Showing posts with label melike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label melike. Show all posts
impossible is nothing
well the camera hookup isn't working at this computer, but here is a video of mario jumping over the flagpole.
another great video game
-via asher P
well now the economist is knocking my 'conspiracy theory'. i think we're all in big trouble. if they've gotten to wired and the economist, who is safe?
church retreat at ???
i went on church retreat this lunar new year holiday (HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!!). we went on a small hike one day and happened upon a palace. i dont understand how these are palaces. no one could ever live in it. i think they just used them for bar-b-que parties.
again i have no idea what the place i went to is called.
everyone is looking at me because im yelling "KOREA SUCKS!!" i thought it was funny
we were south of the city. from this place you could see all the way to namsan tower! that's trevor of trevor and rachel fame.
there was some kind of wall all around the top of the mountain. it was pretty small though. i jumped on it at one point to take a picture and show off to everybody how cool i was and some guy started blowing a whistle at me. i was all like "when did we cross into North Korea?" then i thought he was going to give me a talking to, but he just smiled at me.
its always hazy.gnarley
click the comic and it gets larger
im going on a church retreat for the next couple of days. so someone else is going to have to break any underwater cable-cutting news. HEYYOOOOO!!!
pressies
here are some of the books ive gotten recently. there are others, but these had the best looking covers.
the one without the cover is called 'the book of general ignorance'. Jonnypantz got me this (and the next book) for Christmas. thanks JJ!!!! It is the perfect (and worst) book for me. the perfect book because i like arguing with people and the worst because i like arguing with people. there are enough myths busted in this book that in almost any hourish long conversation, i can find something that needs dispelling or clarification, consequences be damned!
zombie survival guide. let's face it, everyone thinks they would be the ones to survive a zombie attack; that getting bitten by a zombie and surviving only to become a zombie could only happen to someone else. i dont think that way anymore. and because of that i would survive.
who's afraid of postmodernism; bringing derrida, lyotard, and foucault to church. i always wanted to write this book. each chapter the author uses a movie (ie memento) to demonstrate a postmodern idea or aphorism ( ie 'there is nothing outside the text') coined by a postmodern thinker (ie derrida) that has heretofore been anathema-ed by most mainline christians. He then shows how a postmodern perspective can actually reveal our blindspots and give new reasonable credence to what the bible already says is true. (i know this probably sounds ridiculous to anyone who has not been exposed to po-mo theory) (thanks cara and toby!)
eat this book. got this book at a secret santa party where the only other christian there providentially had me. it made me excited to read the bible. the last couple chapters are a commerical for his other book, his translation of the bible called 'the message'. but that's ok.(thanks allison)
collected fiction of borjes. i think i already posted a pic of this book sometime. borjes is a bad-a. i have a really really bad memory. so sometimes i wonder why i read at all. but i love having the weird worlds and ideas he creates rolling around in my head, even if i can't remember where they came from or the details. (via littlejohns)
lost in the cosmos; the last self help book. i read this a few months ago, but still worth mentioning. percy wittily picks apart this idea of 'self realization' that it so rampant in western epistomology, revealing how synthetic and arbitrary our identities are. as an added bonus there is a 40 page digression to an intro to semiotics that is the most concise and layman friendly i have ever read. highly recommended if you're trying to find your place in this cosmos. (via jason jung, an up and coming demagogue of mine)
Triquetra
this is one of my favorite christian symbols (and i dont like christian symbols). i think i like it mostly because i associate it with john totten's bulging bicep, on which is tattoed this very symbol of the trinity.
caveat: i dont know what the heck im talking about
ive always been a little puzzled in the back of my mind about the new testament, especially everything after acts. it just seems so random and weird that the word of god comes to us in the form of a letter from one person (or several people sometimes it seems) to a church or another person. and from these letters we have built so much of our idea of who god is. why not DIRECT revelation from god to people everywhere. why couldn't paul or someone write a letter that started, 'to all believers at all times and places...'?
but today i was thinking about how strange that would be compared to the rest of the bible. everything in the bible is historical. im thinking especially of the OT here. it is one party telling or relating a story of how god has dealt with people. even apparently didactic books such as leviticus are set within a time and context and informs the rest of the story. and what is great is that every book is a completely different 'color', for lack of a better word. they are all completely different situations where we get to see God acting, revealing new dimensions of himself. compare genesis to numbers to samuel to isaiah to psalms. its beautiful!
so anyways that is how the epistles are also. they too are set within historical contexts and are not removed from the reality of life here on this planet, as i sometimes wish the bible were, so that god could talk to ME.
digression...
have you ever been down and wanted some personal affirmation or good word to let you know that everything is ok? and when you read the bible, what happens? for me i never get what i want. im not sure the bible works that way. i can't read it in snippets, looking for great aphorisms that make me sigh and smile. when i know i can't get what i want i divert myself sometimes from reading the bible by reading other books about the bible that can put all the 'right' verses together to achieve the emotion i want to feel. the bible however doesn't have a section or index you can look at for when you're feeling depressed, worried, or scared.
however when i really get into it, reading whole books of the bible (even when im not feeling desperate) letting it bump up against me knock me around and wrestling with it; meeting god on his own terms (?), something happens. and its better and different than i could have ever asked for when i was looking to feel better.
digress...
noticed this while reading colosians. is it just me or is this book overlooked much of the time? i dont recall many sermons about it, but its full of great great stuff.
col. 1:19-20
for god was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in [Jesus] and through him to reconcile to himself all thing, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood shed on the cross.
and here i thought he died for my sins. there's alot more going on and we get to be a part of it (as the next paragraph in colosians explains)!
set me straight! what are your thoughts?
improv everywhere: grand central station
cara turned me on to improv everywhere. while the whole thing about doing something crazy and filming peoples' reactions kind of miffs me for some reason, i still think the stuff they do is pretty crazy and fun.
drunk history vol.1
if you like history and michael cera (of arrested development), then you'll like this. Vol. 2 has Clark and Jack Black as Benjamin Franklin. Vol 2 has some bad language.
if the player doesn't work, click here
suffy
merry christmas (i can say that now, right, its after thanksgiving; well thats what ive been telling the kids anyways) anyhow. i have a big ole crush on sufjan stevens now. here he is doing come thou fount!! you can sing along.
a few of my favorite things
i didnt take this pic.
here are some of the things that, for better or for worse, ive been spending time, money, and energy on lately.
the wire
pizza school pizza
cass beer
cigarettes
coffee
the collected fiction of jorge luis borges
john stott's "the message of the sermon on the mount"
digg.com
the office
genesis->exodus
chocolate milk
battlestar galactica
regular milk
come thou fount and holy holy holy by sufjan stevens
Tim Keller
Tetris (on my phone)
darts
a great japanese prank
there aren't many things funnier than male nudity in my opinion. i think the japanese agree. the second prank with the rocket chair is genius. (you can skip the first minute)
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