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You Are Homer Simpson

You're just an ordinary, all-American working Joe... With a special fondness for pork rinds and donuts. You will be remembered for: your little "isms" and philosophies on life Your life philosophy: "Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel."

The Simpsons Personality Test

Another one

You Are 48% Open Minded

You aren't exactly open minded, but you have been known to occasionally change your mind. You're tolerant enough to get along with others who are very different... But you may be quietly judgmental of things or people you think are wrong. You take your own values pretty seriously, and it would take a lot to change them.

How Open Minded Are You?

thought so

You are a Believer

You believe in God and your chosen religion. Whether you're Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or Hindu.. Your convictions are strong and unwavering. You think your religion is the one true way, for everyone.

What's Your Religious Philosophy?

Had to send my computer in for repairs.

They have absolutely no clue what is wrong with it. The theory is that it is a problem with the new Ram I had installed. They have sent it in for repairs, and it should take over a week. But with our experience, it may take longer.

So I am kinda stuck to the Desktop for a while. I hope my baby comes out okay!

Lol

Been playing a lot of Mario Kart DS on my free time.

I was crashing for my midterm earlier today. Gotta get back on it tomorrow. Gonna take the test saturday. Prayers please. I am not exactly prepared for this one.

I believe

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth.
And In Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified, died and Was Buried.
He Descended into Hell.
And on the Third Day, He Rose from the Grave according to the Scriptures. He ascended into Heaven, from thence He shall come to Judge the Living and the Dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of Sins, and the resurrection of the Body, and the Life in the World to Come.

Amen.

--
In Christ, the Living God,

John ><>

We might be getting the car fixed tomorrow.

My uncle might be coming over tomorrow.. or I think Saturday? to fix the car.

The Brakes in the car went bad.

So now we have to give up the route, and wait a month or so and get a new car/get this car fixed. It is kind of odd, getting used to not having to go to bed really early lol.

I don't know what to do with myself.

My stupid S key sticks a little bit. It gets irritating. All the keys on my computer work very smoothly, except the one underneath my left ring finger. Drives me nuts.

Bought the Jim Gaffigan CD. That is on funny album.

As I have posted already, some of the pressure is off concerning school. Both of those tests that were freaking me out are already taken. Don't know what the grade on the second one is yet.

Sitting here typing this, surfing the net, and watching baseball.

My Firefox was acting up, but tech support told me how to fix it. Great stuff.

I've got Heart Shaped Box running through my head.

Some Stress Belief.

I took one of the tests early today. Whoo. Got a decent score on it.

Going to study a bit more and take my PHilosophy quiz tomorrow. Logic is interesting, but draining. Played a videogame for the first time in days.

God is Good.

Praise Adonai.

It gets worse....

I lost my Humanities book.

School is crushing my lungs.

My procrastination has caught up with me. I have two tests due wednesday, neither of which I have studied for. I am sitting here with no motivation. I hate shool.

Must study stupid things.......

Sitting here...

At a few minutes till ten, getting ready for bed, so I can get up at midnight, and do the papers. Not as bad as it sounds. But Sunday's are our worst days. Fortunately we also get paid more per paper.

Financial aid came in, I'll be buying Microsoft Office, a virus scan, some memory (Ram) and a warranty for my new Laptop.

However, my first and second purchases with it were Pizza, and Tony Hawk's Underground 2. (Funness indeed)

Great balls of wonderfullness.

Oh yeah, we will hopefully be attending St. Mark's tomorrow.

--
In Christ, the Living God,

John ><>

Update.

I have been working on school.  Bought a computer.

--
In Christ, the Living God,

John ><>

Loving Considerate Liberals.

I absolutely love the sterotype of the Loving, Considerate Liberal, who loves and cares for everyone, regardless of their race, gender orientation.... or creed. (Unless of course that Creed is conservative).

I have gone through a bout of sinful anger and depression due to the "Loving" liberals on a particular message board calling me Mysogenist, Xenophobic, Homophobic, and an Oppressor.

I just happen to peek at the board set aside for liberals on the website in question, and see several threads bashing and tearing down
"fundementalists" (a term they inaccurately use to describe all Conservatives, wheter fundy or not) for their "Judgementalism".

The whole thing reminds me of the pharisee at the Temple.

