i watched cung le last night and it was like he was turning san shou into judo... the san jose native threw his opponent all over the place... takedowns that should've resulted in the opponent getting some major points resulted in reversals at the last moment giving cung the points instead. match ended in round 2 to the vietnamese... that's how fast it went.

and cung's no joke; only 2 losses in his career to his 33 wins according to last night's fight stats.

the more i play vf4 evo the more i truly realize just how deep the game system is. it's really a shame how sega ruined their potential to market vf to the states with their botched move on vf3. those were the days when you actually had to insert a dollar bill into vf3 to play the game once. because of that, you'd be lucky to see a vf4 machine here.

when you slow-cook beef in stew until it's so tender that it just tears apart with no effort... that's the best... i love cooking whenever i do beef just right like that.

Hypnotized - Pillar

It’s been far too long
We’ve known all along
This was going on
Can’t seem to respond
To anything so we carry on
With our lives
We rewind
We can’t find
We deny
The simple fact that we haven’t done anything
That doesn’t mean that we can’t start offering
Why do we feel so far / It’s like we’re seeing stars
Why does it seem so hard?
To wake up now and see who we really are
So let go
Don’t follow

Where do we go from here
How did it disappear
It’s hard to see with our own eyes
These times (these lies)
We’ve been hypnotized

I think its time we try
To open up our eyes
And look away from the very thing
That’s made us cry, we’re hypnotized
And you’ll see
The real me
Luckily
It can be stopped
If the tick tock of life isn’t all that you got
So come ready or not wake up its your last shot
So come to
And redo

Wake up now
Now it has been far too long
How can we not go wrong
Again

wow, msm actually HAS ppl working on de-fobbing the dkc website...

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i love going shirtless, barefoot w/gym shorts in the summer... there's a sense of freedom unmatched in doing something like that...

of course, if i'm outside, i would wear something on my feet, but you get the idea...

i would venture like that around outside, but i have a feeling ppl might frown down upon being shirtless in public or in class... so i'd probably only do that if i'm indoors or exercising...

i should get sunblock though...

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to the best of my rememberance:

top 5 in total rebounds
top 5 in total steals
top 5 in total assists
top 10 in total blocks
top 10 defensive player
top 10 pts allowed
top 5 2 pt shooter
top 5 3 pt shooter
top 5 overall ranking
top 5 most experienced

name: jrich
ht: 6-6
wt: 222 lbs(i wasn't able to get exactly 225)

jersey number: 23, warriors

hotspot: upper-right on the 3 pt arc

(13 and above is considered to be "green," or high)
(6 and below is considered to be "red," or low)

power: 8 /20
steal: 11 /20
speed: 13 /20
2 pt: 14 /20
3 pt: 13 /20
dunk: 16 /20
block: 8 /20
dribble: 11 /20
rebound: ???
passing: ???
clutch: ???

i can't assign the last 3 attributes; i think they're based upon everything else, however:

-i'm assuming rebounding ability is slightly above average, maybe 11 or so; i've been able to pull down around 6 rebounds/game w/jrich, but then again, i play with a defensive mentality
-passing i'm not too sure; i've had about 6 to's per game, but then there's been a lotta times where i've dumped off a really good pass w/o it being intercepted
-clutch: MUST BE HIGH; like i've said before; i really should change the name to billups; if i'm less than halfcourt and the clock's winding down; i RARELY MISS(that is, if i can put up the shot without being pushed to the floor beforehand)

'k, bible verses included for you to ponder; actually, this was pretty fun; maybe in the future i'll tackle other contraversial issues that God has seemingly showed me in the scriptures, like why free will's not supported by the bible, or why israel will NOT be restored in the endtimes, more in-depth why the roman catholic church's the antichrist, but it took me a while to write all this, so i'll just sit back now:

jesus calling simon as 'peter,' then saying upon this rock will i build my church...
Matt:16:17-19
17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
18And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

roman catholics take this verse and assume that peter built the 1st church.

