i found rip hamilton's boost mobile commercial to be too funny.
i won't say anything yet, cause i *think* it's fairly new so far...
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Queer Plans For the Straight Man
This must be the japanese version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy... however, it's a LOT funnier...
Har-do Gay Foooooooo!
This must be the japanese version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy... however, it's a LOT funnier...
Har-do Gay Foooooooo!
Friday, May 05, 2006
something i'm paraphrasing out of the book i'm reading, but should give you something to think about...
in order for God to communicate his word to his people, he had to put his word in the common language. now, note that some groups are going to just be excluded because of that, but you would just have to learn the new language. is this unfair to other nations? perhaps... but we should never question God's will; i believe that in the end, the very words that jesus spoke about losing none of those that were given to him from the Father holds true.
so...
old testament - hebrew language is the common language.
new testament - greek language(God didn't even return back to jersualem to use it to further his kingdom; the new center of christianity was in antioch, syria, as established in acts)
combination of the 2 together to form the bible - english language. God did not choose any other european country powerhouses because they were tainted with rome(ie the pope had some influence there), and hence had roman catholic influences. that excluded spain, france, germany, italy. england had a history of being catholic, true, but it also had a long, and permanent history after that of rebellion against rome(look up when rome used spain as a pawn tried to attack them navally and failed), and remained prostant. the us was also established upon christian(specifically protestant) men and women.
that's basically the gist of what i was going to say; i'm not looking at my book as i'm writing this, so i'm sure i'm excluding some words, but this should be good enough for you to mull over for a bit.
btw, the book i'm reading is:
samuel c. gipp - an understandable history of the bible
(one more note: what we consider "old english" and "middle english" is actually a LOT more old than the english in the kjv; if you were to look at actual "old english," there'd be NO WAY you could read it AT ALL. so, the excuse that kjv is old english does not hold up)
in order for God to communicate his word to his people, he had to put his word in the common language. now, note that some groups are going to just be excluded because of that, but you would just have to learn the new language. is this unfair to other nations? perhaps... but we should never question God's will; i believe that in the end, the very words that jesus spoke about losing none of those that were given to him from the Father holds true.
so...
old testament - hebrew language is the common language.
new testament - greek language(God didn't even return back to jersualem to use it to further his kingdom; the new center of christianity was in antioch, syria, as established in acts)
combination of the 2 together to form the bible - english language. God did not choose any other european country powerhouses because they were tainted with rome(ie the pope had some influence there), and hence had roman catholic influences. that excluded spain, france, germany, italy. england had a history of being catholic, true, but it also had a long, and permanent history after that of rebellion against rome(look up when rome used spain as a pawn tried to attack them navally and failed), and remained prostant. the us was also established upon christian(specifically protestant) men and women.
that's basically the gist of what i was going to say; i'm not looking at my book as i'm writing this, so i'm sure i'm excluding some words, but this should be good enough for you to mull over for a bit.
btw, the book i'm reading is:
samuel c. gipp - an understandable history of the bible
(one more note: what we consider "old english" and "middle english" is actually a LOT more old than the english in the kjv; if you were to look at actual "old english," there'd be NO WAY you could read it AT ALL. so, the excuse that kjv is old english does not hold up)
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
"duh" statement of the night regarding bball from me:
if you're having trouble playing defense against somebody, try making them play defense a bit more.
it sounds stupid at first, and kinda obvious, and nba players do say it all the time in press conferences, but the more i thought about it, the more it's meaning has hit upon me.
you see, sometimes you're going up against a good scorer, and it seems that no matter what you do, you can't contain him.
well, assuming he's the one guarding you on the other end, one of the ways you can wear him out is to start trying to score more on him, make him chase you around screens more, etc. that may help wear him out, and make your defense a bit easier; it won't solve the entire puzzle, you still have to play good defense, but it may help you out some.
so even if you are unselfish and don't want to see yourself as the main scorer of your team, just learning some simple effective stuff to throw at your opponent when you're on the offensive end if you're coming up puzzled about how to stop your opponent's offense will help a lot.
it's kinda hit me this late, b/c i don't consider myself the main scorer on any team i play when i'm playing bball. part of that does have to do with my abilities. but if i'm playing against people i don't know, chances are that i might end up guarding someone who is very aggressive and demanding of the ball. in cases like those, it might be good to play a bit more offense on him, in the motive of trying to wear him down more.
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fyi, i really thought(and hoped) chicago should've won game 5. no real excuses they shouldn't have. but dwyane wade's will to win should in all due respects be commended. fought through an incredibly painful injury knowing the offense on the heat depended upon him. and it seemed that when the heat saw him come back, their confidence and will to win came back. they went on a defensive rout(although, knowing chicago's not that great offensively, i want to say it's more that chicago struggled rather than heat locked them down.) it's just a shame that this will probably hurt them down the road; even if they beat the bulls and move on, you could say this puts the nail in the hopes that the heat will make it to the finals yet again. i don't think you even need detroit to knock the heat out of the eastern race. the nets can do it. i want to say indiana could do it as well, but that's stretching it. however, i do think indiana can take this weakened heat team to 7 games.
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you said it, ron, now make your promise. (just looking to see if "infinite intensity" 93 is going to step up and fulfill his promise of the kings getting into the 2nd round, or were those just empty threats to the league.)
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this world is so full of people making the most stupidest comments out of ignorance. they just say whatever they want without any thought to it. that's probably what boils me so much. i'm all for free speech and it's great to live in a country that supports it; you should never be afraid of saying something because you know someone's not going to like what you said. but i am also for saying SOUND SPEECH, because free speech is IMO not a ticket to saying ANYTHING, but more like a ticket to saying WHAT IS RIGHT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER PEOPLE AGREE WITH YOU OR NOT. in other countries, you can get arrested, tortured, even killed for saying stuff, even if it is right. here you cannot. i do not believe the founding fathers of this nation allowed free speech so idiots can say the stupidest things. they allowed it so that the balance of power in speech would never be tipped into the hands of the person with the most military and monetary resources. think about that for more than a few seconds before you start saying something really stupid on impulse the next time.
in like vein of the same subject, sometimes i argue with myself regarding christianity like this:
+: it's simply not right for me to hate upon another person just because they have the most ignorant thoughts. that does not make myself any better. that's wrong.
-: i conceed with that, and know it. but does that make what they thought ok? am i supposed to just tolerate what they said? it's still wrong regardless.
...
so then, how am i supposed to loathe their thoughts, but not them? especially when it seems like the way they act and think DEFINES them?
+: but do you think your hating on them will ever change their actions and their thinking?
-: maybe... without a clear sense of what is right and wrong and why, i don't think i would ever get to a point where i disliked something about them in the first place. but you are right that if i never confront them directly in love, they have a much lower chance of changing the way they think.
