This blog is basically an experiment. This might end up being something special that I enjoy, invest a lot of time in and watch something unique grow. It might never be updated again and thus a complete waste of time.
I started this blog because I read a very convicting blog entry of my friend Molly's, whose blog I had basically only glanced at before. I'll leave out the specifics, but we're always sinning and I've been sinning in many ways for a long time that should change. I'm not acting the way I should be, not thinking the way I should be and not praying the way I should be. That should change and by writing my thoughts out I hope to organize them better. I hope to discuss a wide variety of issues, some personal, some spiritual some related to very awesome bits of technology.
I chose the name Exclusive Or for two reasons. It's a basic building block of digital circuits as well as a fundamental logic expression in many areas that involve logical thinking such as math. Do you know the old joke, where if someone asks you are you a girl or a boy and you reply yes. This makes sense because you are either a girl or you are a boy. Exclusive or of this situation would mean, are you a boy and not a girl, or a girl and not a boy? Essentially it means mutually exclusive. This brings me to the second reason for this blog, which is that often things are or appear to be mutually exclusive in life.
After all to follow God I must not be of this world, yet how do I separate myself from it? I'm stuck here physically until either Jesus returns or I die. It seems I inevitably fall into worldly ways. My life seems to be full of these things. Thus it seems like an appropriate name for a blog.
