Minor core dump

Does your brain ever reach overload? Have you ever had too many thoughts so it's hard to concentrate on a single one? Well it feels like it's reaching that point for me, so I'm dumping part of the core.

- We finished watching the 1981 BBC version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night. It had it's funny moments but the world view is more depressing than Marvin, the android. The story is from an atheistic/evolutionary point of view so life is basically meaningless. There answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42, which isn't very helpful. In fact, it's impossible to determine what the question is. So you live and die at the mercy of randomness. Or you get sent forward in time to where the universe ends or back in time and realize that rather than being a descendent of neanderthals, you're a descendent of hairdressers, middle management, and telephone sanitizers. I think I prefer the Westminster Catechism's definition of the chief end of man.

- I just finished reading When You Rise Up by R. C. Sproul, Jr. I don't agree with all he writes, but I can definitely relate to quite a bit. Such as why does everyone and his brother think they have a right to offer an opinion on how you educate your children? But of course, parents are the least qualified to know. Sarcasm aside, it's worth considering how much we've bought into the false notion that the nanny state knows best.

- I've started several posts that I end up deleting. It's easy to fire off something based on gut reaction. But when the post is allowed to sit and simmer, the reaction seems, well, reactionary and better left unsaid. Here are some verses worth considering before I hit the "publish post" button.

If one gives an answer before one hears, it is his folly and his shame.  Proverbs 18:13

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. Proverbs 18:17