THAT is probably why it is so tough to "hate the sin, not the sinner." because we can only define a person based upon their looks, their method of thinking, and the way they act. we keep saying love unconditionally, but in order to overlook all those things and simply love them(remember that unconditional love would mean we also don't necessarily love them just for the things that we see good in them), would be no different, then say, trying to love any living organism unconditionally.
although, i think in the end values and personality both help. values, will define how much you think what they're doing is not ok. personality, will determine angry or understanding you'll be. although, we do know what is impossible with men is possible with God.
if you're having trouble playing defense against somebody, try making them play defense a bit more.
it sounds stupid at first, and kinda obvious, and nba players do say it all the time in press conferences, but the more i thought about it, the more it's meaning has hit upon me.
you see, sometimes you're going up against a good scorer, and it seems that no matter what you do, you can't contain him.
well, assuming he's the one guarding you on the other end, one of the ways you can wear him out is to start trying to score more on him, make him chase you around screens more, etc. that may help wear him out, and make your defense a bit easier; it won't solve the entire puzzle, you still have to play good defense, but it may help you out some.
so even if you are unselfish and don't want to see yourself as the main scorer of your team, just learning some simple effective stuff to throw at your opponent when you're on the offensive end if you're coming up puzzled about how to stop your opponent's offense will help a lot.
it's kinda hit me this late, b/c i don't consider myself the main scorer on any team i play when i'm playing bball. part of that does have to do with my abilities. but if i'm playing against people i don't know, chances are that i might end up guarding someone who is very aggressive and demanding of the ball. in cases like those, it might be good to play a bit more offense on him, in the motive of trying to wear him down more.
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fyi, i really thought(and hoped) chicago should've won game 5. no real excuses they shouldn't have. but dwyane wade's will to win should in all due respects be commended. fought through an incredibly painful injury knowing the offense on the heat depended upon him. and it seemed that when the heat saw him come back, their confidence and will to win came back. they went on a defensive rout(although, knowing chicago's not that great offensively, i want to say it's more that chicago struggled rather than heat locked them down.) it's just a shame that this will probably hurt them down the road; even if they beat the bulls and move on, you could say this puts the nail in the hopes that the heat will make it to the finals yet again. i don't think you even need detroit to knock the heat out of the eastern race. the nets can do it. i want to say indiana could do it as well, but that's stretching it. however, i do think indiana can take this weakened heat team to 7 games.
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you said it, ron, now make your promise. (just looking to see if "infinite intensity" 93 is going to step up and fulfill his promise of the kings getting into the 2nd round, or were those just empty threats to the league.)
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this world is so full of people making the most stupidest comments out of ignorance. they just say whatever they want without any thought to it. that's probably what boils me so much. i'm all for free speech and it's great to live in a country that supports it; you should never be afraid of saying something because you know someone's not going to like what you said. but i am also for saying SOUND SPEECH, because free speech is IMO not a ticket to saying ANYTHING, but more like a ticket to saying WHAT IS RIGHT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER PEOPLE AGREE WITH YOU OR NOT. in other countries, you can get arrested, tortured, even killed for saying stuff, even if it is right. here you cannot. i do not believe the founding fathers of this nation allowed free speech so idiots can say the stupidest things. they allowed it so that the balance of power in speech would never be tipped into the hands of the person with the most military and monetary resources. think about that for more than a few seconds before you start saying something really stupid on impulse the next time.
in like vein of the same subject, sometimes i argue with myself regarding christianity like this:
+: it's simply not right for me to hate upon another person just because they have the most ignorant thoughts. that does not make myself any better. that's wrong.
-: i conceed with that, and know it. but does that make what they thought ok? am i supposed to just tolerate what they said? it's still wrong regardless.
...
so then, how am i supposed to loathe their thoughts, but not them? especially when it seems like the way they act and think DEFINES them?
+: but do you think your hating on them will ever change their actions and their thinking?
-: maybe... without a clear sense of what is right and wrong and why, i don't think i would ever get to a point where i disliked something about them in the first place. but you are right that if i never confront them directly in love, they have a much lower chance of changing the way they think.
THAT is probably why it is so tough to "hate the sin, not the sinner." because we can only define a person based upon their looks, their method of thinking, and the way they act. we keep saying love unconditionally, but in order to overlook all those things and simply love them(remember that unconditional love would mean we also don't necessarily love them just for the things that we see good in them), would be no different, then say, trying to love any living organism unconditionally.
although, i think in the end values and personality both help. values, will define how much you think what they're doing is not ok. personality, will determine angry or understanding you'll be. although, we do know what is impossible with men is possible with God.
if the kings announcers weren't so stupid, i might actually like the kings a lot more...
bonzi and artest are players that contribute power to the kings on both ends... something the kings have never really been in the past.
i wonder how much of what bob said is true though; duncan really does not look like the low post monster of the past year. when he bangs, then spins and puts up a low floater, he's never right up on the basket as of late. without him light on his feet on both offense and defense, you turn spurs into a guard-oriented team(they always were, but in the past, when they got into trouble, they could always throw the ball inside to duncan and instantly solve the problem). and artest HAS been containing ginobili. so now from the spurs' perspective, the bulk of your shot-creation comes from parker, who is trying to become great in the postseason, something he hasn't really gotten down yet.
granted, he has an injury in his leg, but i think ppl forget the same year the pistons won the championship, rip played through a broken nose and rasheed played through an injured foot(game 4 brilliance vs lakers anybody?).
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other nba playoff thoughts...
i still love chicago... they have a great chance to upset miami. they're like a poor man's detroit; nothing fancy, just hard defense and efficient offense(and no, i don't consider that boring; you know that already). i really believe chicago is just 1 good post player away from becoming one of the top 3 teams in the east(so either get a good draft pick, or tyson gets JUST A FRIKKIN JUMPSHOT and continues to develop his good d). and they have the #1 draft pick thanks to ny. if they pick up tyrus thomas, and he turns into something, the rest of the eastern conference better seriously watch out.
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indiana... refuses... to... die...
kinda like chicago...
just incredible...
i continue to like indiana despite reggie miller gone, unlike most of the other non-native indiana fans i know. j.o. was sick in game 3. 80%?
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funny how la is on the verge of having both their teams face each other... but la's always been about flashiness... no doubt most of them will root for the lakers... i hope elton brand and chris kaman do david suh a nice favor and kick the lakers' asses.
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that's about all i can think of.
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ok, some other stuff coming to my mind...
i need another cd case to house my cds... i've been a dl-and-burn freak ever since i got 2 512 mb usb's and realized the cpu labs at uc davis have cd-rw hard drives. i'd say about 60 cds... but it's slowing down... i'm mainly trying to get rid of all the stuff on my desktop. and stuff i wanted to put on a cd, like emulators, roms, mods to games i have, videos of various fighting games... once i've put everything on a cd, i can defragment my laptop, and then it can run a lot faster.
i like having stuff on cd's for data as opposed to buying another hard drive(usb's aside), b/c then i still HAVE the stuff, but if i want to use it, i'll have to go through the trouble of looking through the cds until i pick out what i want. in that way, i can keep myself from being too much of a slacker, b/c i'll have to put some effort into finding what i want.
