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Fake flowers, butterflies and thighs

By Symon ⋅ November 21, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

I heard a great message last night about the real world. The gist of it was – how this ‘real’ world isn’t all that real… more fake than real actually. Plastic flowers look real from a distance, but plastic flowers will never ever be real, no matter how well crafted they are. This world is [...]

Don’t get sucked in… pass it on

By Symon ⋅ November 19, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Did you know that the word gullible has been taken out of the English dictionary? Actually no, it hasn’t, but you’d be amazed at the amount of people that have responded “Really?” to that verbal statement over the years. A cheap and nasty joke I admit, but good enough entertainment nonetheless. You’d be amazed at [...]

Behind The Shack

By Symon ⋅ September 18, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

The Shack was a story written for my six children, with no thought or intention to publish. It is as much a surprise to me as to anyone else that I am now an ‘author’. (William P. Young) Last night I finished reading The Shack (You can read my review over at flannelgraph). Currently (September [...]

B1509: The Hand Of God

By Symon ⋅ September 7, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

The ‘Hand of God’ taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Satellite. A 13 mile wide pulsar known as PSR B1509-58 (B1509) is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. B1509 makes one full rotation every 1/7 of a second. Think about that for a second. An immensely heavy star neutron star, [...]

NGC 7293: The Eye Of God

By Symon ⋅ May 11, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

This awesome image (click pic to enlarge) is an authentic photograph (actually, a composite of images) taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope. It featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter has been immortalised on various websites and blogs (heh) ever since. It has earned the nickname ‘Eye Of God’ (I [...]

Angel Of Death?

By Symon ⋅ April 28, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I was enduring the trailer of Hellboy 2 recently when I saw the disturbing images of a creature with eyes on its wings (on the trailer that is, not in real life ;-). My mind immediately thought about the Bible’s description of heavenly creatures in Revelation Chapter 4… In the center and around the throne [...]

Rich

By Symon ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

A reasonable mortgage, four kids, one dog… bills. Sometimes it’s a challenge to make ends meet… but God is always faithful, and it’s nothing short of supernatural how He meets our needs (and the occasional want). This morning I stumbled upon a very interesting website called: http://www.globalrichlist.com/. The site calculates your rank in the world’s [...]

My close encounter with a UFO… cult

By Symon ⋅ April 4, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

It was a fateful night in 1997 when the Aetherius Society came to town to promote their religion. For those who don’t know what the Aetherius Society is (I’m guessing about 99.9% of the people reading this post), it is a UFO cult. I was a zealous (and somewhat tactless) Bible College student at the [...]