Personal Blog Entry

Yup, nothing exciting. Just me talking about my life.

I am turning in an application tomorrow to Pizza Hut. I would be taking
orders and typing them into a computer. Decent looking opportunity. I am
currently jobless.

I am probably going to start College this summer. I plan to take out
loans and get a car and a Notebook. Around here those are necessities,
not toys.

Name Calling.

On an Anglican forum I frequent, there is a debate on the "ordination"
of women to the priesthood. And after explaining our position from both
the Scriptures and the Teachings of the Christian Church throughout the
ages, those in favor of female ordination have started calling us Sexist.

I have also noticed this type of thing in the political realm as well.
On the current debate on illegal aliens, conservatives are often labeled
as "racist nativists".

I am neither a sexist nor a racist nativist.

1) I believe that Women can hold any secular position she desires.
However I believe there is one realm where women are at all limited. It
is clear in Scripture, that in the Church, women are not to be in
authority over men. I do not view women as inferior but simply different.

2) I am not a racist. Anyone who comes to our country through legal
means is welcome regardless of race. I simply do not support a porous
border for Terrorists to walk across. I also do not like the drain
illegals put on our economic system. I say again, if you get in line and
prove who you are, and prove you can contribute to our contry. Welcome in.

Name Calling is Silly.

Dixie Chicks Discussion on Ed Shultz

I intentionally have started to listen to both Conservative and Liberal
Radio. I want to be able to say that my conservatism is one of
intelligence. I want to hear what people who disagree with me have to
say before I pass judgement on them.

I am Listening to Ed Shultz on Air America Radio. He is talking about
the Dixie Chicks taking back their Apology. Here are two things he has
said to this point.

1) That they were brave in doing so.

2) That they as Americans have the Right to say what they want. And that
it is foolish for people to boycott them, and spineless for radio
stations to refuse to play them

Here is my response.

1) It isn't brave. I say what I think all the time, even when I disagree
with the President. What is the Big deal? There is no Big Brother Bush,
and I am not afraid. I say what I think. And they are free to do so as well.

2) Yes, as Americans, they have the right to say what they will.
Absolutely. As a Conservative, the freedom of expression is one of the
rights I hold dear. However, I also support the freedom of expression of
those that boycott the Dixie Chicks as well. The Radio Stations can play
them if they want, or refuse to play them if they want. Freedom goes
both ways.

They can say what they say, and we can protest them. Welcome to America
Mr. Shultz.

Star Trek and Christianity

Does anyone else notice that in Star Trek, Christianity (and any
Religion for that matter) are looked at as old fables, or Mythology?

Christianity is demoted to the status of the Ancient Greek and Roman
Religions.

That 70's Show

Last night, a major part of my youth ended.

I know That 70's Show was just TV. But it was a major part of what I
will remember when I think back to my youth.

I actually had an emotional response watching the last show. At the end,
you had the five original friends, sitting in the basement, minus the
annoying replacement. Eric and Donna are back together.Michael is an
idiot, not a 40 year old dating, monster truck driving Punk. Hyde is
going on about the car that runs on water.

Ah. I know it will run in syndication, but I will miss it.

Disgusting

Just click the link.

http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/wc.dll?main~di~&vt=71883&idx=1SZ16RUNQ&idc=1&idi=I18670&ids=&idd=&pn=1

Update

I obviously haven't updated my blog for a few days. I think I should for
fear of neglecting it as I did with my old one.

Nope, no political or Religious topics today. Just a stupid personal entry.

We got the new computer today. The DVDRW drive was messing up, we
brought it in for them to fix, and after two weeks of waiting for a
part, they allowed us to just trade in for the same model.

So far the Drive is working.

Listening to Underoath's "The Changing of Time". I love this Album.

The Sun Still Sleeps.

My Dog's ears are hurting him. Poor guy. I gave him some Epi-Otic and
some Benadryl
.
He's already feeling better.

Fox just broadcast a nice piece of Bile.

I am a huge Simpsons fan. I have watched that show for almost as long as I can remember.

But I am frustrated by tonights episode.

In a nutshell, (I want to go to bed) Seven day Creationist Christians are painted as closeminded idiots who manipulate the court system to help them cope with their sense of denial. I am not a seven day creationist, yet I have much respect for my brothers and sisters who hold to their view based on both Scripture and Scientific findings.

