Nazi tomatoe or West Coast Chopatoe?

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Drying of the Clothes

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And So, Once Again, It Begins

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Happy New Year to all of you'se and i hope you all are approaching it without any expectations so that every good thing will be a suprise and not a trifle afterthought on a list.

A Now For Something Completely Different

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So my friend called me up and said that he was formating his new 500GB LaCie drive on a mac and wasn't sure how long it would take so he was asking me.

I misheard him and told him to unplug it.

Then I told him to come over.

He did and the process was started. We left it do it's thing and went to get some food.

When we came back, we saw my father had purchased a new television.

A small dinky 15" LCD Magnavox.

Not much attention was paid to it since we had more pressing matters at the moment.

But later on when my friend left, and my parents arrived, I started installing it where the old telelvision used to be at which point I noticed that it had a VGA plug.
At tthis point so did my mom and loudly exclaimed we could use it as a monitor.
My father said to do it since the old CRT hurt my mothers eyes when she used it. But alas, the joy was shattered when it was discovered I didn't own a VGA to VGA cable. So back it went to functioning as a television.

My father then offered to get another one to use as a monitor.

So I went to Fry's the next day and got the cable need and when I arrived home, there was another one sitting on the floor.

I like having a desk now.

A More Recent Uptime - Now With Weather! -

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...and yes, Mr. Martin. It does run better now that I've restarted.

You'd better not start with the bloody 'I told you!'s cause I dun't wanna hear 'em.

Bicycle

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探し物。。。

俺の大切っ探し物は。。。

a nobel spirit.

Name? What's In A Name?

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So I got to thinking and I thought to myself in between being told to stay awake during one of the youth meetings, "What is a church anyway".

Well, the common and most popular definition these days is that it's a place where you come and worship the Lord. Kind of simple, right? Specifically because of that one line in the bible where Jesus states 'My house will be a place of worship'

But another part of the bible says differently, it speaks of the church not as somewhere to do things but as a place where believers go to not only find refuge from the oppressing world, but also to encourage and alleviate the pain caused by it.

And that lead to more thinking...

The next day, I started observing. Well, more like confirming a hypothesis of mine. Just how many people around were actually learning something in order to apply it? I mean, content aside, just how many were actually absorbing the message?

The reason why I wanted to check the answer was because I though about all the times the Pastor's wife asks the congregation on Friday's study service about the title of the previous week's topic.

It made me sad to think about this, mainly because it reminded me of some of my classes when I was younger.

What is the purpose of having only one person spout the teachings? I know there's the obvious answer of keeping control of the class, but what about when a person has a question? In a sermon, you're kinda screwed, specifically because you cannot voice your opinion or comment that may need correction or may actually be correcting the subject on hand.

I mean, isn't the point of studying the bible is to be a better person? To become someone who sprouts all the fruits of the Spirit? Hell, isn't that the point of living the Christian life?

I'm not sure where I'm going with this.

I'm not sure if it's an intelligent post or just me venting.

I'm kinda tired of basically being told during the church classes to 'sit down and shut up' just for asking questions about the topic.

Is that so wrong?

I mean, I just want to learn.

I'm tired of going through the basic lessons over and over.
I've been through those classes since I was about 7 or so and every time I ask about the necessity of having to repeat such topic is that 'we must study it just in case we weren't listening to it last time and also because we might find something new in it'.

On the one hand, that makes perfect sense.

But it's only good up until about the 4th time one is told that.

Kinda reminds me of another example, how can you keep feeding an 8 year-old milk when his body is clearly demanding solids?

Just a thought....