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3.31.2004
How can this be? Why is he the chosen one? Saint gone astray With a scepter and a gun Learn to believe In the mighty and the strong Come bleed the beast Follow me it won't be long Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Straight is the path Leading to your salvation Slaying the weak Ethnic elimination Any day we'll all be Swept away You'll be saved As long as you obey Lies Tools of the devil inside Written in Holy disguise Meant to deceive and divide Us all Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Blurring the lines Between virtue and sin They can't tell Where God ends And mankind begins They know no other Life but this From the cradle They are claimed Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Hundreds of believers Lured into a doomsday cult All would perish In the name of God Self-proclaimed messiah Led his servants To their death Eighty murdered In the name of God Forty sons and daughters Un-consenting plural wives Perversions In the name of God Underground religion Turning toward The mainstream light Blind devotion In the name of God Justifying violence Citing from the Holy Book Teaching hatred In the name of God Listen when the prophet Speaks to you Killing in the name of God Passion Twisting faith into violence In the name of God Religious beliefs Fanatic obsession Does following faith Lead us to violence? Unyielding crusade Divine revelation Does following faith Lead us to violence? -Dream Theater, In The Name Of God Yeah, I wish I wrote that. [In case you didn't notice the numerous Dream Theater refrences in the top picture with the eye that I used to have at this blog, I'm a huge fan] That's a really freakin cool song. At the end, there's church bells and stuff in with the heavy stuff and there's an all male choir singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. It's really really cool sounding. In case you don't know that song, maybe this'll refresh your memory: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored, He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. Wow. Dream Theater is good at music. In case you didn't draw your own conclusions, I think they're talkin about terrorists in this song. You need to hear this song. Ask me and you can borrow the cd or somethin. This song is like 14 minutes long. It's great. I don't have much more to say. Dan's prolly gonna say I'm stupid for posting other peoples words all the time. Not a big deal. Tell me whatcha think. dave's cd you need to buy of the post: Train Of Thought, by Dream Theater. Get it. Now. Oh, and I got them pictures working. Here they is: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
posted by dave @ 10:50 AM 3.30.2004
Yesterday was beautiful. I tried to capture it on memory stick. It worked pretty well. I know I know, you're saying "Dave, you're a moron, you can't capture a day on a memory stick." Ah, but I can. Don't believe me? Will these change your mind? freeservers sucks and won't let me put a thumbnail here #1 freeservers sucks and won't let me put a thumbnail here #2 Hah! I got you! It was beautiful. I'm gonna post more after I figure out how. I even have some that might be desktop worthy. We'll see. dave doesn't have anything of this post. posted by dave @ 11:43 AM 3.29.2004
Sara Rosenkranz loves superman. It's true folks. She loves the guy. Somebody needs to tell her he doesn't exist. But if he did...[shakes fist] Anyway, I'm sposta convince you that you should wear ski goggles at all times. You really should. It'd make your eyes safe. Some of them even have like a tint in them so they'd double as sunglasses! And if you ever were on a motorcycle, you could ride in the rain. They'd also be good for water fights and maybe even paintballing. uhh...maybe skiing too. If you wore them, you'd never get anything in your eyes! Well, being the first day of spring break, I think it's high time for breakfast. Then maybe off to someplace. That'd be fun. dave's diagnosis: read Bekah's post below this one and then her continuation of it later today. It should be good, cause if it isn't...[shakes fist] posted by dave @ 9:16 AM 3.28.2004
moo. Well, today was interesting. I guess I should start from the beginning. On friday, Spring Break started. Before spring break started, I was sitting in a "fine arts" assembly at school. This would be better titled "school mandated lust test". We had to watch a ballet for like an hour. Them girls need to wear more clothes. Thankfully, the Lord helped me out and let me fall asleep pretty quickly. That solved that problem. I think I was the only guy who fell asleep...everybody else was verymuch awake and staring. Not good. How is that the start of today's story you ask? Hmm...I guess it isn't. Well, today didn't have much of a story I guess. A typical Sunday. Now, a typical Sunday is very good. Lots of hangin around with my church friends, lots of music...generally good stuff. Man, if there's one reason I can't wait until Easter, it's cause it's so freakin quiet around here. All you silly people giving up important things like intornetting. Heh, now that this place looks different, different and weird enough to scare Bekah, it should be interesting. I'm still working on it. This week is looking pretty good. Lots of time off. I'm gonna go places and do things. Camping sounds fun...as long as it's not too rainy. Man, I'm in desprate need of some topics. Let's have some suggestions already! You must have questions for the ever-brilliant dave. Come on, anything! He really does need somethin to write about. Crazy kids. dave's something of the post: You fill me up, You're in my veins A look could take my breath away And all these things, You give away Sometimes I take for granted posted by dave @ 10:13 PM new colors? I like them. Colorful-like. I'm watchin a good movie. It's called The Negotiator. Samuel L Jackson's cool. I'd reccomend that movie. Kinda bad language tho, bein a cop movie and all. I like movies. You know what else is cool? Photoshop. A very useful tool. Just like my school's really expensive digital cameras. I have some pretty nice pictures from the leader hunt...now if only sister could find her little usb drive dealie that they're all on. I like lotsa stuff. Music, movies...intornetting [IMing]...playing guitars...blogging is definately good too. Driving is great. I need to do more of that. I need to do some performance driving. The fast racing kind. I need to join the NHRA. You get a sticker with membership. I wish I could get a hold of some more professional movie making equipment. I would make a good movie. It'd have cars and guns and explosions. It could have all of that but still be totally wholesome. No bad words or too undressed people. I wanna make a quality movie. Fast cars. dave's crap of the post: I was reading this issue of Outdoor Life in studyhall, and I read a cool article about a new gun. You know the Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum? They have a new version. It's called the 500 Magnum. It's pretty sweet. Kinda pricey tho. Suggested retail price is $1000. But, it just so happens to be the most powerful handgun in the world. This is what it looks like firing. Looks pretty powerfun huh? With a caliber of .50, it's got some prettyfreakinbig bullets. I need one. Wanna lend me some money? Now tell me what you think of the new "look" posted by dave @ 2:25 PM 3.27.2004
a post about nothing [not that nothing hannah, get your mind out of the gutter] Well, I had somethin humorous to blog about today, but then I forgot what it was. Lets see...you need to go read Alie's blog...Dan's was good too. Man, I wish I could remember what I was gonna write about. I guess I'll figure it out later. dave's idea of the post: Blow up your car. Ride a bike. [or a tractor] posted by dave @ 11:00 PM 3.26.2004
Spring Break! Well, being it spring break and all, I need to get away. Senor Jacobsen had a good idea. I'm gonna go on my own personal highpoint. Not far, just a forest preserve. It'll be quality. But, until then, I'm off to my aunt's house for the weekend. Call me. 630.217.3547 have a great spring break. -dave posted by dave @ 3:42 PM 3.24.2004
