December 2007 « ma.juii.net

Direct faith, lost in 1st century

Personally, I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the saviour of mankind. But while I believe this, it feels distant: I cannot associate contemporary, concrete confirmation to this belief. These words “Jesus is the Christ” are a theory for me, and I don’t know how to apply it and live it out. Sure, I may [...]

Xmas post

So, here’s my Christmas post. I don’t think that the sight was any better when Jesus was born in a cold, filthy stable and laid into a feeding trough.

“You know how much love our Lord Jesus Christ had. He was rich, but he became poor for your sakes. Because he became poor, you can [...]

Amphibienfahrzeug als Expeditionsmobil

Für meine mobile Wohnung und Weltreise plane ich zur Zeit fleißig an einem geeigneten Basisfahrzeug. Das treibt manchmal komische Blüten. Vor einigen Wochen z.B. habe ich einen ganzen Abend damit zugebracht, im Internet nach einem Amphibienfahrzeug als Basisfahrzeug zu forschen. Gerade räume ich meine Dokumente wieder auf, und dieser Abschnitt fliegt raus. Vielleicht kann ja [...]

Without Cologne Cathedral

The next, last and only “project” I really need to get done in this life is “Second Acts“, which deals with finding God at work in this world today, as a confirmation for my faith in God and Christ. For the project, cf. also my mindmap-style project plan in article “My vision for my life, [...]

What we term intuition

With a friend, I had an interesting talk recently. It was about intuition and what it is. I bluntly admit that she’s an intuitive person, while I don’t have this ability or, at least, did not yet discover it. During that talk, I discovered my own current opinion regarding intuition. It’s summarized in this thesis:

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Is one hour long?

One should not think that five minutes (or five bucks) are not worth thinking about. As such, five minutes or five bucks are really not much and not worth to worry about … but one must not forget about their repetition, about the grand total of these little things. Spending five minutes or five bucks [...]

To be or to be myself

I thought that only Islamic culture is based on shame and honour, so I was somewhat shocked to see the the culture of my personal life share these characteristics to a good degree: it’s my western shame culture. That was an interesting observation that I recently made: my life does not feel well because I [...]

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