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Tuesday, 26 May 2009
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Has it really got a team of snow white horses?
One's like snow--the other's more like...milk.
Anyway! It's about time to, once again, direct you fine folks to my real, actual, factual blog, powered by Wordpress. youngadultsindayton.wordpress.com
Since, you know, I only post here about once every five months or so, whenever I feel like it. The weirdest thing about my numerous blogs (because yes, I have several more) is that my blogging, or at least the way I feel about my blogging, changes from blog to blog. I cannot log in to Wordpress and blog the same way that I blog on Blogspot. Or Xanga. Or Facebook. Or whatever. It's similar to the way I experience books. I know, I know, never judge a book by its cover, right? Only yes, sometimes, you should. At least I should. Book covers, page quality, margin size, font--all these factors and more influence the way I perceive a book. Which is very, very interesting to me, because it allows me to read a book many times and get a totally different viewpoint of it, depending on which edition I'm reading at the moment.
There is NO point to these rambles.
Thursday, 23 April 2009
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Currently
One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers
By Bob Marley & the Wailers
see relatedWhat are some controversial views you hold?
I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too!
I believe we're all equal. Really. My country is not the "best" country in the world, and we are not "better" than you. I support gay marriage. I'm a tree-hugging environmentalist. I believe the love of money really is the root of all evil, and I'm tired of people who claim to follow Christ's teachings conveniently forgetting this key point. I believe in progressive tax systems and while I [currently] wouldn't go so far as to identify myself as a socialist, I will say that I have socialist leanings and I'll probably identify as such before too much longer, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I'm anti-war and I support gender equity. I support females in leadership roles, whatever they are. Yeah, that means pastors and priests. I believe we can and should eradicate poverty. I reject the misguided and horribly damaging theology of the rapture and end times. I believe that not all Christians are "saved", and not everyone who's "saved" is a Christian.
Of course, the reason most of these are controversial is that I'm learning from Jesus myself. Then again, that's why I've adopted them in the first place.
Thursday, 06 November 2008
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To all my Christian Republican friends who are despairing right now: DON'T.
I know some of you (okay, actually most of my friends and acquaintances..) are still hyperventilating from last night’s results, so I would just like to e-hug you and remind you that everything is going to be okay. Even if your candidate lost. Observe this exerpt of the book we hold so dear:
Be a good citizen. All governments are under God. Insofar as there is peace and order, it’s God’s order. So live responsibly as a citizen. If you’re irresponsible to the state, then you’re irresponsible with God, and God will hold you responsible. Duly constituted authorities are only a threat if you’re trying to get by with something. Decent citizens should have nothing to fear.
Do you want to be on good terms with the government? Be a responsible citizen and you’ll get on just fine, the government working to your advantage. But if you’re breaking the rules right and left, watch out. The police aren’t there just to be admired in their uniforms. God also has an interest in keeping order, and [God] uses them to do it. That’s why you must live responsibly–not just to avoid punishment but also because it’s the right way to live.
That’s also why you pay taxes–so that an orderly way of life can be maintained. Fulfill your obligations as a citizen. Pay your taxes, pay your bills, respect your leaders.
Don’t run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code–don’t sleep with another person’s spouse, dn’t take someone’s life, don’t take what isn’t yours, don’t always be wanting what you don’t have, and any other “don’t” you can think of–finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can’t go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.
But make sure that you don’t get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work [God] began when we first believed. We can’t afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around and dissipation, in bickering and grabbing everything in sight. Get out of bed and get dressed! Don’t loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about! [Romans 13, The Message. Emphasis mine.]
So yeah. If you feel like you need to take a little time to mourn or whatever (if this isn’t you, don’t laugh, there’s a ton of people even just in my pretty small circles who feel this way), do it. And then jump back in. No matter who you voted for, we’ve got something new going on and this country belongs to everybody. I'm pretty excited about it actually. :]
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
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Currently Listening
Partie Traumatic
By Black Kids
see relatedYou were only waiting for this moment to arrive.
It's Getting Hot in Here:
I've by now been thoroughly chastised by my parents for my political leanings. They are both conservative Republicans. Everyone in my house is a conservative Republican, except me..I tend to keep my mouth shut anymore when the conversation rolls around to Washington. I have been accused of "always defending Him", meaning Obama, of course, and you know what, I can't think of a single occasion where I defended Barack Obama to my family. What I have done is try to introduce some actual facts into the conversation. My parents say that clearly John McCain is the real Christian and he is The One who supports Christian Values and Valerie Huber (friend of the family, works in Washington) acknowledges that McCain is obviously the only choice for the Christian voter. They say they would be embarrassed for their daughter to vote for "A Man Like That", whatever that means (I'm guessing it means baby-killer). They call me "liberal!" like it's a dirty word. But when it's not voting season and tensions aren't running quite so high, they call me a hippie and giggle about it.