and from the wording of the bible(check it; it's the same for all versions), it would SEEM to suggest that the church is built upon peter(although, i might add, kjv has no footnotes stating that peter means rock, which helps ease off the confusion).
look at the NIV footnotes, then try the KJV version

but wait... there's numerous other references to a so-called 'rock' in the other parts of the bible... do they apparently seem to refer to peter as this rock, or jesus as the rock?
Deuteronomy 32:4
4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
1st Corinthians 10:4
4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

the 'rock being cut out not by human hands' in daniel, is this peter, or jesus?
Daniel 2:34-35,44,4-5
34Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
...
44And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

the foundation that the wise man builds in jesus' parable ON THE ROCK, think this is peter, or jesus?
Matt 7:24-25
24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

the capstone that the builders have rejected; is this peter, or jesus?
(this is also the stone that was cut out not by human hands that is described in daniel)
Isaiah 8:13-16
13Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Psalm 118:22
22The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Matt 21:42-43
42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
43Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
44And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

the statement that 'their rock is not our rock,' think this refers to peter, or to jesus?
(this passage, based upon the ebook that i was reading, interprets this this verse to mean that Protestants' rock is Jesus Christ, and the Catholics' rock is Peter, since he "supposedly" founded the church, since he is the head and replaces Jesus, he is THEIR rock)
Deuteronomy 32:31
31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

if peter is the head of our church, then why doesn't the epistles state that peter's the head of the body of christ, and we are the body(we know that the body of christ is the church)?
Ephesians 5:23-24
23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Colossians 1:18
18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

what does paul say about being divided in the body of Christ?
1 Corinth 1:12-15
12Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
14I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
15Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

does peter even seem to like the idea of being revered as a saint? the italian man who invited him to his house bowed down to him, but peter made him stand right back up, telling him, he was only a man himself.
Acts 10:25-26
25And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
26But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

furthermore, there is no reason to suggest peter was even an apostle TO the gentiles; that role was fulfilled by paul, and the main powerhouse for the jews was peter. when paul greets all the christians in rome in his letter "romans", nowhere is it seen that he greets peter. NOWHERE.
Romans 11:13
13For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Galatians 2:7-9
7But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
8(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
9And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
read this, and tell me if paul ever greets peter in his letter to the romans

according to the game show espn teammates:

billups keeps teasing rip about his fur coat, the one w/the fox heads on it...

rip, surprisingly doesn't like rooming w/rasheed the most out of all the pistons; says he's "always blasting his music"

amare's favorite drink is red kool-aid...

the one part of barry zito's body which doesn't match is his "womanly curvy hips"...

zito said brynes doesn't like being called t.a.b.(stands for tired ass brynes)... brynes guessed incorrectly, but said they called him spicolli... which also sounds just as bad...

i'm watching the show, and i have to say, everytime i see a women's team, they always seem to do worse than the guys(ex: team usa swimming does TERRIBLE, team usa volleyball ie misty may and kerri walsh do TERRIBLE); strange eh? aren't women considered to be more social than men? you'd figure they'd know more about each other...

on a side note, but sports related:

wonder if this means wizards aren't gonna be as strong compared to last season... they still have arenas and jamaison... but it's really too bad hughes wanted to play w/lbj. i guess for some, winning > friendship. cavs look like they're going to actually be somewhere in the next season; mike brown, the defensive coach which was so instrumental to the pacers' success is here... hughes, who is one heck of a defensive player, and a good shooter, is also going to be at the cavs. personally, though, i like hughes, but i have a feeling the two play too close alike for this to work. redd was a better fit, but heck, i like redd too; hope bucks become a good force again next season.

they showed the classic boxing upset last night; buster douglas vs mike tyson last night on espn2. if i had known they were showing the thing the whole night, i would've stuck on espn2 and watched the whole thing. instead, i watched the last 2 rounds. indeed, it was one of THE worst upsets ever. tyson was picked 42-1 to win this thing. but all night, it was basically this: douglas was faster, had a longer reach, and dragged the match out, and did not let tyson finish this early. not to say tyson didn't get some good hard hits in, but douglas was just wailing on tyson in the head with that left jab poke of his. this was basically the match:

douglas goes for a series of jab pokes at tyson's head.
tyson tries to get close to "clinch" ykno, hug douglas so the ref can break it up and reset the momentum; it's a common thing if you've ever watched a boxing match.
douglas pushes tyson off himself before the ref gets there and gets a couple of hard, fast hits at tyson's head.
rinse and repeat.

