Sometimes Sorry is not Enough

Repent for your sins. That is what I grew up hearing my entire childhood into adolescence. But sin was a far off concept that meant cheating on a vocabulary test or lying about my grades. Understanding what sin meant was hard enough, but repenting for an idea I really knew nothing about was even harder. On the nights I remembered I muttered a quick sorry to the man in the sky right before I fell asleep. It was convenient. I congratulated myself for having remembered to feel sorry about cheating and slept better knowing no matter what I did that all would be forgiven. When I finally understood what sin was it made me feel disgusting and asking for forgiveness was the only way to feel clean. 

Your Life is Not That Imporant

What is the meaning of life? The big philosophical question that everyone asks themselves at one point or another in their life. Before we even begin to try to answer this question, it is important to first ask ourselves what the question is really asking. Ask yourself what you think the question means, and then ask yourself what the question could mean. Language is confusing and this sentence like many in the English language is ambiguous. 

More than Tig Ol' Bitties

For the longest time I never understood what it meant to objectify women. That or I was too busy staring at one to care. A woman is a woman. I didn't understand all this abstract nonsense about sexual objects and distorted media images that these prude feminists were trying to convince me of. In my world, it was called Photoshop and eye candy. It didn't bother me knowing the pictures were manipulated or unrealistically touched up. I was still going to stare at hot women, I was still going to like it and I was most likely going to jerk off to it later.

The Genesis

In the beginning when Daniel created this blog, the blog was a formless void, formatted with a generic base template. Then Daniel said  "Let there be new generic template", and saw that it was good. Daniel called the blog Thoughts of Babel. He saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.

Who.
Daniel Ahn. I am on a journey to become closer with God through church, people, ideas, food, song, and life. I go to church, read the bible, pray, eat healthy, exercise regularly, sing and dance everywhere, think too much, and try too hard to be funny.

What.
          "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning            of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them".
       
          Genesis 11:6

The Tower of Babel was a story where the LORD confused language and scattered people. Today, communicating with one another seems so difficult. Not only because of the differences in languages, but ambiguity from word definitions, to sentence structure, and even body language. The result of our inability to fully understand one another has been the cause of war, discrimination, stagnation, hate, and every other evil thing to happen to this world.

Why.
Thoughts of Babel seeks to communicate my language and thoughts to the world. It hopes to help others realize their own thoughts, and the thoughts of others around them, so that we can all come closer to speaking one language like in the times of Genesis. It hopes to create a community where people can openly communicate and learn to understand one another while growing in faith.

 One language, one people, one God.

SUMMARY:
My name is Daniel Ahn and I am blogging my thoughts and experiences. The world is too big a place to experience in one life time. I hope to create a community where we can all share and vicariously experience life to appreciate it the way it was supposed to be. Welcome.