stupid crap that's not worth your time. Man, sister bothers me. Her and the little brother. For those of you not familiar with my family, I have two little sisters, Susan and Katherine [Susan being the one more commonly known as just "sister"] and a little brother Thomas that scares Dan. But back to my stories. We are tearing out our carpet this week in preparation for new carpet. It sucks. A huge mess with way too much dust. But anyway, today was the day for me and my brother to clean up our room and take out ours. Long story short, he wouldn't help and I didn't get finished before DG. Sister was/is/always will be mad at me for some reason or another. It's not fun. Long rides to and from school get way too quiet cause of the lack of stereo. It's so awkward. But enough about my family. If I don't watch out, the wrong person's might read this and get mad/madder at me. On to dumber things. You know how people do stupid things to make girls [or guys, whichever might be the case] "like" them? I am now realizing how truly stupid that kinda crap is. If that person does end up liking you, are they really liking you, or how you act around them cause you like them. If it's the second one, then they don't really like you now do they? You're not gonna be able to keep up the silly crap if you do end up in a relationship. I think integrity is the most important thing. If we're 2 different people [or more in some [my] cases] then what's the point? I'm wondering why I like a girl. It seems to me that it's all about me. I need her cause I need this I need that, etc. I'm pretty sure [even tho I'm very inexperienced in this field] that relationships are the kinda things that aren't about what you need but they're about something else. I'm not entirely sure what that something else might be, but it's not me. It makes me think, like how could a relationship be glorifying to God? What are they really for? I don't know. I haven't figured it out yet. If it's all about that other person, then thats really hard to do. Cause how do you figure out what they need or if they need anything that you can provide? It's hard to figure out this kinda stuff. If I truly want to enter into a relationship that is 100% not about me, then how do I start? Go up to her and be like "I wanna serve you in any way I possibly can."? Is that what it's about? Hey, those of you experienced in this, speak up! I wanna know. How does this work? Is it possible to do this with the right motives? Are there right motives? Is there any real reason to be in a relationship in high school? You can't get married, but you can get to know the person really well and maybe serve them in the process. Is that what they're for? I'm not lookin for a worldly view on this, cause that's simple. All I gotta do there is follow my instincts and manipulate her emotions to please myself and put myself first in every decision. Should we be totally opposite of the world? Basically thinking of them before yourself every time? I don't know! I'm beyond lost. Girls make my try to think too much. Can't they just be simpler and not assume I know anything, cause I really don't? Is this what I'm doing wrong? Not serving? I'm beginning to think that lonely as it tends to be, singleness has some definate advantages over having to think and work for other people and hafta serve them and stuff. Who'd wanna do that? I wouldn't get anything out of it! Man, what the crap am I talking about? I can't talk about this stuff! I have no credibility in the subject! Maybe that's why I ask more questions than I answer. dave's car of the post: was a dumb idea. I quit. I gotta find somethin better to do with my time. posted by dave @ 10:16 PM 3.23.2004
hurting sucks. You know what sucks? Yeah, you know cause the title telled you. Hurting people then realizing what you've done/are doing. That's the worst. Memo to self: think before speak. Hah, not gonna happen. That involves more computational power than I am currently capable of. My mind is like a dryer full of socks that are all different colors and are sticking together. I think some of them got shredded too. Not sure, that'd involve thinking. I can't think straight. English paper this, solving equations that, C#m over Q? Is that even possible? Q's not a note! Bah. For some reason, the only stuff that doesn't get jumbled in my mind at the moment is cars and their numbers. Crazy, isn't it? And you people don't get it when I talk about them, so that leaves me without stuff to talk about. That's ok, I usually have plenty of problems to write about. I need to be clear when I do things. I leave too much stuff open for interpreation. That's ok in like photo and music stuff...but not talking. Stupidly obvious is the way to go. I learned this through the process of elimination. People get all confused when I try to talk smart-like. Or they miss my point. Everything in this life is meaningless. The Newsboys song "Lost the Plot" comes to mind. [take me to your leader, from way back in the day] Hmm, now that I listen to that song, it has nothing to do with what I was talkin about. Owell, good song nonetheless. I'm so tired of doin the same school crap everyday. Add that to the fact that almost nobody really understands me, and you get a pretty crappy answer. I know this seems like a huge contrast from other posts, but who even cares. This is what I'm thinkin right now, so this is what gets posted. Today really sucked. I hurt the feelings of a friend cause I was really really stupid and she forgave me anyway and tried to make me feel better by sayin like she was too uptight or something like that. That just made me feel worse. [not to shoot down her effort, she definately meant well] How can I say such stupid stuff? Howcome only bad things slip out, never good things? How cool would it be to just blurt something and say something really nice? I guess it might have somethin to do with the whole your mouth is the overflow of your heart deal. Well, if my heart is full of bitterness and bad stuff, then how could I blurt somethin good, or for that matter, say anything even remotely nice that I really meant? Time for some thought and hopefully fixing of brain. dave's car of the post: Dave thinks he glorifies cars way too much. He needs a new life. No car today. If he was smart and well read in the scriptures, then he could spout a Dave's Verse of the Post, but he's not, so deal with it. Comment a fitting verse for him. posted by dave @ 7:42 PM 3.22.2004
mmmmmm... Heh, this is cool. I can see the left half of my face but I sure as heck can't feel it! I kinda talk funny tho. This is the first time in 4 years that I've had a cavity. First time since baby teeth. Owell. Wasn't as bad as expected. Can't eat for 2 hours tho. That's probly the worst part. I'm hungry. I had the amazingest idea today. You guys know what cowl induction on a car is? It's like a big backwards hood scoop that faces the windshield and doesn't really help much. What if I had somebody make the top half of a cow [including the open-mouthed head] out of metal or somethin and mounted it to my hood and called it cow induction?! Wouldn't that be sweet?! It'd be like this: guy with crappy camaro: I have a 4 inch cowl induction hood! me: yeah, well I have a custom cow induction hood. guy with crappy camaro: what?! I wish I had cow induction! me: yeah you do. And it'd be sweet cause it'd really seriously add some horsepower! Can it get any better? I guess I could draw a picture. But back to realityland. I found out that Olds 307's can't really be built for power cause of their tiny head ports and valves, but there are some things I could do to make it faster. Here's the current list: K&N filter wilder cam Hedman Hedders serious lack of catalytic converters custom true dual exhaust including H-pipe Flowmaster 40 Series mufflers [aka the really freakin loud kind] B&M Shift Kit And the most important part? A rearend swap! Did you know that right now I have 2.14 gears in there! CRAZY! I'm gonna go for 3.73 at least. That'll make it jump off the line by so much more. Maybe even burnout. Thad be cool. I'm also gonna cut weight by losing all the crap in the trunk. [including the spare and maybe the back seat if needed] Then maybe I could be 5.slow rustangs in their stock form. Maybe. Big maybe. Hopefully. We'll see. If at all possible, I'd like to swap in a Chevy 350. Thad make fastness very easy. You can get like 400 horses out of a oneathems for decentcheap. Anyway, I'm gonna go back to doin what I do best, instant messaging you guys and dreaming about my car tripping the lights at like 12 seconds. dave's car of the post: 1996-2002 Dodge Viper GTS. By far my favorite car. [not including tuner versions of it] Looking amazing, putting out 450hp and 490lbft of torque in its stock form, turning a 1/4 mile in 12.4 seconds at 118mph and going 0-60 in 4.1 seconds, it's one heckofa sports car. Only offered in the best kind of transmission, a six speed manual, it's definately a driver's car. Want more pictures and info? www.dodge-vipers.com is my favorite site for them. posted by dave @ 5:56 PM 3.21.2004
