When I look at the rioting I find my self hunting for an explanation of what is going on. When a society reaches a place of such disregard for it’s overall wellbeing that morals, once upheld (however reluctantly) seem to vanish. But then it dawned on me.

This is not about individualism, that is only half way there, this is not a bunch of people who are in reaction to their perceived status as ‘have nots’, nope, this is sadly far more insipid. Burglary could maybe be seen as I have just described, but rioting and looting takes this all one step further.

A looting mob is the complete antithesis of a Christ centred culture that would seek to uphold other citizens and perhaps more than that, selflessly serve those they live alongside (this may be the reserve of idealism, but it’s a good goal none the less). A looting mob is the grimmest example of a society taking not only what it wants, but using the power and anonymity found in a mob to take whatever an individual wants. Simply put, it’s individuals using other individuals for individual gain and that is deeply sad.

V1//
Tomorrow, where I will escape,
the shadow of yesterday’s perceived great,
Sorrow, so familiar and real,
these aren’t the marks of tomorrow’s feel.

Ch//
Tomorrow you ever run from me,
offering the promise of all I can be,
I’ll pursue you,
your distant dream rings true,
I’ll pursue you,
my tomorrow’s where I meet you.

V2//
Tomorrow, in glory I’m blind,
the memories of old no longer to remind,
Blameless, by grace I am set free,
by power of your fearsome love for me.

On a MAC if you use stickies on your dashboard, you may have come across an issue where the content of your sticky disappears after you log out or shut your MAC down and restart. If you have experienced this very annoying issue, this is what is happening.

Stickies does not enter your textual info into it’s .plist file unless you physically type something in the note.

So if you just copy and paste stuff without actually typing anything in the note, the .plist file just recognises that you have made a note, but doesn’t save the content.

To resolve this, just hit return or something after whatever you have pasted in and the physical typing act causes Stickies to update all your pasted content into it’s .plist file saving it for when you next log in.

Eh Voila, mystery solved.

You don’t want to know how long this took to discover.

To see the process in action try the steps listed whilst looking at the .plist file.

[ Users>You>Library>Preferences>widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist]

So I have decided to put Paronymous Christos down for a while. I’m not sure how long, as it will most likely be essay topics that get me thinking again, but my written outlet will be those for a time, along with the odd tweet (@markedthoughts)

See you soon, I’m sure you’ll cope.

This article from Good, highlights just such a phenomena, all be it a fairly bizarre component experience of one man.

The world is amazing, at any one moment it is full of unfathomable quantity’s of ‘experiences’, just happening, to people, living. Amazing.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,400 times in 2010. That’s about 11 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 127 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 335 posts. There were 169 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 76mb. That’s about 3 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was June 30th with 244 views. The most popular post that day was Micah 6:8.

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Micah 6:8 June 2010
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Who July 2009
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Links July 2009
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Sex and mission August 2009
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Radio Silence September 2010
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