Well in this piece I won't be answering that question yet but I would like to talk about the process that happened which will eventually lead me to the answer. That is: Why things happen. First the background:
Sometime in 2005, probably around August, I was on a mental high. I shared a room with this guy called James Sithole. We were both software geniuses, writing software programs day in and day out. I mean we weren't your ordinary students at tertiary. We both studies Information Technology - Software Development. It was the greatest field in the world for both of us. Attending classes and learning new things was our natural high, where we didn't leave the learning in the class, but we took it with us to our residence. When we got there everyone took a sit next to his computer, booted in up, and wrote software code. It was fun solving complex computer code, writing algorithms, models etc. It was crazy. I remember at one time I was busy with this application that I didn't even sleep at all. Suddenly it was sunrise with birds singing their melodies outside. I even thought I was crazy - but nope, I had been thinking all night, writing, debugging and compiling software. The challenge was a stimulant, making us feel great. Heck we even achieved much academically that we both had a chance to teach other students after lectures, just to help them understand the subject matter in clearer detail. Well I chose not to be involved in that, since it was not my style to stand in front of people and make them understand. Lol I wasn't even sure my methods of understanding would be appropriate. But James did and I'm sure he had a great experience with all that.
So one day we were both busy programming where an interesting question arose. Why do things happen? Why things happen the way the do sometimes? As I said that was pretty interesting, considering the fact that all we ever did most of the time was write computer code all day long and never really tried solving the ways of God by pure thinking and analysis. But the question got asked and immediately it was obvious that whatever answers we would come up with would involve God. I mean we were smart enough to know that everything that happens on earth revolve around God.
Pretty quickly we realized that we need to do some research around this subject. You can't just come up with theories without backing evidence or references. So my friend James went to an internet cafe and came back with articles about the Bible. The articles contained the most unbelievable facts about the Bible I've ever seen. It was remarkable that I sometimes wonder if God was really trying to tell us something. We took those saved internet articles and placed them in a folder called "Research: Why do things happen the way the do".
After all these years I still have those articles on my computer and what amaze me even more is that they have survived all the formatting and data losses I've suffered on my computers. Ok this note is long enough already, so I will just say that even today I'm still answering the question of why things happen the way they do. Very interesting indeed.
September 30, 2010 at 10:25pm
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