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still reading gipp's book concerning the bible. it's really great. i doubt i'll finish it by end of spring quarter, but i'm still going to buy a couple more books concerning the bible before i'm done; i'd like to have 6 b4 i graduate.
oh, and maybe sun tzu's "art of war." always wanted to own that book.
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i should brush up on my lead guitar skills sometime on wednesday... i'm planning on actually going over to zane and moises' apt on thursday, since i've always said i would, but never would.
bonzi and artest are players that contribute power to the kings on both ends... something the kings have never really been in the past.
i wonder how much of what bob said is true though; duncan really does not look like the low post monster of the past year. when he bangs, then spins and puts up a low floater, he's never right up on the basket as of late. without him light on his feet on both offense and defense, you turn spurs into a guard-oriented team(they always were, but in the past, when they got into trouble, they could always throw the ball inside to duncan and instantly solve the problem). and artest HAS been containing ginobili. so now from the spurs' perspective, the bulk of your shot-creation comes from parker, who is trying to become great in the postseason, something he hasn't really gotten down yet.
granted, he has an injury in his leg, but i think ppl forget the same year the pistons won the championship, rip played through a broken nose and rasheed played through an injured foot(game 4 brilliance vs lakers anybody?).
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other nba playoff thoughts...
i still love chicago... they have a great chance to upset miami. they're like a poor man's detroit; nothing fancy, just hard defense and efficient offense(and no, i don't consider that boring; you know that already). i really believe chicago is just 1 good post player away from becoming one of the top 3 teams in the east(so either get a good draft pick, or tyson gets JUST A FRIKKIN JUMPSHOT and continues to develop his good d). and they have the #1 draft pick thanks to ny. if they pick up tyrus thomas, and he turns into something, the rest of the eastern conference better seriously watch out.
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indiana... refuses... to... die...
kinda like chicago...
just incredible...
i continue to like indiana despite reggie miller gone, unlike most of the other non-native indiana fans i know. j.o. was sick in game 3. 80%?
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funny how la is on the verge of having both their teams face each other... but la's always been about flashiness... no doubt most of them will root for the lakers... i hope elton brand and chris kaman do david suh a nice favor and kick the lakers' asses.
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that's about all i can think of.
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ok, some other stuff coming to my mind...
i need another cd case to house my cds... i've been a dl-and-burn freak ever since i got 2 512 mb usb's and realized the cpu labs at uc davis have cd-rw hard drives. i'd say about 60 cds... but it's slowing down... i'm mainly trying to get rid of all the stuff on my desktop. and stuff i wanted to put on a cd, like emulators, roms, mods to games i have, videos of various fighting games... once i've put everything on a cd, i can defragment my laptop, and then it can run a lot faster.
i like having stuff on cd's for data as opposed to buying another hard drive(usb's aside), b/c then i still HAVE the stuff, but if i want to use it, i'll have to go through the trouble of looking through the cds until i pick out what i want. in that way, i can keep myself from being too much of a slacker, b/c i'll have to put some effort into finding what i want.
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still reading gipp's book concerning the bible. it's really great. i doubt i'll finish it by end of spring quarter, but i'm still going to buy a couple more books concerning the bible before i'm done; i'd like to have 6 b4 i graduate.
oh, and maybe sun tzu's "art of war." always wanted to own that book.
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i should brush up on my lead guitar skills sometime on wednesday... i'm planning on actually going over to zane and moises' apt on thursday, since i've always said i would, but never would.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
i still can't believe steve's going to korea and not coming back til july.
anyways, we had a goodbye dinner for him today.
not really a guys things to do, but we all ordered desert just for the heck of it.
and it hit me...
now i understand why girls always order desert at a restaurant and guys never do.
it has something to do with why girls always eat so little.
i think you get the idea, but i'll add that girls always seem to have a sweet tooth more than guys. guys don't NEED a cheesecake after dinner to feel like the meal was a success, if the main course itself was good enough.
anyways, we had a goodbye dinner for him today.
not really a guys things to do, but we all ordered desert just for the heck of it.
and it hit me...
now i understand why girls always order desert at a restaurant and guys never do.
it has something to do with why girls always eat so little.
i think you get the idea, but i'll add that girls always seem to have a sweet tooth more than guys. guys don't NEED a cheesecake after dinner to feel like the meal was a success, if the main course itself was good enough.
Monday, April 24, 2006
French may not be THE most useless language ever, but here's some reasons a lotta ppl feel that way:
outside of France, and maybe parts of Canada, not many people need speak it out of necessity. ever needed French to get by any particular area in the melting pot known as the US?
there's still a lotta people from France around these days(hence, the amount of people who exist from France and need to speak it to survive these days vs the amount of people in the world who don't use it is slanted compared to some scant native american tribe)
it just sounds "gay." maybe that's cause the typical french accent often revolves around pursing your lips and using oo's, u's, and upward accents. i THINK that's the reason it sounds kinda "gay."
so there you have it; main reasons i think why some ppl think french is a useless language; lotsa ppl from france, not a lotta places where you need to speak it, and it just sounding REALLY weird = useless.
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"TRUE truth" can only be seen once you take a non-biased, comprehensive analysis of the subject you are trying to study. until you do so, it may only be "biased opinion." otherwise known as ignorance. that's not to say all truths are non-biased. but "TRUE truth" looks at both sides, all angles and says "i know about these arguments, and understand why they're put up, but after close analysis, these counterarguments are stronger."
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James 4:3 is powerful. just read it, and see if it isn't the most telling reason why we're not asking God in prayer for the right reasons:
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
the more i ponder upon this verse, the more it becomes imprinted upon my mind. it's simple to remember and quite profound. b/c i have not found any other verse in the bible which explains WHY God doesn't answer every single of our requests the way we want him to.
you know what are the 3 things of the world: lust of the eye, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. that's what the "lusts." in the verse refer to, do they not?
outside of France, and maybe parts of Canada, not many people need speak it out of necessity. ever needed French to get by any particular area in the melting pot known as the US?
there's still a lotta people from France around these days(hence, the amount of people who exist from France and need to speak it to survive these days vs the amount of people in the world who don't use it is slanted compared to some scant native american tribe)
it just sounds "gay." maybe that's cause the typical french accent often revolves around pursing your lips and using oo's, u's, and upward accents. i THINK that's the reason it sounds kinda "gay."
so there you have it; main reasons i think why some ppl think french is a useless language; lotsa ppl from france, not a lotta places where you need to speak it, and it just sounding REALLY weird = useless.
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"TRUE truth" can only be seen once you take a non-biased, comprehensive analysis of the subject you are trying to study. until you do so, it may only be "biased opinion." otherwise known as ignorance. that's not to say all truths are non-biased. but "TRUE truth" looks at both sides, all angles and says "i know about these arguments, and understand why they're put up, but after close analysis, these counterarguments are stronger."
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James 4:3 is powerful. just read it, and see if it isn't the most telling reason why we're not asking God in prayer for the right reasons:
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
the more i ponder upon this verse, the more it becomes imprinted upon my mind. it's simple to remember and quite profound. b/c i have not found any other verse in the bible which explains WHY God doesn't answer every single of our requests the way we want him to.
you know what are the 3 things of the world: lust of the eye, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. that's what the "lusts." in the verse refer to, do they not?
