• 19Oct 12

  I'm back!

  My pilgrimage year is essentially over. I just recently returned from Jerusalem for the Fall Moedim. It is good to be back at GS!

  And now I get to find out about the mass of changes that occured here during my absence!

  • Posted Oct 19, 2012 1:23 am GMT
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• 2Nov 11

  Fair thee well!

  As mentioned in my last blog, the time has come to leave. I did intend for it to be right after that blog, but then I was asked to be the subject of the hotseat thread in OT, and I figured that would be a good way to end my time here and take my temporary leave.

  Anyone who wants to contact me can do so at TriforceOfOwnage at gmail.com.

  • Posted Nov 2, 2011 11:51 am GMT
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• 22Oct 11

  To Everything there is a Season...

  Yesterday (or Today, depending on your timezone)marked the eight year anniversary of this account on Gamespot, as I registered on October 22, 2003. I spent four years of that time as a standard user account and four years as a moderator.

  And now I think it's time for me to take a REALLY long break from the site. My reasons are personal, and I'd like to go into them now.

  For many years I have heavily flirted with atheism, and eventually settled for agnosticism instead. But that time came to an end for me sometime around the beginning of this year. It was a bit of irony frankly. When I left "faith" many years ago, I did so because something happened that shook that faith and made me unable to continue in it. Early this year, I actually had something happen that did the opposite -- it shook my conviction that I didn't really believe, and didn't need "faith" to continue my life. Since that time I've been investigating and seeking again to know what I am being led to, as I really have felt led to something.

  As a result of this, I returned to being a Torah observant follower of Yahushua HaMashiac. I don't know how much of a surprise that is for some of you. I've made no real secret of it, though I haven't really been broadcasting it loudly either. In any case, part of being Torah observant includes the observance of all of the Moedim, which are essentially the Appointed Times which Yah commanded in the Torah to be observed from year to year.

  These include three very important pilgrimage festivals which were commanded in the Torah to be observed in "The place where YHWH chooses for his name to abide" and are called "hag". The first of these is "Hag HaMatzoh" in the Spring (Festival of Unleavened Bread), the second "Hag HaBikkurim" in the Summer (Festival of Firstfruits), and the third "Hag HaSukkoth" in the Fall (Festival of Tabernacles). The place where this is to be observed had changed a lot during the first part of Yisrael's history, especially in the days of Yahushua ben Nun and the Shofetim (Judges), it was mainly in the North, specifically in the area around Mount Gerizim. However, when Dawid became Sovereign of Yisrael, he moved this with Yah's guidance to Yerushalayim. There is never any other statement in scripture that the place has moved anywhere else since that time, even after the Heykal was destroyed (Temple).

  Granted, many of the Torah requirements for these Festivals cannot be observed without the Heykal, but I still feel compelled to observe the Festivals in the land of Yah, specifically in the place of His name. Hence, I have essentially decided that next year will be a pilgrimage year for me, and I will be going to Yerushalayim to observe them. That's three trips, which is going to be quite expensive and taxing, but even more so, it will require a lot of preparation on my part.

  So I really feel I need to change my priorities. I am usually very disorganized, with all aspects of my life merged together where I cannot tell one from the other. Being a workaholic never really bothered me, because I was always doing everything else I enjoy nearly at the same time. But I need to change that for this year because the undertaking is a bit too intense for me to juggle things in this erratic fashion. I also need a lot of time to adjust my attitude and seek out Yah's guidance and acceptance. This isn't something I can do casually.

  I certainly will return as a moderator at some time in the future, but I think for now I need to cut myself off from the site completely. In all honesty, I am not even sure I can do that to the extent I am stating here --this site is a bit of an addiction to me. I intend to try though. Either way, at least the time being, any returns to this place should be as a user and not with the responsibiliities of a moderator.

  • Posted Oct 22, 2011 10:34 pm GMT
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