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This might be the most intelligent thing i've heard all semester

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:50:00 GMT

Elizabeth Mills
This is a facebook group (comprised of about 85,000 members the last time I checked) that is mindlessly protesting the upcoming film The Golden Compass. None of the members have read the books, and all have horribly skewed ideas about the plot and themes. I joined it in order to correct these presumptions and defend what is arguably my favorite series of books.

The admins of the group are obviously afraid to hear any opposing viewpoints because the wall and discussion boards have been disabled. As such, many have taken to debating through picture comments, as I have. If you want to make your opinions heard and defend a great story, here's the link.

Brandon Paul wrote on Dec 9, 2007 at 8:22 AM.

that is horrible. ok, make a group, but it's immature to use one pullman quote as your one piece of evidence. it pisses me off that they won't even be open to an opposing viewpoint. the first book barely has any anti-religion comments in it. and last time i checked, wasn't it against organized religion and not religion itself? (the republic of heaven).

this is all reminiscient of the huge "controversy" that john lennon sparked in the mid 60's by indirectly saying that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. people took his comment in a way it wasn't meant to be taken and look what happened.

The grand irony of it all is that the american conference of bishops or something like that said it was "intelligent" and basically praised the movie. I'm not anti-religious myself, but I think Pullman is secretly pleased that his movie has caused so much controversy and has actually served to prove his point that the Church is choosing what people must think. (They're not allowing Christians to see the movie). Pullman is coming off as the victor while the Church looks like fools

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:35:04 GMT

Is it a bad thing that the most I've ever cared about pop culture has to do with Harry Potter? (Zach, don't answer that question.)

this is an email laurel sent me acouple of months ago...

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:14:53 GMT

there are times when life seems so bad and we can't see the light, and we feel like we cannot go on because everything feels like a hideous tunnel spiraling downwards, the vortex of the mind that allows no escape the further we allow it to go. And the easiest thing to do seems to be just give up. It takes true strength to pull ourselves out of it, even to just grasp at the faintest ray of happiness or good thoughts, it's like a flimsy cobweb glimmering in the shadows. But reach out for it, and it will be a strong handhold, on which we can rest and regain strength to get out of it and see the light and then realize how much good God really put on this earth, and how blessed we really are.

I miss you.

LAUREL IS THE MAN! ...but you already knew that...

this is my moms blog... she posted this sweet Avatar of me on there so check it out...

The Book of Jordan: Chapter two
1) On the first day of Camp Jordan groaned. "Oye!!! My glory days are behind me. I am on a crutch! what shall I do?" 2) and then to his utter amazement, standing bfore him 3) His brother!!! 4) Justin was there. all the girls cried out. "Behold!!! Jordan is here and he has brought his brother! He is cute in his onw right. let us go and meet him. 5) and all came and met jordan's brother.6) then Justin walked and Jordan limped off to class.

The Book of Jordan chapter three.
1) As the many boys gathered in the council room for Boy's talk, there was many discusions.2) and in all the loudness, the great Bundi called out and there was order at his voice. 3) "We must elect a leader amoung us who shall it be?" and all at once they shouted out 4) "Jordan!" and it was so. 5) and on the first day the Boys learned about instumental music. and how even though it maynot be mentioned in the bible. the divisions in the chruch over it are soooo powerful that we should not do it at all. and then it became night on the first day.

The book of Jordan

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:25:43 GMT

Book of Jordan: the Final Journey

1) Once there was a boy named Jordan, not a very special boy but just a boy who was open. 2) and after two amazing years at the paradise of camp PCC and losing many friends to the far off lands of Col-lege Jordan did not know how PCC could be any better then it was in the past. 3) Unfortunately he was right. It wasn't better. As a matter of fact, it wasn't nearly as good, not nearly as much fun. 4) However certain miraculous deeds were done, and many lessons were learned. 5) These are the records of those tales..

Edit....

and now my knee hurts... i think i over did it....

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:40:25 GMT

There Are Stories Everywhere.

Even in the dates.