Sundays rock. I love the Rock. I'm tired. My eyes hurt cause I'm tired. Does Bekah still work here? I haven't heard from her for quite some time... Today's status: Happy Day. Very. Nothing bad happened. Emphasis on nothing. Twas quality. I like Sundays cause good things happen. I can have an entire crappy week then I'll have a great Sunday. I got done what I wanted to, even tho I can't really remember the outcome cause I was excited and tired at the same time. I don't even know if she knew what the crap I was talking about. Owell, it'll get sorted out. Till then, I'm gonna get some sleep. I've been up since 5:27. Goodnight. dave's car of the post: 1987 Buick Grand National. They're cool. I don't know all the details. I think they were the fastest American 80's car...dunno tho. Tell me if you find out. posted by dave @ 9:34 PM 3.20.2004
Parents. Not fun. Note from the Editor: I erased the part where I complained aboot my dad cause he's cool. Here's the rest of that post: Today started good, stayed at my aunt's house last night, got up like 8:30, had a good breakfast. It turned for the worst. I was working with a chainsaw in my aunt's backyard and first it took like 10 minutes just to get it running steady. Then, after every time I finished a cut, it'd die. Then it ran out of gas and I had to mix more. I mixed it wrong, too much oil. I didn't care. It sorta ran and smoked a ton. I kept cutting. The saw stopped oiling the blade. I tore it all open, cleaned the oiling passage dealie, put it back together and started cutting. Blade fell off. Fixed it. Oil stopped again. Didn't care. Chain brake stuck. I gave up. Maybe I can fix it next weekend. Then I'm dragging the pieces I did cut up back to the back and my aunt starts yelling at me cause I was gonna put a huge gouge in the grass. She tole me to leave it for later. Ok. Then I started staining some redwood benches. That worked out ok. I went home, and on the highway [with all the windows down of course] a huge gust of wind pulled my headliner in the car down a bunch more [pulled the tacks out] and I got two eyefuls of foam. Beautiful. Fixed that, got home only to find out I had to put up a new mailbox before my dad got home. Such fun. Destroyed the top of the screw as always happens, then put it up crooked. It's still crooked. The post was kinda lopsided to start out with. Ok, that done, I went inside to shower only to realize I was supposed to have left 5 minutes ago for the leader hunt. Quick shower, run to car, drive fast. Get there and it was really fun and I forgot all my troubles and the thing I meant to do and had a great time. [expect pictures soon] It was very quality. Got to hang out with my best friends. Couldn't have been better. Great van rides too, talkin to some of my best friends. [I probably shouldn't classify friends, but...] Yeah, quality. Then I went home and on the way I beat a Trans Am WS6. He didn't know we were racing. I won. He couldn't shift for crap tho. Stupid old guy. And who buys a silver Trans Am WS6? Those are supposed to be in one of three colors: red, yellow, or my personal favorite, black. A friend of mine has a black one. It's pretty. Now I'm losing valuable sleeping time blogging. I gotta get up early for sound again. Say hi to me when you see me. Now for dave's car of the post: 1967 Pontiac GTO. A personal favorite of mine, this particular one starred in Vin Diesel's movie xXx, and looked really really sweet the whole time. Purple is a good color. I believe the Pontiac GTO was the first real musclecar and was basically just a simple Pontiac Tempest that they dropped a huge engine in and added some GTO badges, all of which starting in 1965...I think...I'm not really a Ponitac/GM guy. Mopar for me. This is one of my favorite cars tho. They rereleased it for 2004 tho. I don't know if I'm a fan yet. We'll see. Looks too much like a Grand Prix. posted by dave @ 10:05 PM 3.19.2004
woohoo! Friday! Fridays are cool. I forgot my backpack at home again today. It makes the day more interesting when I do that. So now all I can do is go in the intornet and blog and look at cars. It's a nice deal. The good part is that my Rock notebook was in my locker so I could still do my stuff. Quality day, bound to only get better cause it's supposed to be 50 outside today. Then I get to do stuff with friends after school. I don't have a whole lot to say except go to the leader hunt on Saturday, cause it'll be fun, and who the crap is this Hank character? He's got good opinions and stuff and appears to go to the Rock...any ideas? dave's car of the post: 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T SE. This one also happens to have the Hemi engine option, which greatly increases its value. In 1970 there were a total of 60 Hemi Challengers made, 23 of them with the 4 speed manual Hurst Pistol Grip shifter, 37 with the A-727 Torqueflite automatic. This one is the less valuable automatic version, but it makes up for it by having the most valuable paint code [FC7 - "Plum Crazy Purple" ("In Violet" on Plymouths)] and the Special Edition [SE] package. It did not have the more valuable N96 Shaker hood, which comes standard with all Hemis, but the regular R/T hood. Nevertheless, this is a very very kwality car. posted by dave @ 9:56 AM 3.18.2004
Mornings Suck. I hate the morning. It's so early and stuff. I get to get up and go to my favoritest place in the world! Timmy Catholic! Man. Nothing of any significance happens here. [I'm there right now] At least life's betternow than it was a few hours ago. I really hate getting up in the morning. It's the worst. I never can wake up till I'm on my way out the door to get in the car and try to start it. Then on the drive over I either get in a way better mood or a way worser mood. It all depends on the traffic. If I can drive really fast, then I'll be ok, but if I'm stuck in traffic, watch out. Whenever I could drive fast, we'd get to school at around 8:00. School starts at 8:20. I'd kick sister out and sit there in the nice warm car listening to my music. That always put me in a better mood. Nowadays, there's no music in the car. Or heat. So it's a cold quiet place when I get to school early. Not fun. Man, this girl keeps lookin over my shoulder reading this as I'm typing and it's freakin me out. I gotta find somethin real to work on in this studyhall. It's only 2nd hour and I'm already bored out of my mind and ready to fall asleep. And the fact that I'm talking to you now only means I'll have even less to do 4th hour. I wish we could burn things. That'd make school so much more worth coming to. I kinda remembered what I wanted to talk about last night! I was gonna say stuff aboot Wednesdays. Thursdays are cool too cause now I have a fresh start to work from. No more "man, I failed on all that crap, I'll just give up now." Fresh start. Now I can sit in studyhall and do my challenges. [Yes, I already did it, don't tell me "well, you could do your stuff and not be bored" already about 15million steps ahead of you there.] Yep. Wednesdays and Thursdays are cool. Mondays and Tuesdays suck. Saturdays are good, so are Fridays and Sundays. I had a good idea. Instead of giving you some words of wisdom at the end of every post sortof in Dan style, I'm gonna give you a car at the end of every post. That'll be fun. Give you somethin to do. dave's car of the post: 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T This one happens to have the famed Mopar 426 Hemi V8, a legendary engine factory rated at 425hp @ 5000 RPM with 490 ftlbs of torque at 4000 RPM. This was a conservative estimate. Some stock Hemis have been dynoed at well over 440hp and some rumors say closer to 500. That makes for a fast car, no matter what the size. Wanna learn more about this Hemi? Ok, go to www.thehemi.com posted by dave @ 9:58 AM 3.17.2004
