You know I was reading some of Maddox's points about how the internet is replacing the Radio really fast.
People can find songs to new artists and not have to listen to some lame DJ talk about his childhood.
Well now the internet is becoming a large media viewing platform as well, not only can you watch shows on the internet, but you can rewatch them, and watch a whole bunch of stuff without annoying commercials.
Here are the Pro's and Con's of the Internet and TV
Televisions Pro's: You can watch cool and interesting shows for a small some of money. You can play video games on a television, as well as watch movies, and even check your email on your TV.
Con's of TV: Starts with a C and ends with a rappy Commercials. Did you know most shows only used to be 8 mins in length? Yes, those were days were you could watch 20 re-runs of some lame black and white retro show. Then some smart pants decide to make shows that were 30 mins in length. Not bad, but now we have shows that barely run 30 mins or even 12 for that matter. I was watching an episode of the Simpson's yesterday and I timed the whole episode, without commercials the time span was 9 mins and 36 seconds. That means in the 30 min time frame I was watching more than 20 mins of commercials. That's a lot of advertising, and subconsciously that can hurt us. Yet people still blame being fat on McDonald's... If anything it's TV. Anyway back to pro's and con's
Pros of Internet: I can view awesome websites, I can watch movies, store pictures, make pictures, make movies, make games, play games, talk with people, make blogs, view blogs, store, and send all of the above, and much much more, for a fee, that is less than cable.
Con's of Internet: Pop-ups. But at least I can make pop-ups go away. Indentity theft, if this ever happens to you, you need to learn how to use a computer. ( Sorry if that is harsh, but seriously, people who decide to give out there information and not want it to be exploited against them, should look up hypocrite in the dictionary).
Now then. Yes the internet is replacing the Television, but all these ad's and ideals being shared over the web can be bad for us as believers.
We may stray from the truth of the matter, and that is
Jesus is number one.
Television maybe getting replaced by the internet, but we can't allow god to be replaced by anything.
-Brent
PS. Dear Karyn if you were offended by the following post, which I hope like you and the rest of the world was, then I won't have to tell you how happy I am that I got excepted to XLR:8 but that I have a delima on hands, because I want to go to that and youth councils. We need to get together and talk, maybe Monday or something. But again I should just email you, because you were offended and aren't reading about how the robot cyber monkeys now control half of aisle 7.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Friday, August 19, 2005
Debt
There are two things girls are good for in my personal opinion
Number one,
They have hair that smells nice ( Well most of them that is)
Number two, which any guy can relate to,
They can easily burn a hole in your wallet.
I seriously need to stop talking people out to lunch... That aside though as soon as I hang out with someone for the day, I spoil them.
The other day I was hanging out with Angel, so I take out 20 dollars for lunch and stuff.
I'm not a guy who really cares about money at all, unless I'm like saving up for something, but then again, if you have money then why not spend it on others before yourself?
So by the end of the day I have spent an average of 15 dollars, I don't mind that wasn't a lot of money, but I decided to go buy someone a gift that I owe them, and that set me back more.
On Saturday I'm hanging with Ashley, I only have like 9 dollars and 50 cents and that is all I'm going to spend tomorrow, I am not taking out more money. If I do that means I'm either
One; I'm being exploited into buying stuff, which is unlikely because I highly doubt Ashleys the sort of person that wants stuff bought for her >.>
Two; I'm being an idiot and buying stuff I don't need.
Anyway but that was my point.
I decided to buy someone a gift, and when I told them about it, they freaked out at me, and were all like you don't owe me a gift.
But if were talking about that, I owe someone a nice gesture if they give me a nice gesture.
If someone gets you a gift for your birthday it is only fair that you return the kindness by getting them one for theirs, right?
You don't have to, but I feel that I want to not be a jerk who receives and not gives.
The same goes for Jesus, if we have received him we should make an effort to give him to others to return the kindness Jesus showed us. This year I'm going to buy Jesus a present, I'm going to make an effort to give him to at least one person before his birthday.
