Bear Mountain
Monday, November 29, 2004 12:22 PM
Mountain High
Friday, November 26, 2004 05:30 PM
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:51 AM
Man what happened to her? So there's some weird charity which involves star's autographing staplers and auctioning them off. Jennifer autographed and kissed hers!!! Paris Hilton has one to! They even got Bill Gates to!
The Passion of Society II
Monday, November 22, 2004 05:31 PM
So a gazillion (like that's a actual unit) years later some brave educated anonymous soul responds to my "The Passion of Society" entry. So I got a comment on that entry if you look closely I'm re-running Mr./Mrs. Anon's response below..I'll be interjecting in a different color.Please note my color choice. :-PSince I don't have Mr./Mrs. Anon's proper email address (so sorry for the lack of privacy) I'm going to use this wonderful medium to respond. You also seem like a really well versed individual even though you don't site any kind of text other than the horribly error ridden religious text (a.k.a. The Bible). For those of your who are mere bystanders in this entry (and of course no insult to Mr./Mrs. Anon) I'll be highlighting the SAT/GRE words and linking them to Webster.com so the rest of us can concisely know what is going on!Heatxsink,I never heard of 'The Passion of Society' until I reached your above post by Googling 'Anonymous Evangelist' because I was contemplating being an 'anonymous evangelist' myself (though 'AnonymousEvangelist/JesusFreak's' reply to you seems insipid to me, though perhaps not untrue). So I just came into this movie (of your thread, if you will) and don't know what happened before and have only been here a few seconds, having not even read previous posts in the thread to get oriented. But, even with this naivete, I am still motivated to respond to your post:Cool, sounds like fun, and don't worry I only rant on religion probably less than the number of digits on a human hand!! Quite frankly I was outraged by society's response to the film!! And that motivated this entry in the blog, or thread as you so fittingly put it.My guess is that you are responding to 'The Passion of the Christ' by Mel Gibson and 'The Passion of Society' is just a pseudonym for Mel's movie, but, in a sense, that is beside the point. I wanted to respond to your post's contents, not necessarily what motivated them.Yes, good observation!What you, and everyone else for that matter, need to realize is that you are deceived. Your religion, so-called Christianity, has been hijacked by the devil about 1600 years ago, if not before that, shortly after it was initially formulated by Yahoshuah (Jesus Christ, if you prefer). Constantine was a manipulator and his decrees and pronouncements bringing thousands of pagans into so-called Christianity did not 'convert' them.The pagans' religious holiday observances then displaced (and overcame) 'the Truth once revealed' to the early disciples, replacing God's Holy Days (revealed in the Bible) with the pagan holidays common to so-called Christianity ever since. This so-called Christianity is actually an ancient religion ante-dating Yahoshuah but just given the name of 'Christ' in order to subvert the true message of our Savior. Then the Protestants came out of this mother harlot (of which Methodism is one of her daughters) in protest but their protestations did not go far enough to restore the true religion.Would this mean that one of the most translated and sacred books of this doctrine which is Christianity is flawed? Heavens no I had no idea!For instance, do you know how to count to seven? Most pre-schoolers do. It is not very hard to do that! Yet most doofus theologians apparently don't know how to do that: Just read the fourth commandment of the Ten Commandments and realize that the etymology of the very word 'sabbath' includes the meaning of the number 'seven' itself. Then look at a calendar (but not the new 'modern' ones that start on Monday and end on Sunday, which perpetrate the hoax even more egregiously), count the days in the week and see which one is the seventh day. Most so-called Christians don't know how to count to seven because their doofus theologians and denominational leaders either haven't realized this or are too caught up in the hoax to change it and begin to obey God instead. So, like I wrote, they and you are deceived. Logical Deduction, logic is great isn't it?Now if your religious leaders are deceived (and they are) and you are too, don't you think that you might end up frustrated by the foolishness and stupidity that they end up spouting because they don't even realize, by and large, what is important or what they should be doing with their ministry? They dumb down their congregants, fleece them and provide a sort of country club where they can come and share some social contact but it is all phony because they don't know what they are doing or ought to be doing.I think that was precisely the point I was attempting to make, but thanks for putting it in that context!The system of so-called Christianity is not just 'already possibly flawed', it **is** definitely absolutely 'flawed'!! Blow the dust off of your Bible and read what it really says. Don't expect to get any enlightenment from your pastors. They don't even know what the word 'faith' means! It is defined in the Bible itself and the Bible's definition is the opposite of what you will learn from your so-called Christian religious leaders. