Going-Ons of Tadukoo

 Just like last year , I have new plans with the coming of the New Year. This year, I won't be posting the new plans in the same format as last year (because frankly it was a terrible format, but to be fair it made sense for the amount of plans). One thing I want to do is to start following a yearly Bible reading plan (specifically this one on Bible Gateway ). It is designed for you to read the Old Testament once and the New Testament 3 times in a year. Another thing I'll be doing is following the 30 Days of Hustle by Jon Acuff for January. My current idea for what to hustle on with it is writing a book discussing various arguments for the existence of God, what atheists have to say about the arguments, and responses to the atheists. Whether that's what I actually do for the 30 days or not, we'll see. For YouTube, I'm planning to switch to a twice a week upload schedule, uploading a Minecraft w/ 3/2 Blockheads episode every Thursday and another video every Tuesday. ...

 I previously talked about the Tadukoo Bible Project . I mentioned that "any truth is God's truth". While that's true, it has to be understood how you find truth. How you find truth is a philosophical topic that is part of the study of epistemology. While it's a very interesting topic to talk about with all the various philosophers and their ideas, I'm not going to go into detail about all that here, but I'll present a bit of my experience in college philosophy. Early on in the class, we talked about different kinds of relativism (ideas that certain contradictory truths could both be true). I wrote them down, noting how crazy they seemed and figured we'd discuss why they're false. We didn't. I can't recall talking about any philosopher who accepted the obvious fact that absolute truth exists and that relativism is a joke. Let me clarify (since there are many varied definitions of relativism), that I am saying that to say two things are true...

 Recently, I went looking for sources for my apologetics research. I ended up finding an e-book called Apologetics Challenge. The first challenge is to write a mission statement, so I did. I wrote that I want "to creatively hand the world God's knowledge and wisdom". That is my goal in life now, and the basis of the Tadukoo Bible Project. I've realized that the other things I've done or am doing should either be reconciled to this goal or ceased, and I'll write another post describing what will be reconciled and how in the future. This post is to explain the idea of the Tadukoo Bible Project and the things that are already included in it. First I want to explain the goal better. God’s knowledge and wisdom is primarily the Bible, but by extension any truth is God’s truth, so any truth can be included. I separate knowledge and wisdom, because knowledge means simply knowing something is true; wisdom means knowing how to apply that truth. I say creatively to combi...

 The purpose of this post is basically to say what my current status is for a bunch of plans I have and where I plan to go with those plans. This is not to be a detailed list of all the plans, just a summary of the plans. Likely posts will be made in the future detailing specific plans more. TAG With TAG, I have done the Tengdev v.0.0.7.0 update, which was to add the remaining Prologue areas that were planned for the game and setup the passages to go between them. That was completed on time on July 31st. Since then, I have simply been updating the game to newer API and Engine versions. The Player Select Menu is still planned for the end of this month, and the More Sounds/Halloween update, Certain Animations/Thanksgiving/Anniversary update, and Debug Improvements/Christmas update are still planned for their respective dates. The "Hacking" Basics update is now planned for January 31, 2017. I have plans for 14 more updates from February 28 to July 10, 2017, which I will discuss ...

 I posted here  before my New Year's Resolutions (well, some of them), and I'm here now to say: I haven't done them. At least not most of them. I haven't touched TAG since February, I haven't worked on other games or any Bukkit plugins at all, I didn't work on upcoming series for YouTube, there is no season 2 of either Minecraft with Tadukoo or Minecraft: Order of the Stone: A Retelling of the Cave Game, and I didn't make a compilation video for Minecraft with Tadukoo either. What I did do, though, is finish out season 1 of both of those series. And that's it. This post is to update the resolutions. So I'll be stating for each thing where I would be if I had stayed with the original resolution, and then an updated version (which can go into the next year if it needs to). I've also realized that the resolutions I make should be updated more frequently. Because of this, I'll be keeping up-to-date resolutions on either my wiki or somewhere else....

I'm gonna get straight to the point here. Last month or so, I believed that God was telling me to stop going to college for a year. By this, I mean instead of going back in the fall, I wait another year and go back the following fall. But now, I'm not so sure. The problem lies with whether God really told me that or not. If He really did, then I should do it. If not, I still could, but probably shouldn't (unless I figure out on my own that it would be better in some way). I was really confident back then that God was telling me that, but I didn't really think to myself, "Is this God talking?" or anything like that. Now figuring out whether it was God or not isn't really doubting God, because you don't know whether it's really God or not. If you know for sure it's God and question it, that's doubting God. So another question is what I'd be doing in that year. I would be working on my idea of CUR, where I'd be making YouTube videos fo...

 It all started back in December 2012. Sometime that month, I was sitting down on the couch, reading my Bible. I read a verse and thought "that would be good for a video". The problem with thinking that is I had no intentions to make any videos, so there's no reason I'd ever think that. Immediately after I thought that, I had a vision of making a video for YouTube where I was talking about God. I didn't think much of it then, but I kept having similar thoughts involving making videos, including visions and hearing voices. On February 12, 2013, I was listening to "Unrestrained" by Jeremy Camp, and it inspired me to try to be "completely unrestrained" for God, giving up my fears to focus on God and the Bible (or something like that). Sometime around then, I was recruited by the director of the dinner theater at church to make a video used to promote the dinner theater. The video was to the song "If You Died Tonight" by Big Daddy Weave (...

 At the beginning of the day on March 11th, I was subscribed to 69 YouTube channels. That's not some sort of sick joke, that's the actual amount, and I didn't plan it. Now I'm only subscribed to 14. I got rid of 55 subscriptions! So what happened? I realized how much of my life was being wasted by watching YouTube videos. Admittedly, it's not entirely bad to watch a video now and then, but I was watching them for the vast majority of my free time. As a Christian especially, that's bad. From a secular viewpoint, you're simply wasting your life. But from a Christian viewpoint, you're spending so much time on pointless videos when you could spend at least part of that time with God. Back in July (wow, it's been really long), I decided to do a 1 year limited YouTube fast. It was limited because there were certain reasons I could watch videos. Specifically, there were 10 exceptions. They were: Video is required by college, work, etc. (of course) Video is ...