Anyway, a gift to be is like a debt, if you give me a gift, expect to get one back. Yet, if a give someone a gift I really don't care, don't get me one, instead call me a hypocrite.
Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Romans 13:7
-Brent
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PS. Dear Karyn, the smart reader would've stop reading to this point.
Since you are smart you must've stopped reading so there is not point for me to tell you that the gnome problems are settled, and that everyone was worried that you didn't show up at the banquet on Thursday, or that I hope you are ok, and that I update my song in my profile to something you might like to listen to if you are not being attacking by a outraged octopus. I am still frightened about Sunday for I fear that approval of others will not be shown and I will be attacked my the most dissident dolphin that feeds off people who have just been subjugated to disapproval.
Number one,
They have hair that smells nice ( Well most of them that is)
Number two, which any guy can relate to,
They can easily burn a hole in your wallet.
I seriously need to stop talking people out to lunch... That aside though as soon as I hang out with someone for the day, I spoil them.
The other day I was hanging out with Angel, so I take out 20 dollars for lunch and stuff.
I'm not a guy who really cares about money at all, unless I'm like saving up for something, but then again, if you have money then why not spend it on others before yourself?
So by the end of the day I have spent an average of 15 dollars, I don't mind that wasn't a lot of money, but I decided to go buy someone a gift that I owe them, and that set me back more.
On Saturday I'm hanging with Ashley, I only have like 9 dollars and 50 cents and that is all I'm going to spend tomorrow, I am not taking out more money. If I do that means I'm either
One; I'm being exploited into buying stuff, which is unlikely because I highly doubt Ashleys the sort of person that wants stuff bought for her >.>
Two; I'm being an idiot and buying stuff I don't need.
Anyway but that was my point.
I decided to buy someone a gift, and when I told them about it, they freaked out at me, and were all like you don't owe me a gift.
But if were talking about that, I owe someone a nice gesture if they give me a nice gesture.
If someone gets you a gift for your birthday it is only fair that you return the kindness by getting them one for theirs, right?
You don't have to, but I feel that I want to not be a jerk who receives and not gives.
The same goes for Jesus, if we have received him we should make an effort to give him to others to return the kindness Jesus showed us. This year I'm going to buy Jesus a present, I'm going to make an effort to give him to at least one person before his birthday.
Anyway, a gift to be is like a debt, if you give me a gift, expect to get one back. Yet, if a give someone a gift I really don't care, don't get me one, instead call me a hypocrite.
Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Romans 13:7
-Brent
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PS. Dear Karyn, the smart reader would've stop reading to this point.
Since you are smart you must've stopped reading so there is not point for me to tell you that the gnome problems are settled, and that everyone was worried that you didn't show up at the banquet on Thursday, or that I hope you are ok, and that I update my song in my profile to something you might like to listen to if you are not being attacking by a outraged octopus. I am still frightened about Sunday for I fear that approval of others will not be shown and I will be attacked my the most dissident dolphin that feeds off people who have just been subjugated to disapproval.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Frustration
Man, I QUIT!
Writing a good blog is too hard, I never know what to say!
-Brent
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Oh? Still reading?
Ok...
Ever had one of those moments where your just so fed up with something because it didn't go the way you expected it to go?
For example, here is what happened to me today.
I woke up at 1pm by the sound of my mother asking me to see if I wanted to be taken to the church to tune the drums, which the previous day, I agreed to with Karyn.
Now first off, I and my human nature to assume things thought, well Karyn will be at the church and I'll be able to tune the drums, and they'll sound all nice, and I'll get the key to the city for all of my hard work, and not have to be attacked by rigorous humanoid reptilian who are repelled by recent reward receivers.
^_^ You hate me don't you? It's because my examples start to make sense and then throw you a curve ball... Frustrated yet? No? Well back the tale then...
So I call the church and get no answer...
um, bad start to my assuming... Not very good.
So I assume they're out to lunch so I call 1/2 hour later, and...
"Hello, blah blah blah, I'm a chump, Corey speaking" Corey mostly answered as he put the phone in one of his hands, I'm assuming his left.
