Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

Blessings

Christmas Eve 2007

So here it is, the day before the big day!

I have my Tropicana Sugar Free Lemonade and it is great,
Home from Arizona, that's a story in itself, and I'm ready to write.

Here's what I've been thinking about!

I used to have a book when I was a little kid and it was about how Santa visited Baby Jesus when he was born on the very first Christmas. I can't for the life of me think of the title of the book but it has come back in a big way this year in my mind. I can't figure how it was that Santa was able to alter the space time continuum without a flux capacitor in his sleigh but he did, and he went back to meet the Christ on the day of his birth to give glory and honor to him.

For some reason as I think of Santa I can't help but think of the spiritual connections that he has with God. He can see you when your sleeping and he knows when you're awake, just like God can. He knows who's naughty and who's nice, just like God. He has a list just like how God has the book of life. He is able to visit every house in a single night, meaning that he can be everywhere (sort of) at once or at least in a certain moment, just as God can be everywhere at once due to his power of sovereign omnipresence. Santa has helpers, God has angels, Santa fills our hearts with Joy and Amazement, just like God does, Santa and God go hand and hand during Christmas.

And as nice as all of that is I have to say that I am impressed by people actually saying Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays...but I can't stand the amount of businesses and people that are still saying and using Happy Holidays! Sorry but I needed to get that out there.

One more Christmas thought for this Christmas Eve. I don't know much about other states outside of California, but I was just in Arizona and the number of houses with Christmas lights on them is depressing. Hardly anyone puts them up and I have no idea why. It seems like they are everywhere and on everything in CA, I wonder how the rest on the country does with it?

Enjoy your time with friends and family and remember that Jesus IS the reason for the season!

Blessing

WWIII

Devils drive the machines of war

Cast in flames they know no end

Chaos un-quenched and we cannot escape

This world at war without a reason

Bombs away and blown to bits

Into the abyss we run head first

Killing each other out of pure greed

Terror overtaking us all

As with this battle cry that is a whisper to the wind we proclaim

This life is about me and no one at all

Spiritual overflow corrupts the air

For we struck the sky with hell fire to consume all peace

Going straight to the inferno we walk with bound hands

Putting off the chains of our love

We locked ourselves in torments misery

This battle is far from over

And it will never be done

As the war of individuals against all continues

The eternal pits will always run full

So now the smoke has cleared

And the aftermath is beyond all words

Since the beginning we lost the will to weep

Tears no longer fall, only sand from weary eyes

Generations come out of hiding to kill once more

The cycle rages on unrestrained

World War 3 is upon us

And this war lasts forever

Every Day Guy

Not your everyday rapper, but he is an everyday guy!

Enjoy!

The Funeral of God

They had fangs that dripped with blood

Crimson stains upon their lips

Smothered in the slain and fallen maidens along the way

Decay, and so much carnage

Light fades to grey and the good men look away

The wicked produce gains of only more wickedness

Retreat to the hills and run for your life

Vampirus rage overtakes the weak

As they drink from the rivers flowing with death

Corpses line the sight of the fall

And angels clip their wings to hide as mortals

What can survive the wrath of impurities overtaking?

Who stands a chance with sword in hand to defeat?

The invocation of the beast has taken place

Within the temple of the sacred

As the tomb is shut and righteousness rest forever

No forgiveness, no one on the thrown of grace

Mosters of rape and hate emarge from the shadow lands

Nightmares become the vision of youths and gereatrics

And who to point the blame to but all mankind

For putting hope in a jar and locking it in hell

Destruction is the order of the day

Now that eternity in madness is the choice of our generation

For this is the age of the earth when men killed God

Pushing Him out of the places of the heart

And into a realm where he can no longer reach us

Flesh to flesh and death to death

There is no more coming back

Now only a novelty cross is standing on the mountain

Holding onto a memory that only used to be

No one remembers the times in the age of peace

When we only murdered each other and not the divine

Trumpets sound in the distant only in the minds of infants

For no more children are born after this day

The day we laid the king of kings to rest

Yet the sackcloth must remain worn

In that we must always remember our suffering

This momement of memorium has only this eulogy left

From start to without end, majesty came crashing down

Wail for me when I am gone and weep as I pass

Into the earth I created

On this day The Funeral of God

Dolce and Gabbana Commercial

OK so have you seen the new Dolce and Gabbana commercial for their new watches?

There is two version floating around out there, a gay version and a lesbian version...

Overlooking that as hard as it is, there is a song that plays during the ad and it is so fricken cool! Now I'm a metal/hardcore music kinda guy, but I do enjoy dance and hardhouse/techno music as well, it's great to dance to. Anyway the song is called R U Experienced by Stylophonic and it is such an interesting song. It's basically overtones and undertones that are so different that when they come together it is really nice.

