The Great Divorce It is now one of my favorite books. Here is a quote from it that I especially liked.
"Some people would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven"
9/24/2008
9/17/2008
Meat-allica. . .
Is a band I want to start and I want to have two albums. One called "Loaf" and one called "Reloaf".
9/13/2008
Is it really that difficult
At most places I have worked, I get a comment from fellow employees, and they this, "Dude, are you high?". I say, "No, why?" "Are you sure, because your eyes are blood shot". I have to explain to them everytime that its my contact lenses that make my eyes blood shot when I am up late. I guess they just throw out all other excuses for blood shot eyes and just think I was doing pot. I just feel like there are plenty of other reasons for blood shot eyes that people should be aware of. I probably get more comments like that than I get jokes about my name.
8/22/2008
Teenagers will be Teenagers
So a while back our church started a Youth Group. You may wonder how that idea got past my dad. Well the three leaders are people who all think youth groups tend to be pretty lame and generally stray away from the point. So they decided to keep it simple and have one game to play and a roughly fifteen minute long sermon. NO WORSHIP TEAMS.
But my point for writing this is that last youth group, I saw the first steps towards a contemporary christian youth group. I thought to myself, "How could this have happened when this is exactly what we are trying to avoid?" I found that it simply isn't what the youth pastor does, because he always has good intentions for the kids.
It started when I showed up at the practice field. Everybody was waiting there to get a game of ultimate Frisbee going. So about seven minutes into this some others showed up being "fashionably late". Being fashionably late in this situation usually includes being wild and crazy for attention along with flashy clothing. So we started fitting these people into the game. Some of them were complaining that they didn't want to be on the bad team (the team that somehow didn't get as many capable players), and others were complaining that they were not on the same team as their friend. sooner or later we got the game back on. And then people played for two minutes got bored and began socializing either in the middle of the field or on the side line. This got in the way of the players and altered the teams uneven. So the the guys all started talking to the girls that they liked. And it got time to go back to the church, and listen to the sermon. Well some other people had other plans instead. They decided they would go swing dancing at CJ's rather than stay for the sermon. The leaders had tried to stress earlier in the group that if you are going to play the game you are going to stay for the talk. Nothing else really happened after that except for people sitting together in their cliques.
So the leaders are not to blame not matter their intentions, unless they were acting like teenagers. But when you get a bunch of high school students get together, they will start socializing with their friends every chance they get and forget why they are really there. I have solution ideas for this but it is almost impossible to fix with something like a youth group.
You notice that children and teenagers usually keep quiet during normal church. That's because church has not changed so that it has the average teenager in mind (depending on which church you might go to, but at mine at least). Where as Youth Group is a watered down version of church in which teenagers are more comfortable to be wild and crazy and disrespect what the leader has to say. I believe that teenagers think there are problems that adults have and there are problems that teenagers have. So adults go to church for their issues and teenagers go to youth group for theirs. Wrong. They all can learn from good old fashion church.
But my point for writing this is that last youth group, I saw the first steps towards a contemporary christian youth group. I thought to myself, "How could this have happened when this is exactly what we are trying to avoid?" I found that it simply isn't what the youth pastor does, because he always has good intentions for the kids.
It started when I showed up at the practice field. Everybody was waiting there to get a game of ultimate Frisbee going. So about seven minutes into this some others showed up being "fashionably late". Being fashionably late in this situation usually includes being wild and crazy for attention along with flashy clothing. So we started fitting these people into the game. Some of them were complaining that they didn't want to be on the bad team (the team that somehow didn't get as many capable players), and others were complaining that they were not on the same team as their friend. sooner or later we got the game back on. And then people played for two minutes got bored and began socializing either in the middle of the field or on the side line. This got in the way of the players and altered the teams uneven. So the the guys all started talking to the girls that they liked. And it got time to go back to the church, and listen to the sermon. Well some other people had other plans instead. They decided they would go swing dancing at CJ's rather than stay for the sermon. The leaders had tried to stress earlier in the group that if you are going to play the game you are going to stay for the talk. Nothing else really happened after that except for people sitting together in their cliques.
So the leaders are not to blame not matter their intentions, unless they were acting like teenagers. But when you get a bunch of high school students get together, they will start socializing with their friends every chance they get and forget why they are really there. I have solution ideas for this but it is almost impossible to fix with something like a youth group.
