Mixed Blessings - Are secular life ceremonies the wave of the future? By Michael?Kress

errrr... or it could just tabloid hype... will have to depend upon how the general public feels. however, the general public has generally been known to feel like they believe in God, but aren't religious. something that seems like something that this thing is advertising.

ppl gotta stop getting married in LA... i felt like i had attended a youth group on sunday. sunday's message wasn't THAT biblical based IMO, but felt more like a spokesman pitch for gideons. but you have to still appreciate the effort they put into their work. i see these guys appear during about the 1st 2 weeks in ucd, handing out green booklets, knowing that some of them will be refused, others taken, but thrown away, ripped, etc. i should've asked them what the percentage of people who got converted off of the pocket bibles in college, over say high school and jr high. however, we'd have to factor the various college campuses too; those probably have more impact, since they relate more, than the old guys handling out their alien green book. last school year, i saw some of them forced to talk with someone at a nearby high school who probably wanted them to leave. then i see some high school kids who boarded the ucd bus take their bibles and throw it outside at the people. and my blood boiled... but i didn't do anything. because i'm too shy to get up and smack the kid around in a fit of rage. (so i'm ashamed; i didn't do anything, but it was for the wrong motives)

how did the niners not even score a field goal? that's just sad... no defense, no offense... what else to say? at least with good offense(something ppl usually associate with sf), you'd trade blows, but they didn't even have that. meanwhile, the raiders did a lot better, because raiders have always been a bit more grounded in defense. and they have sapp now too.

i predict trouble for philly down the road... i love t.o. and donovan, but their defense suX... they won the game vs the lions, but that was cuz the lion's defense sucked... philly sucked at defending against kickoff returns, and against rushing...

and the chiefs pretty much went down the drain... definitely not the same team compared to last year... too bad...

pillar - bring me down is not that bad of an album... if anything, it's probably the best cd that i have for pumping myself up. pillar - frontline is one of the best at doing that. i'm making sure that before turkey bowl, that i pop it into the saturn and blast it while driving to kennedy :D i just hope i don't milk the song til it feels numb on my ears. i have a tendency to, whenever i hear a new song that i like, "milk it;" listen to it exclusively until i don't like it that much, instead of working it into my playlist on windows media player. tree63 - king is already starting to feel slightly like that.