after a while, douglas was just all over the place and went for broke on tyson's head with hooks, straights and uppercuts. tyson's left eye looked swollen-closed. tyson went down for the very 1st time that night in the 10th, and stayed down.

it's too bad buster douglas never tried to really make a name for himself; after he stole the championship from mike, he put on a LOT of weight and never ever boxed again; today he looks like a fatass, not like the brilliant fighter that took down the person nobody thought could be beat that night.

you wanna be able to research all the various bible topics like i do? does it seem intimidating?

the thing you should do, is always see if ppl on the web misinterpret the bible verses they are quoting.

that's i think key. amongst other things, but that's key.

for instance, are there other bible verses that refute/support this idea? does the idea they try to conclude match what's going on in the real world?

i'm kinda busy, as i'm supposed to be writing a paper that's due in about 1 hr or so, so i'll get back to you on this tonight, but off the top of my head, here's a classic one(i'll find the verses tonight if i can remember; i've read this before):

jesus calling simon as "peter," then saying upon this rock will i build my church...

roman catholics take this verse and assume that peter built the 1st church.

and from the wording of the bible(check it; it's the same for all versions), it would SEEM to suggest that the church is built upon peter(although, i might add, kjv has no footnotes stating that peter means rock, which helps ease off the confusion)

but wait... there's numerous other references to a so-called "rock" in the other parts of the bible... do they apparently seem to refer to peter as this rock, or jesus as the rock? the "rock being cut out not by human hands" in daniel, is this peter, or jesus? the foundation that the wise man builds in jesus' parable ON THE ROCK, think this is peter, or jesus? the capstone that the builders have rejected; is this peter, or jesus? the statement that "their rock is not our rock," think this refers to peterr, or to jesus? if peter is the head of our church, then why doesn't the epistles state that peter's the head of the body of christ, and we are the body(we know that the body of christ is the church)?

does peter even seem to like the idea of being revered as a saint? the italian man who invited him to his house bowed down to him, but peter made him stand right back up, telling him, he was only a man himself.

furthermore, there is no reason to suggest peter was even an apostle TO the gentiles; that role was fulfilled by paul, and the main powerhouse for the jews was peter. when paul goes to rome in acts, nowhere is it seen that he greets peter. NOWHERE.

that's the idea. the other thing is to throw away all fear; in that, what you find, if it's bibically sound, is what you find. if a scientist finds something extremely contradictory to what the rest of the scientific world believes, but it is sound, then he must believe his results, and not what the world tells him. now, obviously, you tread really shaky ground when you do this, that's why you should always pray for guidance when you do stuff like this.

finally, i'll conclude that when looking up prophesies, it's tempting to say something you found, which matches, is "coincidence." however, the more prophesies you find on something, the more it matches, compared also w/what the early church believed, etc, may show you otherwise. like, for instance, the accusation that the roman catholic church IS the antichrist.

i'll post later.

if i was black, i'd go stand in front of a tanning salon and then look at my hands and go

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!?!?!??!?!!?!?"

*got the idea from black comedian lewis ramey*

i should rename the nba showtime character i created from jrich to billups...

i'm:
top ten in steals/game... (maybe 4/game)
top ten in 2 pt percentage... (60%)
top ten in 3 pt percentage... (40%)
top ten in lowest points allowed/game... (55)
top ten in rebounds/game... (7 i think)
top ten in best defenses...
one of the most experienced players(ie won most games)... (39 games?)
one of the best shooters; ie takes the most 3s TOTAL, not per game...
and maybe one or two other top lists...

i don't have top ten in blocks/game(midway bball is SO HARD to block shots), but i average about 2.6 per game... ben wallace-like.

does THAT sound like jrich to you?

i rarely dunk too...

i don't get how espn can list kobeyashi in the same sentence as lance armstrong when describing winning streaks...

i'm not saying eating 50+ hot dogs w/o puking is easy... certainly not when you do it and win 5x in a row...

but the tour de france really sucks the life out of you.

ever tried biking up a hill before? it's a killer. fastest way imo for you to feel the pain is get on your ten speed, set your gears to the hardest setting, and then climb an incline. it'll make a believer outta you. the tour de france is basically riding up a HUGE incline.

