July 2010
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My current heart condition & Why I am saying...
Things. Toys. Technology. And so our hearts and our affections are formed by these things. They compress the void in our heart into shapes like toys. The result is that we are easily moved and excited by things - computers, cars, appliances, entertainment media. They seem to the fit the shapes in our hearts. They feel good in the tiny spaces they have made. But in this readiness to receive...
June 2010
4 posts
It is the cult of self that is killing the United...
We have a right, in the cult of the self, to get whatever we desire. We can do anything, even belittle and destroy those around us, including our friends, to make money, to be happy and to become famous. Once fame and wealth are achieved, they become their own justification, their own morality. How one gets there is irrelevant. It is this perverted ethic that gave us investment houses like...
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Non-Idiot Christian's in the media
it can happen….Christian’s actually giving well informed answers in the media.
watch it here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/face-american-evangelicalism-10744135
May 2010
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cashier: 'How are you?' reply: 'Shitty' :: Perils...
A friend and I met yesterday to discuss life, longings, and present sufferings - it has become a weekly gift of grace given to me only in the last few months. As we talked he recounted an interaction he had with a cashier who asked the normal - ‘how are you?’.
My friend happens to be going through a season of investigation & suffering, so in a flash he responded honestly.
Friend:...
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Emotional Porn :: What say you?
I have been having this discussion for a # of years with the female friends in my life who persist, insist, and other ‘ists’ that what they engage in, throw gatherings for, and discuss over many a dinner is equally as damaging as me reading & watching porn. While I can see the extremism in my statements and don’t think it’s directly black/white….I do think...
Blessed are the fat, the bald, and the old
As many who read this blog know I have a strong sentiment for a book called ‘The Divine Conspiracy’ by Dallas Willard. It is the book that if stranded on an island and couldn’t take the Bible I would take it (freakin sunday school statement I know).
Reading it sends shockwaves through my soul as I grapple with the truth it brings to the forefront. In my habits I find outright...
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WatchTV is a DRUG! I highly suggest watching this and sharing your thoughts
April 2010
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Jesus + Darwin = Truth?
Could it be? It just may.
I just got done reading ‘The Language of God’ that goes into detail regarding the harmony between Science & Faith. Am I an evolutionist now?…..maybe. The term he puts forth to explain the perspective is called ‘BioLogos’ (www.biologos.org) and I would strongly suggest that you, no matter if you are an atheist, agnostic, Muslim, or a...
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Facebook kills your soul...slowly but surely
The statement seems extreme….but the more I wander into Social Media the more i am convinced it kills you. As I prepare a presentation applying social media for business use I grow more convinced that the amputations (negatives) outweigh the extensions (positives). (link to understand last terminology more)
I simply think humanity finds a way to create pseudo-significance via mediums...
March 2010
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what brings you peace?
‘peace’ for the individual is often a simple formula:
no conflict + convenience + understanding = ‘peace’
so this ‘peace’ we often think about and assume is circumstantial, not rooted in anything outside of the moment at hand. I am guilty of it. you are guilty of it.
If so, this ‘peace’ shall pass us and we shall forever be chasing.
However
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On the way to coffee....
….I saw a graveyard. I then realized/remembered I will be there at any point between this current moment of consciousness and my last.
This immediately rearranged my day. I am not God, I will die. I must deal with this each and every day.
Who is telling me that I will die one day?
The TV isn’t: The TV tries to convince you that’s what happens to other people. It tells you to...
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Faith{starts - ends}Faith
I was dead spiritually at a certain point in time. I am no longer dead spiritually but I am alive. What this means is that I prefer, have leanings, desire God to be much and Roy to be null (more explained here). I was dead, not injured, not handicapped, not confused….DEAD and I am now alive. What did this to me was an ‘agent’ outside of myself, I did nothing smart, superior,...
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So we can stop being idiots
I am known by a few people for speaking my mind. This allows me to have super close friends while also staying away from half-ass friends. (you know those people in your phone book you don’t ever call and when they call you screen them)
However behind the scenes and a reason I speak my mind is because i am attempting to speak to my own mind. You see, we all settle, fall in traps, lose view...
