Yeah Im From The Hood

So I went Gangsta on Buzz today and kicked Andrew's butt in my Gangsta Out Fit. But Andrew beat me the first time around. Check out my fly ride as I busted a cap in Zerg Man.

Pictures

So I didn't take these. I found them here. Thought you all might like to look at some beautiful landscapes.

It's about time.

  PERTH, Scotland, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a formal invitation
sent to former Vice-President Al Gore's Tennessee address and
released to the public, Lord Monckton has thrown down the gauntlet
to challenge Gore to what he terms "the Second Great Debate," an internationally
televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question,
"That our effect on climate is not dangerous."
(http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/20070316_monckton.html)

Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher during her years as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said, "A careful study of the
substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore's film,
An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors,
now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide."

Actions and Dreams

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

- Anatole France

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
- Anatole France

Freedom

The young man stood staring at his cell door. He has finally received his once sought freedom. But now the thought of such freedom begins to cripple him. These walls once felt stifling, he remembers his first night in the joint. It was horrifying. The walls seemed to crush his lungs, he couldn't breath. But now he as he looks out the door he gets that similar feeling. The open door he faces seems unreal, but this is not a dream this time. It is reality, he has his freedom.

He cannot seem to accept his freedom. These walls that once were a prison have become his friends. He has grown accustom to them. He has spent a many a night with them speaking with his friends in his mind. He knows them like the back of his hand, every nook and cranny he has explored. They are more than walls to a prison. This room has become his home. He does not wish to leave.

He cannot remember when the change occurred. These once hated walls became close personal friends. The bed once felt lumpy and cold, but now it feels soft and warm. This change now plagues him. He stands before an open door, a door to freedom, but his feet will not move. They are weighted down beyond his strength. His leg muscles have turned to mush as the blood in his lower veins has turned to iron.

He knows but one cure to this disease. He must remember what this freedom cost. That is what must move his legs now. It cannot be by sheer will power, for that will not help him in this moment. He must remember his dearly bought freedom which he had once before. He now has that same freedom again. He must take advantage of it. He must not remain, it is unnatural for him to remain. His freedom has been bought. Freedom is something that should not be denied, while some choose to do so, this man will not. He has seen others who have had their freedom paid for by the judge. But he didn't meet them as a free man, he met them in here. They were set free but they could not leave. It was unthinkable, so much so that it scared them. They could not walk out of the cell door. There doors continued to stay open, waiting for the day they chose to walk out as free men. For some it will take days, others months, some years and still others will never know that freedom.

This man experienced the freedom for a period of time. But his freedom seemed burdensome. So he choose his cell yet again. But it has finally come. He is choosing the burden of freedom. He will not remain in this cell. Never again will he choose to live in it. To prevent his return he has inscribed the wall. All whose cells are open and all free men know this saying. But some cannot remember it because they have allowed it to slip from their minds. The inscription reads "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!"

If he ever returns he will see the inscription. This inscription will not allow him to stay. So as he reads this again he begins to walk. He exits the door to his former prison and never looks back.