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, not a way of kidding yourself that certain truths are true in the absence of that evidence!!Okay we know from everything that exists till today, that "real life" situations are never determined definitive. Unless it's a court of law, even then there exists a certain margin of error. So to say everything is flawed is just as bad as saying everything is perfect! So I'm going to have to disagree with your statement above. Secondly, how can I gain information from a religious document that has _SO_ much error in it? I mean I've read it, I've tried to take from it the good that has been taught and apply it to everyday life. What _MORE_ could/should be done?The true God does not expect you to be a fool but the theologians were blind sided by misinterpreted Godless philosophy about a hundred years ago when philosophers more-or-less declared that hard science is rational and that religious belief is not rational. Actually, true religion *is* rational. All the irrational stuff is part of the deception of the devil. But beyond that, people today are hoodwinked into thinking that God does not exist, that evolution is true or, worse yet, that the earth was created out of nothing a mere 6000 years ago. Common sense and the punctuated equilibrium found in the conformal strata found from the bottom of the Grand Canyon on up through the Great Basin states and coming out on top in the present in Wyoming easily disprove that, yet many so-called Christians are being led even further astray from common sense by a doofus 6000-year-old-earth theory! Heisenberg's statistical quantum mechanics was misinterpreted by the philosophers to 'prove' that God plays dice and that 'therefore' there is no absolute truth. Again, nonsense! To measure canonically conjugate QM variables to arbitrary accuracy beyond the value of Planck's Constant means that the measurement perturbs the experiment so that accuracy is lost. But that does not mandate a **philosophy of QM**, as Heisenberg wrongly insisted, which is driven by pure random chance. There could be (and IMO are) 'hidden variables' (see the old book "The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics" by Max Jammer to understand this), unmeasurable by man because his measuring instruments can't measure below Planck's Constant with arbitrary accuracy, and those hidden variables mean that everything in the world [driven by the four forces known to conventional physicas in 4D spacetime -- i.e. excluding living processes that have associated superimposed electrical 'fields' guiding them (see "The Fields of Life" by Erwin Schroedinger), and excluding God's or other 'spirit' world beings' 'miracles'] is causal -- i.e. predictable by non-arbitrary, non-statistical cause-to-effect forces and principles -- i.e. 'God doesn't play dice' just like Einstean thought. So Heisenberg didn't get this and the philosophers grabbed onto this straw and hoodwinked nearly every public/secular elementary school teacher into assuming that morality itself has no anchor and that 'situation ethics' is the best we can do if we look to physics as a basis for morality -- throwing out God and the Bible in the process (even though such an adjustment to moralistic philosophy would be a non-sequitur even ***if*** Heisenberg's statistical philosophy of quantum mechanics *had* been true)! The religious leaders are so doofus about this rational reality that they can't even 'talk the talk' of what I just wrote. It is over their heads. Yet they are hoodwinked by it like nearly everyone else just as surely as the sun rises in the morning.Quantum mechanics is fun!Therefore, to many prideful hard scientists they think their agnosticism and atheism is on solid ground but they have been deceived by the vain philosophers also. Very few people have studied the hard sciences with an open mind to learn the truth plus blown the dust off of their Bibles to see what **it** really says also. It's all compatible. All the stories that religion is irrational and hard science is rational therefore they can't agree [so, in a sense, you have to be an evolutionist six days a week and a Creationist on the first day of the week (check your old style calendar)] is a bunch of bogus nonsense but very few people have figured this out because they have all been deceived! They don't even have faith because they don't even know what faith is! It isn't kidding yourself. It is **proof** that the Bible and the claims in it, including those made by our Savior, are true.Sure I agree with you on that, but there still exists a certain amount of error and one cannot just ignore it!Are you willing to get educated about religion, heatxsink? If so, post another reply in this thread or e-mail me.I always open to learning a new perspective on anything. And, well I posted so comment again!I agree with you about evangelism. My own religious denomination's doctrines have gone off into the weeds also but I do not have control or influence over the denominational leaders who are proud of their newly earned ThDs they got at the Methodist seminary and they think they have already figured everything out, being happy going back to the vomit the dogs puked up and we had ourselves vomited up when we repented originally decades ago. But they think that Methodist puke is really good tasting food and are trying to shove it down our throats. So I don't have a stomach for trying to evangelize people into our apostate religion either anymore, even though we are encouraged to do that. I am somewhat like a man without a nation, but I try to be a pillar, nevertheless, for other members and try to set a good example even though denominationally we are in a profound state of apostasy. There are very few people who understand what I have written to you here (and to whomever else reads this post and can understand it).Please reply, keep whatever true faith you have, and best wishes!I'd like to really thank you for your post. Even though a certain amount of error exists, I still have my faith. If my fellow man needs help, I help him/her. We can't just go around being selfish. Regardless of religion/beliefs etc... In short I think that's what the intention behind religion and all of that really is. There is also a spiritual side to things as well, but that's on a personal level with the individual and their ideals/beliefs. Anyways, I look forward to your reply, and really spending some more time learning about religion.
