Blog of Josh Hall

so i saw the passion wednesday night. as i am sure you have heard by now, it is very powerful. and that is really all i have, and want to say about it.

i was looking through my logs for my webpage, and today, at around 2, i had a visitor that was on EMI’s network. EMI being the music industry. I, ofcourse, have an uneasy feeling about that, but i have nothing to hide. I am guessing they found my site from the DJ DangerMouse thread i started about jay z and the beatles. who ever it was, thanks for stopping by, and let me know if there is anything i can help you with.

feeling really proud to have my globe*trotter module posted on sourceforge. how awesome is that??? people from all over the world are going to download something i created. just awesome.

jubillee this weekend. i have no idea what to expect, all i know is i get off work friday. and i am cool with that.

for the past week i have been having really bad dizzy spells. kinda like the feeling you get when you stand up too fast. but i am getting them just sitting down, or walking down the sidewalk, or talking to someone. and i am getting tingling feelings in my left foot, and in my face. this is definitely not a good thing. just started this week, and has been consisitent throughout everyday this week. I tried sleeping more, sleeping less, eating more, eatting less, eating sugars, eating starch, drinking water, and nothing has changed. i am going to see a doctor. i think i have diabetes.

I am not sure of the desired publicity of this, so i will keep aninimity, but a close friend’s mom is going through some medical problems right now. they fear breast cancer, or other lymphatic cancer. please keep her in your prayers.

upload some jokes, think about my thought below, and please respond if you like, check out andy’s pictures, play some games, post some stuff in the forum, or just leave me a message saying hi. Thank you all for stopping by, it really does make my life worth living.

had this thought in the mall today.

So something can’t come from nothing, and there obviously is a limited amount of “stuff” in the universe. You need to keep that in mind if you are to understand where i am going with this.

when people die, we put them in a box or some other means of keeping their body away from the natural elements. and in most cases, we succeed in removing any access that maggots, or other natural decomposition that would take on the body. And our bodies are made up of the “stuff” of the universe, and everytime we bury someone, we are taking “stuff” out of the circle of life.

So what are the effects then? living things depend on “stuff” for life. When we take out “stuff” from the circle of life, we are pulling out that first dominoe. Now a fly will not lay eggs on that body. Now maggots will not feed on our flesh. now a bird will not eat that maggot. now an animal will not eat that bird. Now the soil will not have nutrients to keep in fertile. now a plant will not grow there. now a bee will not pull pollen from that plant. now that bee will not make a hive. and pulling out one body, which is made up of nature’s “stuff” seems pretty important. And perhaps this can even explain the extinction of some animals. Who is to say that had we not practiced burial or cremation, that people’s bodies would not have, in some indirect or direct way, fed a dodo bird. (continued) and if we continue on this practice of “banking” the stuff of life, and we assume there really is no magic machine that can create new “stuff” and pump it back into the cycle, then it is fair to say, at some point in time, we will run out of “stuff.” What then? Perhaps we will never reach that point, but rather at a point of equilibrium, where we are consistently eating ourselves, or one another.

Now you may say, “Josh, our bodies are sacred, and that is why we bury the dead, we deserve to respect those that die.” And to that, i would remind you that respect and something being deemed as sacred are human ideas. And, unfortunately, nature does not conform to our ideas. And it is because of that, that we can not enforce our ideas. Nature ignores our request, and continues about it’s business. And for that reason, we can not chose to oppose nature, because it is a losing battle.

Which leads me to MY conclusion, which is, when i die, i do not want to be burried. rather, i want to give back to what had given to me. I want to feed a racoon. I want to have a sunflower grow in my spot. I want to have bugs inhabit my carcus. Because, It is my desire to cause life, not prevent it.

check this out. hate hotmail’s ads and lay out? me too. and when i am not at my computer, that is the easiest way to check my hotmail account…until now. There is now a hotmail module to the right that you can use to log into hotmail. So simple it almost hurts.

I also added a new feature called Globe*trotter. It is a graphical guestbook of sorts, and i have been watching the development of it for a few weeks now, and i have the priviledge of porting it to phpnuke! check it out.

I put up a jokes section, feel free to add all the jokes you can think of. I would love to have a huge database of jokes!

Don’t mind the quantum star link for those who aren’t playing. it just saves the people who are playing some time and hassle from logging in just to check the status of the game.

I updated phpnuke to 7.0 and the gallery to 1.2.2b, let me know if you have any problems with the new upgrades.

Kathy got me all exited about waking life again. So will share with you a few things from the official site. There is a dream oracle (quiz) you can take there to analyze your dreams. Here, you can learn on how to be awake in your dreams. Personally, i found out how to do this on my own a few years back, but i can guarantee its effects if you try it. And if you don’t love every sleeping moment of it (get it? sleeping? not waking? nevermind.) then you get your money back. Check out Alex Jones site, infowars.com and read about how the World Trade Towers were intentionally “pulled.” Waking life is by far the best movie i have ever seen, and probably ever will see, and that is because it isnt just a movie, it is information, it is thoughts and ideas, it is reflection, and it is everything you haven’t seen before.

As for me, I went home friday to watch dante while Chris and my mom went down to DC with Tirza. Apparently, tirza has been staying over the house a lot, and basically has become part ofthe family. Very interesting. Chris calls it “How mommy got her groove back” 😀

so 40 days of purpose starts today, i’ll keep you updated on how that goes. J’aime did it in the fall, and she enjoyed it. I am going to be interacting with a group of guys every tuesday night about it too. So this semester has brought monday jam nights, tuesday group meetings, wednesday cornerstone, and saturday basketball. and there are many other opportunities that go on that i can’t take advantage of.

other than that, just trying to keep both feet on the ground in this upside down world i live in.

[ugh] I got pulled over for speeding today on 51. I don’t know how fast I was going, and neither does the cop. What I do know though, was I was not alone, i was in traffic, i was just keeping pace with the truck infront of me, i was in the left lane. When he made his way behind me, i had a hard time getting into the right lane, i had been in the left lane the whole time, and never passed anyone, so i guess it was just my luck. I did get off with a warning though. Chris’ insurance card was expired too. And when he asked me why i was in such a hurry, i told him i was going to be late for work, which i was 15 minutes late. And that was because Chris needed to be picked up and dropped off at the dealership for the van. Guess i should have not been such a nice guy and let him walk down to the dealership :-

I got Peter, who works on the cornerstone site with me, a job at Touchtown. Marc is leaving, and so i told Peter to send in his resume. So hopefully he will not make a liar out of me 🙂

went to the international car show last night with becky. took some pictures and put them in the gallery.

so this weekend i am watching dante while my mom and chris go down to DC and hang out there. Fun fun.