New beginnings are cool. I love Wednesdays. Just to clarify, yes, every Wednesday is a holiday. Not just cause of the Rock meeting then either. But that adds to Wednesday's status. Anyway, back to I forget what I was gonna say since between this and the last sentance, about 10 minutes passed while I had some dinner leftovers. Stupid brain not on same line of thought as before. I gotta work on that. Random, while sometimes funny, is not overly helpful or useful. Man, what was I saying? I can't freakin remember! Well, I guess that's on to new topics. Man patience is hard. Hannah knows exactly what I'm referring to. Man, I can't wait. Waiting for good things is so hard. Specially when they're really special and good. I'm running out of words to say. Time to sleep. posted by dave @ 9:41 PM 3.16.2004
Instant Martians rocks. Instant Martians? I thought it was 17martians! Well folks, it is. Instant Martians is a band I'm in. We need a new name. I know. We already have the title of our first album. Capturing the Essence of the Elusive Hippo on Styrofoam. Pretty sweet, huh? Think Dream Theater but not as quality. That's our goal. We practiced today and it was cool. We writed a song. I talked unedumacated-like. It was cool. Loud too. Someday, we'll play for an assembly at our school. Till then, we'll practice. We've practiced twice now! I am taking suggestions for a new name...its gotta be better than Instant Martians tho. And it can't be taken already. Help me out. I'm out of creativity. Now go read other people's blogs. Hannah's is good...so is Dan's...so is mine. There's others there too. If you'd really rather hear me ramble, then too bad. I'm not gonna. You're still here? Be gone! Go somewhere! Read Hannah's blog! Or go look at a Plum Crazy Purple HemiCuda. Wanna lend me like 110,000$ to get it? It'd be worth it! Man, it's not even a 4 speed car. Then it'd be worth more. posted by dave @ 7:52 PM 3.15.2004
today's important stuff #2 I don't understand it, all these guys And the way girls are seen through their eyes It sickens me deep down inside When I think of how many girls have cried Because of dissrespectful boyfriends who are all about looks And because of guys who won't date unless the the girls are good cooks Why can't these guys see That's not all girls were meant to be There is so much more to every girl then meets the eye And that's something I think every guy should live by -Matthew Benjamin Wow. That's a friend of mine. He good writer. Only sophomore I think. I not gonna ruin it anymore. Read that again. I couldn't have said it gooder. posted by dave @ 10:39 PM the Anonomis Typewriterer strikes again. Today's post is special. Dave's friend the Anonomis Typewriterer has submitted some of his work foe this post because of Dave's lack of subject material. The Anonomis Typewriterer is in the same english class as Dave and had to write the same crappy satire paper, so this is his exploration into the world of satirical writing. Enjoy if at all possible. These days, the average computer user can get anything they desire on the Internet, ranging from electronic goodies to fighter jets. What they don't know is that there is a lot more stuff out there that they never even knew existed. Listening to any radio station these days, consumers are bombarded by commercials, including many for online dating services. Dating services are really only the beginning. Starting this week, Easy Online Answers, Inc. (EOA) is opening a new website. www.getmarriedonline.com is going to offer marriage services to Internet users around the world. This website opens up all kinds of new ways for immigrants to make their way into the United States legally through marriage. It also helps the homosexual community because it allows users to search for any gender without asking for the gender of the user. They can have legally binding same sex marriages in the United States because the servers for the website are based in San Francisco. The owners expect to perform over 10,000 online e-ceremonies in the first month of their service alone. They are also offering a discount for return customers who enjoyed the service and want a few more spouses to keep around the house. The e-ceremonies will cost only $99, not including some extra options such as having the ceremony broadcast over the Internet of having pictures of flowers on the page. Such services as these have never been offered becore on the Internet, but if this one takes off as expected, there should be many more to gollow. Technologies supporting online childbearing and parenthood are not that far into the future. There are also some spinoff services in the works, such as online divorces and automated alimony payments. For the parents who lose custody of the children, there is already the technology available to have online visitation times where the parent and children cna chat on web cams, play games or send pictures back and forth. www.mail-order-children.com has been in business doing exactly what its domain name suggests, sending children out to people not otherwise able to have them. The beauty of having your children online is that you can click cancel anytime and it is neither a crime or immoral. This system is designed to fix mistakes easily and leave the user with no regrets, regardless of their actions. Today's society demands solutions for everyday problems. The Internet is a great way to get to these solutions as quickly as possible. This idea is what helped EOA get famous so quickly and is also responsible for the owners' millonaire status. The first website opened by EOA back in 2001 was www.mylifesucksnowfixit.com, which offers many solutions to conusmers' everyday problems. One of its specialties is paycheck advances. Everybody has financial troubles sometime, and EOA will be there to help fix them when they arrive. Their first site also offered services for dating advice and the world famous Comebacks for Dummies tutorial. They also have extensive online dating and matchmaking services. Thanks to big parent companies like Easy Online Answers, our everyday lives can be made bearable again. Thanks for reading. Till next time, I'll be off doin somethin somewhere else. Not here always, the Anonomis Typewriterer posted by dave @ 11:13 AM 3.14.2004