At the end they put forward a nice speech by Lisa to cover up their obvious bias. In short she commented that she respected Flanders' Beliefs and could see that he held them very strongly.

In other words, It's okay to be an idiot.

Simpsons used to be fairly neutral politically and Religiously. However with this episode and a similar one concerning Gay marriage, they can no longer claim this.

I will continue to watch Simpsons, but not as happily as I used to.

Hey all.

Here's a question.  Feel free to leave comments, I'll discuss it with you in the comments section.

What justifies war? What makes a war not sinful?

There is no God but YHWH

There is no God but YHWH, and Christ Jesus is His Son, Messiah and Prophet.

"Allah" of Islam is no God, and Mohammed is no Prophet.

I am a Christian, and I despise Islam.

Playstation 2

I just pulled out the PS2 for the first time in a few weeks. I played a
bit of Metal Gear Solid 2, Star Wars Episode 3, some PS1 games and a
game of Rugby. Wonderful System.

I am hooked on Gran Turismo 3. Yes, admittedly I am behind the times,
but a good game is a good game.

Yes. As I told you my blog is schizophrenic. It is my blog, and I want
it to be freeform.

Enjoy!

Kennedy

I am not going to jump on the bandwagon that it seems every single
conservative Commentator wants to ride home.

I have no reason to believe that Mr. Kennedy is lying when he says he
was on a sleep aid. I have personally seen the effects of Heavy
medication. I know what these drugs are capable of doing.

It is not out of reason to state that a man who was on two heavy drugs
got confused and disoriented.

Conservatives are quick to call Liberals sharks who jump at blood in the
water (which sometimes they are), yet they are doing the same.

Grow up. This has no bearing on politics short of a dumb cartoon that
will probably be found in the next Newsweek.

An Interesting Article written by an Online Acquaintance

Simon_Templar of Christian Forums and The Fellowship of St. Michael's, makes a few good points.

His Blog is here.


After living in the culture of America today I've become some what innocuated to the various view points that we would generally refer to as "liberal". I see them so often that they, through being common place, have lost any sense of extraordinariness, or unusualness.
However, there are moments when I read something, or here someone talking and it suddenly strikes me that what they are saying.. and the thought process behind it are truly extraordinary in both the realm of 'common sense' and in the realm of history.

This is particularly true when it comes to discussions on the ongoing issues of conflict with Islam. We are in a situation in which a group of people have violently attacked us and our allies. Although 9/11 sticks out as the pivotal moment to us, the truth is that muslim terrorists have been perpetrating such attacks for decades.
The response of many people in our society to this is to go out of their way to sanitize and protect Islam. Has there ever been any time in history, in any culture, when such a thing has happened?
When faced with an enemy intent on your destruction and death, people respond by doing everything in their power to ignore the aggressive actions of the enemy and instead demand that their enemy be viewed as peaceful and tolerant.

It is truly incredible in the purest sense of the word... it would not be believable if it were not happening right in front of my eyes.

There is a universal truth that no person or group of people is so totally and completely evil as to have no human or 'good' qualities.. and likewise true that no person and especially no group so good that they have no vices or sins.
I remember one day when I was watching the history channel and they were airing one of their many specials on hitler and the nazi's. In one section they showed home video of hitler at his mountain retreat. He was affectionate with Eva Braun, and playing with his dogs... if you saw only that, for all the world, you would have thought he was a nice, likeable fellow.

This truth is in some ways a great benefit because it can allow us to look with christian charity upon the worst of men... but it can also be a curse because it often causes us to call evil good, because we can't abide that someone we find likeable could be evil.

So when I see, in conversation, Christians who demand that Islam is peaceful, and tolerant, while at the same time decrying Christianity for its abuses in medieval spain, I know how they can accomplish such a total reversal. If it were merely propaganda by someone who knows better, that would be one thing, but what I can not understand is how they can be so blind as to actually believe it.

Sure, the church had its abuses, the inquisition most readily comes to mind.. but for more than a thousand years the church actively taught against violence, and actively sought to end war and violence in europe using the full weight of their power to restrain the warlike nature of men not long removed from their barbarian ancestry.
Yes Islam has had teachers who were non violent, and one sect that was devoted to peace, but for more than a thousand years the religion as a whole has taught advancement through war. So completely dominant was this philosophy, and such and integral part of the religion was war with infidels that for most of Islam's history it was considered a SIN to make peace with an infidel unless advantage required it, and every peace made with infidels was by definition considered a temporary truce until war became advantagous again.