To Paraphrase.... "Thank you Lord that I was not born Judgemental like those Cruel Bigoted Conservatives"

I have been deeply hurt. And I am frustrated more than I can ever remember.

 
In Christ, the Living God,

John ><>

Didn't go to Joe's Party today.

I was going to go to my friend's Graduation party today, but everyone
was tired from the paper delivery today. We all came home and fell asleep.

ECUSA elects woman to Position of Presiding Bishop.

Well, they have shown the World they don't plan on Repenting.

I wonder how quickly we will be showing higher numbers in the REC and Continuing Groups.

Doors wide open Brothers and Sisters, Breathe the Fresh air.

--
In Christ, the Living God,

John ><>

Sunday Paper Delivery is crazy.

Moday through thursday, delivering a Paper is not that hard. The major difficulty is being up at 1:30 Am. But Coffee fixes that Problem.

However, Sunday is Killer. We have hudreds of papers (Wheras on weekdays we have a little over 100) to stuff bag and deliver by 8:00. We end up starting the day at 11:30 PM Saturday. It is 10:49, I have been up since around 11:45. I will probably crash here soon.

But, I must admit, I actually enjoy it on weekdays. We pay for it on Sunday.

Pray about the General Convention.

The Episcopal Church is now making decisions that will decide the future
of the Anglican Communion. While I am not a member of the AC, but am a
part of the Reformed Episcopal Church, I still pray that they do the
Right thing.

ECUSA needs to repent, or Ecusa will be abandoned by orthodox Anglicans.

I just registered for classes today

I know that it is late, but I finally registered for classes today.

I am taking Basic composition, Intro to HTML, Pop Culture, and PC
applications.

Whoo.

Cry me a River.

*Sorry. Won't buy the junk. I believe homosexuals are people deserving
of respect. I believe Christ died for them. I believe that many are
sincere in their faith and simply confused.

BUT I WILL NOT ALLOW A BUNCH OF RENEGADES CHANGE THE FAITH HANDED DOWN
FOR 2000 YEARS IN THE SCRIPTURES AND TRADITION OF THE CHURCH!

From http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-06-12-god-gays-cover_x.htm

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By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY
Every Sunday there's an intense struggle in the souls of some believers
as one religious denomination after another battles over the rights and
roles of homosexuals.

Gay or not, progressive or traditional, those who disagree with their
denomination's stance wonder:

Should they leave their church?

Has their church left them?

Is this any place to find God at all?

The questions are as fresh as the headlines: lesbian Methodist pastors
defrocked, or conservative Episcopalians distraught over a gay bishop.

And they're as old as Christianity itself. Early fathers of the church
ruled on which teachings were heresy and which were "true."

"Denominations have fractured since Day One. The very word 'denominated'
means divided," says Boston University sociologist Nancy Ammerman.

This week the national governing bodies of two mainline Protestant
denominations, the Episcopal Church USA and the Presbyterian Church
(USA), debate their views on gay clergy and same-sex unions, and whether
the denominational rulings or local churches should have the final say.

But while leaders argue, ordinary people soldier on.

Many, gay or straight, seek a community of souls that welcomes them and
shares their sense of the scriptures and the sacred.

It may mean staying in their church of a lifetime, finding ways to
accept — or overlook — teachings or practices with which they disagree.
Or decamping for a church more fitting to their current faith. Or
walking away from any church to pursue a personal spirituality.

• Boston architect Jim Cullion, 52, is halfway out the door of Trinity
Church because, he says, the historic Episcopal church didn't take a
stand for gay men such as him during Massachusetts' same-sex marriage
battles. "A lot of Sunday mornings now, I just walk in the arboretum and
reflect. ... I'm very hurt. I'm very sad."

• The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, 55, not only left the Episcopal
priesthood but also wrote a book called /Leaving Church/ on why she
hardly attends. One reason: In religious disputes, "human beings never
behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are
protecting God," she says.

• The Rev. Jo Gayle Hudson, 52, had no choice but to switch. Once a
Methodist deacon, she was outed as a lesbian and booted from her post
just days before she was to be ordained as an elder. Now, she's a United
Church of Christ pastor, rejoicing in the Dallas pulpit of the Cathedral
of Hope, the nation's largest gay church.

• Brian Flanagan, 28, a cradle Catholic, openly gay and studying to be a
theologian, says not even an unbroken line of rulings from the Vatican
can drive him from this church. "What's central to me is how this church
talks about Christ, about God," he says.