Weekend
Monday, November 22, 2004 10:08 AM
Next Week
Sunday, November 21, 2004 08:47 AM
Starting tomorrow work should be quite easy, got some really simple tasks I've drawn up and hopefully will accomplish before my holiday starts. I haven't yet decided as to drive/fly down, or stay up here, veg out, and "do nothing." I have no idea what to do. At times like these it's tough being 6 hours and 420 miles away from the homeland! It's funny, no one ever comes up here, cause I think there's this illusion of nothing to do up here, accept do the tourist thing.It's rather discouraging **shurgs** but hey, I guess the real point is just seeing people and keeping in touch. It seems like a one way street, and it doesn't help that everyone is doing their own thing. It's great I don't blame anyone why would they want to come up here?
More Taoisms
Friday, November 19, 2004 11:50 PM
ColorsColors blind people's eyes,sounds deafen their ears;flavors spoil people's palates,the chase and the huntcraze people's minds;goods hard to obtainmake people's actions harmful.Therefore sages work for the middleand not the eyes,leaving the latter and taking the former.
TJ's
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:04 PM
Alright I used to give one of my friend's a lot of shit cause his mom shopped at Trader Joe's. But I never gave it a chance, nor did I have the time to go and check it out. I have gone into Whole Foods Market, and saw that a majority of the things were pretty expensive, so I assumed that Trader Joe's would follow suit. I was under the assumption that all places that sell health food are expensive and just trendy, and hence I should be turned away by the price and non conformity, not the quality of the food or it's origin, and most importantly the health benefits.
CLIFF Bar
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 04:24 PM
Very Great Leaders
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 03:35 PM
Very great leaders in their domainsare only known to exist.Those next best are beloved and praised.The lesser are feared and despised.Therefore when faith is insufficientand there is disbelief,it is from the high value placed on words.Works are accomplished, tasks are completed,and ordinary folk all saythey are acting spontaneously.
Powell vs. Clinton
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:00 PM
Found this article that states that the republican committee is urging Powell to run in 2008!! I'm wondering how he would be as a president?
I really think they should run Rice against Clinton.
To Keep on Filling
Monday, November 15, 2004 08:50 PM
To keep on filling is not as good as stopping. Calculated sharpness cannot be kept for long. Though gold and jewels fill their houses, no one can keep them. When the rich upper classes are haughty, their legacy indicts them. When one's work is accomplished honorably, to retire is the Way of heaven.
Fort Mason
Sunday, November 14, 2004 02:47 AM
Hung out at Fort Mason Friday and Saturday night. It was fun to hang out and just mingle amoungst all of these people at the hostel. Met a guy from Australia that is a cullinary chef, also met this really nice corporate lawyer from Canada. We started asking the lawyer guy all about IP law, and what it's like to be a lawyer, and what his job entails, it was rather encouraging. All the chef guy talked about was getting laid!!!
It was also nice to catch up with an old college friend and see how both of our lives have changed since our awesome times at Cal Poly, and kind of see where we want to be in the future. I also encountered this weird sign...
Blah
Saturday, November 13, 2004 02:54 PM
Life is fucking weird.