"Yes, I would like to ask that Karyn would be in the building in a straight answer from you after this sentence has reached its end" I said with the most polite manner,
"um, yah" Corey replied in a chump like tone
What to mean and unrealistic? FINE! You chump... >.>
"Ok, I'm going to be stopping by to come tune the drums" I said, in a realistic manner.
So now I get to the church go to the back door, answered by Dave, he is cool and all even though he is a chum.... Cool guy.
So I talk to Karyn and after we treat ourselves to some well deserved cheese to fighting off the hoards of vigorously tall atheists from getting hands on the plate of holy holiness, which they would have used to corrupt aisle 7 in the Safeway downtown if it wasn't for us.
So I go about tuning the drums and decide to put pieces of card board under the heads to stop the echo, they did this but unlike my drums at home, it changed the sound of the drum, and made them too flat, as Corey meationed.
Again not what I expected, I was frustrated because I had just spent four hours of my life tuning the drums to what I had assumed they'd sound like, and in the end they did not live up to that assumption.
So, I'm about to go I call my dad so I can meet him to get a ride home, and I tell him to meet me at the school.
I assumed he was picking up the boys at the high school, so I walked there...
He wasn't at Massey where all the other boys before these ones always were picked up.
Maybe he is near the Pearson office, but due to the fenced area I would have to walk around all of the school to get there, it was 4pm, it was a hot long journey.
By the time I had assumed I would make it there and find him waiting for me, I saw that this part too was fenced off, so once again I made my trip around the school to get back to the parking lot, as I had assumed he went and got something to drink while he was waiting and that's why he wasn't there.
Frustration seemed to build as he wasn't there, so I hiked up 8th avenue towards my house singing to myself to pass the time...
As I was into the second chorus of the song "Run and not get weary..." I trailed off as I heard a honk, now I was almost home, it was my dad, asking me if I wanted a ride. I had assumed I was too early, and he left without me... So I said no, and decided to get the last of my exercise for the day and trought down 8th Ave, in the heat.
When I got home I had assumed I could go to refuge and sit and relax. After I found out my dad picked them up at a different school which name has left me, I sat on the couch, and the boys asked if they could go play tennis.
I assumed this would be fun, and easy since they sucked at tennis, and only had one more friend with them, and he couldn't be too good.
Well I lost, after passing out from either dehydration or heat exhaustion which ever one came first.
We went home, and now it was almost seven but I was hungry and my mom was having a party so I forgot about refuge.
Now I'm here, full from food, and frustrated from my annoying, almost pointless day.
A point to this story?
I'm grumpy and tired, YOU THINK I WANT TO WRITE A POINT!?
The point is, that even when we make the all to common human mistake of assumptions, god is with us, even when they are wrong or right, and he will help us through them, and make us write long interesting blogs to the public about how we assumed people would read this garbage and still enjoy it.
Do not forget for the lord your god is always with you, we may all get frustrated but think how god feels when we do something that he is not proud of... Happy? I surely doubt that...
We need to preserver through are day with the faith that god is there walking with us along are frustratingly long day, and he will give us the strength to make it through the next day, without the fear of another frustratingly long day, and if that happens, then he will
Well... That was my frustrating day, and I'm frustrated because you'll stop reading after...
-Brent
PS. Karyn you and I know the simple minded have already stopped reading, so it is safe for me to enclose this message to you in one of my blogs.
We may have driven off the atheists but now comes the hoards of zombie monkeys looking for the stapler in dave's office, aisle 7 is in grave danger, I'll meet you tomorrow around 1pm again so we can prepare the drums, in what people will think as tuning, but really I have enclosed a sonic charge in the auto tuner in dave's office, once tuned to the frequency of the auto tuner, the drums will emit loud sonic waves which will convince the monkeys they are all peaces of cheese, and will run in terror, because you know that zombies are afraid of cheese.
Writing a good blog is too hard, I never know what to say!
-Brent
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Oh? Still reading?
Ok...
Ever had one of those moments where your just so fed up with something because it didn't go the way you expected it to go?
For example, here is what happened to me today.