You notice that children and teenagers usually keep quiet during normal church. That's because church has not changed so that it has the average teenager in mind (depending on which church you might go to, but at mine at least). Where as Youth Group is a watered down version of church in which teenagers are more comfortable to be wild and crazy and disrespect what the leader has to say. I believe that teenagers think there are problems that adults have and there are problems that teenagers have. So adults go to church for their issues and teenagers go to youth group for theirs. Wrong. They all can learn from good old fashion church.
8/18/2008
Job hopping
I quit my job at Wingers. because they didn't like me there. But I kind of sucked at working there anyway. So I now have a job at Pizza Perfection. I wont be delivering your pizza, because i have to be eighteen to do that. I will be working in store, taking orders and making pizza.
Now, say something witty and funny about my new job.
Now, say something witty and funny about my new job.
7/26/2008
Taming of the Shrew
Performance dates for this play are this next week on tuesday the 29, wednesday the 30 and friday the first od august.
Go see it and feel cutluraly improved. If you do see it you got to bring your own chairs.
Go see it and feel cutluraly improved. If you do see it you got to bring your own chairs.
7/23/2008
More on turning a new age
I am now seventeen. Feel free to give me presents, because the only ones I have gotten so far were from my parents. There is just so much pressure to have a good time on my birthday. Oh well. You guys should come to my birthday party. It will be on the 9th of august, at a time i have not decided but probably late.
Davis, I realize you have a lot of money. So I expect big things from you. Or I could use a drum set, which if you think about it could save you money.
Jason, a simple hug from you would do nicely.
Davis, I realize you have a lot of money. So I expect big things from you. Or I could use a drum set, which if you think about it could save you money.
Jason, a simple hug from you would do nicely.
7/20/2008
I do not have sports, But sports does not have me
My earliest memory of my involvement in sports was in soccer. Despite my dads extreme disaproval of that sport, he let me play the game anyway. He probably knew that it would dawn upon some day to quit taking the womens self-defense course at the YMCA, and stop kicking balls.
After that experience it seemed to me that all sports were just as lame as soccer. I didn't understand why an elipse shaped ball would be any fun. You couldn't even bounce it repetedly. But one day at school on the play ground, I finally convinced myself to go play football with the other kids in hopes of being cool or making friends at least. I walked up to one of them and said in an uninterested manner, "Hey guys, could I play?" They imediately said back, "sorry, we already have an even amount of players." I put on a dissapointed look as I said, "Well thats fine play another time", but praised in my head that I didn't have to go through not getting the ball ever thrown to me and/or dropping it if it was, and so I proceeded on to the swings. Later that day it became clear to me that I did not want sports, and sports did not want me.
Ever since those two experiences, I have learned to appreciate football and basketball and think soccer is totally gay. Of course I do play ultimate frisbee at least a little religiously. But I enjoy that because there are frequently several new people there to play it every week, and because I am a regular attendee to it, I always look like I am one of the really good players. (Mostly because I know everyones name) But in all reality I am probably just above decent and thats all I will ever be.
After that experience it seemed to me that all sports were just as lame as soccer. I didn't understand why an elipse shaped ball would be any fun. You couldn't even bounce it repetedly. But one day at school on the play ground, I finally convinced myself to go play football with the other kids in hopes of being cool or making friends at least. I walked up to one of them and said in an uninterested manner, "Hey guys, could I play?" They imediately said back, "sorry, we already have an even amount of players." I put on a dissapointed look as I said, "Well thats fine play another time", but praised in my head that I didn't have to go through not getting the ball ever thrown to me and/or dropping it if it was, and so I proceeded on to the swings. Later that day it became clear to me that I did not want sports, and sports did not want me.
Ever since those two experiences, I have learned to appreciate football and basketball and think soccer is totally gay. Of course I do play ultimate frisbee at least a little religiously. But I enjoy that because there are frequently several new people there to play it every week, and because I am a regular attendee to it, I always look like I am one of the really good players. (Mostly because I know everyones name) But in all reality I am probably just above decent and thats all I will ever be.
7/19/2008
7/13/2008
Graeme's skating pics
We got our photographer friend, Jack knecht to take some professionally sweet pictures of Graeme jumping over the various heights of Moscow, Idaho. I hope you can enjoy them below.
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