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a simple reading packet

when i went to church this morning i found a nice surprise in my mail box – the reading packet from “the simple way.” they sent the packet to prepare me for my time with them in october. the packet is composed of various articles that will help me to understand how to interpret what i will experience. here’s what is in the packet:

i’ve scanned over it all (and so has pam) and it has made me even more excited about going ti e hang out with the people of “the simple way.”

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finally

back on april 14th i confessed to y’all my dirty little secret – that i hide movies at blockbuster. this confession took place in regards to “hotel rwanda.” i hide a copy of it within blockbuster so that i could come back and get it later. of course, that was a month ago. i had meant to go back and rent the movie within a few days. unfortunately that did not happen. i didn’t actually watch the movie until last night. “hotel rwanda” has been out for quite sometime now and thus they had plenty of copies available for rent. all that hiding for nothing.

another genocide is taking place in the sudan. you can be a part of doing something about it so it won’t be another rwanda by going to darfur: a genocide we can stop. you can also write directly to president bush and urge him to do something by clicking here.

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audioblogger

so i was reading a post of ginkworld that mentioned audioblogging. audioblogging has been around for awhile but it’s always been on a paid service. personally i’m cheap and therefore i don’t want to directly pay for something that is basically a joke – i.e. audioblogging for me. when i listened to the audioblog it said that blogger was doing this. that got me to searching a little and low and behold i found audioblogger.com which will post on your blogger site for free. all you have to do is set up an account and then call the phone number and record your entry. for me it’s a long distance number (1 – 661- 716 – BLOG) but with my church cell phone now going nationwide that’s covered too. it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

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addicted

i have to confess that i am addicted to the anime cartoon “yugioh“. my kids found the dueling card game a couple of years ago and went from that to watching the television show on saturday mornings. of course, trying to be a good dad i decided to watch it with them. the problem is that i soon became addicted to the show. i know it’s a children’s cartoon but still i like it. i realized how bad it was a little while ago when i was watching the season finale with my kids and started getting irritated because me kids kept talking. how pathetic is that?

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darfur: a genocide we can stop

darfur: a genocide we can stop

the above link leads to several internet petitions for taking action in darfur. or if you are a u.s. citizen you can write directly to president bush by clicking here.

rwanda is one of the most “CHRISTian” nations in the world (i’m not sure that a country can be “CHRISTian”) and the church didn’t do much good during the rwandain genocide. hopefully by acting for justice the bride of CHRIST can do something of value in darfur.

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dancing with the stars

after hearing of the new abc television show “dancing with the stars” i believe that humanity has reached as low as it can get. the end of the world can come at anytime now.

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episode iii review

episode iii part 1
i’ve now seen star wars episode iii: revenge of the sith twice (once this morning at 12:02 a.m. and once this afternoon at 2:00 p.m.) and i now feel like i can make a few comments concerning the movie.

  • it was a decent movie (much better than episode i and slightly better than episode ii) but it still doesn’t even come close to episodes iv and v (episode vi is too close to call in my opinion).
  • while impressive in technology and story aspects lucas stinks at dialogue. the worst scenes within the movie were when they stopped to talk. i laughed at almost every scene between padme and vader. lucas should never write a love story. it would simply be too cheesy. anytime lucas tried to add “depth” to the film it just sounded stupid. for instance read this dialouge: vader – “if your not for me … you’re my enemy!” obi wan – “only sith deal in absolutes!” hmmmm? is that an absolute that only sith deal in absolutes?
  • obi wan is “the man” of star wars – within the movies he defeats darth maul and darth vader while anakin/vader defeats dooku and the emperor (wtih help from from luke on the emperor).
  • watching a movie with a full theater that is really into a movie is much better than watching it with a crowd that is sort of in to it – last night people cheered and laughed out loud while this afternoon there simply wasn’t much involvement within the movie.

anyhow it was nice to see the story ended.
episode iii part 2