I woke up at 1pm by the sound of my mother asking me to see if I wanted to be taken to the church to tune the drums, which the previous day, I agreed to with Karyn.
Now first off, I and my human nature to assume things thought, well Karyn will be at the church and I'll be able to tune the drums, and they'll sound all nice, and I'll get the key to the city for all of my hard work, and not have to be attacked by rigorous humanoid reptilian who are repelled by recent reward receivers.
^_^ You hate me don't you? It's because my examples start to make sense and then throw you a curve ball... Frustrated yet? No? Well back the tale then...
So I call the church and get no answer...
um, bad start to my assuming... Not very good.
So I assume they're out to lunch so I call 1/2 hour later, and...
"Hello, blah blah blah, I'm a chump, Corey speaking" Corey mostly answered as he put the phone in one of his hands, I'm assuming his left.
"Yes, I would like to ask that Karyn would be in the building in a straight answer from you after this sentence has reached its end" I said with the most polite manner,
"um, yah" Corey replied in a chump like tone
What to mean and unrealistic? FINE! You chump... >.>
"Ok, I'm going to be stopping by to come tune the drums" I said, in a realistic manner.
So now I get to the church go to the back door, answered by Dave, he is cool and all even though he is a chum.... Cool guy.
So I talk to Karyn and after we treat ourselves to some well deserved cheese to fighting off the hoards of vigorously tall atheists from getting hands on the plate of holy holiness, which they would have used to corrupt aisle 7 in the Safeway downtown if it wasn't for us.
So I go about tuning the drums and decide to put pieces of card board under the heads to stop the echo, they did this but unlike my drums at home, it changed the sound of the drum, and made them too flat, as Corey meationed.
Again not what I expected, I was frustrated because I had just spent four hours of my life tuning the drums to what I had assumed they'd sound like, and in the end they did not live up to that assumption.
So, I'm about to go I call my dad so I can meet him to get a ride home, and I tell him to meet me at the school.
I assumed he was picking up the boys at the high school, so I walked there...
He wasn't at Massey where all the other boys before these ones always were picked up.
Maybe he is near the Pearson office, but due to the fenced area I would have to walk around all of the school to get there, it was 4pm, it was a hot long journey.
By the time I had assumed I would make it there and find him waiting for me, I saw that this part too was fenced off, so once again I made my trip around the school to get back to the parking lot, as I had assumed he went and got something to drink while he was waiting and that's why he wasn't there.
Frustration seemed to build as he wasn't there, so I hiked up 8th avenue towards my house singing to myself to pass the time...
As I was into the second chorus of the song "Run and not get weary..." I trailed off as I heard a honk, now I was almost home, it was my dad, asking me if I wanted a ride. I had assumed I was too early, and he left without me... So I said no, and decided to get the last of my exercise for the day and trought down 8th Ave, in the heat.
When I got home I had assumed I could go to refuge and sit and relax. After I found out my dad picked them up at a different school which name has left me, I sat on the couch, and the boys asked if they could go play tennis.
I assumed this would be fun, and easy since they sucked at tennis, and only had one more friend with them, and he couldn't be too good.
Well I lost, after passing out from either dehydration or heat exhaustion which ever one came first.
We went home, and now it was almost seven but I was hungry and my mom was having a party so I forgot about refuge.
Now I'm here, full from food, and frustrated from my annoying, almost pointless day.
A point to this story?
I'm grumpy and tired, YOU THINK I WANT TO WRITE A POINT!?
The point is, that even when we make the all to common human mistake of assumptions, god is with us, even when they are wrong or right, and he will help us through them, and make us write long interesting blogs to the public about how we assumed people would read this garbage and still enjoy it.
Do not forget for the lord your god is always with you, we may all get frustrated but think how god feels when we do something that he is not proud of... Happy? I surely doubt that...
We need to preserver through are day with the faith that god is there walking with us along are frustratingly long day, and he will give us the strength to make it through the next day, without the fear of another frustratingly long day, and if that happens, then he will
Well... That was my frustrating day, and I'm frustrated because you'll stop reading after...
