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Just a quick heads up for fans of Nightmare 90210. Episode 4 has now finished post production and will be moving on to distribution very soon. Expect it some time this week. I’m also drawing up plans to get episode filmed, plus an interview with Jimmy Spandex and get the scripts sorted for episodes 5 and 6.

Some of the headlines in The Onion recently have been brilliant :D…

• Study: High Times Not A Gateway Magazine To Harder Reading
• Rumsfeld: Iraqis Now Capable Of Conducting War Without U.S. Assistance
• Poverty-Stricken Africans Receive Desperately Needed Bibles
• Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent On Land

While phpBB have now released a public beta of their long awaited version 3.0 codenamed “Olympus” they are moving towards it. On March 19th they opened the bug tracker to allow people to submit problems before they make a full on public beta version available.

While my 2003 film “The Hootrix” has been available to download from the internet for literally years I would guess that most people were unaware of this. Now that the movie has been posted on Blair Space I thought I would give a heads up that it is now available to stream on the indie movies channel. If you were a fan of The Mormonator I would recommend you check it out.

This isn’t good, I’m no Facebook way too much. I’m checking for new people I know like every day, often more. I mean, it’s not even that interactive, there is no blogs, no way to let you know which groups have new posts or members, no alerts to possible new friends. And yet I am on there every day.

Got home this morning, did some sleeping, some DVD watching and I have my computers setup and finally got my network up and working again so I can get back spending all my time blogging :D. I still have loads more unpacking to do but I’m sure that can wait till, say, summer.

Ok it’s now gone 2 and I need to be up at 8 at the latest to finish packing. I’ve done a lot tonight (and indeed this afternoon as well) but I’ve left my computers running and some other things I can’t sort out until tomorrow. So I think the best thing I can do now is blog and then sleep.

Today was cool. As I previously mentioned we had lunch in Mine (we refering to myself, Michelle and Sarann, Maths Chris, Graham and George have pretty much disappeared) and then in the evening we went to see V for Vendetta. Well it was just me and Michelle although Sarann turned up with Anne eventually (the movie started at 20:30, trailers finished at 20:50, Sarann arrived at 21:00). It was a pretty good movie, it kept me entertained at least. We then finished off with a drink at The Fenton then me and Michelle went home as she has to be up at 6:45 to get to Doncaster airport by 11:00/11:30 (she’s not sure :p).

I think I’m really going to miss Michelle over Easter. Not that I won’t be missing everyone else but Michelle especially as I think I’m closer to her than any other of my uni friends. Hopefully it will be a good chance to catch up with my pre-uni friends though. It’s going to be a wierd holiday. At Christmas I didn’t really miss uni too much as I was ill for most of it so I was glad to be at home but this time I’m not so sure, I don’t want to go home anyway and with little to do for a month (as I failed to get a job and won’t be doing much revising as I have no motivation) I could see it dragging a little. I like uni.

I would quite like to get some sleep though. The last two weeks have been absolutely mental. It started a week last Monday and since then it’s just been constant almost.

• Monday: we spent the night at Sarann’s baking pizza
• Tuesday: Grant House’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities, got really, really drunk
• Wednesday: Hung over all day, film making society AGM, Battle of the Bands with Oli
• Thursday: A much needed night off
• Friday: another night at Sarann’s as Fran arrived so the four of us sat round drinking
• Saturday: Wendy House. Great night even with losing my coat. Crashed at Michelle’s
• Sunday: Got home at about 6 pm (not having been home since leaving for Wendy House) only to go out again an hour later at most to go to Moorish
• Monday: Another night at Sarann’s, this time baking cookies
• Tuesday: In DEC-10 working on Python until 12:30, we tried to get the take-away people to deliver to the computing lab :p. Then spent a long time debating and generally hanging out with the Christians
• Wednesday: film making society meeting followed by Grill a Christian at the Bod Bar and some more debating afterwards
• Thursday: long day at uni coding followed by helping with a movie shoot. Got to DEC-10 at 10:30 and left at 1:10 am. Got back to Bod at 1:45 and spent an hour debating with the Christians again
• Friday: which is of course tonight, went to the cinema then up till now packing

I think I’ve made my case for the hectic fortnight I have had. It’s different from the end of the first term in that, before Christmas, it was mad for like a week although that week was like up till 5 every night (my earliest night was a 3:30 I think then a lot of 4’s and a 5 or something) whereas this has been pretty sustained.

