Sunday, October 31, 2004
October Thirty-First is...
Well, maybe it didn't happen like that, but video games are always more exciting that real life, right? (and no, it's not real video game, haha) But anyway, the following is the Reformation Day thing I wrote last year:
Aside from that weird commercialized druid holiday thing we have going on today (Oct. 31), today is also the day upon which in 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 theses upon a church door in Wittenberg, Germany (apparently beside everybody's else's theses which were also posted on the door, since they had to do things manually because apparently Steve Jobs and Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet). This ended up hacking a lot of people off, because he placed the authority of scripture above the authority of the people running the church, and so much yelling (no doubt in Latin and German) and excitement ensued and the Protestant Reformation happened. Luther had intensely struggled with his own sinfulness in the sight of a holy God, until he realized that as it says in the Book of Romans, "the righteous shall live by faith" and that this faith was a gift from God, and so he was much happier after that. And so we too have a reason to celebrate, for we can be reconciled to God through Christ.
And so, while the following cannot possibly compare to that, this also means we can have cake, since this is a joyous occasion. German chocolate would seem appropriate, although I really don't like coconut, but I can scrape the icing off. No problem there. You can actually have my icing if you want it, I can scrape it off before I put the fork in my mouth.
ps. - for further reading...
http://www.desiringgod.org/library/biographies/96luther.html
pps. - One might also wonder how coconuts ended up in Germany to be put on cakes in the first place, since coconuts are tropical and Germany is a temperate zone - unless of course, you're suggesting that coconuts are migratory...
Labels: film/tv/books/arts, religion/theology/philosophy
Monday, October 25, 2004
Weird Dream.
So, I dreamt I heard someone sneaking around in my room. Then I dreamt I woke up, and checked around the house (which was a strange mix of the house I currently live in and the house I grew up in), and discovered that this guy from my church actually had a tan plastic bucket, that when worn, would allow a person to walk through walls by basically moving the person's molecules around the molecules of the wall.
Anyway, I found the bucket and tried it out. I then told him that such an item was dangerous, to which he agreed, and he told me that his dad, who is an elder at church, also was in charge of a large vault owned by a secret international syndicate which was hidden under their house and where they kept dangerous top-secret pieces of technology, and that they were going to put the bucket there for safe keeping. Whew! But I also demonstrated the bucket to my roommates, and they thought it was pretty cool.
It was sort of weird walking through the walls, and you had to kind of push your way through. I was also worried that it might mess up and I'd get a piece of sheetrock embedded in an artery or something.
Labels: dreams
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Whoa...
Amazing what they can do in Hollywood these days. And look at Pedro! He must have built Paris a cake or something.
(What? You still haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite? What are you waiting for? Go! Now!)