superelusivehippoman is my hero. Very elusive indeed. Running sound is cool. Even tho I didn't do it today. All that credit goes to Paul's dad. He's cool. If you ever see Paul, make sure to tell him. I'm actually throwing around the idea of sound engineering as a side career. Thad be sweet. I could make bands sound good. I was/am listening to staind again. It's a common thing. They have some lyrics that make you think. Here's some, from a song called Reality. The lights are on but you're not home You've drifted off somewhere alone Somewhere that's safe, No questions here A quiet place where you hide from your fears Sometimes when you're out of rope The way to climb back up is clear The walls you build around yourself I guess they also keep you here Are you afraid of what they think? Whoever "they" happen to be Or are you hiding from the scars of your own reality? So you sedate and drown in vain You've got a pill for every day A suit and tie to mask the truth Its ugly head is starting to show through Sometimes when you're out of rope The way to climb back up's unclear The walls you build around yourself I guess they also keep you here Are you afraid of what they think? Whoever "they" happen to be Or are you hiding from the scars of your own reality? The monster you're feeding Your lack of perception The things you will do To fullfill your addiction The light at the end of your tunnel is closing What is it that you're so afraid of exposing? You'd give it all up for what's their's for the taking Whatever it takes to keep your hands from shaking The same things you're thinking might make you feel better The same things that probably got you here Sometimes when you're out of rope The way to climb back up's unclear The walls you build around yourself I guess they also keep you here Are you afraid of what they think? Whoever "they" happen to be Or are you hiding from the scars of your own reality? The monster you're feeding Your lack of perception The things you will do To fullfill your addiction The light at the end of your tunnel is closing What is it that you're so afraid of exposing? You'd give it all up for what's their's for the taking Whatever it takes to keep your hands from shaking The same things you're thinking might make you feel better The same things that probably got you here Man, those words could totally be talking about any sin. Think aboot that one for a minute. That one thing that you can't quit? Yup. It's a good song. I'd suggest obtaining a copy of it, preferably in a legal manner. If you wanna go buy the entire cd, it's on 14 Shades of Grey. That whole cd is really good. Makes great loud car music if you have a nice stereo. I'm sure that some of their lyrics will grace the pages of this blog more than once in the future. There's not a whole lot more to say. Read that song again. Then go buy the cd. You'll like it, and if not, you can give it to a friend. posted by dave @ 1:52 PM 3.12.2004
This is a day, This is a day... This is in fact a day. A Friday. A good day. The day of Lissy's birthday party. A day of stupid crappy school. But that's ok. Tomorrow, there is no stupid crappy school to deal with and same with the next day, except for the next day's night when I actually get around to writing a satire for english class. I'm still workin on getting a topic. But back to school. I'm at school. I hate it. Today, on the way to this class [study hall] I was actually threatened. Threatened! At a "Christian" school! This guy [who shall remain nameless] is a guitar player. The bad kind. The kind where they play guitar so people will think they're cool. The kind who buy a guitar that's way to expensive for their skill level. It cost more than mine and I paid way too much for mine and no offense, but he sucks. He's a oneathems. Yeah. So I was walkin here and he was like hey you almost hit my car in the parking lot Wednesday. Next time you do that I'll get out and beat you. I was like huh? I didn't almost hit anybody as far as I recall. But apparantly I did. And he was mad. I don't know why, I'm a responsible kid at school at least...when it comes to driving. People suck at driving at our school. They park all crappy-like and take every curb they can find. But yeah. I was kinda mad about his threat. I don't think he realizes whatall I keep in my trunk for just such an occasion. I didn't say anything back, but I wanted to be like hey, you don't know me or what I'm capable of, so I'd back off if I were you man. But I didn't say that. I could take him. I probably wouldn't given the chance, but I could if it were neccisary. Stupid punk kid. Who does he think he is sayin I suck at driving and threatening me. I'm better at life than he is, and I'm not even prideful about it! [read the sarcasm here, don't make me feel like an idiot] Man, kids these days. No respect for nuthin. They need to be told what's what. I'll show them rebellion. Stupid kids. You know, it was not long ago that I had the same mindset as these stupid kids. I was one of them. [still am to some extent, but not quite as foolish] Believe me, adults know better than you do for the most part. Listen to them. They already know. [unless of course it's something they don't know like technolology [try and pronounce that one]] We need to listen. We're not as smrt as we think we are. One kid's rebelling in studyhall right now. "I don't wanna use one of these crappy laptops! I just wanted to work in the lab!" He was goofing around and got in trouble. Serves him right. We need to surpress these rebels. Granted they are quite fun to watch sometimes. Who could argue with big bleach burnouts in the school parking lot? [shut up, I like them] Stupid kids. So destructive. I never understood those ones. [the destructive ones] I guess I don't have a lot of nice stuff and when I do, I think I take pretty good care of it, but these kids go and crash their Trans-Am WS6's like 4 times! It's like woah! Learn to drive jenyus! [pronounced jeen-yus] Crazy kids with their cars mommy and daddy bought them. They don't care about them at all, know nothing about them, but still brag about how cool they are. That's not how it works. It takes a little effort and knowledge. It's kinda sad, I know more aboot their cars than they do and I've never even touched one! Crazy. Course I guess I'm kinda on the crazygonuts side of the whole car deal...too much time on my hands. [it's hard to get it off, I tried scrubbing] Well, it's back to chapter 9 of The Lord of The Flies for me. Talk at you later. posted by dave @ 11:30 AM 3.11.2004
Comments rock. I've determined, with the help of one JillKMeier, that comments are like 90% of the fun of blogging. It's cool to hear from people about what they think. You know what's funny? When people think they signed off el intornet but they really didn't. It makes me laugh. In a happy way. Not in a mean taunting way. Ah! I remembered my real topic. Today was fun. I couldn't wear a hat in school, so I kept my hood up. That's almost better. Draw it real low over your face, just low enough so nobody can make eye contact with you. It scares people, especially if it's a black one. So we were watching some crazy movie about aliens in Bible class today and I was bored. So I put my hood back up and pulled the collar up right below my eyes. My friend Joefish looked at me and all I said was "ribbit." We couldn't stop laughing for quite some time. We determined that any animal noise is funny in school. Just cause they don't belong there. Ribbit. Heh, can't beat that. I did that to my Bible teacher on the way out and he was just like "huh? you guys are so weird!" It was sweet. Then I did it to my sister and she couldn't stop laughing. It's a ton of fun, you should try it sometime. Ribbit. Moo works too. Oink! That's a good one. You know how they spell those in spanish? I don't know ribbit, but I know oink is "oinc" and moo is "muu". Could it get any better?! Muu! posted by dave @ 4:36 PM 3.10.2004