On this seventh day, of the seventh month, of the seventh year,(07/07/07) and incidentally the seventh day of a week, Saturday, I am proud to announce my greatest project, my magnum opus, my God-song, my novel, There Are Stories Everywhere.

That’s the title to the series anyway. There Are Stories Everywhere, (T.A.S.E for short,) is a series of coming of age novellas about a group of high-school age superheroes who call them selves Operation SSS. And while, of course, it is action packed with explosions, and betrayals, and violence, and all the other bells and whistles of your typical sci-fi/ fantasy novel, it only uses these as a medium to ask deeper questions of life about, peer pressure, being yourself, predestination, God, love, pride, time, alternate universes, the macrocosm, and utilitarianism.

As of yet, I only have five of the eleven novellas completed, and it has already been an amazing journey.

So, while you wait on the edge of your seats, eagerly itching to read what will undoubtedly be the breakthrough novel of the century, (I can dream, can’t I?) all I have to say is, There Are Stories Everywhere.

O^3S fever may now commence.

Jordan H.

Four Eyed Mosters

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:13:45 GMT

i have a strong dislike for those four eyed monsters.

they come in all diffrent shapes and sizes. and while some are ugly hideouse beast that look something like the thing from the black lagoon, others are cute and cudaily, like Elmo. All, however are unmistakably, undenyably, MONSTERS.

soo what is a four eyed monster? you know, you've seen them. they have four arms, four leggs, eight eyes, and two noses. if you split one in half, they will wine and cry until they are reunited, where they clasp to each other like magnets.

they are couples.

i was at a grad party with jody the other weekend, and there wre six other people there, all couples. and at one point all the people kind of merge into there other half, holding hands, playing with fingers, sitting on laps. i kinda thought it digusting.

and there jody and i stood, not cupuality, because were not a couple.

it was undenyably unconfortable.

The problem with couples is they make everyone around them uncomfortable, wheather by pointing out the obviouse, (that you are without a partern to monster with,) by tuning out there friends, or by just being weirdly withdrawn into eachother.

i guess i too will one day be part of a four eyed monster...but im hoping not until i finish a few things. i have things to do before i monster.

with guys its werid, but at the same time, at the end of the day, the guy is still a guy. so you can still be guyfriends. do guy things. but with girls its diffrent.

fortunetly, your favorite prodigy realized that until people are married, the four eyed monster shouldn't interfer with friendship.

what happens when the four eyed moster decides to end, and each half goes their seprate ways? if you are only supposed to be married once, the friendship should not change until one person has said their vows.

NUFF SAID!

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Wed, 30 May 2007 00:30:32 GMT

So... I'm still crippled... I think that the next time I'm crippled, i won't go to an all guy school, but rather a co-ed school, so i can milk the whole crippled bit for ALL ITS WORTH --insert evil maniacal laugh--

So this is a new sensation

Wed, 23 May 2007 00:23:31 GMT

+ Miss +

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Sun, 13 May 2007 21:10:37 GMT

so i offically know what i want to do with my life...

i want to be the worlds greatest husband, then the worlds greatest dad... and my motivation is to be the the worlds greatest christian.... everything else, what ever my major is or my professions will be, is secondary....

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:21:32 GMT

I went to camp a year ago,
I made a friend,
I moved to Virginia,
that friend lives in maryland,
we both happen to be super heros,
so things work out pretty well, all the time.
Today i went to his house,
we went to partake in the on going feast known as Wendy's
we exercized the power of the mind at the cinema,
we wandered through the swamp of doom and came out better for it,
and searched for our charriot in the cold for it had run out of our memories.
Home, by the fire, discussion of love and war,
the future and the past,
and lost love...
but we both know things will get better as superheros rest in Gods strength, and compassion.
The dream stargirl has had since birth,
God never has gone,
and that indefinately,
is what makes us super heros.

~Stargirl

edit---------------

hey do you want to hear something funny? 30 years from now zac and i will both have gained 50 pounds and be bald.... the only diffrence is zac will be that short, fat, bald guy, and ill still be a big black guy...(and jon will still be up in the mountain)

so this is what stargirl and i did this weekend...