I’ve spent a lot of time lately writing variations of simple games. It’s not that there’s a budding gaming company in the works, I don’t think its there. It’s just an outlet really. I haven’t had much of an outlet for a long time and it feels good to expend energy on creating/tweaking something.

I say tweaking because there’s more modifying involved as opposed to creation.

It helps me appreciate the wonder of God that he did and does create. Look at the variation of the species – eight new scorpions found recently, huge squid in the South Pacific, bacteria that live in superhot places, it’s amazing the diversity. There’s also the details involved – every gorilla has a unique nose print, salmon swim back to the place they were born, miles of various tubing in the human body, and much more. God created all of it. God planned it and spoke it into existence. That’s cool to me.

Maybe that’s why I was attracted to aspects of LDS(Mormons) Mysticism some time ago. The idea that God created other world and allowed us as ascended being to create other worlds has strong attraction for me. I’ll be the first to ask God for a holodeck in Heaven. In retrospect, I think I preferred the holodeck in Heaven rather than my own pocket universe because I knew the creation inside the holodeck wouldn’t be real. Saying "End Program" wouldn’t kill anyone or harm anyone. It is essentially smoke and mirrors. Having my own pocket universe, though, that’s serious stuff. Can you create a universe and produce Universe 2.0 some years later? Could you really tell your first creation that they are now obsolete? In essence, I enjoy examining and playing with ideas, something best done on paper rather than flesh and blood (whatever forms that may take). 

Anyway, I’ve said all this before, so it’s nothing new. Just rambling along on a Monday.