Hey on a side note!

I have lost about 16 lbs in the last 2.5 weeks and am eating so healthy that all those other "healthy" eating people I meet can't believe it. I have moved my belt down 2 inches and had to put in a new notch... that's incredible. Only one other time in my life... like 12 years ago did I ever diet. I want to move from behemoth to huge in the next 2 months. Then after that I want to move from HUGE to EXTRA LARGE I have a whole progession. I have to admit, I am/was/am? a salt-oholic. I love(d) salt and this low sodium deal I am on sure had me craving salt for the first few days. But then when I DID have some soup with salt in it (before you worry I planned to fail because I had to take the kids in the youth group on a progessive dinner) I couldn't believe how salty it was and everyone else was adding salt to it. So I am glad to say I have kicked the salt habit. I got to put on a shirt that I had been avoiding wearing this morning and it is loose on me... woo hoo that is soooo coooool. Instead of telling someone else that I am glad THEY lost the weight it is me now. You know the weird thing is that I can feel the loss but I don't see the loss like other people do. Hmmmm. Maybe that's why I didn't see the gain as much??? Oh well. It's almost time for me to eat again. Who would have thought that I could eat 6 (six) yes that's right, SIX times a day and still lose weight. I have to admit that I haven't been hungry, I have had some cravings but no real... "I HAVE TO EAT BECAUSE I AM STARVING" feeling. I guess that the program that I am on was right, your body starts to learn that it's going to get fed, don't panic and eat everything in site. It's almost my "4th meal of the day" snack time. I will probably have 2-3 oz. of chicken and a grapefruit... ONLY because I just ran out of fresh peaches. (rats) I do love grapefruit too but I had a half of one earlier today. Oh well, going to eat again...

Privacy? Yeah Right!

Check this out. Why the big push for the national ID cards etc? Why the push to give illegal aliens license? The answer my friend is blowing in the wind. How bout this??? TiVo... need it, want it... gotta get it... or not.

Imagine a few years from now... When you get done watching your TiVo, you go shopping and use your credit card or "super savings" card at the local MEGA MART, you get into your "On-Star" car and go about your merry way. Then you get a call from the local authorities because they want to warn you that you have shown up on their database. They know that you just finished watching an incredibly anti-government film, just purchased ammunition for your handgun that you had registered to approve your purchase, made a stop in your car in a bad part of town and are now speeding and in the vicinity of the school where your child attends, even though your wife just filed papers at the courthouse to get a divorce. They call to warn you that their computers have identified more than 5 "red-flags" and that they have a counselor for your well being who would like to talk to you. [maybe you read that and say... Wow, thank God they stopped him] Of course the story is made up but all this technology is in the here and now. Sure it will all begin with "protecting our children" and making life hard on the "bad guys"... but where does it end? It ends with a mark in the hand or forehead and worshipping a man who calls himself christ. I am not a conspiracy theorist by nature... but if you see a conspiracy happening does that mean you are paranoid? They do happen don't they? Or maybe I am just being paranoid.

We sign away our rights to privacy, we vote them away in the name of security and we become the inmates. Truly sad and scary.

Comments?

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Holy Smokes...

Even Spike Lee things the "nude-time" show was bad. Check this quote out. at CPYU. It's on the right hand side, half way down.

Feigned Faith

Don't you thank God that Timothy listened and learned from Paul and didn't decide that Paul wasn't cultural elite enought to reach his world? The older teaching the younger. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned: (1 Timothy 1:5) Now, if it seems as if I am harping on this subject it is because I AM! And no for your information I am only 32, not 50+. But during those almost 33 years I have learned that older folks have a lot of wisdom.

A couple thoughts I have been turning over in my head. They have to do with the post-modern/emergent movement. They are not completed thoughts just beginnings...

In a rush to abandon the Church elitist the POMO/EMERG group have set themselves up as the cultural elitist. (This thought comes after reading Brian McLarens response to Chuck Colson's article posted in Christianity Today. Now I don't normally side with Chuck Colson on much but I would have a hard time siding with McLaren on anything. McLaren seems to be the walking billboard for the "Grace through Sin" theology of the POMO/EMERG's. He finds it okay to swear, drink alcohol, engage in worldly music, and many things that even the world associates with worldliness and not Christianity. I always think of the verses What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Romans 6:1-2) The Bible is too great for me to overcome. McLaren's arguments lacked any Biblical substance. He is a talented debater and gifted thinker... much to his detriment and protesting to the contrary. But some things just don't gibe. The Bible says... Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. (James 3:10-12) And to try to rationalize that swearing is "ok" because it's "real" and to say... that's not really what that verse means is to minimize and degrade the word of God.

McLaren continues to speak "down" to Chuck and to tell him that he isn't really getting the point... because he can't well, because he is OLD. I laugh at this reasoning. I am reminded of Rehoboam who against the advice of the elders listens to his peers and tells the children of Israel: And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father [also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. (1 Kings 12:14) I don't think Chuck is a hero but he has been around the block and for McLaren to say that he's happy that the church is in the hands of the young and basically tells Chuck he is glad that he is old (read into that... well at least you will be dead soon).

Another thing I am tired of hearing is "BE THE CHURCH" reminds me of trying to "BE the BALL" on Caddyshack. More on "Being" later.

Testing my blog

Ok, I have just spent a little time rearranging my "home" here on the web, I hope to begin making somewhat regular post.