February 2012
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Hunger Games becomes popular, sale of bows and arrows skyrocket.
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Question, does anyone know of someone who has an open room in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
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evolving into adam
So is the earth millions of years old or only 6,000 or so? Can’t I believe in the Big Bang and evolution? Maybe God used evolution to create Man? Maybe those 6 days that God created the universe isn’t literal? It would make more sense if we interpreted it figuratively rather than literally. In this way we can believe in the God of the Bible and yet hold onto our beliefs in...
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cracking ribs
I was having dinner with a very good bro recently and we wound up in a discussion regarding relationships. It’s something that has stuck with me all week so I’d like to stick it to your lives as well.
When God created Adam, Adam was in the image of God. In the same way that God was complete in and of himself, Man was also complete emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. In...
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January 2012
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moritzstiefeldoesntdosadness asked: WHERE DID YOU GET THE YFW 10th LP?!?!?!?!?!
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Anonymous asked: oh harro my awesome american cousin! LOVE your tumblr btw. also, america photos are up on facebook. go check them out? lots of love from the land down under xxx
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Prayer request
So in the last month I’ve been really looking into moving closer to NYC. It’s where I work and where I feel God has been calling me to reach out to the community. God has been showing me the plight of the average New Yorker through encounters and conversations with the unsaved. Whether on street corners, pizza parlors, or in the office, I’ve seen there’s so many lost...
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“Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and...”
– James 5:17
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“Christians, especially young Christian leaders, are often so influenced by all...”
– Mark Driscoll, Radical Reformission
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“Our goal is not to avoid drinking, singing, working, playing, eating, love...”
– Mark Driscoll - Radical Reformission pg 152
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Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year
So this is...
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December 2011
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“I wanted to be loved because I was great. A big man. I’m nothing. Look—the glory...”
– Jack (Brad Pitt), The Tree Of Life
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My Thoughts On The Tree of Life TTOL
I heard raving reviews from a few trust-worthy (yet probably pretentiously snobby) critics and decided to get myself into Oscar mode by watching it last night.
Things I loved:
I loved the main narrative, where Sean Penn’s character reminisces about the past and the film reveals snapshots of his childhood. It was a depiction of the typical 1950’s childhood I think I know so well. An...
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Thoughts On Midnight In Paris
I sometimes have this pretentious nostalgia for a past that I have no intimate connection with except through literature, art and music. I’ve talked about how I was born in the wrong time period, how I wish to escape this artless, bland, stale present and to the Golden Age. I ascertained that it was a more radiant time then, before greed and selfishness bled out the human desire to enjoy...
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Do you like muzak? Do you like my music taste? ... →
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An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn’t answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
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That student was Albert Einstein.
Brilliant.
Just blew my mind.
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Good luck in the political minefield
The constrained (Republican) vision views human nature as selfishly sinful and places its hope in restraining our sin through the law. The unconstrained (Democratic) …. optimistically perceives human nature as basically good and capable of perfection in this life through social planning, including public education, government programs, and social services.
Reformission requires that we get off...
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“Because here’s the thing. When the Lord tells you to step out, He gives you the...”
– Glynda Lomax (via lifesdramas)
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So why are you running away?
And the book brings us all, like Jonah, under the conviction that we love the things God has given us – homes, cars, hobbies, health, friends – more than our great cities and the spiritually blind people who annoy us. We pass these people every day and ignore them because our minds are consumed with ourselves rather than with our God and our neighbor. RadRef 106
Going to Matthew 25, Jesus...
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“But values can be tricky because they are often little more than ideals, what...”
– Mark Driscoll, Radical Reformission pg 96
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The Gift of Giving
What does it mean to be in the Christmas Spirit?
Wiki Answers: What is the Christmas Spirit http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Christmas_spirit
Christmas time has always been the season of giving. Giving presents to your friends and family, giving toys to underprivileged children, and/or giving your time by working in soup kitchens. Out of all the seasons of the year, Christmas is the time...
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Kevin Devine - Splitting Up Christmas
And I have...
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Something Corporate - Forget December
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Fall Out Boy - Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
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Matt Costa - Cold December
All the birds are...
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So I met my Australian cousins yesterday
And they were sorta awesome. I gave them my tumblr URL since I’ve dropped off Facebook. If you guys are reading this, “Hey!”
Thanks for the vegemite, cheesymite, and Tin-Tams :D
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Whatever went away I’ll get it over now.
I’ll...