I think my experiance has been somewhat different this term which is something I would like to blog about as a kind of round-up thing. Oh and I want to blog about the last book I read too. So expect those posts when I get some free time over Easter (which should be fairly soon).

Well, before Easter. I have another 9 weeks but for the moment, it’s my last night. Going to the cinema to see V for Vendetta, I think it’s just myself and Michelle as despite despatching mass invites nobody else has shown any interest in coming. Everyone is really tired by this point I think and a lot of people have already gone home.

I on the otherhand am screwed. I need to go out like now to get to the cinema and I won’t be back until late and yet I still have most of my packing to do. I was packing between getting home after having lunch with Michelle and Sarann in Mine and about 4 then the next thing I remember was waking up in bed at 5:30. Ah well, tomorrow morning and late tonight should be fun.

Still haven’t started packing. It’s getting kind of urgent now. I also still need to get my DVDs back. Just had breakfast which wasn’t bad although now I can’t really be bothered to do anything :p. Ok, right, packing…

I have just done a 19 hour day. I was out at like 8 this morning and it’s now 3 am. I had uni all day (plus we got in a bowling session between lectures :p) then I was shooting a movie with film making society between 6 and 10:30. Followed by myself heading over to DEC-10 until gone 1am to do some coding and general socialising as Michelle and Sarann were still in there.

Finally got the bus back and arrived home at 1:45 to spend an hour debating with the Christians again. It’s fun :D. Although sometimes you feel you are just going round in circles. They probably feel the same way although I try my best not to put forward the same argument twice.

While I have absorbed a lot of what they have said tonight it might take a while for it to be fully processed. Still, that is why I blog. Tonight’s main topic was the parodoxes in God and indeed Christianity as a whole. Such as why did God create us to sin if he hates sin, how can God be all powerful and all loving, and so on.

One of the guys, Adam, said that he was quite happy not fully understanding everything as he knew that he was going to understand it all in the next life. His perspective I guess but it’s one I disagree with. What other subject of study could this viewpoint be applied to? Why should religion consider itself exempt from the normal rules of the search for understanding? Even if a Christian chooses to disregard these I am sure they must be able to see why the non-religious of us do not. Religion bares no special significance to us over any other subject and therefore is subject to the same rational inspection that forms part of the study of any area of knowledge.

The girl I was chatting to, Dot (she was cool in that like me, she would phase out every now and then for brief period to mediate on a specific thought) put forward some interesting arguments, although not particuarly revolutionary she seemed to be more open to her own thoughts than the standard Christian defence “it’s God’s plan.” While I would agree with those who say atheists can often be found to relying on the same arguments, that is because they hold scientific merrit even with someone who is religious (at least as a general rule). The former statement does not without accepting the presumptions of religious doctrine.

Back to the paradoxes of God. One point I do believe is that if God was all powerful he could make everyone perfectly happy. The Christian defence to this is that this would remove free will and God chooses to give us free will. However I don’t see any reason why if he is all powerful he couldn’t give us both perfect happyness and free will. By Adam’s own admission, when he goes to Heaven (hypothetically from my point of view of course) he will both have free will and be perfectly happy.

So yeah, I think that pretty much sums up tonight’s discussion. It’s the last night the CU will be putting something on as everyone is moving out this weekend (well, a lot of people). Indeed, I am too, I am moving out at 9am on Saturday morning and I have yet to start packing so tomorrow is going to be mad. I should probably get some sleep.