Saturday, April 22, 2006
scary movie 4 wasn't THAT great... funny, but wasn't THAT great. it's weird, cause all the commercials hyped up the whole dr. phil and shaq thing, and they end up using all those jokes in the 1st 10 min or so. the movie's overall very funny, but it seemed to lose its edge from when the series 1st started, and ykno, the wayan brothers were involved(the movies done by them were rated R, not pg-13).
then again, you go to this type of movie not to watch for substance, but just to laugh.
we had a choice between watching scary movie 4 and american dreams for tonight. i think we all wanted to watch american dreams more, but we have to be by church by SIX AM(yes, that's right) for tomorrow for picnic day. unreal. and this type of movie is usually very short.
anyways, i bet a lotta 24 freaks want to watch The Sentinel.
and i bet flight 93's going to be very good.
but i'm not a movies guy, so chances are i'm either going to watch it on dvd, or do the opposite, but more common thing, which is end up forgetting it altogether.
then again, you go to this type of movie not to watch for substance, but just to laugh.
we had a choice between watching scary movie 4 and american dreams for tonight. i think we all wanted to watch american dreams more, but we have to be by church by SIX AM(yes, that's right) for tomorrow for picnic day. unreal. and this type of movie is usually very short.
anyways, i bet a lotta 24 freaks want to watch The Sentinel.
and i bet flight 93's going to be very good.
but i'm not a movies guy, so chances are i'm either going to watch it on dvd, or do the opposite, but more common thing, which is end up forgetting it altogether.
Friday, April 21, 2006
for those of you who want to dl from youtube
if pistons get anything other than a championship after this year, i think they'll consider this season a failure. and why not. besides having home court all postseason, their flawless starting 5 has been healthy all year, their bench is better than last year, miami 2k6 seems like a watered down version compared to last year, spurs' timmah has not been as quick as last year, and mavs if they do make it will be so tired from facing the spurs.
they just have to not beat themselves up getting there or underestimate the darkhorses in the east.
ykno, the year that the pistons won the championship, they completely changed how most bball organizations viewed trying to build a team, for the better. i think if they win this year, they'll completely change how some organizations try to approach the regular season. b/c while everybody was taking it easy, pistons came out hot right from the get go, and piled up a TON of easy wins. if it comes down to game 7 vs spurs and the pistons DO win thanks to their raucous home crowd, i think it may change a couple of things again. ppl may actually try to play hard before the all-star break.
if pistons get anything other than a championship after this year, i think they'll consider this season a failure. and why not. besides having home court all postseason, their flawless starting 5 has been healthy all year, their bench is better than last year, miami 2k6 seems like a watered down version compared to last year, spurs' timmah has not been as quick as last year, and mavs if they do make it will be so tired from facing the spurs.
they just have to not beat themselves up getting there or underestimate the darkhorses in the east.
ykno, the year that the pistons won the championship, they completely changed how most bball organizations viewed trying to build a team, for the better. i think if they win this year, they'll completely change how some organizations try to approach the regular season. b/c while everybody was taking it easy, pistons came out hot right from the get go, and piled up a TON of easy wins. if it comes down to game 7 vs spurs and the pistons DO win thanks to their raucous home crowd, i think it may change a couple of things again. ppl may actually try to play hard before the all-star break.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
man, i just do NOT feel like doing work today... what is wrong w/me... i am seriously going to pry myself off this cpu at the cpu lab when i'm done and just go home and cook some dinner; maybe i'll feel a bit better then.
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i now have the official "uc davis cowtipping team" t-shirt. got it on sale.
cause you know how i like playing sports, rofl.
fyi, if you did not know, if you actually DO tip a cow over @ucd, you get expelled. no joke. so much about all those high school jokes of smelling manure and tipping cows over at ucd.
and we have fisculated cows @ davis; in the name of science, we have cows which have holes going from the outside into the stomach. no it does not hurt them, and yes they still live. one of the things i would like to do b4 i graduate is stick my hand into a fisculated cow; they allow you to; i've just never found out who to get in contact at the university to do it.
Cow with hole-ie in it
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struggling over myself over how much man has control over himself vs how much God exerts his will over the world is one of the biggest things that has racked, RACKED my mind as of late. this is really deep if you think about it. i know the Bible states about how there's NO ONE righteous, none have sought after God, and how God predestined us. but then, why would God tell us to work hard? by working hard, does God predestinate us to receive good things? how bout the mindset to work hard; was that predestinated by God, or originated by our own minds(if you think that just because we thought about working hard, means we chose our own destiny, you're ruling out the possibility of God putting that thought there in the 1st place)? then of course, we have the thing that God will always look after his children regardless of how much they slip up. so if that's predestinated, why work? maybe i'll fall, maybe i'll succeed, but either way God will bring me to what he wants me to do. if God wanted me to become a preacher, would it matter whether I got a 4.0 in genetics courses or not? even if he wanted me to be a geneticist, would it matter again? with God there's always a way. sooo...
not saying you shouldn't work, but this is one of those really tough to answer questions. and i can't say that God doesn't predestinate my life, so i shouldn't work, because that would be contradicting what the Bible said. but yet, we know that not everything in life is going to be given to you on a silver platter, so again, i ask, what's what?
this is one of those questions where i truly don't believe anything i hear from anyone could really satisfy my longing for an answer to this question. i WOULD like God to tell me myself, but i bet if he really tried to tell me the whole specifics and detail, my head might explode from trying to comprehend what he just told me.
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i now have the official "uc davis cowtipping team" t-shirt. got it on sale.
cause you know how i like playing sports, rofl.
fyi, if you did not know, if you actually DO tip a cow over @ucd, you get expelled. no joke. so much about all those high school jokes of smelling manure and tipping cows over at ucd.
and we have fisculated cows @ davis; in the name of science, we have cows which have holes going from the outside into the stomach. no it does not hurt them, and yes they still live. one of the things i would like to do b4 i graduate is stick my hand into a fisculated cow; they allow you to; i've just never found out who to get in contact at the university to do it.