-Brent
PS. Karyn you and I know the simple minded have already stopped reading, so it is safe for me to enclose this message to you in one of my blogs.
We may have driven off the atheists but now comes the hoards of zombie monkeys looking for the stapler in dave's office, aisle 7 is in grave danger, I'll meet you tomorrow around 1pm again so we can prepare the drums, in what people will think as tuning, but really I have enclosed a sonic charge in the auto tuner in dave's office, once tuned to the frequency of the auto tuner, the drums will emit loud sonic waves which will convince the monkeys they are all peaces of cheese, and will run in terror, because you know that zombies are afraid of cheese.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
When life gives you lemons.
I was standing at my computer, yes standing, and then it came from the swamp.... ooo ahh...
Wait what that has to do with my topic? I'll never know.
Life teaches us many things right?
For example history, in theory they say history repeats itself, but to me that means that people didn't learn from their mistake the first time...
Like if life has taught us anything it is to learn from our mistakes.
You fall off a horse, your suppose to get back on, that is what were taught when we fall off a horse apparently, but if you are wise like me, you run away from horses everytime you see one again, because you don't want to make the stupid mistake of getting back on one, because you'll probaly end up getting bucked off again.
But I guess that is the whole thing about mistakes right? You took a risk, and you learned from it either being a success or being a complete utter, being attacked by wild pigmi's because a friend told you to mine in a certain part of South Africa in monkeys blood because the sent wouldn't attract evil mine golems, and though this may be true, pigmi's notice the sent of dead monkey... where was I? Oh yes, failure.
If world war one taught us anything it was not to assinate Arch Bishop Ferdinand.
But what if life was to throw you a curve ball, what if risk came knocking at your door?
What if you happened to stumble upon something that would throw your life into a pile of risks to come, and large mistakes that will be an outcome?
God wants us to have a personal relationship with him, and though you might have just relized this now, he is that risk knocking at your door, but if you take this risk for the rest of your life, the outcome will be great.
Now like any good spokeperson, I'm going to convince you on betting on this horse for the rest of your life.
If you think, well if I have to love god what will I get in return?
But it's simple God loves us no matter what, even if we haven't loved him!
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us."
—1 John 4:10
God wants us to know him, he is, has, and always will be knocking at that door, even if we screw up, its us that has to open the door and let him in.
"So that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us."
—Acts 17:27
But what if we screw up? What if we make crappy lemonade with the lemons fate has given us?
"We are dead in trespasses and sins."
—Ephesians 2:1
God has already found a way to forgive are sin, allow us to get back up on the horse and try again.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
—John 3:16
So what are you waiting for?
Take the plundge, make some lemonade, and if it sucks try again until you please god, but first we have to get all the tools for making lemonade in order to make good lemonade ( These are the fruits of the spirit).
So if life gives you lemons make lemonade, but life has already given you Jesus, have you started to do something about it.
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On a more corny note, I was looking into the whole Blood drive commercial...
"Blood it's in you to give"
So if your already taking the risk you should follow this motto,
"Jesus, he's in you to give"
Umm... oh ya, CHEESE!
Wait what that has to do with my topic? I'll never know.
Life teaches us many things right?
For example history, in theory they say history repeats itself, but to me that means that people didn't learn from their mistake the first time...
Like if life has taught us anything it is to learn from our mistakes.
You fall off a horse, your suppose to get back on, that is what were taught when we fall off a horse apparently, but if you are wise like me, you run away from horses everytime you see one again, because you don't want to make the stupid mistake of getting back on one, because you'll probaly end up getting bucked off again.
But I guess that is the whole thing about mistakes right? You took a risk, and you learned from it either being a success or being a complete utter, being attacked by wild pigmi's because a friend told you to mine in a certain part of South Africa in monkeys blood because the sent wouldn't attract evil mine golems, and though this may be true, pigmi's notice the sent of dead monkey... where was I? Oh yes, failure.
If world war one taught us anything it was not to assinate Arch Bishop Ferdinand.
But what if life was to throw you a curve ball, what if risk came knocking at your door?
