Around the World in 80 Days

For, what better reward can there be, but happiness?


Hello again, classmates. Have you ever done something HUGE? Something overwhelmingly complicated and obstacle-ridden? And then realized that you gained nothing from it at all, but happiness? If you have, let me ask you this: was it enough? Of course it was, because it's not what we gain in the end that truly matters. The friends we make, the obstacles we overcome, the sights we see, and the wonderful things we do in between the beginning and the end- That's what truly matters right? Well, read this book and tell me...

The book's name is "Around the World in 80 Days" and it starts off explaining the meager life of a cold, calculating man named Phileas Fogg, in the year 1872. Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform Club, and lived much excluded from the rest of society. He hires a new servant named Jean Passepartout, a thirty year old Frenchman, who immediately takes a liking to his new master. One day, upon and argument between two members of the Reform club, Phileas Fogg makes an extreme bet of twenty thousand pounds that he can traverse across the world in 80 days. In that time a thing like that was almost unheard of. The next day, having packed through the night for they're journey, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout headed for the docks. Unknown to them, they were being closely trailed by a detective named Fix, who was certain that Phileas Fogg was the bank robber he had been trailing, and that Mr. Fogg's fortune was actually stolen banknotes.
Impatiently, he waits at the station where Mr. Fogg and servant were to board the Mongolia, the fastest steamer in the docks.

The story continues so forth with many adventures, rescues, betrayals, and allies. Read this book to the end and you'll be very happy you did. For, in the end... Isn't happiness worth any good thing?

Your friend, classmate, comrade, and whatever else you wish to call me (within reason),

40 Days Turned To Years

And why...


Greetings, classmates. Have you ever, outright, asked yourself, "Why, God, why?". Well he isn't the problem, he isn't to be questioned, his judgement is perfect in every large and minuscule way. The problem is you. Karma very much exists, though it really isn't "Karma". What you do wrong WILL come back to haunt you one day, and for what you do right G-d will bless you. Look at it like this: there are Angels and Demons. For everything you do, for the L-rd and others, an Angel is made; for every sin you commit, a Demon. This G-d-made "Karma" is made to teach us that for every action there is a reaction, and whether that be a positive one or a negative one is up to the manner of the action, which is, thusly, up to the creator of the action. In this case it's you.
To give you a good example we'll talk about the Exodus.
We all know the story of how Moses rescued the Israelites from the hand of the Pharaoh and began the exodus to the Promised Land (or so I hope, and if you don't, read the Bible). During this Exodus G-d gave his ever-obedient prophet, Moses, commandments to give to the Israelites and for them to follow. When Moses went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of these commandments, he left behind a people with spiritual doubt. Let's go back to where the doubt sprang up from; let's go back to when Amalek and his people joined in the Exodus. It is not said in the Bible, but you can find many places that give unwaivering proof of them joining in. When they did, they brought there own spiritual doubts, there own need to spread that doubt. What you do, what you feel inside, and, truly, what you are, affects those around you. Action = Reaction. The negative action of spreading that seed of doubt throughout the camp lead the people to finally, while Moses was receiving the commandments on Mount Sinai, build a golden calf to worship as a false god. Moses came back and upon seeing this, broke the tablets in fury and disgust, that these people, who had been rescued from the lands of Egypt by the almighty G-d, who had been taken from slavery and made free, who once had know doubt in the L-rd's existence, would fashion a golden calf to worship in the place of G-d?! Words cannot even begin to describe what an outrage it was. Now when Moses gave the people the G-d-given commandments, they obeyed, and Aaron, Moses' brother, offered a sin-offering (a calf, ostensibly to atone for the golden one fashioned as an idol) for the people which saved them.
This is a lesson of life, my friends. If you let spiritual doubt into your life, if you do NOT wait for G-d to open the door and push it open yourself, you will turn your 40 day journey into a 40 year journey. Follow G-d's Word and wait for him to open the doors of the path you take, and you'll get there much quicker. G-d promises this to us, and his promises are not false. G-d, our heavenly father, is a leader. And therefore he must make examples of those who do wrong, and those who do right. Take Aaron's sons for example: They disobeyed a direct order to wait for the the L-rd's command to bring forth a burnt offering, therefore when they brought the strange fire before the L-rd, our Heavenly Father had to make an example of them, for if he didn't, the people would believe they could disobey the L-rd without consequences. So the L-rd willed the fire to consume the young men, and Aaron, standing nearby, didn't even flinch. Why did he not flinch? He must have been dying inside, right? Yes, yes he was... But he trusted the L-rd, trusted his judgement. We should all do that, should we not? We should all trust the L-rd to lead us down the right path, to open the doors that we truly need open, and to open our spiritual windows to the right things. He is the Almighty G-d, the King of Kings, our Perfect L-rd, He is everything. If we cannot trust Him, then we truly are lost aren't we?
Today, classmates, is the day to start letting Him lead, letting Him open the doors. Today is the day for us to start our spiritual journey down the right path; the path of G-d. Give praise to the L-rd, and he will bless you.