simply put, lance armstrong is a beast. his lactate levels in his blood during exercise are so much lower than other bikers, and his muscle fibers have just toned themselves to perfection over the years. basically, imagine never getting your muscles sore during intense exercise, never ever feeling like you're running outta air. that's lance. ever watch clips of the tour de france? it's like lance is going for a solo bike ride through the park; he's that much better than the rest of the comp.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/aps-lat061305.php

http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/107/108551.htm

http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/2005/06/education15.html

(snippet from the last site i listed)
"As Coyle points out, the best way to absorb the magnitude of Armstrong’s physical power and endurance is to compare him to others. In one hour of bike riding, Armstrong can cover 32 miles as opposed to the 21 miles a top runner could cover on a bike and the 16 miles an average cyclist could cover.

Armstrong possesses a large, strong heart that can beat over 200 times a minute operating at maximum capacity and pump an exceptionally large volume of blood and oxygen to his legs—only around 100 other men on earth, who have been tested, have comparable abilities and only two other competitive cyclists that Coyle has tested in the past 20 years have even come close to Armstrong’s 200 heartbeats per minute.

If a normal male college student were to train at a grueling pace for two or more years, the student’s maximum oxygen uptake would not increase above 60 ml/kg/min—Coyle estimates that even if Armstrong became a couch potato, his would not dip below 60 ml/kg/min."

simply put, he had the genetic makeup to already be such a formidable athelete. but he took it one step further and simply did NOT stop training each and everyday. genetic makeup + natural body adaptation to strenunous constant workout = BEAST.

you want something similar to what lance has? no secret: exercise hard and long each and everyday; do something that completely sucks the life outta you for more than 1 hour and then come right back for more. well, you won't get a 200 bpm heart, but i wouldn't be surprised if you develop a really strong heart.

...

but i could JUST be all wrong about this, and maybe kobeyashi is up there with lance...

i just think the numerous competitions that are shown on sportscenter now are just getting ridiculous. you might as well put evolution on sportscenter after it happens... i mean... hey... now they're doing it in las vegas now, instead of in some lecture hall at a california college.

according to one of my roommates' friends, who's taking ss1 up here instead of ucla, la is NOTHING compared to davis heat. i wonder how san diego matches up? davis is further inland...

but anyways...

happy 4th of july, my american christian brothers and sisters.

while the usa is now a far cry from what a christian nation should be, at its birth, i do believe it was give or take everything that a christian nation on earth should be.

it was the 1st nation which did not have single leader presiding over the entire country; the highest authority is(much like christianity) based upon a stack of papers we call the constitution of the united states of america.

the government, a country's highest authority, was supposed to be the states', and hence, the people's servants.

because of this extreme difference in authority, and because the roman catholic church could grasp a single leader by the throat in order to control a country, it stood as the biggest threat to catholicism; there were no leaders to grasp by the throat. and even if they did, they could not infringe upon the constitution, which guarenteed many rights and priviledges to the average american citizen.

unfortunately, i have not really done my research too much on this subject so far, so i should say no more, at least for now.

so i'll just end today w/this:

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain;
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.

(i remember singing this in elementary school each day for a bit)

jeff dunham's an excellant comedian...
he's also a ventriloquist.
if you've ever seen his acts on comedy central, you'll crack up. perhaps the funniest thing was the crack about giraffes throwing up.

ever wondered what happened to kendall gill, the nba veteran? i actually saw him last night boxing against a 5-8 white guy; won. wow... at first, when i saw his name come up while he was boxing, i was like, "kendall gill... hey, didn't he used to play in the nba?"

i guess that means we'll be seeing a transition for shaq to the nfl... hey it COULD happen. or maybe tractor trailer's better for that job.

because i'm not really a baseball guy, i really am ready for the nfl to start. watched the "gridiron stars" thing yesterday; y'kno, how espn pits 5 national football players vs 5 american football players in a variety of different events; it seriously makes everything they're doing look fun. i would love to race against someone in an obstacle course. but we all know football players are built for short, but frequent spurts, not long runs. that's why you see them tank out a lot for like long endurance stuff.

