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I have spoken about this before locally, but it is quite fascinating what one can find. Embedded in a number of Chinese characters are what is believed to be pictographic representations of many of the Genesis stories from the Bible. In this example, the verb ‘to create’ is made up of a subset of other character words. It appears that the Chinese might actually embed both meaning and story within their traditional language. Now that is super cool! But really, how interesting that the Genesis story would be in there. Another tid bit of info… The Chinese culture was once theist, worshiping a singular being named Shang Ti (forgive if any misspelling please).

Amidst the rumors and Snopes denounced stories of Mars coming so close to earth that it would be the equivalent size of the moon, Sydney was hit with a massive red dust storm. The girlfriend of my brother in law took this picture from her flat in Sydney when it hit. I am starting to wonder if I am really on the same planet anymore. Maybe the flight over the Pacific also consisted of some sleeping gas halfway. Perhaps we made a short jump to light speed to take us home to our red planet? Nah… In any case, it is pretty cool that something that affects Sydney would not get us as bad in the Western regions.