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Name: White Bat
Interests: Ted Dekker books, Writing sweet stories, Chatting with Tali and Shade on MSN.
Expertise: I'm an artist of words so to say, and I shall entertain you. Ha! I also am an expert in messing up friendships, that's always cool
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
8/29/2005
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| The Power to Refuse the next Blockbuster or Fad
Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with the world. Or maybe just Christians who are of the world and think they aren't. The ones who go watch or read something that compromises their morals because of either
1 Popular hype
2. considered to be amazing writing or visually stunning (Nevermind the sex scenes, the innuendos, the blood spurting, the missuse of God's name and obscenities, after all that makes it more realistic, right?)
It's sad. I admit I have gone through the whole thing, seen junk and tried to validate it. That swear word isn't *that* bad, there are worse. Hey, this guy mowing down everyone *looks* cool, that's the important part. The scene isn't *really* porn 'cause they still have their clothes on and are just kissing passionately or are in very provocative positions
If we tell ourselves that it isn't quite sin, or isn't wrong, we'll keep engaging in the activity that we know that God wouldn't approve of. It's sin. But But! I'm immune to this! I mean I've seen bodies blown to bits and it's not sin I don't feel that it's wrong at all. Then you're in a bigger mess. and I'd suggest staying away from all violent stuff for a while. Awaken sensitivity again.
When I entered college, I found out that I was missing all these great movies I'd heard about but never seen. Everyone said they were good, so I watched them. Reflecting back, I realize it was rather stupid. Nothing in those movies has made me a better person, has caused me to remember them, or be able to relate to non-christians. The coolest fight scene in The Matrix becomes dull and commonplace. Every movie has a scene like that now. But you know what remains from those movies? the sex scenes (or practically sex), the lines with innuendos, the
cusses all around in 'everyone's' mouths....
To be a christian, you don't have to see the latest movie that everyone thinks is amazing. You really aren't missing out. And you don't have to partake in some criticism about bad acting or low budgets in 'christian' movies.
You have the power to refuse popular culture, or as Christ said, 'the world'
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| I seriously wonder if some people spend more time reading and believing Snopes.com to prove and debunk chain emails, than they do reading their bible.
*shrug*
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| R-E-S-P......erm, responsibilitySo, I'm not sure what to say...
Time is flying fast... but then, not fast enough.
I realize how much I have to grow up these next few years. Become responsible. Honestly I'm scared of that. I want to enjoy the lazy simple life of a child, when I could play outside with my neighbors... or a teen, lounging away for hours to play on a gameboy or write a story. Now as I'm becoming an adult I realize, I won't have time to sit and think and play and relax, because the world has got it's grip on me. Must get a job... must take care of the kids 24/7 eventually, must make food, must be involved in some activity... all the time.
*sigh* It almost makes me feel like becoming a hermit. 
Hmm, I'm someone who really dislikes responsibility. Who does? The is something of a quote in Spiderman which says: With great power comes great responsibility. I'm not sure what power I've gained now that I'm getting older, but whatever it is, I'm sure feeling the responsibility. I think as humans we only want to be responsible when the effect is in our favor (If I do a good deed and then get complemented, or some nice dollar bill for the trouble), but once you do something wrong, we shirk our responsibilities and start looking for a way out... trying to pass the responsibility on to so that we won't be punished for our use or misuse of our power. I keep thinking of in the Garden of Eden, how Adam says: "Hey God, not my fault, it was this little lady you threw in here with me. She gave me it...she persuaded me to eat it... she used her influence against me. It's all her fault."
And God's like: "Dude... I gave you responsibility for the chick, and you coulda refused, There's a reason I gave you free will you know... you don't have to do what the chick tells you to."
Anyway, you know what happens then in Genesis... so.....I guess I'm just thinking that someday, I might have a responsibility in which it goes... horridly wrong... I'll want to blame it on someone else, but hmm, how do I keep from doing that?
Thoughts?
How does one learn to take responsibility for their actions? Or is it just trial and error?
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| Paper -By White_Bat
I stare at the page. It’s blank… but now there is a line
going across it. Is a page with only one line a paper? Doesn’t a paper mean
that it is on one sheet? Could I write only one line? For that matter does a
paper need to have any more than a word? Perhaps my name, so I receive credit,
but then what? Oh well, I’ve written four lines now, and that should be a
paragraph, according to my elementary teachers. I need to end with an ‘Enter’
and then start a new thought.