the kjv is translated as best to the ability, word-for-word, because it IS the will of jesus christ. when a court needs to hear the last will of a person, translated to another language, because their descendants can't understand the dead person's native tongue, they use word-for-word translation, not thought-for-thought. because if done by the 2nd, there is a slight chance that the interpreter will inject his bias of what the will means; then when the judge reads it, it will not be the will of the dead person; it will be the will of the dead person intermingled with the thoughts of the interpreter. in fact, interpreter is a better word than translator in this case. and as you might guess, all other bible translations are done thought-for-thought.

everytime i hear u2 - vertigo, i think of ben wallace blocking a shot.

they're pulling an "vf4 evo" for tekken 5... which is KINDA good, cause steve was just retarded, and the same w/bryan, and to a smaller extent nina, but it's also bad, because now i essentially might've wasted 15 dollars getting 3 cards i might not ever use anymore, esp if they change all the tekken 5 cabinets in the us to tekken 5.1 cabs. but i have vf4 evo, so i guess i won't really have to care about that(just gotta hope jerm and jon try to pick up the game)... although come sept, i'll probably have to prove whether i'm better at tekken or eugene.

i have no idea where i'm headed in life... i see the potential in myself to earn something through genetics, or to be a person who unearths a heap a crap that satan has against the body of christ(in other words; conspiracy) and then spends his life trying to awaken others, or both, but all i know is that god will be there with me as it all unfolds. apart from that, i really don't have an idea as what will occur.

revelations clearly identifies rome, specifically, the roman catholic church as "mystery, babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth."

would it surprise you if i told you the early church did NOT celebrate christmas? go ahead and look it up. i'm not saying the birth of christ never occurred. i'm saying that christmas was originally a pagan holiday, and that the early church refused to celebrate it, much like the attitude we should carry towards halloween. guess who originally brought christmas to christians? that's right; the roman catholic church.

my room finally looks a lot more organized now. and neater.

i need to watch the entire movie of "harold and kumar"

i watched maybe about 30 mins of it, and i couldn't stop laughing. particularily the suspect sketch at the end of the movie.

my room's so messy... i'm cleaning it now... might take a while though.

vf4 evo's so fun... so challenging to play on a pad though, it sucks.

characters right now i'm pretty comfortable using: sarah, lau

characters in the process of learning: pai

"all around the world" was on sale at bereans for 6.99

and oh yea; i've often wondered why the 1st 2 of the 10 commandments were as such:

1- thou shalt have no other gods before me
2- thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them... *etc, etc*

but no more.

it is because it is one thing to worship other gods other than God himself. but even then, we must NOT set up any image, in any sort of fashion or form, and worship them, even if they are revered people/saints/angels in god's kingdom.

we must NOT pray to the saints, expecting them to intercede to god on our behalf.
we must NOT pray to the virgin mary, that she might interact w/god for us.

the only person we can come to is jesus, and that is on no coincidence that he was god incarnate, or basically God himself. (on top of many other reasons, like having come in sinful flesh, being our eternal high priest)

why was the old testament established if it was shown to not work? because it was created to show our need for a savior. romans points this out perfectly. would we know we were guilty of coveting if there was not a perfect law which stated in plain english, "do not covet?" but through this law, we find not salvation, but the need of a saviour. and from that saviour, we find salvation.

mvc2: far c.roundhouse w/jill; if they roll, cancel into short zombie for a free combo. if they don't, c.short(otg)-> c.fierce, blah blah

in corner: c.fierce/\ sj.fierce xx fierce rush xx rushing super.

any char w/fly: fast fly is when you fly and immediately press a direction and an attack. the attack comes out much quicker

vf4evo sarah's triple dc combo is t3h 0wn@g3

thomas nelson bibles sell the smallest kjv bible i've ever seen; it's like 3 in by 4 in, 1 cm thick. too bad i only saw one copy @barnes n noble, and it was red, not black. haven't seen them at bereans yet.

i really can't begin to study more about the kjv vs modern bible research til the books come in the mail, so i'm kinda stagnant right now; just have a lot of good accusations and arguments that i've pulled up from the internet as of right now. guess i could write them all down though.

hebrews uses the word "testament" to describe jesus' addition to his people in the bible. a testament is essentially the will of a person. think of it this way; the bible really is the will of the lord jesus christ. now, the person who writes that will is free, as long as he lives, to change, add and subtract to it as he likes, but once he dies, it becomes etched in stone. that is why jesus had the sole ability and privilege to add the new testament to the old testament; he wrote the old testament. here's some verses you can look at to ponder.