Cow with hole-ie in it
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struggling over myself over how much man has control over himself vs how much God exerts his will over the world is one of the biggest things that has racked, RACKED my mind as of late. this is really deep if you think about it. i know the Bible states about how there's NO ONE righteous, none have sought after God, and how God predestined us. but then, why would God tell us to work hard? by working hard, does God predestinate us to receive good things? how bout the mindset to work hard; was that predestinated by God, or originated by our own minds(if you think that just because we thought about working hard, means we chose our own destiny, you're ruling out the possibility of God putting that thought there in the 1st place)? then of course, we have the thing that God will always look after his children regardless of how much they slip up. so if that's predestinated, why work? maybe i'll fall, maybe i'll succeed, but either way God will bring me to what he wants me to do. if God wanted me to become a preacher, would it matter whether I got a 4.0 in genetics courses or not? even if he wanted me to be a geneticist, would it matter again? with God there's always a way. sooo...
not saying you shouldn't work, but this is one of those really tough to answer questions. and i can't say that God doesn't predestinate my life, so i shouldn't work, because that would be contradicting what the Bible said. but yet, we know that not everything in life is going to be given to you on a silver platter, so again, i ask, what's what?
this is one of those questions where i truly don't believe anything i hear from anyone could really satisfy my longing for an answer to this question. i WOULD like God to tell me myself, but i bet if he really tried to tell me the whole specifics and detail, my head might explode from trying to comprehend what he just told me.
strange as this sounds, i STILL don't know how to study well.
yes, i know, i had 3+ years to perfect this art, but i still believe in what i'm saying.
b/c i was getting used to college 1st year and had a loose load(3 classes, took a lotta non-science-related classes), so i got good grades not necessarily b/c i studied well. 2nd year i pretty much blew it off, so nothing gained there. tried the whole tapes thing 3rd year, which was kinda good, but took a LOTTA time, and 4th year i'm trying to actually use the practice problems and tests online, but i still haven't mastered knowing how far ahead a test is and when i should stop slacking around. i've tried other things, but they're kinda minor. and i can simply NOT study at home on my cpu in my room. or with the cpu running in my room. period. it's like a curse, an inevitable curse which i can't avoid.
it's probably one of the most frustrating things i've gone through; never "having enough time" to study.
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the bible research books i ordered SOOO long time ago should be at my apt in any day now. looking forward to using my weekends a bit more wisely.
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tmnt:tf for the snes is actually a very good fighting game, competetive-wise. a lot like super turbo. raph is easily the best turtle, top 3 in the game. probably my favorite character in the game due to his very effective rushdown and rediculous ability to keep-away, despite the fact that leo's more or less my favorite ninja turtle(he's probably one of the worst characters in this game).
-spam his jamboree projectile; it's rediculously fast in recovery. decent startup too. that stuff will cover so much of the screen it will make him look like o.sagat. abuse it if you corner-trap the opponent. if you're doing this out of charging down/back for the chest buster, tap forward before you do it, or you'll do power drill instead. and if longrange try to keep them coming and mix up the speeds; remember that if they jump...
-use crouching heavy punch as an anti-air; it beats a whole lotta crap from jumpers, or should at least trade.
-backflip's good; it can get him outta lotsa traps.
-standing light kick and standing heavy punch are both very good pokes, as is crouching light kick and crouching light punch; you mainly want to use c.lk up-close, s.hp for midrange beating and c.lp as a counter-poke and s.lk for about the same reasons as c.lp. jumping heavy kick is your best crossup.
-chest buster's rediculously good as long as you don't get it blocked up-close; opponent can usually get a free combo or throw you. c.lk x4, cancel into light kick-chest buster should leave you safe, and allow you to continue pressure. it can be used to get closer through projectiles, or you can try to bait the opponent by whiffing it so you land just short of the opponent. fyi, optional cross-up heavy kick into c.lk x4, cancel into heavy kick-chest buster is your main combo. that combo leaves your opponent almost dizzy.
-and of course, he can do ol skool m.bison cheese with his long range-blocked power drill into throw. but i never use that exclusively, mainly not b/c it's ineffective, but rather boring; besides, all his other tools are way too good enough.
-his super's not that great, but since he builds up meter so fast, you will end up using it quite a bit; it's not bad, but usually you'll only be able to use it for block damage. do it after you knock the opponent down.
i wish i had kept a hard copy of the cached page of the forum detailing how to play this game; now i only have the 1st page of the forum(cached) which broke the game down way deep. so i basically only know how to play the top tiers hah. which are btw, raph, chrome dome(this guy's dhalsim and gief), and arm(the shark)(bs flash kick anti-air). aska and shredder and upper-mid i believe though. supers couldn't be combo'd into, but i believe mike's super was unblockable; that automatically gave him the best super; aska's is also up there. war had the best pokes, but still is the worst character in the game. that leaves the two other turtles hovering around "mid," with don ahead of leo. i forget who, but i remember don being able to beat one character pretty badly. maybe aska. and ratking and kurai should be banned from any competitive tournament. you could do cps1 chains in this game, but only 1 character could actually combo them together.
yes, i know, i had 3+ years to perfect this art, but i still believe in what i'm saying.
b/c i was getting used to college 1st year and had a loose load(3 classes, took a lotta non-science-related classes), so i got good grades not necessarily b/c i studied well. 2nd year i pretty much blew it off, so nothing gained there. tried the whole tapes thing 3rd year, which was kinda good, but took a LOTTA time, and 4th year i'm trying to actually use the practice problems and tests online, but i still haven't mastered knowing how far ahead a test is and when i should stop slacking around. i've tried other things, but they're kinda minor. and i can simply NOT study at home on my cpu in my room. or with the cpu running in my room. period. it's like a curse, an inevitable curse which i can't avoid.
it's probably one of the most frustrating things i've gone through; never "having enough time" to study.
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the bible research books i ordered SOOO long time ago should be at my apt in any day now. looking forward to using my weekends a bit more wisely.
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tmnt:tf for the snes is actually a very good fighting game, competetive-wise. a lot like super turbo. raph is easily the best turtle, top 3 in the game. probably my favorite character in the game due to his very effective rushdown and rediculous ability to keep-away, despite the fact that leo's more or less my favorite ninja turtle(he's probably one of the worst characters in this game).
-spam his jamboree projectile; it's rediculously fast in recovery. decent startup too. that stuff will cover so much of the screen it will make him look like o.sagat. abuse it if you corner-trap the opponent. if you're doing this out of charging down/back for the chest buster, tap forward before you do it, or you'll do power drill instead. and if longrange try to keep them coming and mix up the speeds; remember that if they jump...
-use crouching heavy punch as an anti-air; it beats a whole lotta crap from jumpers, or should at least trade.
-backflip's good; it can get him outta lotsa traps.
-standing light kick and standing heavy punch are both very good pokes, as is crouching light kick and crouching light punch; you mainly want to use c.lk up-close, s.hp for midrange beating and c.lp as a counter-poke and s.lk for about the same reasons as c.lp. jumping heavy kick is your best crossup.
-chest buster's rediculously good as long as you don't get it blocked up-close; opponent can usually get a free combo or throw you. c.lk x4, cancel into light kick-chest buster should leave you safe, and allow you to continue pressure. it can be used to get closer through projectiles, or you can try to bait the opponent by whiffing it so you land just short of the opponent. fyi, optional cross-up heavy kick into c.lk x4, cancel into heavy kick-chest buster is your main combo. that combo leaves your opponent almost dizzy.
-and of course, he can do ol skool m.bison cheese with his long range-blocked power drill into throw. but i never use that exclusively, mainly not b/c it's ineffective, but rather boring; besides, all his other tools are way too good enough.
