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Folks, I must say in my experience that the Lord Jesus Christ is more enjoyable than videogames. This past weekend was wonderful, because it was full of growth in the life that the Lord has put into me. When I was meeting with the other Christians we called on His name, enjoyed His Word (the Bible), and our spirits were fed richly. For anyone who reads this, know that Christ is not religion  . Just taste and see that the Lord is good. |
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You are absolutely correct. This weekend I helped rake leaves with my Youth Group to raise money for our regular offereing for missionaries.
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My week and weekend were excellent. I developed a better understanding of the metaphysics of Aristotle, Descartes, Kant et cetera and wrote a pretty decent paper about Putnam's 'Brain in the Vat' thesis. I've also acquired a better insight in Kant's and Hegel's philosophical standpoins (respectively: transcendental idealism and the value of the dialectic method). Through this I have renewed my confidence in my decision to study philosophy. In addition to that and on a lesser note, I've once again seen what great stuff the videogame industry can churn out at its best, by sampling both F.E.A.R. and Civilization IV.
That's probably not what you were aiming for, but that's 'how my weekend has been'. :]
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Saturday I made a powerpoint animation for a Biology project the whole aafternoon, and Sunday I celebrated my dad's B-Day. And, to balance all this fun, I'm going to have 2 tests on Chemistry and on Philosofy. Hopefully, both will go smooth.
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I rested much, still trying to get over this illness. If anything positive is coming from this it's a pointed reminder to me of how much disease and illness cause suffering around the world, which has stirred greater compassion in me for those who are much sicker than I am. Perhaps it is the Lord's way of reminding me of the value of humility as well, as I tend to be a proud creature when I know that I should not. It certainly reminds me of the need to pray for the sick, and also to better appreciate the benefits of medical science and the need of those much less fortunate than those of us able to read these message boards on a computer.
I reflected on the events of the past year, from the Tsunamis to the hurricanes and earthquakes, to my fellow birds that have fallen to the plague you call the "bird flu". I was drawn to consider Romans chapter 8, verses 18 through 28 where it says:
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it]. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose. We all suffer together in this present time, man and animal alike, indeed as it says "all creation" groaneth in pain. Let us look forward in hope, and also work together to ease each others' pains in the difficult times we face now.[/color]
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I got to work 2 overnight shifts. Even over the daylight savings time, which means I ended up working a 15.5 hour shift that day. WEE ! I spent the rest of it, well, sitting on my rear doing absolutely nothing !
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Folks, I'm really glad there was some positive feedback here . Thank you all for replying, and have a great week...no, have a God week . Phoenix, I enjoyed those Bible verses you included. Amen, brother. |
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This weekend sucked. I went to work.
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At work we lost 4 people, so I had to work three 12 hour shifts in a row, and I burned myself pretty bad.
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Last week I had a rest from my job as it was half term. I read a lot, watched firefly, and played guitar. I needed the rest, and this week has been real sh** so far. today 120 pupils ( yes, that many) ran into me without stopping and I was driven back about 12 feet, but not knocked over. we get riots in our school, with the police being called etc. had 2 this school year so far. I exspect the next will be a biggy. in the last one 'only' 3 teachers were assaulted. 6 pupils were permantly excluded and being delt with by the police, but at least 2 seem to wander the school whenever they like.  its just me having a moan. |
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Tough job there, shambler. 
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At least someone hates school like me. Man your school must be tough shambler. What exactly do you teach?
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Its the 7th worst school in England.
I try to teach Technology and electronics and ICT. its basically woodwork and computers.
Ita a fun job most of the time, we think of ourselves as being kind of the 'elite' of the profession, normal teachers couldn't do it. I think of it as being on stage really, each lesson is a kind of show, so its what i'm used to. The daftest things happen, which I can't go into here, and 9 days out of 10 are really great fun, but the other day is as bad as it gets. Still I work from 8.15 till 3.05, and get 13 weeks holiday a year, and a regular paycheck. I play guitar in my office, pretty much do as I like cos they would find it difficult to replace me, and teach only 15 hours a week, due to my timetable.
Its just that some days are really really bad. but that happens whatever you do.
And the good news is that I'm going to grow my hair long again, now its going grey and grow my beard again, so I can look like the hulk's father in the film. going back to my hippy roots.....
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Technology and electronics... Here we have a class called "Comunication & Information Technologies" Instead of that. Those classes are so cool, specially because me and a friend of mine finish the assignments really fast, and we can get to play games, mostly Q3A & CS.