Hebrews 7:22: By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Hebrews 8:6-7: But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Hebrews 8:13: In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 9:13-18: For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

and i want to take the oppurtunity to explain something about the kjv; you may notice that as you read the kjv, there's words randomly placed in italics. why is this? that is because while the editors for the kjv attempted to used word-for-word translation to accurately translate the bible from hebrew and greek to english, a 100% word-for-word translation was not possible. hence, words that were added in order to ensure that the passages would read fluently are marked with italics! isn't that amazing? that they would have the honesty to show which words they added to the bible! because we know that the scriptures at the very end of revelations condemn the people who add or subtract words to the bible. so, by this, we can judge whether or not these people honestly took away the original meaning of the bible. think about it. if everything i've found out about the modern bibles and their corruptness is true, then who knows how many verses they changed!

i was bored, so instead of playing tekken 3 at the mu, recently, i created a new character for "showtime: nba on nbc" at the mu; he's named "jrich" :D that's cause the game was based on the year 2000 i believe. warriors have starks, marshall, bogues. they do however, have DAMP!

i have to work up the wins in order to get enough attributes to distribute so he's REALLY like jrich. right now, he's not even jrich's build and height.

so if you ever wanna use jrich @the mu: jrich, then "end" and pin number's 23, then two "squares."

cpu ai's retarded though; guys who shouldn't nail 3s do like clockwork, like damp and joe smith. guys who shouldn't be able to block your shot do it like clockwork like nash.

but i play defense, so it's an equalizer; the stats show that i'm like 5th at the arcade in top defenses(~55 pts allowed/game). although the cpu pisses me off; really. even my own teammate pisses me off, cause he's not going for the rebounds like he's ben wallace when i miss my 3s and 2s.

my room's so messy, it irks me, but i'm so lazy... i'll do it this weekend.

hebrews and revelation are fast becoming my favorite books of the bible.

i own a rediculous amount of rubber bracelets and wwjd woven bracelets combined... well, it's growing... 5... but i never wear more than 1 on each hand... heh... most ppl care only about what they're wearing... i wonder about switching up my bracelets... cause if you've ever seen ppl wear more than 2 bracelet on each hand, it looks stupid. heck, i think you shouldn't wear more than 1.

he who has eyes, let him see...
he who has ears, let him hear...

oh the dilemma...
struggle in vain against the forces of darkness that strive to put the final antichrist on the throne, knowing you're simply signing your own death warrant, given that revelations and daniel both state they WILL come to pass...
or do nothing, and become the watchman described in the bible whom jesus states will demand an accounting for...

i only pray that i may develop the courage to stand up for what i believe in...

vf4 evo is the best fighting game i've ever played; i'll glad i found out that it only cost ten dollars at best buy. they even make the training mode so detailed that you can learn the basics of the game from that alone; no other fighting game on console has that feature. i've always loved the vf series. probably try to learn akira, sarah, lau, jeff, then maybe brad or goh, somebody new. and i should get a joystick.

i just gotta make sure i set the kitchen timer everytime i play, or i could go overboard.

k, i should explain the bible research thing i did a post ago...

God is called "Holy One" or "Holy One of Israel," and rightfully so. he is referenced so much in the bible as such.

however, if you did a search for the words "Holy One of God," only two places will this pop up in the kjv: mark 1:24, and luke 4:34; both are spoken by a demon-possessed man. in both cases, when the demon says such words, jesus' response is to rebuke them, tell them to shut up and then to come out of him. now, it is important to realize that demons ALSO called him the son of God, but when Jesus rebukes them there, it is because he doesn't want them to reveal the truth to the common hebrew man, lest they not crucify him. remember this distinctiveness. when jesus casts out the demons calling him the "holy one of god," it is because they are speaking blasphemy.

now, try searching for the words "christ, the son of the living god," matthew 16:16 and john 6:69 pop up. this is when jesus asks peter what jesus is. jesus' response is to bless him, b/c it was revealed to him not by man's thinking, but by God. therefore it must be truth. and indeed it is true; 1st john 4:2 shows that every spirit that confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh is from God.