-his super's not that great, but since he builds up meter so fast, you will end up using it quite a bit; it's not bad, but usually you'll only be able to use it for block damage. do it after you knock the opponent down.
i wish i had kept a hard copy of the cached page of the forum detailing how to play this game; now i only have the 1st page of the forum(cached) which broke the game down way deep. so i basically only know how to play the top tiers hah. which are btw, raph, chrome dome(this guy's dhalsim and gief), and arm(the shark)(bs flash kick anti-air). aska and shredder and upper-mid i believe though. supers couldn't be combo'd into, but i believe mike's super was unblockable; that automatically gave him the best super; aska's is also up there. war had the best pokes, but still is the worst character in the game. that leaves the two other turtles hovering around "mid," with don ahead of leo. i forget who, but i remember don being able to beat one character pretty badly. maybe aska. and ratking and kurai should be banned from any competitive tournament. you could do cps1 chains in this game, but only 1 character could actually combo them together.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Saturday, April 15, 2006
it's only fair i repost the entry i made a while back, since easter sunday's around the corner;
despite the fact that i get close to 0 traffic at my diary, sometimes i make a conscious effort to hold back posting(despite the fact that things keep happening in life) when i posted what i consider a very deep post; i know not everybody reads every single new post i make, but maybe those that do just read the top post, so i'm hoping ppl at least read this huge bulk of text when i do, IF they do
have a great day celebrating christ's day of resurrection, ppls; ok onto the reposted entry:
from thursday, october 27, 2005:
What day did Christ die, and what day did he rise again?
It is quite interesting to see how easily people come to believe something they are told within the church without researching things for themselves.
Common belief amongst Christians is that roughly 2000 years ago(more like 1970 or so years), Jesus died on a Friday morning during Passover, and then arose on Sunday morning.
What I wrote below, I basically read from somewhere off the web, and the 1st time I read it, I was shocked. But I sat down, thought about it, diagramed it, and realized it must be true. It all makes sense.
Now, what I’m about to say seems to be pretty controversial, but I encourage you to not debate this by questioning how skewed my ideas are from common belief, but by countering my arguments from the bible itself; I believe that the Bible is the absolute truth from God’s mouth, and that God can’t lie. If you think I’m wrong, show me in the Bible where I’m wrong.
First of all, why what we believe is wrong:
Jesus stated that he would remain dead for 3 full days; that’s 3 days and 3 nights; read the following passage:
Matthew 12:40
That means Jesus could not have died on the supposedly Good Friday and risen on Easter Sunday; if he died on Friday morning, that would mean to fulfill the biblical prophecy, he would have to arise on Monday night(he would have spent Friday night, all of Saturday and Sunday, and Monday morning dead in order to fulfill the prophecy). If he died on Friday night, then he would have to arisen on Tuesday morning. Likewise, if he arose on Sunday morning, he would have died on Wednesday night(all of Thursday, Friday and Saturday spent dead), and if he arose on Sunday night, that would mean he would have had to died on Thursday morning. There are only 1 and a half days that exist between Friday morning and Sunday morning; Friday night and all of Saturday.
Time to look some verses up:
So then, how can we know what day Jesus actually died and what day he actually arose? The Bible does not in plain English state what day Jesus died, and what day he arose.
However, the Bible DOES infer what day Jesus died, and what day he arose, but you have to put two and two together; it does not state in any single passage when he died and arose.
We do know that Jesus died during the day; perhaps either morning or afternoon. That of course, helps us to know that Jesus must have arisen during the night.
Matthew 27:45-50
We also know Jesus died on the Passover; that’s a fact. Because there’s numerous passages that support this belief.
Matthew 26:2; the Son of Man will be crucified on the feast of the passover
John 13:1; again, the last supper took place during the feast of the Passover; Jesus would later die that night
John 18:39; Pilate offers to release one of the prisoners to the Jews, which means that the day that Jesus was crucified was the Passover
What many people don’t seem to know though, is that there were more than 2 Sabbaths that occurred during the Passover at the time of Jesus’ death; yes; two. People don’t even know that Passover coincides at the same time with another holiday that God commanded his people to observe:
Exodus 12:17-20
So we see that Passover is also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread and spans from the 14th of the 1st month until the 21st of the same month; that makes for a total of 8 days; count them:
14(1) 15(2) 16(3) 17(4) 18(5) 19(6) 20(7) 21(8)
Leviticus says essentially the same thing, but in another way:
Leviticus 23:4-8
It says that the feast of unleavened bread follows the Passover(which occurs on the 14th) and consists of 7 days; the very 1st day, or the 15th of the 1st month, no work is to be done. The 7th day, or the 21st of the 1st month, no work is to be done. According to the definition of a Sabbath, that would make those Sabbath days.
Leviticus 23:2-3
In addition, remember that the Israelites were still required by God to observe the weekly Sabbath on Saturday during those days. Since a full week is 7 days, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread spans 7 days, That means, the Feast of Unleavened Bread could have 3 Sabbaths, with the weekly Sabbath falling somewhere in between the 2 Sabbaths observed during the feast.
This is why in many passages before Jesus’ death, the Passover is referred to as the Preparation; it was also the preparation day for the feast of unleavened bread.
Mark 15:42-47; the preparation is known as the day before the Sabbath
Luke 22:1-8; the feast of unleavened bread is also known as the Passover, which is the day which Jesus ate with his disciples, then later died
John 19:31; the preparation is the day before the Sabbath(a high day), which is why the Jews wanted to take down the bodies, since they could not do work the next day
John 19:14; it was called the preparation OF the Passover, not preparation FOR the Passover, which means that it had the time during the Passover when one prepares for the feast of unleavened bread
Unfortunately, that still does not enable us to pinpoint the location of the weekly Sabbath during the feast, which would greatly help us know which day Jesus died and rose again.
We do know however, that seemingly a contradiction in the Bible exists after Jesus died; read these two passages.
Luke 23:53 – 24:3
Mark 16:1-6
If only 1 Sabbath existed that week, the women couldn’t possibly buy the spices AFTER they’ve prepared them, and God would be lying. But if 2 Sabbaths existed that week, then the women could buy the spices and then prepared them; they bought them after the 1st Sabbath of the feast, and then prepared them before the weekly Sabbath(Saturday). Then, on the very 1st day of the week in the morning(Sunday), they went to Jesus’ grave, only to find that he had already arisen.
With those facts at hand, we can piece together when Jesus died, and when he arose again.
14th of 1st month - Passover:
-Jesus dies in the daytime; he is taken off of the cross, and buried
-Jesus spends a half day in the tomb; 1 night
15th of 1st month – 1st day of feast of unleavened bread; also the 1st of the 2 of the special Sabbaths observed during that time:
-Jesus spends a full day in the tomb; 1 day and 2 nights have elapsed
-The women rest during that day
16th of 1st month – 2nd day of feast of unleavened bread:
-Women buy and prepare the spices so they can perfume Jesus’ dead body
-Jesus spends a full day in the tomb; 2 days and 3 nights have elapsed
17th of 1st month – 3rd day of feast of unleavened bread:
-Women do not go to tomb; they rest, observing the Sabbath; the feast of unleavened bread spans 7 days, and 7 days have not yet elapsed, so this must be the weekly Sabbath, which would make this day Saturday
-Jesus spends the day in the tomb, but only 1 day, not the night, completing the time he said he would be dead; 3 days and 3 nights, then arises and leaves tomb.
