Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
life is one huge timespan of repeatedly looking at glasses of water, guaging whether they are half-empty or half-full. in other words, humans are ridiculously selfish, and only interpret things based upon how they affect themselves. sports are a perfect example(and it is for this reason though i love sports, i hate sports fans; to the selfish bastards, everything is only relative to themselves); one sports fan's "good play" is another fan's "bad play," but nobody cares. one sports fan doesn't care at all if his team sucks on defense, laments how boring it is, until the team he follows get a great defensive player; then all he can do is talk about defense(exhibit a: sacramento kings' announcers after it became official the maloof brothers would sign ron artest). etc, etc, etc.
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something to think about, but that i've come to realize; the gained knowledge that adam and eve received from the fruit of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil wasn't bad by itself. but the fact that the knowledge gained was finite, and that man has lusts, which God does not have, was what caused their downfall. (this is why many humans sin despite knowing in their mind what they need to do. or why they sin because they don't have a full picture, ie complete knowledge.) that, on top of the obvious "they just disobeyed God." that's just the bare bones of it; i've spent a lot more time writing on it at home, but all my notes are locked away on my external hard drive.
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though it's been a while since i've checked some animated film/tv series out from the library which wasn't japanese anime in some form(afro samurai doesn't count), i HAD to check out superman: doomsday when i realized it was sitting on the shelf. ie, "the death and return of superman."
speaking of which, i watched afro samurai a few weeks back, and i think that mightve been the most bloodiest cartoon or anime i've ever seen. it's like samurai champloo with some kill bill mixed in, and a lotta blackness. oh, and samuel l. jackson is the voice actor of Afro in it.
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something to think about, but that i've come to realize; the gained knowledge that adam and eve received from the fruit of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil wasn't bad by itself. but the fact that the knowledge gained was finite, and that man has lusts, which God does not have, was what caused their downfall. (this is why many humans sin despite knowing in their mind what they need to do. or why they sin because they don't have a full picture, ie complete knowledge.) that, on top of the obvious "they just disobeyed God." that's just the bare bones of it; i've spent a lot more time writing on it at home, but all my notes are locked away on my external hard drive.
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though it's been a while since i've checked some animated film/tv series out from the library which wasn't japanese anime in some form(afro samurai doesn't count), i HAD to check out superman: doomsday when i realized it was sitting on the shelf. ie, "the death and return of superman."
speaking of which, i watched afro samurai a few weeks back, and i think that mightve been the most bloodiest cartoon or anime i've ever seen. it's like samurai champloo with some kill bill mixed in, and a lotta blackness. oh, and samuel l. jackson is the voice actor of Afro in it.
Monday, March 24, 2008
imagine that... my favorite player in the nba could've been a pacer(but then i wouldn't have ended up liking him, because he wouldn't have been teamed up with ben and co). according to an ny sports article linked off of need4sheed.com, donnie walsh orignally wanted to select tayshaun prince during the 2002 draft, but instead decided it wouldve been better to allow then ex-coach isaiah thomas to make the decision. and isaiah chose... fred jones. it probably hurts even more to pacer fans, when they consider that of all the things tayshaun did(1 chip, a couple of all-defense spots, etc), had to be THAT BLOCK on reggie miller. while fred jones won... a slam dunk comp because jrich didn't try a sure-fire dunk to win it. yippie.
(here's another thing to think of)... although i wouldn't have liked tay that much if he weren't a piston, if he ended up on the pacers due to the draft, it's quite possibly he could've ended up playing for the warriors last season, carrying onto this season, if you get my drift. after all, the warriors broke the drought by trading for a couple of pacers. then again, it was for a pair of veterans and that cheerleader.
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i wonder if every easter sunday i'm going to contemplate why i still firmly believe jesus died on wednesday morning and arose on saturday night, but never told many people, aside from bob a while back?
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my drumming was awful this sunday. missed beats all over the place(wonderful; it was easter sunday too; wondered how many newcomers were turned off?). when i relistened to my performance, it was a bit harder to hear all the mistakes, but i knew i made them. the splash cymbal just seems in a place that i'm not used to at the moment(between the tom-toms), so many times i either missed hitting it completely, or hit it too softly. plus, it still has a different sound(less shimmery, but a brighter sound), so i'm still getting used to when to use it.
worship's never about the accuracy of the music(and as long as people feel moved by the Spirit, i'm cool w/it, though it's a bit hard for me to guage that every sunday save by asking everybody), but i still wished i could've played better. just too over-excited, and it probably carried onto how i played.
and the cowbell still sounds a bit weird; i will mos def bring DAT cowbell more often, but i couldn't help but think ppl might be giggling when i played it. cowbell IMO can sorta be treated like a ride cymbal, except used during verses; has the same type of tone closely enough, but doesn't shimmer.
(here's another thing to think of)... although i wouldn't have liked tay that much if he weren't a piston, if he ended up on the pacers due to the draft, it's quite possibly he could've ended up playing for the warriors last season, carrying onto this season, if you get my drift. after all, the warriors broke the drought by trading for a couple of pacers. then again, it was for a pair of veterans and that cheerleader.
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i wonder if every easter sunday i'm going to contemplate why i still firmly believe jesus died on wednesday morning and arose on saturday night, but never told many people, aside from bob a while back?
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my drumming was awful this sunday. missed beats all over the place(wonderful; it was easter sunday too; wondered how many newcomers were turned off?). when i relistened to my performance, it was a bit harder to hear all the mistakes, but i knew i made them. the splash cymbal just seems in a place that i'm not used to at the moment(between the tom-toms), so many times i either missed hitting it completely, or hit it too softly. plus, it still has a different sound(less shimmery, but a brighter sound), so i'm still getting used to when to use it.
worship's never about the accuracy of the music(and as long as people feel moved by the Spirit, i'm cool w/it, though it's a bit hard for me to guage that every sunday save by asking everybody), but i still wished i could've played better. just too over-excited, and it probably carried onto how i played.
and the cowbell still sounds a bit weird; i will mos def bring DAT cowbell more often, but i couldn't help but think ppl might be giggling when i played it. cowbell IMO can sorta be treated like a ride cymbal, except used during verses; has the same type of tone closely enough, but doesn't shimmer.
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