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| could someone please try to justify the death penalty to me? something about it just doesnt seem logical.
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| here is some excitement-
i got a new ipod. 60-gig. its beautiful. now my ipod has twice the memory capability of my computer.
vacation! after toiling for days straight, i get a nice break. first, i
head to oregon for a few days to visit my good friend ramon and
experience the beauty and the coffee shops of portland. im in love with
this town already and ive never been. then its to oklahoma for some
good times with people i dont talk to as much as i should. it shall be
a great time.
instead of going to charleston, SC for the summer as planned before,
now i am going to philadelphia again. i love it there. should be great.
i have been very excited about church lately. its great when you have
so much time invested in something and things start going well. we had
an easter egg hunt with 10,000 eggs. about 325 kids came. easter
service today was the biggest crowd we have ever had, and things are
really starting to click.
one thing that hasnt changed... girls still are the scourge of my life.
only one week until i begin teaching for real. i sat in on the
classes... these are going to be some tough days. i need to find
creative ways to lay the smack down while still being a nice, patient
guy.
i am coaching 6 and 7 year olds in soccer. we are 3-0 so far. possible league champs. we are awesome.
i was just getting into samuel beckett recently, and then he popped up
everywhere... something about the 100th anniversary of his birth. check
out krapp's last tape sometime. crazy good.
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iPod
Dec. 2004 - April 2006
of natural causes
a
brief eulogy: thank you, iPod, for all of the songs. all of the
memories. all of the jokes. thank you for giving me a reason to not pay
attention to the salvation army ringing their bell outside of the
grocery store. or the guy who tries to talk to me in the gym. thank you
for blocking out celine dion while shopping. thank you for giving me
other options than pop radio. thank you for allowing me to switch from
seu jorge to godspeed you! black emperor to keith jarrett within a
matter of seconds. thank you for giving me the chance to brag that i
had 3500 songs in my pocket. thank you for making me one of the most
musically pretentious people i know. you faithfully followed the
direction of the clickwheel until that final playing of paranoid
android by radiohead. as i turn you in for a 10% off discount of a new
60-gig iPod through the apple store's iPod recycling program, be
comforted in the fact that you will always be the first iPod in my
heart. miss you.
-greg-
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| i made a new commercial for my church. im fairly proud of it. check it out before it gets taken down from the website.
egg hunt
if that doesnt work, go to www.gracelandcommunity.org and find the link somewhere on the page.
more ads should use "o fortuna"
easter is coming up, and so that means that the media is jumping on any story dealing with religion. in the past week:
-scientific study finds that prayer doesnt help (in fact, seems to do more harm) patients coming out of heart surgery
-a scientist claims that jesus didnt actually walk on the water, but was floating on ice
-the gospel of judas iscariot is translated and authenticated
to me, the most interesting discussion comes from the second story. the
scientist is the same one who, a few years back, found a way to
scientifically explain the parting of the red sea. i can remember how
crazy people went over that, and im sure people will do the same thing
here. their claim: "science cant explain miracles."
what?
why are christians so afraid of science? will it make it any less
incredible if someone can explain the formerly mysterious ways of God?
thats one of the biggest problems, i think. if we view God's
intervention as only a few times throughout history, then we have
severely limited him. for instance: before we knew the inner workings
of gravity, it was believed that things had a natural resting place.
if, for some reason, someone had found that an object didnt fall into
its natural resting place... it was a miracle! but then, what if it
could all be explained by a simple formula, multiplying a gravitational
constant by the masses of the two objects in question, then dividing by
the distance between the objects squared (F=G*((m1*m2)/r^2)). does that
mean that God is not involved? then, we throw in the more complicated
theory of relativity to account for much much larger objects. now what?
and don't forget about quantum mechanics. we cant explain those very
well right now. is it a miracle because we cant explain it? but then
what if we can?
how about creationism, or even intelligent design? they say, "well,
right now there are gaps, or places where we dont see how things could
have jumped from one species to the next." another story in the news
this week... they may have found an evolutionary link between fish and
amphibians. what if, eventually, evolution can be explained perfectly,
even replicated in a petri dish. does God not control this aspect of
life anymore, since we can explain it? do we only push God to things we
cant explain? that makes it seem more like a folk religion to me.
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| does anyone know natalie portman well enough to set me up on a date? im sure we would get along swell...
the bone marrow procedure was a week ago. it was pretty painful... all
i did was lay around for two days afterwards. but i would do it again
in a heartbeat.
for days now, the line from the sara lee commercials has been stuck in
my head. and it is driving me crazy. not just the idea of having the
same jingle playing repeatedly, but the actual tag line. for years, i
thought that they said, "nobody does it like sara lee." which isnt the
best tag line, since the pronoun doesn't have an antecedent. but i can
assume that they mean, "nobody makes a great meal like sara lee." but
alas, the actual line is... "nobody doesn't like sara lee." which
doesnt really convince me that they are the best. its as if they are
saying, "well, not everyone loves sara lee, but nobody hates it... they
either love it, like it ok, or really dont care either way. lets say,
'nobody doesn't like sara lee.'"
a note to girls in ohio... you dont live in laguna beach. you live in the midwest. get over it.
next month i start teaching an algebra class to freshman for the rest
of the year. hopefully this wont be the time that the fates decide to
enact their revenge for my cantankerous behavior throughout high
school. i was never bad.... but boy could i drive a teacher crazy.
it snowed today. the day after the vernal equinox.
giving up starbucks for lent was much more difficult than i imagined. i
was really pissy for a while, but im doing well now. although i almost
fell off the wagon yesterday. and ive replaced it with the following:
cookies, m&m's, milkshakes, french fries, and cable news.
sometimes i just dont feel like saying anything important.
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