Bush..A good old boy.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 02:49 PM
I was reading this article about the Bush's Inner Circle of advisers and it had this one section which depicts the president as a guy that knows how to have a good time. I think it's funny weather or not it's true well that's another story...here's the excerpt...As the holidays approached, the Bush White House was as jolly as Rove. On Dec. 20 the Bush daughters, Jenna and Barbara, both college seniors, decided to hold a blowout for their friends in the Executive Mansion. Jenna, a young lady with her father's eye for a good time, had heard about a band from Nashville that was a big favorite at Southern good-ole-boy fraternity parties. The band, formally called the Tyrone Smith Revue, was better known as Super T. The bandleader, Tyrone Smith, would appear for the second set wearing a red cape and a bright blue jumpsuit emblazoned with a giant T.The Tyrone Smith Revue set up in the East Room, usually used for press conferences. Shortly after 9, when the drinks were flowing and the kids were starting to glow, Super T swung into "Shotgun" and summoned the president, the First Lady and the twins onto the stage. "I want the Secret Service to stay back!" he cried. "I'm taking over now!" Super T began to instruct the First Family in a dance called the Super T Booty Green. ("Put your hands on your knees. Bend over. Shake two times to the right, shake two times to the left.")The First Family got right down. The crowd erupted. Super T picked up the beat; he later recalled hearing a familiar voice cry, "Go, Super T!" He looked back to see the president of the United States hollering and shaking it like in old times at the Deke House. Laura Bush gently put her hand on the president's elbow; the frat brother subsided; the chief executive returned to duty.The Bushes went to bed that night at 11:30, about two hours after the president's usual bedtime. As he dozed off, or tried to, a conga line twisted along the red carpet he usually walked down for formal press conferences. (Before the president retired, Super T offered to play at the Inaugural. Bush just grinned.)
Attorney General
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 01:12 PM
Amazing a hispanic Attorney General??!!!!!
Losers need Therapy?
Tuesday, November 09, 2004 05:47 PM
I've been trying to speak completely impartial to the entire presidential race and all of that, another friend of mine found this article that talks about Kerry supporters seeking therapy!! Here's a snippet of the article which i found quite outrageous.Georgia resident Andrew Veal, 25, reportedly killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head due to Kerrys loss and a girlfriend problem.OKAY we've all been there where we were just soo pissed off at our girlfriends that eatting a bullet might seem like the solution. I like how it's written....Andrew Veal, 25, reportedly.. ya twisted and turned... killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head due to Kerry's loss....oh ya and he had a girlfriend problem too. Geez!!! Read that remark in context of that article!!!There's also this article which goes into a lot of detail about being on the campign trail with Kerry, it's written by MSNBC which i have to say is the most near the middle as news should be!!!!
Thank You Tara Reed
Tuesday, November 09, 2004 02:29 PM
An old friend of mine has hooked me up with a cool article that I just _NEED_ to share with everyone! There's a picture too...
Spirit
Monday, November 08, 2004 01:04 PM
A recent situation has really started to make me question organized religion even more. I mean why be apart of a organized religion? Sure it might strike a cord with you while one sits there like a zombie and realizes oh ya that's what I'll do, I should do whatever this guy up on the pulpit is saying and I'll be a better person. And hence my spirit has been cleansed!!! That entire statement as "Homer Simpson" like as it may sound is how I view organized religion. Now for the masses, that's perfect! I think it's for some but not all. I also think some people should be free to do as they want. I mean living life, comes with many lessons to be learned. I think the best kind of realization is one that comes with discovering it for yourself! If there was a creator, I think that creator would want us to realize our wrong doings and not repeat them. Not having some guy up on a pulpit to tell you hey (knock, knock, knock) wake up, you're not suppose to be doing that, cause that's not what someone from this group should be doing. Sure the social aspects of church are nice and all, but as usual when resources are scarce, guess what pops up? That's right you guessed it, POLITICS. I've seen nothing _BUT_ corruption, and very little genuine good. If i have to move to San Francisco, walk barefoot, and wear tie die shirts to find genuine people then so be it!!! Lets hope I don't have to. The church is man's obfuscation, of what is spiritualness in our own eyes. So what is the difference I'll cut out the middle man.
Relaxed
Monday, November 08, 2004 12:45 PM
I had a relaxing weekend. It's been a long time since I can actually feel good about waking up on a monday. It's usually that...."aww I have to get up to goto work?" feeling but today was..."alright lets work."
