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Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Thursday, 21 February 2008

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    Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
    By Foo Fighters
    Statues
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    Stealing from David Crowder

    This seemed a fun way to get to know you. I stole it from David Crowder's Xanga (emprise34):

    some pals of mine asked this of me, and now i ask it of you:

    1. grab your preferred digital media player.
    2. push play in shuffle mode.
    3. report here in the comments the first 10 tunes that pop up.
    4. i’ll comment later with my list as well.
    5. cheating is prohibited, as it would be in poor taste.
    6. this will decide whether you are a likeable person or not.
    7. at least that’s what my friend steve told me.
    8. when he said this, the part about being a likeable person, i panicked.
    9. but it turned out he was kidding.
    10. sort of.
    11. he did seem genuinely bothered by the two bee gees tunes though.
    12. i mean, 2 out of 10!
    13. that’s quite a lot of bee gees really.
    14. but what i’m trying to say is don’t cheat.
    15. you’re still a great person.
    16. at least i think so.
    17. well, maybe.
    18. i mean, we don’t really know each other, so it’s sort of risky for me to say that, the you being a ‘great person’ thing.
    19. i mean, you could be someone who pulls the wings off of fairies and such.
    20. so, if you’ll just comment back listing the 10 songs, then i think we’ll know each other a little better, and can then perhaps make statements about one another definitively.
    21. concrete things like, “oh, i see you like the bee gees.”
    22. of course i’ll deny it and say, “no. i mean, yeah, i like that one song, but i wouldn’t say, ‘i like the bee gees.’ i wouldn’t go that far. no.”
    23. then you’ll go, “i’m sorry, we can’t spend any more time together.”


    ps. if you typically read at a safe distance without comment, i humbly request you make exception and allow this to be your introductory entry as i'll need representation from the silent majority.

Friday, 12 October 2007

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Friday, 16 February 2007

  • Currently Reading
    Bridge to Terabithia
    By Katherine Paterson
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    iPod and Cell Phone Ban in NYC?

    The other day, the DJs on the radio were discussing a New York politician’s push for a new law banning pedestrians from listening to their iPods or talking on their cell phones while walking. Let me just say I don't think it's going to work out, but something else caught my attention / made me think. The law proposer said he personally walks while listening to his iPod / talking on his cell phone but says he will stop doing it when the new law is passed. The DJ said something to the effect of , “Why does he do it if it’s wrong?” I felt that she missed the point in a way – the lawmaker wants to pass a safety standard that is good for people (in his eyes), and even good for himself, not saying that walking while talking on the cell or listening to the iPod is wrong. This made me think of the spirit of God’s law. We don't follow His standards simply because not following them would be wrong, but because He set standards for us for our good and His glory, not to prevent us from doing something "wrong." How much of what I do or don't do rests on simple black and white views of "right" or "wrong," versus truly seeing the character of God? What do you think?

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