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   THINK BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION Though these four words were not original with him. . .they exploded in my spirit and I’ve been meditating and provoking close friends with them ever since. Let’s start by establishing a very basic fact.  There are only two ways you can see something. First, with your natural eyes. Second, with your imagination. The word imagination is defined in the Merriam Webster Intercollegiate Dictionary as: “the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality.” Your imagination is the thing that allows you to see the future before it happens . Here are seven things, reasons, ways and keys to think beyond your imagination. # 1       Imagination is not bad, evil or unproductive. . .but we may be. Your imagination is neither good nor bad or evil. . .it becomes whatever you decide it to be. If God created your imagination. . .He meant it for good not evil. Many Christ

  A Quick, Painless Introduction to the Java Programming Language Contents 1  Why All This Hype over Java? 2  Learning Java 3  A 1-Minute Introductory Example 4  A 30-Minute Example      4.1  Example Program      4.2  Source Code      4.3  Creating Objects      4.4  Class/Instance, Public/Private      4.5  "Pointers" in Java      4.6  Setting Up Arrays      4.7  Java's "this" Construct 5  Exception Handling in Java 6  I/O in Java 7  Strings in Java 8  Debugging Java Programs 9  Classpaths and Packages      9.1  Classpaths      9.2  Packages      9.3  Access Control Revisited 10  Jar Files 11  Inheritance 12  Advanced Stuff      12.1  What Else Is There to Java?      12.2  How to Learn The Advanced Stuff A  How to Obtain and Install Java 1   Why All This Hype over Java? For the past few years, the press has been full of sensational stories about Java. Like most coverage of computer-related coverage in the pre