Ben’s Musings

I’ve already written about how excited I was to see the new Transformers film, and when I saw it yesterday, I was well impressed. Even Mary-Lou loved it and had to hold my hand during the intense fight scenes!

I was suprised at how funny it was too, the lead actor (Shia Labeouf) with most of the funny lines. I got a bit annoyed at how the lead female character (played by Megan Fox) was portrayed, either overly sexual or cheesily romantic.

Overall, I thought the first third was a witty and good introduction, the second third was a bit muddled and rushed, and the final third was exciting.

As a true fan, I now have Transformers ringtones on my mobile!

A friends once asked me if there was a button somwhere which said “Delete Internet”. I laughed it off explaining that the internet was designed by the American Military to survive a Nuclear war - if a bunch of servers were destroyed somewhere, there would still be connections to the many more surviving servers all over the world.

I was wrong:

Well, I’ve finally got around to some writing. There are many things I think I need to write about, I was going to list them here, but it might box me in a bit.

I’ve wanted to do more writing for a long time. A couple of years ago, I felt God encourage me to write down more of my thoughts about Church, and the bunch of people I am Church with in Manchester. But I didn’t, I did the easier thing which was not to make the time to write, but to watch TV instead (probably!).

Alot of thoughts come into my head and some just pass through. Some settle down into piles of coherent thoughts somewhere in my brain and others clatter around and knock down all my piles then stare at me demanding to be noticed. It is these thoughts which I want to write about the most, so that I don’t just ignore them and hope they go away.

I also want to start writing down the thought processes I have made to come to some of the conclusions I have come to - like explaining what thoughts make these loose piles, and how they connect and seem to make sense. I don’t want to write to find the right answers and discount the wrong answers. I want to understand why I think what I think and why I do what I do.

My ideas seem to be in a state of flux right now and I think this is a good thing. Since Amy died last year, everything in our lives was blown high in the sky, and Mary-Lou and I are still trying to figure out which bits to catch and which to leave.