Yet today CHRISTIANS will ignore the 1500 years of antiwar/non violence teaching and work done by the church and focus only on the failures of the inquisition

AND at the same time, ignore the 1000 year's of war and violence by Islam and focus only on the few token statements about peace that Islam can offer

This is the kind of thing I expect from anti-christian bigots and those who are actively out to destroy christianity.. but christians?? How can they possibly be so blind?

Christians today will ignore the fact that Muslims the world over are KILLING with joy and pleasure our christian brothers.... and march in solidarity with muslims to protest the insensitivity of a cartoon.

This is insane. To my knowledge an occurance like this, on this scale, is unique in history.


I know that one of the major causes of this is the fact that people have been indoctrinated with an anti-western (and thus anti-christian since the west was founded upon christianity) view point. The contradictions present in the liberal view point on these issues are so huge as to be laughable... if the consequences weren't so dire.

The liberals, champions of freedom and tolerance, champions of women's rights because they have been indoctrinated to hate the truths of christianity (even when they are christians) will go out of their way to support religions that denegrate women, and cultures that deprive women of even their most basic human rights, but they turn on christianity, the one religion that gave women freedom and equal value as antiquated and anti-woman.
They stand up for religions that are founded on social castes(hinduism) and on the most extreme form of religious intolerance, outlawing conversion and even going so far as to execute people for it (Islam, and hinduism). Yet they attack christianity because it is so intolerant as to think that some beliefs and practices are wrong, and that people sin.
They are champions of 'the people' yet they support cultures and religions that are totaly autocratic (virtually every muslim country is a despotism). Again, they attack christianity, the one religion that gave birth to the concept and the realization of a free society.


The great irony of the terms "liberal" and "conservative" rest in the fact that they are entirely relative to the cultural context. Liberal favors change of the cultural norms "freedom" from the cultural values.. while conservatism strives to preserve the cultural norms and values.

Consider then what liberal really means in the context of a free, good, society. A society founded upon the idea that everyone has the right to live their own life and believe what they want so long as they don't infringe on others.
Our cultural values and norms are freedom, individual rights, the rule of law, logical and reasonable thought. So by deffinition, liberals in our society are people who want to be free from freedom, individual rights, the rule of law, and logical and reasonable thought.

They are succeeding

The New Black Panthers are nothing but Racist Punks.

I listened to Sean Hannity yesterday. He interviewed a member of the New Black Panther Party. He made the Comment along the lines of "White men have been raping black women for years". He provided no evidence of his conviction that the Duke Students raped the woman. He also claimed that this is an issue of Privilaged white boys assaulting a poor black woman, again assuming Guilt with no evidence.

I don't care about the color of anyone involved in this. If they raped her, they should go to jail. If they did not rape her, they should not.

Fair Application of the Law.

And now, my thoughts on the ABC not attending GC in COH

(I tried to fit as many acronyms as I could in that title.)

Let's see.

1) The Biggest Crisis in the Anglican world concerns the ECUSA's action to ordain a homosexual Bishop (Amongst other things).

2) The Body involved in this unilateral action (Liberals love that word, I thought I'd use it against them) are having a conference where this issue will be discussed and debated.

3) The Good Dr. Williams believes he has more important issues to attend to.

Wussy.

The Archbishop of Canturbury will not be attending the General Convention.

Archbishop Williams Won't Attend General Convention
5/2/2006

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, has declined an invitation to attend the 75th General Convention in Columbus, Ohio, next month, citing pre-existing obligations.

The Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, and the Archbishop of Canterbury “did talk about this some time ago and it is not possible on the Archbishop's mid-June calendar,” an aide to Bishop Griswold told The Living Church.

Sources at Lambeth Palace note the absence of the Archbishop of Canterbury is not intended as a snub to the Episcopal Church, but arises from the scheduling of a “series of consultations” designed to keep the Anglican Communion from falling into “schism.”

On April 24 Archbishop Williams met with the Archbishop of York and the bishops of Bristol, Durham, Exeter, Manchester, Norwich and Winchester, along with leadership from the Church Mission Society, the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Anglican Consultative Council, and Anglican Mainstream at Lambeth Palace to discuss the Church of England’s options given different potential outcomes of the June 13-21 General Convention.

