The non-believers paradox

I’ve finally figured out why it is so easy to dismiss Christianity as a whole: The non-believers paradox.

The idea is simply this, no matter how a non Christian views a Christian, they can choose to dismiss the religion as a whole.  When scandals (like pastors of large churches having affairs and such) come out, it is too easy to say “Christians are hypocrites.”  When others meet really strong Christians who live a life of integrity and faith, it is too easy to say “they are simply better people than I am.”  In both ways, Christianity can be dismissed by anger and resent or self-pity and doubt. 

Unfortunately, most people base their ideas about Christianity on followers of Christ, not Christ himself ( I suppose this is the case with Islam as well).  When I was reading Billy Graham’s book, The Journey,  he mentioned more than one instance where he had to encourage people to focus on Jesus, not Christians.  Only there can a true survey of the entire faith be made. 

After a crazy last week here, I am going to be heading to Chicago this coming Friday night and Saturday morning if people want to hang out.  I will be staying at some place called the “New Hotness,” which is really some guys I know’s apartment.  After heading to Iowa for Christmas, I am going back to MI to fly to Virginia to visit my laday’s family.  As little as I know about them,  I have been told they enjoy farting humor, so that basically means it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to screw this up,  barring some sort of crazy return to normal functioning disorder in my GI in the next week.

I’ve also booked a trip to Las Vegas during March.  My plan is to win so much money that I can buy the whole town and then make Eric Clapton the mayor of Rock and John Mayer the Mayor Mayor (larger in Spanish). 

Good night.

Behold I show you a mystery

Most people don’t like their jobs.

Most people would rather be on vacation.

But I think deep down if someone had the option of being on vacation forever, they probably would not be happy. 

I think that life is a balance between wanting to be needed, but wanting to have no responsibility.

It is the struggle between wanting to set your own hours, but being needed by others to come in to work, go home, visit and help out others when you do.

Now that I scrambled your noggin’

I had the best time at the grocery store today.  I felt like a flippin bodybuilding champ.  I bought:

~12 pounds of chicken breasts

8 cans of tuna, 1 quart nonfat yogurt, 1 dozen eggs, 1 gallon OJ, 1 gallon milk, 1 gallon water,  2 pizzas,  6 bananas,  2 cans of black beans, and 2 pounds of baked beans in two cans.

The baked beans are for the company Christmas party.  Ho ho holy gas Batman!

So not that you could top that, but….

so when I come home and eat one of the said cans of tuna, and I start to make dinner (notice how a can of tuna is not even part of my dinner), I turn on the TV.  Right as my pasta is done ( I love to eat mind you),  I look at the TV guide and see, HELLO!  what is on the HD PBS channel?  Well let me tell you man, the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival.  Food? Clapton? Check, Check.  Ring Ring.

Hullo?

Hey Joe it is your girlfriend, can I come over for a bit?

Checkmate!

Food, Guitar, Women.

I guess I left out beer, but I bought IBC cream soda today so that comes out about even. 

Good night indeed.

I have time to post yet I don’t.

Another mystery of life.

So I had to work for the first time in five weeks yesterday.  That was pretty hard to do.  I was told by a lot of people that Deja Vu was a really good movie so I invited my lady-friend out to it.  Little did I know that it was going to be a geeky nerd action thriller!  Let’s just say that the entire plot is driven by advances in physics.  And here I left my Geek Squad shirt at home like a sucker!  I bought my first video game, Gears of War, in about 1 year.  Beat it finally.  I thought, “Hey bucko, I just beat this game on the medium difficulty, I bet I could play this online and do OK!” “Yeah! good idea champ!”.

Wrong.

I got owned by a bunch of 12 year olds as always.  Yes I know what you were thinking, and yes it is true that one of them actually simulated raping my teammate while he was about to die in the video game with his character.  And yes this is what people do for fun. 

Big News!  I went on an all out shopping spree at the Home Depot to gear up for winter.  Shovel? Check.  Windshield scraper? Check.  Steel tipped iced breaker with lacquered solid ash handle?

Mother truckin Czechzilla!

This ice breaker is so bad azz that I had to actually oil the tip so it won’t rust.  Yeah I treat my ice breaker better than some people treat firearms.  Oh yeah, did I mention I oiled it with vegetable oil?  H4RDC0R3.

I got a new assignment at work last week.  I may be getting taken off of the smelly chemicals to an even better project involving phosgene!  This is what happens when you put Danger as your middle name during the hiring process.

Good thing I have my yellow tinted chemical goggles.  The last thing I need when dealing with phosgene is to have the Green Lantern coming in and reading my mind!

Making up this random hoo ha really lets me get creative.

Thank you for reading.

And as my radio hero Paul Harvey would say….

Goooood Day!