-That means Jesus arose on Saturday night.
18th of 1st month – 4th day of feast of unleavened bread:
-Women go to tomb, only to find that Jesus has arisen
Note that this also makes sense; if Jesus arose on Sunday morning, it is quite plausible that the women who came to the tomb would see Jesus arisING, as opposed to an empty tomb.
So, knowing what day Jesus arose(Saturday night), we can now work backward to Passover(Saturday morning, all of Friday, all of Thursday, Wednesday night), and find out that Jesus died on Wednesday, during the day.
And all this makes sense and coincides with that the Bible states:
Between Wednesday morning, when Jesus died, to Saturday night, when he arose, there are 3 full days; Wednesday night, all of Thursday, all of Friday, and Saturday afternoon. Those 3 days, Jesus spent in the middle of the earth(presumably hell), as he said he would. Amazing eh?
We should be observing Saturday and not Sunday.
(I wanted to add another section stating what Easter really was; during that time, it was a pagan religion, but that’s beyond the scope of this subject, and besides, I don’t have any hard evidence at the time to support this)
Ok, so what am I supposed to do with this information?
Treating weekly Saturdays with more reverence than Sunday’s a good start; I don’t mean to not go to Sunday church and do what you do on Sundays, but inward, have more respect for Saturdays and what you do during that day.
Well, if you want to be anal, you can start by observing Jesus’ death on Wednesday, and his resurrection on Saturday. As opposed to Friday and Sunday.
Or, observe his death on Passover, and his resurrection 3 days later. Consult a Jewish calendar for that.
However, we need to realize that God does not judge us by which days we observe, but by our faith. So rejoice that God rose on the Sabbath, but use this knowledge to draw closer to God, instead of lording it over those who don’t know.
Colossians 2:15-17
despite the fact that i get close to 0 traffic at my diary, sometimes i make a conscious effort to hold back posting(despite the fact that things keep happening in life) when i posted what i consider a very deep post; i know not everybody reads every single new post i make, but maybe those that do just read the top post, so i'm hoping ppl at least read this huge bulk of text when i do, IF they do
have a great day celebrating christ's day of resurrection, ppls; ok onto the reposted entry:
from thursday, october 27, 2005:
What day did Christ die, and what day did he rise again?
It is quite interesting to see how easily people come to believe something they are told within the church without researching things for themselves.
Common belief amongst Christians is that roughly 2000 years ago(more like 1970 or so years), Jesus died on a Friday morning during Passover, and then arose on Sunday morning.
What I wrote below, I basically read from somewhere off the web, and the 1st time I read it, I was shocked. But I sat down, thought about it, diagramed it, and realized it must be true. It all makes sense.
Now, what I’m about to say seems to be pretty controversial, but I encourage you to not debate this by questioning how skewed my ideas are from common belief, but by countering my arguments from the bible itself; I believe that the Bible is the absolute truth from God’s mouth, and that God can’t lie. If you think I’m wrong, show me in the Bible where I’m wrong.
First of all, why what we believe is wrong:
Jesus stated that he would remain dead for 3 full days; that’s 3 days and 3 nights; read the following passage:
Matthew 12:40
That means Jesus could not have died on the supposedly Good Friday and risen on Easter Sunday; if he died on Friday morning, that would mean to fulfill the biblical prophecy, he would have to arise on Monday night(he would have spent Friday night, all of Saturday and Sunday, and Monday morning dead in order to fulfill the prophecy). If he died on Friday night, then he would have to arisen on Tuesday morning. Likewise, if he arose on Sunday morning, he would have died on Wednesday night(all of Thursday, Friday and Saturday spent dead), and if he arose on Sunday night, that would mean he would have had to died on Thursday morning. There are only 1 and a half days that exist between Friday morning and Sunday morning; Friday night and all of Saturday.
Time to look some verses up:
So then, how can we know what day Jesus actually died and what day he actually arose? The Bible does not in plain English state what day Jesus died, and what day he arose.
However, the Bible DOES infer what day Jesus died, and what day he arose, but you have to put two and two together; it does not state in any single passage when he died and arose.
We do know that Jesus died during the day; perhaps either morning or afternoon. That of course, helps us to know that Jesus must have arisen during the night.
Matthew 27:45-50
We also know Jesus died on the Passover; that’s a fact. Because there’s numerous passages that support this belief.
Matthew 26:2; the Son of Man will be crucified on the feast of the passover
John 13:1; again, the last supper took place during the feast of the Passover; Jesus would later die that night
John 18:39; Pilate offers to release one of the prisoners to the Jews, which means that the day that Jesus was crucified was the Passover
What many people don’t seem to know though, is that there were more than 2 Sabbaths that occurred during the Passover at the time of Jesus’ death; yes; two. People don’t even know that Passover coincides at the same time with another holiday that God commanded his people to observe:
Exodus 12:17-20
So we see that Passover is also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread and spans from the 14th of the 1st month until the 21st of the same month; that makes for a total of 8 days; count them:
14(1) 15(2) 16(3) 17(4) 18(5) 19(6) 20(7) 21(8)
Leviticus says essentially the same thing, but in another way:
Leviticus 23:4-8
It says that the feast of unleavened bread follows the Passover(which occurs on the 14th) and consists of 7 days; the very 1st day, or the 15th of the 1st month, no work is to be done. The 7th day, or the 21st of the 1st month, no work is to be done. According to the definition of a Sabbath, that would make those Sabbath days.
Leviticus 23:2-3
In addition, remember that the Israelites were still required by God to observe the weekly Sabbath on Saturday during those days. Since a full week is 7 days, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread spans 7 days, That means, the Feast of Unleavened Bread could have 3 Sabbaths, with the weekly Sabbath falling somewhere in between the 2 Sabbaths observed during the feast.
This is why in many passages before Jesus’ death, the Passover is referred to as the Preparation; it was also the preparation day for the feast of unleavened bread.
Mark 15:42-47; the preparation is known as the day before the Sabbath
Luke 22:1-8; the feast of unleavened bread is also known as the Passover, which is the day which Jesus ate with his disciples, then later died
John 19:31; the preparation is the day before the Sabbath(a high day), which is why the Jews wanted to take down the bodies, since they could not do work the next day
John 19:14; it was called the preparation OF the Passover, not preparation FOR the Passover, which means that it had the time during the Passover when one prepares for the feast of unleavened bread
Unfortunately, that still does not enable us to pinpoint the location of the weekly Sabbath during the feast, which would greatly help us know which day Jesus died and rose again.
We do know however, that seemingly a contradiction in the Bible exists after Jesus died; read these two passages.
Luke 23:53 – 24:3
Mark 16:1-6
If only 1 Sabbath existed that week, the women couldn’t possibly buy the spices AFTER they’ve prepared them, and God would be lying. But if 2 Sabbaths existed that week, then the women could buy the spices and then prepared them; they bought them after the 1st Sabbath of the feast, and then prepared them before the weekly Sabbath(Saturday). Then, on the very 1st day of the week in the morning(Sunday), they went to Jesus’ grave, only to find that he had already arisen.
