August 18, 2008

Two political posts in one day... oops. This was a entry on the First Things blog a couple days after the Civil Forum at Saddleback.



I doubt it Sen. Obama.

Really Good, Yet Really Dumb

Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

I must say, first of all, the design and animation in this is superb. It is visually stunning. The music is decent as well. I enjoyed the whole from a design perspective.

But, to say that Barack Obama is hope, is absurd. To put so much emphasis on a human being is ridiculous. He's not going to change everything. He's not going to make everything "right." Don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of either the candidates. I'm not saying this to promote McCain. I wish we had a real leader to vote for next week, but unfortunately we have to play with the cards we dealt ourselves. And, if I here Obama quote the Declaration of Independence again, I think I might throw up. I'm not sure how he can read it with confidence and actually trick himself that he believes it. Maybe if he did believe it, he would take seriously the part about "all men" being created with "unalienable rights" and on of those rights is Life. If he believed that, he wouldn't be pro-abortion.

Now I'm worked up.

Pray for me.

So Long Flickr

So, a month or so ago, I decided to delete my old Yahoo! accounts that I don't use anymore. Success! It worked and I was glad to shed some of my immature past (speaking of the names of my E-mail accounts and their silliness).

Fast forward 10 minutes.

I think to myself, "Self, let's check your Flickr." Thats when I realized I had done it. Flickr is a company connected to Yahoo!. Therefore, I use my Yahoo! log in information to gain access to my Flickr account. Therefore[x2], I inadvertently screwed myself and cannot log into my Flickr account.

All the above is mentioned to simply say, when the time comes and I easier access to camera equipment, I will be posting more photos on this here blog. Sorry to bore.

Beginnings

Today was a new beginning of sorts. It feels good.

Hm?

Last week, via Dr. Mooney's Blog, I came across this post on Justin Taylor's Blog. The post consisted of the quotes above. I read the title and was very intrigued because I also believe "just me and my Bible" is insufficient. Upon reading the first quote, I not only disagreed with him, but also, I believed his understanding of, as he puts it, "the infallibility of tradition" to be lacking. Interestingly enough, I do believe he is moving in the right direction, just down the wrong path.

An Interesting Article

I was first introduced to the journal, First Things this summer by Bradley. Since introduced, I have gone so far as to subscribe to its daily blog, while at the same moment not gone so far as to subscribe to the actual journal. (Though I do plan on it in the future.)

Go read this article, which I found very interesting today as it is a very contested subject.

This morning, the thought even crossed my mind to put creamer in my coffee.

Quickly after that thought, another thought came to mind.

That second thought being: "I ain't no woman."

We Live Together

Reflections in Darkness

As I type, I am sitting in my room. Its a dark room at the moment. The blinds are open letting in what little light is left in the day. Behind me, the light is on in the bathroom and even though the door is open, the light is not powerful enough to illumine my dark room. I can hear the noise from the fans in my computer. They are, at the moment, doing a swell job keeping my baby cool. Though. admittedly, sometimes they do fail at their job and in those times I want a new computer. On top of my computer, there are six books. There is one novel, five history, but one of those histories is the Bible. I actually heard before that the Bible is classified as a comedy rather than history. I can never remember why that is though. There are polaroids on my wall, which allow me to reminisce upon last year. I just began to hear psuedo-gun shots from the living room. Now there are the sounds of digital men fighting intensely in a hand-to-hand combat form. Sometimes I wish I could fight as well as one of those digital men. Sometimes I think about how being able to fight like them would be useless, mainly because I don't get into fights. It still might be cool though. In the stillness of my dark room, I think about the last four years of college, but more like the last three because I just started my fourth. As "they" say, "Time flies." In that thought, and mostly anytime when someone quotes "they," I wondered who this "they" is. After that thought, I think about the new friends I've met recently. I think to myself, "Entertaining folk" and "Genuinely good people to spend time with." As I sit here, I am waiting for the sun to go down a little more. The thought of a pipe smoke leaves a pleasant ringing in my ears. When I go outside to partake of the most treacherous sin, tobacco, I think of how nice the cool weather will be and how much it will enhance my smoking experience. Before I do that, however, I need to brush my teeth because I ate dinner not too long ago and from what I hear, most people don't like the smell of bad breath.

My Backyard

This is becoming one of my favorite places to sit. The thing is, you can't actually see where I like to sit because I took the picture from that place. So, all you get is the view I have.