Mark 4:35-41

So I'm working on this thing for the College Group at Church which has made me go back over information concerning Mark 4:35-41. Mark, actually John Mark, you know the guy who ditched Paul and Barnabas which actually caused the two to split ways is the writer of the Gospel of Mark. Well so Mark is writing his Gospel to be told to the church in Rome which has undergone extreme persecution and lost a lot of people due to Nero's crazy persecution where he would light Christians on fire and let them burn in his garden for lanterns. There was also a mass killing of a group of slaves, something like 400, where the church most likely lost brothers and sisters. So needless to say these people know what it is like to endure persecution. Also along this time it seems like some people might be faltering because of what is going on. So as Mark writes his Gospel he has this whole idea in his head that he needs to affirm the Christians to endure what they are going through each and every day. He is telling them to endure. So he takes an actual story, Mark 4:35-41, and emphasising his point of enduring. In Mark 4:38 we see that a great storm has come up and Jesus is chillin in the back of the boat where he is suppose to be steering the boat. As the storm gets worse they, the disciples, come to find out Jesus is asleep in at the helm. At this moment the disciples are thinking to themselves "what the heck is this guy doing" (most likely they used words that were worse or at least I would have). So they wake Jesus up and he gets peeved at them for waking him up, they obviously don't know who this guy in the boat is. He rebukes the storm using language a person would use to cast out a demon in their day and then gets in their faces for waking him up. He asks why they have so little faith and then they think to themselves "Who is this guy?" To which we should respond "He is the Son of God." But thats not the point. The point is that even when we are undergoing the worst storm of our lives we should have faith. We don't need to wake Jesus up because if Jesus is with us nothing else matters. If Jesus is in your boat you know its not going to sink. So the next time you think your boat is going down I encourage you to trust that Jesus is with you. Now may you have the faith to trust Jesus when persecution is going on around you.

"It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man." - Psalm 118:8

Tracking

Yesterday at Disneyland Andrew mentioned taking more accurate readings of his blog concerning how many people actually read it. I thought this was a good idea. So if you use another program to read my blog you will notice that you can only read a paragraph or so of the blog. That is actually not all there is, there is more. So please stop by the site to read the entire blog. Although I'm not sure if this will effect Facebook. If it does I'm sorry.

Take that Mr.

I am now the proud owner of a Disneyland Pass. So my first act as a new pass holder was to challenge Brent to a good old game of Buzz Light Year Astro Blasters. I figured Brent would be much better competition than Andrew or Lauren. Andrew because he is really good and Lauren because she thought she sucked. Also because Brent had only played once and I figured it would be a far battle, we did have equal information. So as you can see from the picture below I kicked Brent's but. But here is the thing that picture is actually Lauren and Andrew's score, Andrew being the #2 man. My score was actually higher, 229,700, and Brent's was lower, 44,000 (or something like that). So I figure for my first time I did very good. I will let you know if my score improves or plummets next time, there will be many more times come to think of it. Supposedly there was some guns that need calibration, but I'm not buying it.


P.S. I have no clue why I felt the need to link you each time I put a person's name. I started it and figured why stop now.

Leonidas Party of 300...

Your table is ready. Your server tonight in Hell will be Satan himself.

On Friday Brent, Josh from Small Group (neither of the blogs to the left) went and saw 300. Overall a very good movie. I especially liked the Cinematography. The film was very visually appealing. There have been very few movies that have impressed me with the visuals and this was one of them. The visuals were very artistic which impressed me a lot. I knew it was going to be good, but did not expect it to be this good.

I also watched something on the actual battle the movie was based on today from The History Channel. For a movie based on a 2500 year old event that was intending to be completely accurate I felt it did a good job considering what I learned from the show. While one should not dictate their understanding of the actual event based on the movie it does seem to get somethings right.

This movie earned an A if not an A+ in my book and I suggest every man go see it. And if your a girl and can stomach the violence of body parts and blood flying you too should see it.

18% Nerd

I finished...

...The Count of Monte Cristo. I finished it on Wednesday. It is an amazing book. If you ever have a chance to read it you should and I suggest the full unabridged version, which makes it really long but well worth it.

Official Big Wheel Race Info

Who is going with me?

7 TH ANNUAL BYOBW
EASTER SUNDAY, 2007
4 PM
TOP OF LOMBARD, SF
BRING YOUR OWN BIG WHEEL
FREE EVENT!
PRIZES!
FUN!
NO RUBBER WHEELS!
PARKING IS AWFUL - COME EARLY TO PARK
NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS!
PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES!

Now You Know...

What I do when I'm up late. Watch this as well.

Big Wheel Anyone?

So I was going to post this video, but it would not let me. So go watch it. Do It Now. Another amazing idea. Who wants to participate?

Got Milk? Aaron Burr

Amazing got Milk commercial from back in the day. Felt the need to share it again.