Two recent incidents caused me to return to my academic field. It is good to be reminded about the shortness of life. During my seven months of stay here in South Korea, I experienced twice the difficulty of breathing and unusual pressure on my left chest. I worried about my kids. I also thought about the memories I will be leaving behind. This caused me to blog about my kids.
I asked myself, what's the use of working here abroad and writing about Austrian economics and libertarian political economy and yet my children are left untrained in the word of the Lord? It's an unwise use of one's life. Ultimately, people will not be bothered in case of my unexpected departure. Nobody cares whether I continue to exist or not. It's my children that will be affected the most. So I better give them the attention they deserve and so they will know what's my inmost desire for them.
The other incident was the collapse of my WordPress blog, Studies in Economics. My three-month work was lost due to reason that I don't know what it has to do with me. My web host made an announcement that financial institutions in the US were experiencing attacks from sites mostly coming from WordPress. And so I assume that WordPress sites underwent "cleansing" from those who want to remove the mentioned threats. This incident caused me to loose interest in writing further for that blog. It is as if I am investing my time on a project that can easily be erased by unknown entities. My lack of technical knowledge in blogging is a major setback.
So I decided to return to Blogger. At least here, I am not paying anyone. If someone will take down my work in the future, I just accept it as that's the way the blogging world works.
Theology is my academic field. Both my bachelor and master's degrees are in this field. It's my search for answer to economic problems that caused me to cross to Austrian economics and libertarian political economy. In this blog, I will still continue my study of these two fields. But this time, my primary emphasis will be what the Bible has to say about existing crisis and how Reformed theology responds to it.