Bonus points: I'm also thoroughly entangled in a great political argument over MySpace, of all things. Well, that's what Wes uses mostly, and he did initiate the..opinion exchange, shall we say. He describes himself as "so far right wing you can't see the independents in the middle." And well, it sure is interesting! We are the antithesis of each other. I'm not quite sure if that's spelled correctly. Or, as we decided, we are polar bear opposites. You may take that metaphorically or literally, as you wish.
Impossible Things Are Happening Every Day:
I Rickrolled an ENTIRE PARKING LOT, I was so pleased! My brothers were so embarrassed they got down on the floor and hid underneath the seats.
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For:
It happens to be a political cartoon one of the newspapers ran maybe a week, week and a half ago? I'm not sure of the date. Or which paper. We get the Troy paper and the Dayton paper. And I don't remember which cartoonist it was, so it appears I'm up a creek without a paddle. It's a Wall-E cartoon. Wall-E is sadly sweeping up the remains of the great Wall Street crash. It is labeled "WALL strEet." Google can't help me. All it knows is "Wall Street Got Drunk!" If anyone can help me find this cartoon, I will pay you a million dollars. Well. Actually. I can pay you..I can pay you in banana stickers, in eprops or in a Rickrolled! phone number (but I'm not certain it works properly). Or I could just hail you on my blog as Amazing Chief of the Googlers. You pick! It can be..a contest. Yes. You may begin.
All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others:
I'm practically in love with dystopia novels and like..vintage political satire..The other day I felt this burning need to reread Orwell's Animal Farm. I found this great copy from the 1950s at the public library, it's full of pictures and everything. The pig/human drawings are the absolute best. What do you think? At what point are the actions of the pigs no longer acceptable or justifiable to you?
What Not to Wear On a Windy Day:
A trapeze dress.
If You Want to Read All About My Jonas Brothers Experience, And I Do Mean All About It:
I Feel Like I Need Some:
Friends.
I don't really talk to people anymore. It's kind of sad but also kind of really understandable when you consider the fact that all my previous set of friends were friends from church, which means my ex-church, which means I rarely see them now, and we were already pretty much drifting off in different directions. How about that alliteration? No, I don't wanna talk about alliterations! [/lillymoscovitz] My new set of friends, they're hilarious, they're there, they're constant and full of things I'm looking for in friends, but. But but but. Of course we don't know each other very well yet, we only met, what, five months ago? And we see each other Sundays. My closest friends at the time of this writing, ironically, are my "internet friends"..well, two of them..we're the little trio, and then our internet circle of friendship expands from there and we're all friends with each other but at the core, it's us. They're still here. Thank goodness.
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
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Currently Listening
Songs for the Road
By David Ford
see relatedthey don't make landmarks out of ordinary places, only landscapes that have seen the most distress.
well, it's one in the morning, and i feel like making lists. if you don't like it, cut out.
i saw it on your keyboard, you saw it on my sleeve:
rachael bissex
david ford
john denver
regina spektor
rain perry
judy collins
bob dylan
the donnas
bob marley
simon & garfunkel
neil diamond
the veronicas
oh no! oh my!
the black keys
dolly parton
iron & wine
over the rhine
rum river blend
kate nash
boys like girls
thanks be to God for his indescribable gifts:
christian life center
august 23!!
jane austen book clubs
friends: something old, something new
freedom
nonconformity
your grace is enough for me.
wyso
i cannot be without you girl:
npr
youtube
puff the magic dragon
pandora.com
craigslist
punky brewster
mechanical pencils
whitaker!
where the devil did you go:
stalker boy?
with your feet on the ground and your head in the clouds:
ecclesiastes
isaiah
fahrenheit 451
lois lowry
uglies
mt anderson
nicaragua
newspapers
we are such stuff as dreams are made on:
bridge to terabithia
peter pan
tea parties
stream of consciousness:
cleaning my room
register for fall
gather phone numbers
cookout
the beatles for wednesday
orange cones for wednesday
portfolio
puff the magic dragon
mixtapes are an art form:
anger
power
my view of God
of politics/society/The Man
pottery
songs for the boy who doesn't exist
summer
songs for the road
one is silver, the other gold
quirkyalone:
asexuality
means never imitate the buddhist couple attached at the hip
this is the way i do things around here
don't expect a mrs.
or you'll get a punch in the jaw
it took a train to discover:
people are jerks
liars
but not everywhere
rebellion is a good thing
vegetarian recipes
happiness
peach, chai & green
coexist
she who runs in the forest
how to pray and curse like david
raise your hand if you're sick to death of:
primaries
john mccain
sexism
racism
denominations
the next great depression
eating meat
men
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