During the previous week, Archbishop Williams met with the Presiding Bishop at Lambeth Palace to discuss the situation within the Episcopal Church. After the meeting, Bishop Griswold told the Guardian it was important to keep channels of communication open with the leader of the Anglican Communion.

“We both live under stresses and strains, and it is important not to have second-hand communication, to meet face-to-face," Bishop Griswold said. "It enables me to hear his concerns and he can hear some from me.”

Archbishop Williams’ absence from Columbus will be the first time the Archbishop of Canterbury has not visited General Convention during a Presiding Bishop’s tenure since the 1950s. In 1997, Archbishop George Carey attended the 72nd General Convention in Philadelphia at which Bishop Griswold was elected Presiding Bishop while Archbishop Robert Runcie was the guest of the 1985 General Convention in Anaheim, Calif., where Presiding Bishop Edmund Browning was elected.

(The Rev.) George Conger

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From http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/printarticle.asp?ID=1957

The Immigration marches.

I'm not scared. I did not change my mind.

Illegal immigrants still have no right to defy the laws of a sovereign nation. They tell us that they simply want to come here and be law abiding citizens. However, I would like to comment that they are already lawbreakers by being here. They have only proved that they will only obey our laws as far as they suit them.

Crazy.

Legals, come please be part of our society. Welcome to our great nation.

Illegals, you have only proven yourselves to be law-deriding criminals.

Potential immigrants, please come, but do so through the proper channels. It will be better for both of us.

An unimportant personal blog entry.

Today we went up to Jim's house. We did like usual.

He and dad remembered stories from their youth and discussed family stories.


Then we debated a few things quite loudly. Then we left.

It was fun. He should be back in June.

My September 11th Story.

September 11th 2001 was a day that none of us should ever forget. The Price of freedom is indeed eternal vigilance. While all of this has boiled down to political sqwabbling amongst the politicians, some of us prefer to remember that day for what it was, the day America was forced to wake up. I write this as much to tell my small part of this story, as much as to write it down in case I should forget the details.

I was in my eighth Grade English teacher's, Mrs. Grahm's, class during first period. I forget what we were doing at the time, but I remember when the new principle of the school walked into the class and whispered to Mrs. Grahm what had happened. As I sat close to where they were standing at the time (and since I am a nosy person) I overheard her say "Somebody has hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Center." (At this time Flight 93 had not hit the ground.) I remember being more specifically afraid of the fact that they hit the Pentagon as opposed to the Trade Center. As I did not know at the time that it was an Airplane flown by terrorists, I assumed in my naieveity that this was an attack by a foreign nation involving more conventional weapons. A kid asked me as we walked down the halls what was going on. I responded "We just went to War". I might have said more, but I don't remember.

A short time later we were brought to an assembly. As the whole day was a blur, I cannot remember if it was a short time later or an hour or so. I also remember (probably before the assembly) that we grouped a few classes together and watched the news. I remember ranting to classmates that we were on the verge of a war definitely, and possibly a global one. I was not far off. Although I had imagined a declaration of war on a foreign nation within a week.

I knew it was terrorism by the time I left.

My mother had come to pick me up from school early that day, not knowing if something similar could be happening elsewhere. As we drove that day, I remember the sky seeming so empty. I don't know if it had to do with the grounded planes, or if it was my imagination, but I am unlikely to forget that feeling as long as I live on this earth.

We went to pick up dad from a doctor's appointment that he was at. We went to a back room where several people (I assume a mixture of Patients and staff) were busy watching the news on T.V. I don't remember how long we were there.

When we got home. We watched the news all day. I remember eating a lot of leftovers from the night before. A pasta dish with cheese melted on top. It was great. I don't remember ever having it again. I don't know why the pasta sticks in my head so clearly but it does, and anything that sticks out in my mind, I want to write down.

My father called the navy to see if they could use him. They could not (for age and health reasons). Dad felt the overwhelming urge to do something, to fight for his family (family is more important to him than country) but he could not. We told him that we needed him here. He heard us, but he still felt frustrated that he could not help fight.

After hours of fixation on the T.V., my parents decided that we had to have some sort of break from all of it. We played videogames. I think I played on the Sega Genesis.

I don't remember much from that point on.

I remember watching for days afterwords (especially Wed. the 12th) what had been discovered. I did not go to school for a day or so.

REVOLUTION NAMED!!!!!!

Nintendo has given the official name for the Revolution project.

The console is now known as....



Nintendo Wii.

Now, to get my hands on one......