I suck at topicing. Wow. I got scared today. When I got home from the Rock, [the wednesday version] my sister was sittin there when I walked in like I'd imagine a stereotypical TV wife would and the first and only thing she said was "You forgot the cat food." I turned around and walked out. Then as I was getting into the car, I was like woah!! That was totally like a bad picture of what marriage could be! Makes me realize I'm not ready for that yet. Course I hope marriage wouldn't be like that, but I imagine it might be sometimes. I was scared. When I was in Jewel getting the cat food, I felt so weird. I went to this huge Jewel and there were like 5 cars in the parking lot. The inside was deserted. It was crazy. A shopping tip for all you grocery buyers: go shopping Wednesday at 9:30. The place was totally empty. Then when I was in line, I was behind the other guy that was in the store, and he was buying 2 little frozen pizzas. After seeing that, I wanna have a wife. Not to cook for me, cause I love doing that. I was thinkin about it and he seemed pretty old [not to be mean or anything] and I was thinkin about how lonely it would/could be to be single at 40. That would suck. I know some people like it, but I don't think I could deal with it. But that's just me. Am I crazy? Ok, now for a Hannah-inspired tangent. [i'm not gonna be talkin about Hannah here, i'm merely using subject matter that she brought to my mind] You know what's really annoying? When somebody's mad at you and you don't find out from them. That bothers me to almost no end. If you're mad at somebody, don't go talkin about them. And [big and] you shouldn't go yelling at them. That just gets the both of you mad. See, the way to go aboot things is to approach the person you're mad at respectfully and tell them why you're mad at them and how you can work together to fix the problem. Grudges freakin suck. Not good. Plus, it even says in the Bible that we shouldn't let the sun go down on our anger. Come on people. Get some guts and talk to the person, and don't involve anybody who doesn't need to be involved. That means if it's questionable to involve somebody, DON'T. Gossip sucks. That just wrecks a bunch of friendships with one big bang. I think Giles talked about this a waylongtimeago, but tis quite important. Thanks for your time. DISCLAIMER: I'm not pointing fingers. Don't get mad at me. I had nobody in mind when I wrote this. posted by dave @ 10:35 PM 3.09.2004
Further explanations... Yeah, those huge words at the top mean that you should read the name at the bottom of the post before you go commending me about how good it is in the comments. I don't write alla these. Just the ones with my name on them. Give Bekah some of her deserved recognition here. Now go read my post right below this one. posted by dave @ 8:41 PM Not about an undercover Catholic teacher. The title of this post is very misleading, for it is in fact about an undercover Catholic teacher. Except he's not a Catholic. He's Anglican. The last time I checked, that was pretty much the same thing, wasn't it? This is where my knowledge breaks down. All I knows is that this teacher, who shall remain nameless until the time is right, does very Catholic sounding stuff in chapel. For those of you who are clueless, I go to Timmy Christian in Elmhurst. That's why we have chapel. That's why I have Bible class. Ok, so in chapel, Pechanio was like "The Lord be with you." and weall, being not Catholic were like "huh? what the crap is he doing?" until he told us what he was doing. He was like you're sposta say "and also with you."! Crazy guy. Anywho, yeah, he does that every chapel now. And on ash wednesday, he put ashes on peoples heads. Isn't that really Catholic too? Help me out here peoples. [Joy] I don't know this stuff very well, and I don't wanna mislead anybody. We have a lot of the reading then response stuff that I remember doing at my aunt's Catholic church years ago when I went with her. But that was years ago. Lots of years ago. Filming for Gone in 2 Days officially started today. Pretty sweet. We just filmed one of the ending scenes. It's gonna be great. mmmm lasagna...good stuff. Just ask Hannah. She'll tell you. I'm outta....whaddyacallthems...ah, right, words. posted by dave @ 7:03 PM 3.08.2004
blah... Man, some days take forever. Specially when your good computator is bwoken. Now I'm stuck with this craptop that doesn't do much of anything right. My foot feels better. Tomorrow after school we either start filming Gone in 2 Days or practice for the soundtrack. Either would be good. The Simpsons are almost on. I like that show. And King of the Hill. Both good. I hafta learn to blog about stuff that actually matters. You know whats fun? Playin guitar. If you don't know how, you should learn how. It makes quiet times a lot more pleasant. It also gives you something to pour out all your frustrations on/in. AAAAAAAH!!!! GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG! VERY WRONG! Why do people not understand that? Stupid TV tryin to tell me stuff. I can't even watch the Simpsons without being bombarded with crap about it. I hate this stupid society. We should all rebel and...be rebels? We could be a secret society that we'd invite everybody into. Then we could tell them what's really up. Stupid world. Tolerance is not right. Hmmm...let's see...love the sinner hate the sin? Can we do that? Stupid world. We gotta come up with a name for our secret society. Any ideas? Seriously, tell me. I was listening to Dream Theater's new cd yesterday and today and I realized it's really good. Interesting lyrics too. To those who understand, I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am Not under your command, I know where I stand I won't change to fit your man, Take me as I am As I am ''Slow down, You're thinking too much Where is your soul?'' You cannot touch The way I Play Or tell me what to say You're in the way Of all that I believe in Takin' in the view from the outside Feeling like the underdog Watching through the window I'm on the outside Living like the underdog I've been wasting my breath on you Open minds will descend upon you To those who understand, I extend my hand To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am Not under your command, I know where I stand I won't change to fit your plan, take me as I am -Dream Theater, As I Am Thats not the whole thing...I hadta do some editing, but still. It makes you think. [if you're inclined to do so] That's a good cd. If you at all like heavy music, go get it. It's really good. Even though they're not a "Christian band", they say stuff that makes sense. I guess it depends on how you interpret it. That's Effin's department. Ok, before I say something stupid that nobody agrees with. I love the guitar. It's alot of fun and allows you to not think. Not thinking is good. That 70's Show bothers me. I don't know why I watch it. Maybe to give me something to blog about. Maybe to bother me. It's too quiet around here. I need loud music. Or loud something. Something to take my mind off stuff. Stuff sucks. There we go. More loud Dream Theater. A quiet house is never a good thing. Or at least very rarely a good thing. I know it sounds bad, but I'm really lookin forward to Easter cause I want my music in my car back. It's way too quiet in there. Especially when sister's in there. She doesn't talk a whole lot. It makes it a really uncomfortable silence. We do talk more than we used to in the car. It's kinda cool. Kinda being the keyword in that sentence. I think I'd rather have my music. But it is cool bein able to think that much more. Plus prayer is cool. I get to do that alot more now cause it's so quiet in there. That's definately a big plus. Well, I'm gonna go play my guitar cause this is gettin way too long. I need somethin better to do. posted by dave @ 4:36 PM 3.07.2004
yep. I thought it needed a new title this week. Some emphasis. Plus I was getting tired of seeing the meaningless 17martians there every time I came here. Somethin different. It's late so I'll be brief. The Rock was cool again. Bekah came cause she's doin a choir dealie. [I'll let her explain that...she needs somethin to write aboot] I got to play bass. It was sweet. Then I got to talk to people. I like doin that. Hey, howmany of you peoples are fasting from IM or the intornet? It's always so quiet around here these days. I should get a hobby that involves no money...maybe a job. Thad be a hobby. Specially if it was at a cool place, suchas Auto Zone or something along those lines. Woah, it's really late and everybody in my house is sleeping but I just heard this huge thump/crash downstairs. I hope it's just the cats. I think I'll complain some more and tell everybody that my foot still hurts. At least I'm not limping anymore. That just felt stupid. I have no real topic to post about. Hey, all you people who are fasting from IM, comment on here and make me feel better. posted by dave @ 11:53 PM Catholic teachers at a Christian school? I finally finished painting my car! It looks sweet! Now all you can see at night is the chrome. Every time I see it, it gets me to thinkin that it'd be the perfect drive-by car...not the deadly kinda drive-by, the waterballoon/very large squirt gun/paintball gun drive-by. The fun kind. Now all I need is some shiny plastic hubcaps...and some really fweakin loud subs. Maybe some tinted-all-the-way-black windows... I still need a typewriter. Hah! I fooled Joy into reading this by putting my Catholic teacher in the title! So this spring, some of my friends and I are making a parody of Gone in 60 Seconds. It's gonna be sweet. If you have a cool car that you'd be willing to let me drive for like 3 minutes, tell me and we can put in the movie. It'll be sweet. If it turns out good, I'm gonna see if we can play it after the Rock sometime. Quality if you ask me. Some sweet old musclecars...