Thoughts: Volume II

*21 years old and I still sleep downstairs on the living room floor when my best friend Mike Rosenbaum comes home from nashville

*I don't know what it would feel like to have burning hot coals poured onto my body...but I did watch an entire inning of women's college softball the other day

*We learned how to research careers through the university database in a class last semester...I've never seen Travis Prouty more emotionally torn than when his search for "Muppeteer" came up with no results.

*Went up in the great park balloon for the first time...12 friends + me + one great park employee piloting the balloon...when we get to the top Luke says..."Wow...from up here you can see just how much HASN'T been done." ...great park employee lady had to have been laughing beneath her glare

*You simply cannot be a good DJ without putting aside your unacceptably disgusting love of musical theater

*Went to the aquarium yesterday. Jess and I watched the following animal species have sex in front of hundreds of oblivious field-tripping 6 year olds: Sea Lions, Ducks, Sea Lions, Sea Horses...talk about a good day

*Played music for 2,000 koreans the other day...it's weird playing music knowing that everyone in the crowd plays piano

*My friend Luke made a video for me when I couldn't eat cheese for a while...he ate an entire block of cheddar cheese while lip syncing and playing piano to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"...that is friendship (and a thousand calories)

Christianity and Liberalism

One of the things on my to-do list for the day was to type "Why should Christians be liberals" into google...as well as "Why should Christians be conservatives" and just read a few articles that come up...

I'll admit that I don't read or listen to enough liberal bloggers/talk show hosts as I should to be as outspoken as I am in the other direction. But maybe it's because it's so obvious that Mark Levin would rip any of those guys to shreds. Regardless...just finished reading my first article for the day, called, "Wasn't Jesus a liberal?"

I just about threw up. 

I can't really think what to type, but basically there is just a lot of yelling going on in my head of various sorts. 

Here's how the article started...

"Liberalism as defined by Webster’s Third New International Dictionary: 'a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of man, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for tolerance and freedom for the individual from arbitrary authority in all spheres of life…'

I am not sure why anyone would feel threatened by Liberalism as defined by the dictionary."

That is so ridiculously bogus. You are saying that because this dictionary term sounds so friendly, you are not sure how ANYONE could be against liberalism. Maybe it's not our fault that your stupid dictionary term has no substance. You can't explain liberalism in a dictionary definition because it's all bogus. Define these for me: 

1. What is progress, according to liberalism? (Free to kill babies, forced to give the majority of your earned money to a failing government to spend as they see fit)

2. What is the essential goodness of man? (We came from monkeys right? That's what our tax dollars are paying to teach our children)

3. Tolerance of what? (And upon what basis? Certainly not the bible, which is slowly being eradicated in our schools, courts, and legislature)

4. What is Arbitrary Authority? (You mean we all give all our money to the government and they deal with everything how they see fit? That's what you mean right? Why not say it? So we all throw our money in a giant dysfunctional pot, and that takes care of everybody?)

Make a definition that states your principles and then let Christians decide if that's what Jesus would stand for. God will judge me based on what I did with what I was given. Being placed in such a great country, given plenty of money, skills, family and friends, I obviously will be held accountable to a lot. And if I have the choice to give more money to a government that uses much of it for things that God does not desire, or to keep the money and use it how God desires, I choose the latter. If I am greedy with my money and fail to use it for good, that is between me and God. And I will be judged accordingly. But God doesn't need me to save the world.

This is already long...done for now. 

New Ven Diagram

This concept just popped into my head, and I couldn't help but create it...

Dangit.

Shortly after the "...likes boys" cup incident with my roommate Mike, I got what was coming to me when my roommate Mark did this: 

David defeats Mike...

Mark defeats David...

but don't worry...my revenge has already been taken...photo of that coming soon. 

Puppy Puppy Puppy

My family is watching this precious little golden retriever puppy. No need for more words. Just enjoy: 

Thoughts: Volume I

1. if you are my roommate and you decide to write your name on a cup...there is a 100% chance that the words "likes boys" will be added to the cup within a 24 hour period. 

2. in my 21 years of existence, I have never said I am going to "watch THE game" and been referring to basketball. Basketball is for felons. 

3. Intro...Modulation...Verse 1...that is real music

4. finding space on the walls of your room to hang a 13x20 framed ronald reagan poster and a full size american flag is a lot harder than you'd think...trust me

5. knowing that your entire grade in a class depends on how well you can read/comprehend a book called "Once Upon a Quincineira" is pretty much the worst feeling in the entire world. 

6. It's nice to know that national day of prayer is celebrated everywhere except in the white house, where Obama cancelled his ceremony.

7. I think I need to teach my teeth to be a little less hospitable. I swear when I eat popcorn it's like they say, "hey little guys, don't go. just hang out for a bit."

8. I almost slept through a major presentation in my marketing class this morning. Instead, I woke up at the last second from a text message. It read, "I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend..." It was from Luke. That's friendship. 

worth it.

Here's a little somethin to get you through the day...

The cost of famous celebrity's engagement rings in relation to how many starving children they could feed...enjoy this one over your Thursday evening meal...

Celebrity Engagement Rings

Obviously I'm not against engagement rings, but there has to be a certain point where it's just...dang...

For me to start talking bad about celebrities right now would imply that I think they are actually properly functioning/sane humans, so that's not gonna happen. 

How fast can you type??

Roommate Mark and I just found this website and wasted a decent amount of time on it: 

www.typingtest.com

I can rock a 110 with 99% accuracy on Aesop's Fables for 1 minute. What about you? Comment your results...bring it on...

Logical.

Things liberals DON'T support: 

-"Torturing" terrorists

Things liberals DO support: 

-Murdering millions of unborn babies every year