Expressions
Friday, November 05, 2004 05:39 PM
Expo '86
Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:45 AM
Another great song...gotta love it! I think it's the rhythm of this song, and for some reason theres a certain way the lead singer from this band resembles how the band Cake drops their chorus. But of course the lyrics are the best part.Artist: Death Cab for CutieTitle: Expo '86Album: TransatlanticismSometimes I think this cycle never endsWe slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb againAnd it seems by the time that I have figured what it's worthThe squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worseBut if I move my place in line I'll loseAnd I have waited the anticipation's got me gluedI am waiting for something to go wrongI am waiting for familiar resolveSometimes it seems that I don't have the skills to recollectThe twists and turns of plot that turned us from lovers to friendsI am thinking I should take that volume back up off the shelfAnd crack its weary spine and read to help remind myselfBut if I move, my place in line, I'll loseAnd I have waited the anticipation's got me gluedI am waiting for something to go wrongI am waiting for familiar resolveI am waiting for another repeat,Another diet fed by crippling defeatAnd I am waiting for that sense of reliefI am waiting for you to flee the sceneAs if you held in your hand the smoking gunAnd on the floor laid the one you said you loved...And what's strange is they're all basically the sameSo I don't ask names anymoreSometimes I think this cycle never endsWe slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb againAnd it seems by the time that I have figured what its worthThe squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse
Silent Majority
Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:27 PM
So now that Kerry has conceded, I bet a ton of misinformed people will riot or something. I think they are totally missing the point. There is this silent majority of people that exist out there, and we are not happy with the way things have been unfolding as far as our government and the "so-called" voting choice that we Americans have been fooled into thinking we really make. I mean what elects the president? It's the electoral college. And of course after the last elections fiasco, this time around only one media affiliate was able to give Ohio to Bush, and that was MSNBC.com @ 11:00PM Nov. 2nd. I honestly feel that the media should stay out of this stuff, and just allow poll results to be fed into a website and that's it, no commentary necessary. It's like taoism or something, when something is spoken it looses it's meaning. What is the difference between me just picking up a paper the next morning and reading about who won? Why do I need 8 channels all mimicking similar pictures and spiting out semi-accurate data? Because that's what the American Government wants you to do, they want you to feel comfortable, sit back, relax, eat a TV dinner, and get feed the bullshit. It's sad, why else do people spout off "Moore Facts", and CNN tidbits? Now granted, I am also guilty of the same thing in the past, but this time around, NO! When are all of us going to say enough, is enough? When will this change finally come to a head? In all ways I hoped for a tie, so that our government would be pressured by the media, and lastly the people, to do something about how this process works!! Unfortunately, a tie didn't occur, and just like months after 9/11 our society will go numb and shun past events for the lastest reality TV series, and other garbage broadcasted on those TV airwaves. When will all of this become more apparent to society, that there's no reason to take a side and hate the opposing? We are all pawns in this game, the rich stay richer, the hard working, work hard, and the poor, they stay poor!Neither side is right, or wrong, it's really the politicians against us! Kerry was talking about a divided america in his speech!!!!!!!! Who is really responsible for dividing america? Now i'm not just pointing the finger solely at him, I'm talking all politicians, and media outlets are responsible! I think also in a way blame could also be put on us the people. I mean we should realize we have a choice, not to divide ourselves! What difference does it make that whoever you wanted to become president didn't get in, that shouldn't matter because reguardless of who you vote for that doesn't mean that canidate is going to fly out to your house when a decision is going to be made! So why get mad at your fellow man? We all need to realize there's bigger things going on that need our attention. This country was founded on freedom of speech! Respect eachother reguardless of who we voted for! And lets start to put energy into ways of spreading change in ways that really matter and that we have definite control over!
Electorial College
Tuesday, November 02, 2004 06:42 PM
Voting Bullshit
Tuesday, November 02, 2004 09:34 AM
Beware, all the propaganda that you'll encounter via any media medium. Make the choice for yourself, don't let stupid TV ads, or radio ads, or worse even celebrities (i.e. Sean Penn, or Matt Damon) influence you!
When you get the chance everyone should watch this eminem video. Check it in Real or Windows Media formats.Back
Monday, November 01, 2004 05:06 PM
I just made it back to work. Wow, what a long weekend.