the NIV bible's john 6:69 calls Jesus the "Holy One of God." again, let's think a little bit; no where else in the bible is some being along the allegiance of good call god "holy one of god."

common modern day bible scholars refute these arguments by pointing to other places in the kjv where it doesn't refer to jesus but instead says something like "he." and i'm still looking into that. but if the kjv bible is not speaking of a flat-out blasphemy like the john 6:69 example, i don't see any reason why those arguments should be acceptable.

but i think the strongest argument for the kjv bible may be the agreement with geocentricity as opposed to heliocentricity; i'll look into that later.

well, although the pistons lost and the spurs won, at least i can be comfortable knowing the pistons pushed the spurs to actually earn their rings, unlike the previous years when the spurs reached the finals. game 7 was actually pretty close, and at times in the pistons' favor. i thought the pivotal moments came when detroit's best big men were sitted b/c brown was afraid to get them in deeper foul trouble. that's when duncan just took advantage of the mismatches, b/c detroit went small. but give the spurs credit; i don't think they have any glaring weaknesses out of all the teams in the nba. detroit did spectacular, but you could say in game 7 their weakness of a thin bench finally came out, because once they got in foul trouble, they really got nailed.

strangely enough, bob got his wish after game 4; all the following games were close.

series recap in short:
i was wrong about parker; the big guard for the spurs was manu ginobili, and the x-factor came from robert horry. duncan was of course their constant; wasn't flat-out dominant like in previous years when he almost got a quadruple double, but the big overall consistent person.

i was also wrong about detroit; their main guard was billups; i seriously don't give this guy enough credit; doesn't always score big every game, but he's the most consistent offensive player. big ben was also a serious mvp candidate for the pistons, as he played his heart out after game 2, with rebound after rebound; although he had his difficulties w/guarding duncan, the series would have even greater swung towards the spurs if it weren't for him. and mcdice was huge off the bench. the series could have been greatly different if prince was a much bigger factor; he was just too quiet offensively.

despite what it seemed like, i think maybe, just MAYBE, detroit could've won in 6 if rasheed had not tried to double ginobili in game 5 during overtime(basically if detroit actually won 3 in a row at home). but then again, i don't know if spurs would've played the same during game 6, and ditto for the pistons.

what i find most intriguing about the bible is that specific verses not only agree with each other at the time it was written, but it agrees with the past, and the future as well. god was not lying at all when he said his words are truth.

because inside it it pinpoints every single antichrist who hates jesus and only desires power of this world. i would not be surprised if there really was a conspiracy to entirely undermine and persecute the christian faith occurring right now. if the kjv bible really was god's word alone, and did pinpoint every single antichrist to come, then that's even more reason to understand why so many bible versions were created.

FOR SURE, my biblical research definately will not end with just the topic of the validity of the KJV bible vs the validity of all other modern bibles. in fact, i might even put aside the topic of the roman catholic church, and look at the zionists specifically after the bible research. it seems like speculatively, that could be a bigger problem than the RCC.

but i'm losing you. so here's something you can try to see just one of the grains of sand of evidence supporting the kjv. of course, there's more, but you can try this yourself.

go to biblegateway.com and select king james version as your bible search engine. type in "holy one," search, and select "more results from king james version" at the bottom of the page. change "match all words" to "match exact phrase." then search again. got it? you should see a plephora of matches with "holy one," often times "holy one of israel."(you can try searching "holy one of israel" instead) note the allegiance of the one who says it(good or evil?) should be overwhelmingly one sided who says it.

now try the same thing with the words "holy one of god." note who says it each time it pops up, how many verses pop up.
now try "Christ, the Son of the Living God" and note who says it each time it pops up, how many verses pop up.

got it?

now try the same search w/the NIV search engine.("Holy One of Israel", then "Holy One of God", then "Christ, the Son of the Living God")

go ahead and compare "Holy One of God" with "Christ, the Son of the Living God" using the other bible search engines.

interestingly enough, if you did it correctly, only 21KJV has similar results to KJV; of course, that bible also has problems that other arguments explain, but i'll explain what's the significance of these searching results tomorrow or so; give you a day or two to brood on it.