So I have definitely have concluded that people in Hawaii DO NOT know how to merge, and that one single deficiency in that driving skill creates unnecessary traffic on the roads here. When living on an island you wouldn't think that there is much traffic. Dead wrong, the traffic here is pretty horrible during rush hours. With no mass transit system and a strong dislike for even funding and building one, there seems to be no relief anytime soon for the traffic woes. Now, you wonder why I say that Hawaiians cannot merge. Simple answer. When ever there are onramps, the whole "yielding" thing doesn't really apply. They either 1) treat it like stop sign and just let every other car in or 2) just think they own the road and just continue driving and push their way in. Also, at pretty much every major merging or interchange the traffic is backed up for at least 1/2 mile. I decided it was enough when I came across on the freeway, they were doing construction on the 3 most right lanes. There were 2 other lanes open and then merging into one lane about a mile of two lanes. The two lanes merged into one because the onramp needed its own lane, don't ask me why they did that. Anyways, when the two lanes merged, it was pretty much stop and go traffic, on a Sunday with no reason to have stop and go traffic. After the merge spot, you could easily speed back up to the speed limit of 55. As in immediately after the merge spot you could do that. Also, the speed limit was 15....yes it was weird. Normally you would see the speed limit to be 25 at least in a contruction zone. I have come to realize that on average, the speed limit is 10 miles per hour lower than that of the mainland.
The other thing that I wanted to bring up was that, there is this family at church that seems to be having family issues. Now it's not a one time thing, it seems to be an ongoing occurance since it comes up about every week. From what one sees every week it would look like that the sons (3 sons) just drag down, demoralize their mom every week. I guess after talking to them a bit last night, that it seems that way because I "don't know the whole story". Granted that is true, I don't know the whole story and in some ways, I don't know if I want to know the whole story. I can only comment on what I see and what is shown, not really what is not told to me. Sure extrapolation I could probably do with bits and pieces that I pick up, but I don't want to do that. Anyways, if you could, can you pray for the family. They seem to be having a lot of problems overall. They have recently become believes (< 1 year). In short, the sons don't believe that their mom is "saved". The mom feels like she is getting dragged into alway religious conversations at home because pretty much that is what her husband and sons always talk about. The mom also feels like the husband isn't pulling his weight (i.e. proving income to the family, being a figure head of the family, helping with the family, etc). Granted I guess he hurt his back and has had surgery recently to fix it, and he should be better in about 2 weeks I believe. The mother also feels like all that the rest of her family does is just read the Bible (not saying that is bad) and talks about prophecy (also not bad). In my opinion though, if those are the only things that you ever do, it can be bad.
My reasons are 1) you aren't really fulfilling the great comission. You aren't going out and sharing the good news and making disciples of all nations. 2) you aren't shapening others with the Word of God. Granted if you talk to each other, you are sharpening each other, but different ideas are sometimes good and for growth. Different ways of thinking and disagreements and talking through the disagreements are beneficial. 3) you have no friends. If you just stay inside all the time and all you know how to talk about is prophecy, you will most likely have little to zero friends. In this case, it does seem that the two older brothers have very little to zero friends, wel besides me that is. 4) getting a narrow minded view of what is going on in the world. If you just read certain articles or from certain websited (just mainly prophecy websites) you don't know what else is going on in the world. I personally think you can get a lot out reading "secular" papers if you know how to filter things correctly. Putting together what you get out of the papers and what you know about scripture, then I feel like you can put together a better picture when sharing the gospel and talking about prophecy to someone. 5) you tend to piss off people if that is all you talk about. I have a high tolerance for things. But when talking to at least the eldest brother, all he ever talks about is prophecy. Did you hear about this ______? Did you know about this ______? Granted I do know about most of the things and if I may be so bold, more than he does about what is going on in the world because I read the news. I don't get it from my dad after he reads things in the news. Anyways, I've been trying to get him to talk about other things, get involved with other Christians on the UH campus. 6) you tend to be a lone wolf when it comes to doing things. Going back to #3 of having no friends and #2.
I could probably go on and on. I might have to expand on this if things tend to get worse or if I get the whole picture of things. But enough with that. In other news, Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides I thought was much better than the last rendition. Obviously the viewers thought so as well since it made like $90 million here in the US and like $218 million worldwide. I also got to hang out with friends for the first time in like 4 weeks. It was pretty amazing. I've had 2 days off in the last 30 days I think now. Yeah....about that. Till next time.
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