What if you happened to stumble upon something that would throw your life into a pile of risks to come, and large mistakes that will be an outcome?
God wants us to have a personal relationship with him, and though you might have just relized this now, he is that risk knocking at your door, but if you take this risk for the rest of your life, the outcome will be great.
Now like any good spokeperson, I'm going to convince you on betting on this horse for the rest of your life.
If you think, well if I have to love god what will I get in return?
But it's simple God loves us no matter what, even if we haven't loved him!
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us."
—1 John 4:10
God wants us to know him, he is, has, and always will be knocking at that door, even if we screw up, its us that has to open the door and let him in.
"So that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us."
—Acts 17:27
But what if we screw up? What if we make crappy lemonade with the lemons fate has given us?
"We are dead in trespasses and sins."
—Ephesians 2:1
God has already found a way to forgive are sin, allow us to get back up on the horse and try again.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
—John 3:16
So what are you waiting for?
Take the plundge, make some lemonade, and if it sucks try again until you please god, but first we have to get all the tools for making lemonade in order to make good lemonade ( These are the fruits of the spirit).
So if life gives you lemons make lemonade, but life has already given you Jesus, have you started to do something about it.
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On a more corny note, I was looking into the whole Blood drive commercial...
"Blood it's in you to give"
So if your already taking the risk you should follow this motto,
"Jesus, he's in you to give"
Umm... oh ya, CHEESE!
Thursday, August 04, 2005
A huge mistake!
Ever wake up one day, and forget to put on your pants?
No, just me? Ok... ;_;
The little mistakes we make can come back to haunt us, and effect us later on.
Like a close friend of mine once stated, that the actions we choose to make will have a punishment or reward, as well as a consequence, but it best not be to think they are one and the same.
Punishment, under the "P" section of your dictionary, means an action carried out due to a result of something occurrence. Punishment, basically means something that is done to us after the fact. While as a consequence is more or less, once that something has occurred, it has set in motion a sequence and events that will lead to a reaction.
If you don't clean the dished, a punishment might be, being grounded in your room for a week, or having the King of Prague knocking on your door, and handing you a medal of bravery for standing up to the dragon that is your mother.
A consequence could be, your dishes will be left unclean, and you might have harmful bacteria on them the next time you go to eat, or the mold on the dishes comes to life, and attacks you while your sleeping, then taking its victory unto society, enslaving mankind to do its bidding.
I was talking with sid one day, about how he just got pwn'd in a video game he was playing, he corrected me, by telling me the tale of pown'd, which talks about consequences of our mistakes.
An online game, I forget the name but with the initials S.S. was pretty popular, but the game was being upgraded or bought out, and this was the last time all the players could get ranked, before the game ended.
Sid and Dan played ss, they were pretty good, but these were the elite of ss, so... Well yah...
A guy named Madblood, ranked #1 was in the match as well as a few others, including StrikerBlue, who was always like 2nd-3rd in rankings. Rhino was there too, he is good, but pretty dumb, always giving people a chuckle.
Anyway the game goes on, Sid and Dan are out pretty quick in this Space fighter elimination match if you die 10 times your out.
Madblood has 9 deaths and maybe one kill, he is totally losing, and Sid and Dan are talking in the lobby about the match going on, Rhino joins them after getting killed by StrikerBlue...
Striker who has only died 3 times and killed about 7 people is the fan favorite and everyone thinks he is going to win, there are about 15 people left. Well Madblood just goes insane, wiping everyone off the floor except striker, so its just between those two. Madblood who has dies 9 times and just gotten 14 kills, is now facing StrikerBlue for the title of the best, Striker loses 7 times in a row, each time fairly and justified, that Mad was the better player.
So striker say in the lobby ;_;
Madblood says "Good game"
And rhino goes to type Striker was own'd but instead of o he types P.
Pwn'd, is created but Sid and Dan never let Rhino let go of his mistake, and laughed at him, and pwn'd became famous and is used around the internet to this date as a huge spelling error.
Now the consequence of that spelling error, even though small, grew into a giant mockery of misused spelling... Words like h4x0r, or l33t, or teh n00b.