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what I have learned about men and women
When men do not connect/hang/love other men they:
don’t lead
their aspirations fizzle
they stare at porn
they get fat and watch reality TV with their wife or girlfriend
they never meet expectations, not even our own
When women do not connect/hang/love other women they;
become nags
they crave control, if they lose it they become more of #1
they hate both men and women
their...
February 2010
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Knowledge can't be your core competency in a...
In 1910 you were considered educated if you possessed the total knowledge found in that day’s paper.
Today, 2010 – what’s the apples to apples comparison?
An example. If I asked you if you knew what Sarcomatoid Mesothelioma is – would you know? Most likely not. But if I asked you to find me the answer would you know where to go? Yes. Google. (they have 70% or so world market share) So does that...
January 2010
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Obama to give church talk, stump in Massachusetts... →
Anyone else find it weird that today that he is doing two things I thought a president shouldn’t do….
-Speak in a church ‘to the congregation’
-go campaigning for a fellow democrat
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5 things about technology | The Past is Prologue
Technology giveth and taketh away
New technologies are never distributed evenly among the population. This means that every new technology benefits some and harms others
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas
Technological change is not additive; it is ecological
media tend to become mythic
“What’s past is prologue”...
December 2009
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“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of human existence over which...”
– Kuyper (via @taylorbrooks)
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“The further on we go, the more we see time as a diminishing capital.”
– Dr. Paul Tournier
November 2009
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"The Less Fortunate" Prayer
The prayer concludes….. “and God I would like to pray for those less fortunate”.
We have all heard a prayer, though words may differ slightly, that consists of that concept. We may have even been the person praying it. I have. But what does it mean?
Fresh off thanksgiving where we give thanks for health & houses - we often lose sight on what basis to give thanks. I by no...
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Watchwatch this. at least have an opinion.
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Cloud Computing is like an Electric Toothbrush
No really, it is.
Have you made the leap to an electric toothbrush yet? If yes then you understand where I am going with this post. If not, that’s okay but know your life is about to change!
Don’t get me wrong, nothing is wrong with the old-fashioned toothbrush. It works as advertised. People have been using it for years, it is a good deal at $4 or less, and you just need water and toothpaste...
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Life? Where? Here? no...really? yes. really. not...
Many of us go to work and then go home. Then to work and then go home. Repeat Repeat Repeat. Many of us find this either daunting and wrought with pressure or absolutely toilsome which causes us to ask repeatedly ‘is this all life is about?’.
Well is it….? Is it all that life is about? Yes on the outside, the routine, the schedule, the __fill in the blank__ ….it is about...
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Thome Yorke Video - "All for the best"
pretty cool that all proceeds from the album sales are going to help the family raise the children.
October 2009
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church jobs | don't poop on anything
now this is not always the case….just often the case. When a church says ‘servant attitude’ as a requirement for a job it typically means - you can’t have an opinion and can’t poop on anything. You just need to go with the flow, not critique the system inefficiencies that have existed for 5+ years and counting, and put on a smile :)
What’s most interesting...
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WatchAmazing video from http://www.gardentothecity.com
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i would never want you to know....
that i make it up as I go
that i have moments of extreme ego where I think I am the #$%# and others where I can’t look someone in the eye
that I don’t care how much money, success, looks, I have so long as I have more than you on all fronts
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thankfully I don’t have to live into this, rather it’s an account of my former self that still comes out to...
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business plan
where there is pain there is profit. create a business model to help avert pain and you will make money. lots of it.
*i don’t mean actual pain, but that of course is now a business as well
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the people | voting | $$
in the west you ‘vote’ with your dollars. if you have no money you don’t get a vote. if you don’t vote then you don’t count. if you don’t count then you don’t get attention. if you don’t get attention then you are forgotten.
this is typical western economy thinking. what is the new economy? what is my economic condition? how now shall I live?
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The Vegas Gospel | Roy's head & heart
There is a Vegas gospel.
It tells you:
that you can have anything you want
more is better
moderation minimizes pleasure
The Vegas gospel has become clearer to me as I have become it’s hearer on many occasions over the last 3-4 years. Have I become a believer? If I am honest…..yes. Have I become another missionary for it’s cause? If you witness my consumption…..yes I...