What is the
point of the ‘tab’? I can discern a thought easily enough through seeing where
the end of the last though ended, somewhere in the middle of the page. Even if
a sentence reaches to the end of a page, I should be able to tell if a new
thought is occurring in the next sentence. Or even better for a space-waster,
one could insert a gap between every paragraph, like so.
What is the point of the ‘Enter’ key? It used to be called
‘Return’ because the curser would return to the beginning of the line. ‘Enter’’s
meaning of imputing data makes no sense in this case. The computer does not
save the data you have here on this paper when you hit it, it only returns you
to the next line. It has been replaced with the mouse’s left click.
Why does the ‘Delete’ key remove anything before it, and the
‘Backspace’ key remove anything in front of it? I still don’t understand why
there are two removal keys that do basically the same thing are on this
computer keyboard…Perhaps the computer manufactures are trying to keep
everything even.
Perhaps they can also explain why there are two ‘Alt’ and
‘Ctrl’ keys. Is one set in case the other gets too gunked up when you
accidentally spilled your pop on the keyboard? Or maybe if one set doesn’t seem
to work when you are trying to keep your computer from destroying itself and
you hit ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Delete’. So that’s what the ‘Delete’ key is for!
I wonder who came up with the idea: ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ +
‘Delete’ for the Anti-Computer-Destruction cure. Someone who was thinking: I
want to have Ctrl of my computer so that it will Alter itself from the freezing
up that it’s doing by Deleting whatever is on the screen right now. Personally,
I think the keys should be ‘Anti’ + ‘Cmptr’ + ‘Dstry’, but that’s me. I should
write a letter to those computer manufacturers, maybe send them this paper too.
So they could improve in the future.
I’m looking at my keyboard and seeing all these different
things that I never use…For example, what in the world are the ‘F’ keys for?
They look like they’re Morse code or something, the way they number up to 12.
Why are they all F? Did someone get ticked off at 12 people one day and put
simple Computer-Destruction keys easy at hand with only a tap of the finger?
Finally, good old ‘Esc’ key, I’m not sure what it’s for,
since I’ve already got the ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Delete’ combo. Maybe they can just
skip out on the party and we can use ‘Esc’ instead. Hmm, I’ve never pressed it
before… Let’s try…
Oh shoot! I lost my paper!
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| WALMART AND THE SEX INDUSTRY ARE IN CAHOOTSWALMART AND THE SEX INDUSTRY ARE IN CAHOOTS
Wow... that was powerful... *chuckles* Oh well. It got your attention, didn't it?
Let me explain...
So my family and I are out at Walmart the other day. We just had a wonderful dinner at Fazolis (all you can eat breadsticks!) celebrating the end of my first year of college, and my brother's graduation from college.
Since gas prices are on the rise, we are making several stops in one trip. So we mosey over to Walmart for a couple items and I'm going to the book section, finding nothing interesting, the electronics section, still nothing amusing but a little kid with the guitar from Guitar Hero jamming to the music and pretending he's a rock star . Then I go to the toy section and walk through the aisles feeling something missing... there were no kids in the toy section. It was strange to me. Of course, it was almost 9pm and most kids were going to bed, I guess, but I just saw that little one in the electronics department... I walked back, to find my brother and mom, and on the way I saw a little girl, maybe 6 years old in front of a music box player singing lyrics and dancing a little to some Tim McGraw song, It amused me much. So I get to my mom, as she's dropping off film, and find some fake flowers and pose for my mom with some roses there... um...okay you get the picture.
Anyway, so as we're going back to the check-out lanes, I see this little boy come out of an aisle and he stops and looks at the poster rack thing. You know, the thing that shows each poster and you flip through them to find one you like. I noticed as we approached it, the first one the kid saw was this practically nude woman as a poster and I heard the boy audibly say: "Whoa..." I wanted to quickly flip the poster to the next one so the boy couldn't stare at it, but we had already passed him.
I don't know... Why does Walmart and other stores have so easily available such mature things in their store. Someday I might have a child, and I wouldn't want that kid looking for a Spiderman poster and finding... "Whoa..."
I'm not sure what the answer is other than parental guidance at all times... Even in the store. I think it's also pretty terrible that Walmart sells that type of poster in their store... but what are you gonna do? Infringe on Freedom of Speech? I guess what bugs me most was that that was the centerfold, what you would see first, not hidden behind anything....Hmm, oh well. Btw: I'm doing fine. No worries, just wanted yall to know I'm still alive. :)
I'm missing my duck though... I lost 'em among all the chickens... 
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