Speak friend and enter.

So I'm chilling out at WCF, just like in the not quite old days. The tv is on in the main room where all the people are I'm hiding from it because there is some pointless and moronic show on about people in hollywood who have hair. Why does anyone care? its completely beyond me. One major plus, Jake got me this super cool beer mug when he went to england. FROM THE EAGLE AND CHILD. Pardon my use of caps. Its like the coolest gift I've gotten since I got that .22 for Christmas one year, I might have been 12... 11 years ago. So yeah, dang its cool.

I think that I'll steal this from Marie, who stole it from Melissa :-p

*Edited: Seems that I left Marie's answers on layer 7, silly me, its fixed now.

LAYER ONE: On The Outside
- Name: Paul
- Birth date: 05/10/81
- Birthplace: Rome, Ga
- Current Location: Augusta
- Eye Color: Hazel
- Hair Color: Brown
- Height: 6'1" or so
- Righty or Lefty: Righty
- Zodiac Sign: Taurus
LAYER TWO: On The Inside
- Your heritage: Greek, slavic, english, scotch/irish, french
- The shoes you wore today: work boots
- Who you look like: Dad, definately
- Your weakness: Garlic :-p
- Your fears: dealing with other people, also loneliness, yeah, I'm a little conflicted
- Your perfect pizza: chicken, mushrooms and onions, mmmmm mmm.
- Goal you'd like to achieve: become adept at swordmaking
LAYER THREE: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- Your most overused phrase on AIM: meow, or :-p
- Your thoughts first waking up: blarglemerflemeh
- Your best physical feature: meh?
- Your bedtime: 10pm now, dang I feel old when I think about that.
- Your most missed memory: the smell of honeysuckles
LAYER FOUR: Your Pick
- Pepsi or Coke: Diet Cherry Coke, or Red Rock Ginger Ale
- McDonalds or Hungry Jacks: wth is hungry jacks? and if its like McDonalds, neither
- Single or group dates: single
- Adidas or Nike: combat boots, with zippers ^^
- Chocolate or vanilla: both are yummy
- Cappuccino or flat white: coffee: smells good, tastes bad
LAYER FIVE: Do You?
- Smoke: a pipe, maybe once or twice a year, if that often
- Cuss: Only when needed for emphasis, when around people who don't care.
- Sing: I like to, but not around people.
- Have a crush: Yes
- Think you've been in love: Yes, once
- Like high school: Hahahahahahahaha no
- Want to get married: If it happens it happens, I don't much like being alone.
- Believe in yourself: I have an idea of what I am.
- Get motion sickness: Not really
- Think you're attractive: No
- Think you're a health freak: Not really
- Get along with your parents: Yuppers, most of the time
- Like thunderstorms: Love them
- Play an instrument: Nah
LAYER SIX: In the past month...
- Drank alcohol: Yup
- Smoked: No
- Done a drug: No
- Gone to the mall: No
- Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No
- Eaten sushi: Yes, mmmmmm sushi.
- Been on stage: No
- Gone skating: No
- Gone skinny dipping: No
- Dyed your hair: No
- Stolen anything: No
LAYER SEVEN: Ever..
- Played a game that required removal of clothing: No
- Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Yes, once, never again.
- Been caught "doing something": No
- Been called a tease: No
- Gotten beat up: Yes
- Shoplifted: No
LAYER EIGHT: Getting Older
- Age you hope to be married: Meh?
- Numbers and Names of Children: 1 or 2? Some decently normal first name, freakish middle name. Wouldn't mind adopting.
- Describe your dream wedding: Outdoors, on top of a mountain, maybe during fall, the people invited get ~1 day notice unless they live far away, or I can trust them not to go overboard. Chances of this happening? ~nil
- How do you want to die: Meh
- What do you want to be when you grow up: An eccentric old man in a cool and bizarre house that people like to visit, kind of like the professor in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- What country would you most like to visit: Ireland, Scotland, Greece, and England
LAYER NINE: In a partner
- Best eye color: Don't care, two different colors would be cool :-)
- Hair color: Brown is good, so is red, blond's ok. Non-dye is preferable to dyed.
- Short or long hair: I like long hair, but understand its a pain, having had long hair meself :-p
- Height: Meh, short is fine :-p
- Weight: Meh, huggable
- Best articles of clothing: The less "in style" the better, modesty is cute.
LAYER TEN: In The Numbers..,
- Number of people I could trust with my life: Maybe as many as 6, possibly more.
- Number of CDs that I own: Not sure, quite a few.
- Number of piercings: None
- Number of tattoos: None
- Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper?: Twice maybe? not sure.
- Number of things in my past that I regret: I don't regret much.

I've been reading The Great Divorce of late and its reminded me of one of the twists of logic which Christianity is full of and C.S. Lewis is so good at pointing out. That being that angels and demons are made from the same material (this is also pointed out in The Screwtape Letters). Which is to say that people who are extraordinarily gifted in one way or the other are a more powerful force for/against God; and/or the more powerful "good" natural forces (mother's love, parent/child relationships, etc) are all the more wicked when abused. I'm tempted, perhaps by pride, to take that to mean that the more gifted a person is the greater responsibility they have to use their gifts for good and therefore are "more worthy" when they do. I've concluded that that is crap however, because on an individual basis the choice that every person faces is the same. Each person must decide whether or not to serve God with what they've been given, and I believe, in the eyes of God, that choice is black and white, yes or no. There is no consideration of a persons abilities, no "oh, we'll let billy get away with that because he's not too bright" or "jane understands so much better, she isn't really expected to follow the same rules". I suppose the reward a person recieves might differ depending on how well they make use of their gifts, and there is some scripture to back that, but I think focusing on that is a mistake. What happens in the afterlife is best discovered after life.

Agree? Disagree? let me know.