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we had UT on the network for awhile, but the politically correct types complained, so it got took off. Remember this is the school that at least one bomber came from.
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The politically correct types are the ones who protect the rights of the bombers over the rights of the citizenry. You have "human rights watchgroups" complaining that Saddam Hussein won't ever get a fair trial. Where the hell were these people when he was butchering his own citizenry, or gassing people in Iran, or launching an unprovoked invasion into Kuwait? Why is it the people who worry about this stuff never protect the innocent but rush to the defense of ruthless butchers and dictators? Prince Charles just came to the US to lecture President Bush about how the US should be "more sensitive" to Muslims. Imagine that! Funny how the sensitivity of the Muslim world wasn't called into question when some Arabs, none of which I think were practitioners of orthodox Judaism, Christianity, Bhuddism or Hinduism, flew a couple of airlines into a couple of buildings and killed 3,000 people in the US. No, they immediately came on TV saying "don't take revenge on Muslims for the acts of a radical few!" The US government gives out free prayer rugs and Korans and even has little signs pointed toward Mecca for detainees at Guantanamo, who by the way are never served meals containing any pork products or parts from other "unclean" animals. Terrorists routinely blow up Israeli civilians - read: women and children - yet it's always Israel's fault, never the terrorists. The US citizenry went out of its way to restrain itself after 9/11 and not go out killing every Arab or Muslim in the US. Now, if some Israeli had blown up a mosque in the West Bank, you think the Palestinians, Jordanians, Iranians, and Egyptians would exhibit the same restraint? Yet, AMERICA needs to be MORE SENSITIVE!
Ok, Christianity gets blasted for the Crusades, and the Inquisition, and all manner of things that were bad. You know what? We fess up. We admit our mistakes. We've asked forgiveness. What do we get? We get thrown in prison for exercising our rights, told we can't pray publicly, told our children can't excersice ANY religious behavior in schools or we get thrown in jail for that, and why? BECAUSE IT MIGHT OFFEND ATHEISTS AND MUSLIMS! I don't see how it can offend atheists because if they're right, and there's no God, why the flocking hell do they care? I've got news for you anyway, if you people think Christianity has caused so much death, just look at Nazi Germany, which was fascism, look at Stalin, over 20,000,000 dead, and that was atheism, look at China, North Korea... do I have to go on? Do atheists make apoligies for atrocities committed in the name of whatever respective socio-political ideology they follow? Do Muslims apoligize for atrocities committed in the name of Allah? Why the hell do people turn blind eyes to what's going on in the world? I'm sick of people in the Western leadership and media continually kissing ass to Islam while trampling on the rights of Christians. If it's about oil, then do us all a favor - either invade and take it all over, or find some other way to power people's lives, but in either case stop making deals with the devil and double-talking your citizenry. Peaceful Muslims should be tolerated the same as people of any other faith, but special concessions should not be made, nor any priveleged status given to hardline Islamic regimes, especially as long as Islamic terrorism continues to be a knife at our throats. Those of us who play by the rules, who are fair and just, and obey the law are persecuted and trodden down BY the law. Those who murder, and threaten, and oppress are given concession after concession, are never held accountable, and given more reason to continue their behavior. The only thing the PC people are teaching with all of this is "might makes right" and "who has the gold makes the rules", the gold in this case being oil. As long as this continues, why should the terrorists change? Why should regimes like the Saudis change? They know they're winning so long as their opponents are spineless sniveling cowards who won't do anything to protect themselves or their people.
Political correctness will be the death of the civilized world.
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My school sucks big time. They have this stupid ass block called N2H2, a.k.a Bess. The most facist, influencing and annoying block ever. Here's the funny thing.
I see people on porno and games as I'm being locked out of my research sites citing that it is this and that. It's funny, you can't go to a website that says that black people need to stop blaming the white man for their problems, citing that it is "tasteless" but you can go to a page saying that "the white man is evil and they need to pay "us" for enslaving our brotherhood." That is messed up. Viewing something as "tasteless" is relative and varies from person to person. You can go to a liberal website, but you can't go to a conservative page. As they are supposivly "protecting" (as if a giant hand is going to pop out of the screen and crush my skull) us from "harmful" content. I'll tell you what else they are doing, they are imposing their policital agendas and influencing our views. I could go on and on with all the facist things that they do. But they blocked Wirehead Studios as "violent" and "tasteless".
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They really blocked our site? Wow, I guess that means we're important now! 
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