There it is, the three-letter word that makes all the difference.

Not S-E-X or G-A-Y but G-O-D.

"Gay Catholics, like women who don't like the church's stance on
ordination, tend to place those things on a lower level of authority
than the church's teachings on fundamentals such as the resurrection and
the Eucharist," says the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author
of /My Life with the Saint/s.

They want to stay with the family, the songs and prayers of a lifetime,
because it's a familiar road to the divine, because they have hope for
change, even if it's not in their own lifetime.

"They say to themselves, 'I accept the most important part — the creed —
and the other things I will strive to change and hope they will change.'
It's like being a proud American but disagreeing on foreign policy,"
Martin says.

Still, about 16% of Americans say they have changed their religious
identity during their lifetime, according to the 2001 American Religious
Identification Survey. They may have switched denominations when they
married or moved or just because they didn't like the music or a new
preacher, Ammerman says.

"The openness of American culture encourages people to feel they needn't
stick where they were brought up. They can try something new if they are
dissatisfied," she says.

"They can leave the farm, and they can leave the faith."

Most of the growing denominations and non-denominational community
"Bible churches" in that 2001 survey were theologically conservative
denominations with no openly gay clergy or no same-sex unions blessed.

When the Rev. Mark Coppenger, a Southern Baptist, started a new
conservative Evangelical church in Evanston, Ill., in the heart of
Chicago's liberal North Shore, he soon found students switching in from
liberal Protestant churches "where they didn't find what they later came
to cherish in biblical teaching and preaching," he says.

Doctrine does play a role in the ways religion reflects and shapes
society and culture, experts say.

"Whether it's the 1840s and slavery, the 1960s and '70s and women or the
1990s and 2000s on homosexuality, what is on people's minds in their
communities will show up in their churches," Ammerman says.

Once, black people, women and homosexuals were viewed the same way by
the leading theologians of the times: "They were all cursed by God in
Scripture, inferior in moral character and willfully sinful and
deserving punishment," says the Rev. Jack Rogers, former head of the
Presbyterian Church (USA) and author of a new book, /J//esus, the Bible
and Homosexuality/.

Eventually, most churches found a biblical basis for changing their
stance on race and gender but not on homosexuality.

The largest U.S. denominations — Roman Catholics, Southern Baptists, the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) and Lutherans in
the Missouri Synod — clearly proclaim that homosexual behavior is a sin.

They don't allow a different theological direction, however welcoming
individual congregations may be. Change is not on their agendas.

Ammerman forecasts it could take another generation before mainline
Protestant groups set a clear direction.

Last summer, the United Methodist Church voted down all proposals to
liberalize its views on homosexuality, including a motion to acknowledge
that "faithful Christians hold differing opinions," but the issue is
sure to return to the 2008 agenda.

And the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America began a four-year process
of examining its views on ordaining gay clergy and blessings for
same-sex unions.

Rogers wonders whether churches can afford the wait, particularly when
some, such as the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, are losing
members at a rate of 40,000 a year, he says.

"Young adults today can't understand what the fuss is all about. Their
lives are color-blind. They have gay friends and straight friends. They
have good values, but they don't stay with the church," he says.

"The gay rights battle isn't the main reason, but it's one of them. They
don't see in their church a lens to see the world."

And people of all ages "are really tired of all this (fighting)," Rogers
says.

"Most people just want to get on with thinking about Jesus."

Posted 6/12/2006 5:15 PM ET

A sick response to Al-Zarqawi's death. (Further thought on earlier post)

I am glad we got the guy. He was dangerous, and he is no longer so. It
is an unfortunate necessity that we kill men in war.

However, I am appalled at some of the responses I have heard on talk Radio.

Rush Limbaugh said he hoped Zarqawi suffered and begged for help. He
said he hoped he felt immense pain, and that the U.S. Army would drag
its feet in getting him medical help.

Glenn Beck joked about handing out cake in celebration.

Yes, I consider myself a Conservative, and for the most part enjoy these
shows. However I am foremost a Christian, and I am saddened by the fact
that this man is most likely in Hell. We are celebrating a wasted life?

Beck especially. While I do not consider him an orthodox Christian (he
is Mormon) he claims the name of Christ.