 people -
18. witness creation
2 cheers1 person -
19. drink more water
19,098 people -
20. Allow myself to only be treated well by the people I choose to have friendships and relationships with. If they do not, I need to find the courage to move on without them.
3 cheers270 people -
21. identify the stars
1 person -
22. lose 10 pounds
2 entries5,953 people -
23. Fall in love
2 cheers24,558 people -
24. re-establish lost friendships
2 cheers110 people -
25. study philosophy
332 people -
26. get a job
10,654 people -
27. do a Christmas bird count
1 entry1 person -
28. ink brush painting
2 people -
29. Visit Hawaii
617 people -
30. exercise regularly
1 entry10,582 people -
31. be more patient with my family
31 people -
32. take more risks
1,017 people -
33. Join Mensa
1 cheer295 people -
34. attend more concerts
84 people -
35. find inner peace
2 cheers738 people -
36. pay off credit cards
1,399 people -
37. have multiple streams of passive income
374 people -
38. Buy a House
2 cheers12,678 people -
39. discover extra-terrestrial life
1 entry . 1 cheer2 people
Recent entries
Losing Enmeshment
3 years ago
I’ve recently realized that this idea is part of a lingering entanglement with the Christians that hurt me. It has been and still is an issue with me. While I still want something to change I am still bound to it in. Still bound to the pain and still bound to the hope of change. In other words still enmeshed with it. Part of the healing process is to become myself again and not be enmeshed with the emotional problem the occurred in part of my past live. I think I must be healing to see this now for what it is. It is by no means complete but it is getting better.
Healing Christian Wounding
3 years ago
I find I am still dealing with extreme negative thoughts about Christians. I have at least met one Christian that was fairly normal. But even amongst the more tolerant and educated ones I find their ideas to be strange and often disturbing. I think there is something within me that takes offense at people that believe in things that have no basis in reality. Its like an affront to the very fundamental nature of man, that being to understand the natural world around us. While science works to test, hypothesize, and continue to explore, Christians follow an outdated doctrine of pray and the muddled text of anyone of a number of versions of the bible. I think the bible is the worst thing that people should put their faith in, well perhaps not worst. I’m sure the manifestos of madmen would not be so good either. But I think people would be better served by waking up and looking for truth in the things they can touch, see, taste, smell or hear. Those are afterall our primary interface to the world.
