hey,
since the server became inactive like a year and a half ago life's been pretty busy, occupied with other things.
I'm entering my third year in college earning 3 associates, all in CIT, i.e. networking, cyber security, and systems administration. over the summer I'm helping set up new computer labs at multiple campuses.
in my free time I'm doing a custom restoration of a 1976 camaro, will include pictures below. just got it painted and been working tirelessly and meticulously, working every detail, for the past week. I bet I've rewatched transformers 20 times going frame-by-frame on the scenes that car was in. It is truly a labor of love though.
as far as this minecraft server goes, will I start playing again or not, who knows, it all depends. I have no interest in playing video games right now, that doesn't mean I never will again, and that doesn't mean that my property on the server is a free-for-all, so don't get any ideas you heathens
the main reason I played was because the concept of justice and how it played out in a voluntaryistic society. the way justice use to be exacted was with prison pearls, where there was actually a way to punish/deter thiefs and murderers, but when they were removed there was no point. that's what turned me off ultimately, the server was way more exciting when prison pearls was a thing, there's just no denying it.
I've also undergone a very special journey where I'm part of a core group of people that is planting a brand new church in our community. our mission is to serve God and others by reaching the lost and unchurched. our focus is on one specific area code and we have the opportunity to reach close to 18,000 people in that area. the way we're going to reach them is, rather than sit behind brick and mortar and wait for them to come, we're going out into the community ourselves. we're actually going to a local park this weekend to grill steaks and hot dogs and give them away. things like that allows us to form relationships with people and possibly share the Gospel with them.
if you manage to get the opportunity to talk to a complete stranger about religion, you'll be amazed by the kind of responses you'll get, what kind of stories you will hear, even though I live in the part of the country that is termed "the Bible belt", you will still get negative and closed-hearted reactions, so be prepared for that.
thinking back to when I first joined this server, which iirc was July of 2012, almost 6 years ago, I've grown a lot as a person, learned a lot, I look around and see other people my age (20) or younger, hardly anyone that age cares about philosophy or theology, what's the best political system, if any, what is truth, what is right or wrong. and i think to myself, man, at 14 I was learning about voluntaryism, lol, on a minecraft server.. just crazy
for those of you reading this who are followers of Christ, and I know there are, pray not only for me, but pray for this new church and for the soon-to-be pastor
to close it off I'll say this, a community like this is rare, the amount of wisdom and life lessons that it has and could still impart on people in the future is vast and I do hope it will continue to do that.