Thank you all for reading this post today.


Your friend, classmate, and comrade,


Today is the day to start!

TheDork of the Day; The Watchful Eye

Or eyes... Depending on if your a Cyclops or not....


Greetings classma.... Well, I REALLY need a new introductory sentence, don't I? One that is much more... Opulent... and A LOT less trite. Well... while I  might approach  this with immutable ambiguity; you, my fellow classmates and bloggers, might come up with some good ones. So go ahead and give it a try.  Today I give you not another exegesis of Want and Acting, with its profound, preceptual, use of the Guinevere and her salacious affair with Lancelot. No,today I bring you something to put your mind at ease from all the pondering you've been doing with me. I bring you another Dork of the Day! This game is called The Watchful Eye, and to win you must guess my ten vocabulary words of this week from the sentences above and after this one, and you must also not be my mother or sister. I candidly thought that this would be an immensely fun game, even for you Old People out there, blessed with longevity.

Good luck on guessing and remember, don't think TOO hard. They're pretty obvious.
Hint: Oh, sad, sad Guinevere...

Your friend, classmate, and comrade,

Onward and Forward!

(put witty title annotation here)


I once again welcome you back to my blog, classmates, and thank you for coming!
On Monday I added my thoughts about want to the many articles here on my meager blog. I hope you enjoyed that, for I have another good one coming up right about.... now. Wanting something is the first step of acting to get it, and that's what this one's about: Acting. Have you ever apologized to your parents, and then out of rebellion, or arrogance, did the same thing you apologized for again? Or have you ever wanted something or wanted to do something and, out of laziness, didn't act to get it. Well the wrong in the first is acting AGAINST your parents and therefore against G-d. Now, the wrong in the first is plausible, depending on what you didn't act for. Say, if your doing a consistent sin, and you do not act to stop doing so, even when you WANT to, it's wrong. Yet, if your wanting something wrong (such as Queen Guinevere, who wanted a night of passion/adultery with Sir Lancelot), then refraining from acting to get it is not wrong but a step toward G-dliness. Denying ourselves sinful pleasures is a step toward maturity. A step further is acting FOR the L-rd. Deny yourself a sinful pleasure and give the L-rd praise by obeying His commandments, His laws, and you WILL be blessed. Now, wanting sinful pleasures and denying yourself as such, is one thing, ridding yourself of the want is an a different, harder, thing. A habit, you WILL eventually be rid of, the more you deny yourself.
Today, my dear classmates, comrades, fellow believers, and fellow bloggers, I challenge you and me to start NOW to better ourselves. We must strive to perfect ourselves before it's too late. And we'll never know when it's too late until it is. So be ready. And, remember, the phrase "Actions speak louder than words" could never be truer.

Forever, your friend, classmate, comrade, and striver for perfection,


P.S. you may write a witty annotation, for the space I left open up at top, at the comment section. Thought it would be fun...

The Wisdom of Want

And it's endless arguments....


Greetings, classmates, I welcome you once again to my blog.
Today we broach a special subject, a subject that has been nagging at me. Is there wisdom in want? It would be foolish to say there wasn't. There's a want to be perfect, I want to do right by G-d, and so on and so forth. So yes, there IS wisdom in want to a certain degree. There are a few things that can tarnish the cleanness of want and they are: passion, ambition, greed, selfishness, etc. It's easy to let those things ruin the good in want. I was talking to my mother, earlier, about a book I just finished, The Legend of King Arthur and his Knights. We were discussing how it was not Sir Modred whom wrought the destruction of King Arthur, but it was his wife, Queen Guinevere. Her greed, passion, and selfishness led her to seduce Sir Lancelot. Not out of love for him, but simple fancy and because she sought the one thing that can be the down fall of us all: Passion.
Modred used this against King Arthur which in turn led King Arthur to his doom. Now, not to completely blame Guinevere, for Lancelot was also party to this insolence, though not as much as she. He did not have to succumb, and he did many acts of honor not for G-d, but for her, which was very wrong. In the end they both went into nunnery, and monk-hood, respectively, and died terrible deaths. The moral of this story is: don't give into want, if it's led only by passion and greed, or selfishness, but do what's right for the glory of the L-rd. Wanting to do what's right for Him is a very, very good thing. But what about acting?
That is a subject to scope at a later time, for wanting is the first step of action.

Your friend, classmate, comrade, and fellow follower of G-d,