[I almost have a HemiCuda!] Then y'all will understand my love for these cars. Expect professional results. If you do wanna have your car in there and we use it, we'll get you a car wash and a sweet burnout picture. [It's worth it] I was smrt yesterday. [yes spelked like that. if you have no idea what I'm talkin about, you must not watch the Simpsons] I was building [repairing] a shack/shanty at my aunt's house and I stepped on this 2x4 full of nails. One went into my foot. It fweaking hurt. Still does. At least I got some work done on the shack. It'll probably be in the movie. This isn't gonna be your average movie of the week or crappy home movie. It's gonna be a full 20 minute feature film. Of the highest quality. Plus we'll get an A for it in economics. Wanna see an interesting movie that's not made by me? Go watch The Shining. Crazy. Very very crazy. Specially at 2am out in the country where the wind is whistling all around you real loud and its dark out. You'll understand if you watch it. No, contrary to popular belief, I'm not a Communist or a Socalist. And we have new links up and to your right. They're quality [otherwise they wouldn't be there] WARNING: The Shining should not be viewed by guys who can't close their eyes or anybody who is offended by violence. posted by dave @ 11:59 AM 3.04.2004
On a much lighter Dave's in a better mood and posts too often note, I decided that for my new year's resolution, this year I'm gonna become more formidable. What? It's not new years? Ah, crap. Ok, I'm looking for a typewriter then. If any of you faithful readers have an extra typewriter and would be willing to donate it to a worthy cause [the dave needs a typewriter society] please contact me. I'm dave. See, a typewriter allows me to become my alternate ego, the Anonomis Typewriterer. [Yes spelked like that. You see, my friend Joefish and I couldn't figure out how to spelk it right, so we decided to spelk it really wrong to prove an important point: we're stupid.] This gentleman the Anonomis Typewriterer has a long history of writing letters to various faculty members at my school, Timmy Christian [or Catholic, I think] saying anything from "we want an oragami day" to "want my suggestion, do you? get rid of the suggestion box!" He's quite a character. But alas, nothing good or fun lasts forever, and one day in studyhall as he was banging on his typewriter, a spring popped out and it never worked again. He proceeded to disassemble it in the street in front of Joefish's house with a big hammer, and couldn't find the problem. So now it's at the bottom of Salt Creek in Elmhust, in a small carry-on luggage dealie we garbagepicked that week. It's also in about 54,028 pieces. So you see, I need a typewriter. carvinplayer7@netscape.net me if you got one you'd be willing to donate. Then the Anonomis Typewriterer could get back to writing his letters and his infamous "jaquetapus reviews" to send to the school newspaper never to be heard of again. Stupid newspaper never published him. He was crushed. He did have a boatload of fun typewritering in studyhall. You have no idea how loud that is in a room with no sound-absorbing surfaces anywhere. Specially when nobody can talk. tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick DING! reeeeeeeek! tick tick tick tick tick tick tick... Well, I'm outta words. posted by dave @ 7:43 PM blog#234973.346 19/25 Man, today sucked. And it wasn't something I could avoid. I knew from the moment I jumped outta bed 10 minutes late and hit my head that it was gonna be a oneathemdays. You'd think that I'd be able to see thru satan's lies like that but no. And this silence in the car is really starting to wear on me. I'm thinkin that was a bad choice cause that's a huge relaxation thing for me. Yeah, so today I learned about the huge hole I've dug for myself in math class. He's got a crap grading system. Quizzes and tests count for points, but homework counts for 0 points unless you don't do it. Then it counts -5. So I'm missing something like 5 homework assignments [not counting the 3 free ones] so my grade is automatically pulled down a letter. It sucks. I don't know math. I never was good at math. I'm tired of going back there everyday and sucking at everything cause I don't get it. And I can't drop that class cause it's too late in the semester or something. I can't wait to get out of this school and get a job and learn cars then work on them all day every day. Living out in the northwoods somewhere...hopefully working at a Christian camp such as Camp Forest Springs as one of their in house mechanics. Thad be so much better. That's where the family comes in too. It'll be nice. No more of this school crap. And I'm tired of these people at school. One second they're all over you for talkin about somebody even tho your saying good things and the next day they're commenting on how stupid one of your friends was the other day. Or the extreme lack of modesty? It's like hey, GROW UP! I don't wanna see that stuff! That won't make me like you! That just brings your morals into question! Stupid kids. Now that I'm done yelling, I don't have anything else worth saying to say. DISCLAIMER: I'm not yelling at anybody in particular so don't get all mad at me. If everybody dresses well and I won't hafta yell anymore. posted by dave @ 3:43 PM 3.02.2004
Dear Dave, Woohoo! My favorite time of night! Blog time! So while I was in the shower [the best time for thinking], I had a good idea. I could do a deal where you guys write questions to me and I answer them. Sorta like a cross between sbemails and Dear Abby. Just gooder than the Dear Abby one. I think it could work. Then like whenever you ask me questions, I could answer them and it would make up for my lack of original blog ideas. Let's try it. carvinplayer7@netscape.net Um...new topic to talk about? My Anglican Bible teacher? Nah, only Joy'd read that. Cars? Nah, nobody'd read that. Uh... daveakregotbored: drawing a blank belovedchild73: uh oh belovedchild73: hm....write about......... belovedchild73: something deep.... belovedchild73: like...why guys are afraid of commitment Wow. There's a topic. Guys are afraid of commitment? Then why the heck are we in charge of asking you girls out then askin you to marry us? Stupid rules. Well, I personally don't think I'm afraid of commitment, but I have nothing to commit to, so I don't think it's a fair assumption. I think commitment involves eliminating options and maybe ruling out possible fun later on. I think if we're only talking about girls here, then guys are afraid to commit cause we don't know what you girls are really thinking. I think. I mean, all these hard decisions are left up to us guys who don't often have a logical grip on reality. [shut up guys I'm talkin to the ladies, I'll get to you] In my limited experience, it seems like everything changes when you have a girlfriend. Every word could be taken more than one way. Every look or movement can be interpreted. I personally don't understand these signs. Never did. Maybe guys are afraid of commitment cause it's our responsibility to make the choices and make sure we're doing the right thing. We don't like failure. I was talkin to Amber on the way home from Winterfest and I think she hit it right on the head. Guys want/love/need respect. If a girl respects a guy, that makes him feel happy and good. If we do something stupid, then we lose the respect of the ladies around us, or even worse, the respect of the lady we admire. I know we don't like messing up. It's bad. Makes us look bad. And when we're in charge of stuff and we mess it up, it brings into question our capability of being in charge of stuff. I think it all comes down to a pride thing. We want respect. We won't get it if we screw things like commitment up. So we are kinda afraid to commit to things. Does that explain it well? Now guys, we can get over this. If it is only pride, then if we humble ourselves then won't we be fine? In theory anything can work. I think being the leaders, we just hafta submit ourselves to God's will and He will point us to what we need to do and when. We're supposed to be leaders. It's our place. I know cause it says so in that Bible book. We need to lead cause thats how life works. But through the Lord's guidance, we can do it right. Pretty cool, huh? posted by dave @ 9:39 PM 3.01.2004
