1966 and all that

Wow. I've discovered that life sometimes gets busy enough that blogging can't happen. I think this is a good thing. The eagle has landed. I've also found myself thinking of events as potential blog entries, which is really odd.

School this week has been an odd mix of things. On Thursday I was shadowing a student for the whole day, so I went to my first geography lesson for 10 years, The starter activity was to make as many 4-or-more letter words as possible from 'river pollution'. The best I could come up with was a 10 letter word, come on guys, make me proud, answers on a comment!
The evenings have been a good mix of things, with the start of Christianity Explored, and a very long trip to Kensington which left Steve Atwell sat in the pub on his own for half an hour with only two drinks to keep him company.

Today has been really cool. I met up with Jack this morning, which was cool. It was great to have a chance to catch up, eat some breakfast, and pray. Also went to the Maritime Museum for the first time, which had guns and torpedoes, always a good sign for any museum.

It has been excellent to talk about 1984 with KC, and consider what freedom means, and also the comparisons from Big Brother to God and Satan. The big thing i've been thinking about now is that it would be hard to say that Winston was free, the observations by Big Brother allowed them to manipulate every event in his life. As Christians we believe that God observes every action in our life, and has the ability to intervene in the world in any way that he chooses. Are we then truly free? And yet that is what the Bible affirms. It has started to make sense. If we really believe that God sees everything that we do, and that it matters, and that he has sent his Son to die for us, then this should affect how we behave. However we are free to deny God, to pretend that he isn't there, or to pretend that what we do doesn't matter. So that's the challenge, do we accept the external reality that 2+2=4, that God is watching, and what we do does matter, or we can create our own subjective reality in which we deny these things, which might be pleasing/easy at the time, but ultimately means living a lie.
Sorry for the excessive stream of conciousness there, I hope it didn't contain too much heresy.

And now I'm going to run away. The iron is hot!