With those facts at hand, we can piece together when Jesus died, and when he arose again.
14th of 1st month - Passover:
-Jesus dies in the daytime; he is taken off of the cross, and buried
-Jesus spends a half day in the tomb; 1 night
15th of 1st month – 1st day of feast of unleavened bread; also the 1st of the 2 of the special Sabbaths observed during that time:
-Jesus spends a full day in the tomb; 1 day and 2 nights have elapsed
-The women rest during that day
16th of 1st month – 2nd day of feast of unleavened bread:
-Women buy and prepare the spices so they can perfume Jesus’ dead body
-Jesus spends a full day in the tomb; 2 days and 3 nights have elapsed
17th of 1st month – 3rd day of feast of unleavened bread:
-Women do not go to tomb; they rest, observing the Sabbath; the feast of unleavened bread spans 7 days, and 7 days have not yet elapsed, so this must be the weekly Sabbath, which would make this day Saturday
-Jesus spends the day in the tomb, but only 1 day, not the night, completing the time he said he would be dead; 3 days and 3 nights, then arises and leaves tomb.
-That means Jesus arose on Saturday night.
18th of 1st month – 4th day of feast of unleavened bread:
-Women go to tomb, only to find that Jesus has arisen
Note that this also makes sense; if Jesus arose on Sunday morning, it is quite plausible that the women who came to the tomb would see Jesus arisING, as opposed to an empty tomb.
So, knowing what day Jesus arose(Saturday night), we can now work backward to Passover(Saturday morning, all of Friday, all of Thursday, Wednesday night), and find out that Jesus died on Wednesday, during the day.
And all this makes sense and coincides with that the Bible states:
Between Wednesday morning, when Jesus died, to Saturday night, when he arose, there are 3 full days; Wednesday night, all of Thursday, all of Friday, and Saturday afternoon. Those 3 days, Jesus spent in the middle of the earth(presumably hell), as he said he would. Amazing eh?
We should be observing Saturday and not Sunday.
(I wanted to add another section stating what Easter really was; during that time, it was a pagan religion, but that’s beyond the scope of this subject, and besides, I don’t have any hard evidence at the time to support this)
Ok, so what am I supposed to do with this information?
Treating weekly Saturdays with more reverence than Sunday’s a good start; I don’t mean to not go to Sunday church and do what you do on Sundays, but inward, have more respect for Saturdays and what you do during that day.
Well, if you want to be anal, you can start by observing Jesus’ death on Wednesday, and his resurrection on Saturday. As opposed to Friday and Sunday.
Or, observe his death on Passover, and his resurrection 3 days later. Consult a Jewish calendar for that.
However, we need to realize that God does not judge us by which days we observe, but by our faith. So rejoice that God rose on the Sabbath, but use this knowledge to draw closer to God, instead of lording it over those who don’t know.
Colossians 2:15-17
Friday, April 14, 2006
i keep insisting that dwight howard's gonna be something great...
and i've taken a liking to him...
and while it is partially b/c he's a christian, it's not the entire story, or the main reason i like him.
it just seems like he has the potential to be the next really good big man in the nba... and you know how i love bigs. but the thing is that he doesn't appear to be slow.
he's athletic, bulky, tremendous on the boards, and a great defensive player. all things that seem to fit the mold of a big player that i like.
tim duncan said it best when he said he's thankful he's not gonna be in the nba anytime that much longer, b/c this guy's going to be too good.
kg was wondering what the hell they put in the milk the kids drink these days when he was commenting on dwight.
and i've taken a liking to him...
and while it is partially b/c he's a christian, it's not the entire story, or the main reason i like him.
it just seems like he has the potential to be the next really good big man in the nba... and you know how i love bigs. but the thing is that he doesn't appear to be slow.
he's athletic, bulky, tremendous on the boards, and a great defensive player. all things that seem to fit the mold of a big player that i like.
tim duncan said it best when he said he's thankful he's not gonna be in the nba anytime that much longer, b/c this guy's going to be too good.
kg was wondering what the hell they put in the milk the kids drink these days when he was commenting on dwight.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
so you wanna learn self-defense...
"We grab. But just to make sure, we grab with this arm, also."
i have never laughed so hard for such a long time...
so you wanna learn self-defense...
"We grab. But just to make sure, we grab with this arm, also."
i have never laughed so hard for such a long time...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
something i just realized last night concerning tim duncan's game...
it's becoming less and less distinguished by the bank shot from the side... despite the fact that that's what people insist his game revolves around...
tim duncan's game revolves around a REALLY horizontal floater that he puts up near the basket...
and the more i think about it(he reaches more towards the basket than upward), the more i realize why i've always thought his shooting does indeed look ugly in the past(but never truly realized its effectiveness).
i mean, he's tall, but no lightweight like kg, so all he needs is one second of hesitation from the low posting opponent, and you can put that shot up without getting it blocked. and besides, since he's reaching forward, since he's low posting, it's pretty hard to block it without committing some foul, since a lotta shot blocks happen at the apex of your shooting animation, not in mid-animation, and since he's reaching forward, the opponent has to in fact either stop his shot before it's fully extended, which is risky, and often times can draw a foul, or reach backward to block the shot, which is also quite hard, and also prone to picking up a goaltend.
yaarrr... genius.
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the matrix was too much for the kings to handle down the 4th quarter.
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i'm getting back into vfevo again; vf5 looks SOOO good! the test videos of that game look incredible.
after months of playing tekken straight up, it's made my vf look like crap, especially since this is my 1st time playing vf on console with an arcade joystick, and i can't hit down/left consistently... it's pissing me off when i'm trying to crouch dash.
it's becoming less and less distinguished by the bank shot from the side... despite the fact that that's what people insist his game revolves around...
tim duncan's game revolves around a REALLY horizontal floater that he puts up near the basket...
and the more i think about it(he reaches more towards the basket than upward), the more i realize why i've always thought his shooting does indeed look ugly in the past(but never truly realized its effectiveness).
i mean, he's tall, but no lightweight like kg, so all he needs is one second of hesitation from the low posting opponent, and you can put that shot up without getting it blocked. and besides, since he's reaching forward, since he's low posting, it's pretty hard to block it without committing some foul, since a lotta shot blocks happen at the apex of your shooting animation, not in mid-animation, and since he's reaching forward, the opponent has to in fact either stop his shot before it's fully extended, which is risky, and often times can draw a foul, or reach backward to block the shot, which is also quite hard, and also prone to picking up a goaltend.
yaarrr... genius.
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the matrix was too much for the kings to handle down the 4th quarter.
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i'm getting back into vfevo again; vf5 looks SOOO good! the test videos of that game look incredible.
after months of playing tekken straight up, it's made my vf look like crap, especially since this is my 1st time playing vf on console with an arcade joystick, and i can't hit down/left consistently... it's pissing me off when i'm trying to crouch dash.
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