A quiet guy's strange ideas about love. Or, a strange guy's quiet ideas about love. You decide. Love these days is so screwed up. People don't understand it in the least. Oh, he says he loves her cause he knows thats what she wants to hear and if she hears it, he might get something in return. She gives herself to him to make him love her forever. That's not how it works. See, love is totally selfless. Wait, I think I mean Real Love is totally selfless. Maybe this world has convinced itself that real love doesn't have to be. I am by no measure an expert on the subject, but I've seen alot of examples of what love should not be. Love is a sacrifice on your part. It's putting that other person's interests before your own, but it is not compromising your morals or beliefs for that person. Evangelism dating is not right. I also think that dating isn't just for fun. Friendships are for fun. Dating, like Bekah said in her version of this post on her other blog, leads to marriage. That's what it's for. Just watching That 70's show makes me sick sometimes. I know that character Jackie is intentionally that stuck up, pretentious and vain to sortof prove a point, but she still bothers me. I think love is definately not dependent on beauty. You can be like impressed with somebody's outer beauty, but that's not love. I think that movie Shallow Hal showed that well, where once the main character guy could only see girl's inner beauty, the pretty girl was ugly. If you really look, you can see people's inner beauty. It's really pretty. Pretty beyond words. I know it sounds all cheesy, but it's true. Just look at somebody and try to think like they think and see the innocent litte person inside of them and you'll understand what I'm talking about. If the only thing somebody looks for in a relationship is beauty, they are shallow beyond what I can describe. Can I say again that that's not love? I don't think I believe in love at first sight. I can totally understand infatuation with how somebody looks at first sight, but that's different. Love is totally described in I Corinthians 13. [thanks to effin for the reference] Patient, kind, doesn't keep record of wrongs...if you want the whole story on Paul's cool ideas, go look it up. It'll be good for you, especially in context. Man, I know I'm not sposta get mad about stuff, but when I see people getting abused in relationships or just hurt because of carelessness or miscommunication, it drives me nuts. Love also involves alot of forgiveness too. None, of this well, he said this or she said that. No. Forgive and forget is the way to do things after you make things right. Grudges just give that bum satan a foothold to work his way between you. I know I'm sounding preachy. I can't help it. I see it happen all the time. People need to be more easygoing. Not apathetic like me, but not uptight and mean either. And you single people, God has a plan for you. His timing is perfect. I know you're like Dave shut up what the crap do you know? All I know is what I'm told and what I see which equals up to not-a-whole-lot, but listen to me anyway. Singleness can suck. It gets lonely, I know. God knows what He's doing. He knows you better than you know youself. [think about that one] Well, it's time for the ever-talking and ever-preaching-at-you-when-you-didn't-ask-for-it Dave to get sleep so I'm done. Tell me whatcha think. posted by dave @ 10:21 PM [Titley Words] Well, it's the beginning of a new month, and that marks the beginning of...something...I'm sure...I do know that the ricers are out in full force...I don't think I've ever seen so many fart cans in a week. [fart can- those huge mufflers on ricers that make them really loud and serve no real performance purpose] But that's ok. Once I finish my car, I'll write entertaining stuff on it. It'll say stuff like "This car thrives on a healthy diet of Camaros, Mustangs and rice." At that point, it'll have at least a shift kit, cam, and a new intake manifold, maybe a new carb and some noise making by Flowmaster if I'm rich. Headers if they make them...probably some suspension help...you know, all the basics. On a non-car topic, I hate english class. My teacher called home today cause she thinks I'm a A or B student, not a D student. I don't agree. Old literature is no fun. I'd read a textbook from a COD auto class cover to cover as quickly as I could, but not old satire about old victorian england. But since nobody cares about my car ideas or my english class, I think I'll talk about somethin else. I know I told you I'd tell you what I was thinkin before but I kinda lost my train of thought. I do remember some of what I was thinkin. Here goes. Aaron talked about how supernatural things really are real and that we get hassled by satan all the time. I think he was right. I can tell where my thoughts come from. If I pay attention, I can pick out the strange crap satan puts there and see it for what it really is. Then I was talkin to Bjorn about demons and stuff and he was thinkin that satan chooses not to do scary visual supernatural stuff here to mess with us cause we try to explain everything all scientific-like, instead satan gets us where it's alot easier...materials. That stuff can be such a distraction. I mean look at my blog, the first part of this post is all about my car. I spend more time thinkin about it then I do my relationship with the Lord. It's sad but true. Which I guess kinda brings me to my next idea for rambling on, lent. I think it's an interesting concept, but it's misunderstood. I don't remember who kept tellin me this, but if you take somethin out of your life, something else will naturally fill that hole. The point of lent is for God to fill that hole. Like if you gave up intornetting for example, you could pray and study the Bible all during that time that you would normally sit here and talk to people. [intornetting- use of the Internet in any form, be it web surfing, email or the most common definition, instant messaging] Giving up something like meat seems kinda dumb cause you wouldn't really suffer because you have so many other options. To be really arrogant, I think I picked somethin good to fast from: music/radio/entertainment in my car. I'm in my car alot and I always have the radio really loud. What better time than that to sit there and just talk with the Lord? It makes me think alot too instead of just singing along with some meaningless song. I knew it would be really hard for me to do that, so I actually went as far as to pull my stereo out of my dashboard. [It's easy, just 2 screws] Now I have this big gaping hole in my dash reminding me that it's quiet in there for a reason and what I should be doing instead of just staring off into space. It's pretty cool. I might even leave the radio out after Easter. Or I might put it back in but be so used to the quiet that I'd rarely use it. Who knows. I thought it was a good idea. Tune in next time for my opinion on something else. Maybe if I'm in a good mood I'll complain about love. That might take awhile tho. posted by dave @ 8:57 PM |
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