But as your wondering what my point is, Sin's entrance into this world was a consequence of Eve taking the fruit and eating it, disobeying god, which lead towards Adam eating it, then mankind punishment...
Something small and innocent that looks simple yet delicious, can still make a huge impact.
Don't let Satan trick you into thinking that, its just one time, or everyone else is doing it, or it can't be as bad as this or this sin...
Think before you act, and ask god to work through you, and when you make a mistake, instead of ignoring it and hoping no-one noticed like Rhino hoped for, ask for forgiveness, and maybe the consequence will be less bad.
Now the next time you are asked to mow the lawn, think about obeying your parent, or you could end up in the stomach of a giant two headed Human eating Grass monster's belly.
No, just me? Ok... ;_;
The little mistakes we make can come back to haunt us, and effect us later on.
Like a close friend of mine once stated, that the actions we choose to make will have a punishment or reward, as well as a consequence, but it best not be to think they are one and the same.
Punishment, under the "P" section of your dictionary, means an action carried out due to a result of something occurrence. Punishment, basically means something that is done to us after the fact. While as a consequence is more or less, once that something has occurred, it has set in motion a sequence and events that will lead to a reaction.
If you don't clean the dished, a punishment might be, being grounded in your room for a week, or having the King of Prague knocking on your door, and handing you a medal of bravery for standing up to the dragon that is your mother.
A consequence could be, your dishes will be left unclean, and you might have harmful bacteria on them the next time you go to eat, or the mold on the dishes comes to life, and attacks you while your sleeping, then taking its victory unto society, enslaving mankind to do its bidding.
I was talking with sid one day, about how he just got pwn'd in a video game he was playing, he corrected me, by telling me the tale of pown'd, which talks about consequences of our mistakes.
An online game, I forget the name but with the initials S.S. was pretty popular, but the game was being upgraded or bought out, and this was the last time all the players could get ranked, before the game ended.
Sid and Dan played ss, they were pretty good, but these were the elite of ss, so... Well yah...
A guy named Madblood, ranked #1 was in the match as well as a few others, including StrikerBlue, who was always like 2nd-3rd in rankings. Rhino was there too, he is good, but pretty dumb, always giving people a chuckle.
Anyway the game goes on, Sid and Dan are out pretty quick in this Space fighter elimination match if you die 10 times your out.
Madblood has 9 deaths and maybe one kill, he is totally losing, and Sid and Dan are talking in the lobby about the match going on, Rhino joins them after getting killed by StrikerBlue...
Striker who has only died 3 times and killed about 7 people is the fan favorite and everyone thinks he is going to win, there are about 15 people left. Well Madblood just goes insane, wiping everyone off the floor except striker, so its just between those two. Madblood who has dies 9 times and just gotten 14 kills, is now facing StrikerBlue for the title of the best, Striker loses 7 times in a row, each time fairly and justified, that Mad was the better player.
So striker say in the lobby ;_;
Madblood says "Good game"
And rhino goes to type Striker was own'd but instead of o he types P.
Pwn'd, is created but Sid and Dan never let Rhino let go of his mistake, and laughed at him, and pwn'd became famous and is used around the internet to this date as a huge spelling error.
Now the consequence of that spelling error, even though small, grew into a giant mockery of misused spelling... Words like h4x0r, or l33t, or teh n00b.
But as your wondering what my point is, Sin's entrance into this world was a consequence of Eve taking the fruit and eating it, disobeying god, which lead towards Adam eating it, then mankind punishment...
Something small and innocent that looks simple yet delicious, can still make a huge impact.
Don't let Satan trick you into thinking that, its just one time, or everyone else is doing it, or it can't be as bad as this or this sin...
Think before you act, and ask god to work through you, and when you make a mistake, instead of ignoring it and hoping no-one noticed like Rhino hoped for, ask for forgiveness, and maybe the consequence will be less bad.
Now the next time you are asked to mow the lawn, think about obeying your parent, or you could end up in the stomach of a giant two headed Human eating Grass monster's belly.
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