Monster Marionette

I regularly read and post over at Story Games, a forum for people interested in small-press or "indie" roleplaying games. Right now there's a game design contest going on, and I've signed on to help Anders Bohlin, a dude in Sweden, work on and write his short-form game, Monster Marionette. We're tossing back-and-forth some pretty fun ideas, I think, so we'll see where this thing goes.

The Hours

I don't think I'm going to define many things or explain them on this blog--unless explaining something in that way particularly excites me at the moment--because if you're reading this, you have the entire internet at your command and can find thirteen much better descriptions of the thing I'm describing. So I will not be telling you what the Divine Hours (aka Liturgy of the Hours, aka Divine Office) are.

I will be attempting to pray the Divine Hours as a regular practice in my life. I will start tomorrow when I wake up. I hope this will become, like, a skeleton or framework for my daily spiritual life.

"Let us make humankind as our image..."

This is a slightly different translation of the biblical line found in Genesis 1:26. It's the way my girlfriend's theology teacher reads it, and it's really caught my attention. To read it not as "I will put My image in people; I will put a part of Myself in them," but rather as "I will make people as My image in the world I created".

This is not merely an interesting theological niggle. It makes me see something in the Bible in a new way, in a living way. That's a powerful thing.

We are God's image. Jesus was God's avatar (and something more), which is the perfection of that image in a human body.

I hate myself and I want to die <3

I am browsing classes on Everett Community College's website, and I am realizing that if I had gotten my shit together two months ago when I realized I wanted to take an intro to education night class this quarter, I would be in school right now. Instead, my future is further delayed.