I have enough blogs on here about how the gay lifestyle is ruining the world, but this is not one of them, but I must say I think these ads are more about loving yourself then promoting the homosexual lifestyle, even though gays are flocking to it like it is...shows what they know, I guess I'm just more out-there and artistic then they are...hahaha

Enjoy the music

Blessings

Obligation

It's Sunday Morning, I'm sick but fully medicated, time for a thought!

So as I was in the shower I was thinking, are we obligated to do anything, I mean really when you think about it, is there anything out there that we MUST do, or that we HAVE to do?

SIDE NOTE: Most of my best ideas come to me while I'm on the toilet or in the shower, most of this blog has happened due to bathroom ideas.

Back to the story. Everything in the world is really based on choice and nothing else, and when you break it down to the core we can see that even things that we think we have no control over, we really do.

Breathing, we don't think about breathing, and some would say that we are obligated to breath to live, this is true, but the reality is that we can hold our breath whenever we please. It's easy, go ahead and take a second to hold your breath...see you can do it, and we were not obligated in those few moments to breath.

What about things we are born with, like if we are a righty or a lefty, sure we cannot control this, but we are not obligated to stick with the hand that nature sought fit to have us use the most. I've heard of a man in India who could write with both hands AND feet at the same time in four different languages. Now he is not obligated just to use one hand because that was natures choice for him, he decided to learn to do an amazing talent.

People, we are not even obligated to love, even our own children! Now some would say it's hard to not love your own children, but some don't and that is all by choice. We really don't have to listen to anything we don't want and do anything we don't want thus showing that we are not obligated to do anything!!!

Even eating, drinking water, or living for that fact. We could stop doing any of these things at anytime, and all because we want to, it's that simple.

Actually it's not that simple and it takes more mind control and discipline then anything else. But it can be done, that is the amazing thing. To break free of obligations we only have to choose to.

Here is something probably the most controversial, we can choose our sexual orientation because we are not obligated to one, it's choice because in the end we are obligated to do nothing at all. If a person felt that they had gay tendencies he or she could choose to not follow through with them, even go after the opposite sex in order to avoid what in their first mental choice was obligating them to do. And the same can be said for the other way around.

See the world and everything we do is based off of choice and not obligation. Even in disaster, we could choose to not do anything or we could choose to do something to help, we are not obligated as much as anyone may say we are or aren't.

This is freedom, even in societies without freedom, people can choose to not do as they are told, they may die, but that is their choice, they are obligated to nothing.

Obligation is based and formed off of want and choice, nothing more and nothing less. Obligation in itself would not even exist if people didn't do anything. In a world where people had no drive to live whatsoever there would be no obligation at all

In my opinion, obligation sucks, but only if you want it to suck, and it rocks, but only if you want it to rock, so choose wisely.

Blessings

Vicarious Redemption

Final-Vicarious Redemption through Moses

In the Old Testament of the Bible, also known as the Hebrew Scriptures it is easily seen that Moses is a source of inspiration and at the same time awe, from his own people and the peoples of later biblical generations. Even today we understand Moses to be the writer of the Pentitude or first five books of the bible, also called the books of Moses, which comprise what is called the Law. The Law starting with the original Ten Commandments which were hand written by God and given to Moses in person is the backbone of all the Pentitude is, after of course Creation and the accounts of people up until the exodus out of Egypt. (Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 9:10). What is so interesting is that Moses at times throughout the scriptures seems to assume the role of mediator or one who is able to keep the Lord from destroying the evil Israelites by atoning for their sins. From the Christian perspective that I come from it is hard to understand how a man who is not God incarnate can take on the sins of many people and offer in their place a sacrifice that is good enough for God to take that at the same time requires no blood, which is contrary to the Law that Moses is given by God. As I looked harder into the scriptures I found that in a way it is possible and that not only Moses partook in these types of practices.
First we see Moses assume his mediator role in Deuteronomy 5:1-5 where Moses stands between the children of Israel and the Lord because “you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain,” as Moses states is. Here we see Moses representing the people before God with no fear. Moses has a long tradition of speaking with God, first at the burning bush (Exodus 3), then in speaking what the Lord commanded of Pharaoh (Exodus 7). So to Moses speaking to God is nothing new, but the people of Israel see something powerful in him, maybe the fact that he is not afraid and they send him up the mountain in Deuteronomy 5:25-27 to have God deliver the message to Moses so that the people may know.
Next Moses is to give the command and decrees of the Lord in Deuteronomy 6 that up to this point only he knows. Moses as a mortal man now knows all the laws and commands of the Lord and he delivers them to his people.
Getting past this point we can now look at how Moses is not only special enough to speak with God and receive the messages he has for his people but how he has suffered for his people when they angered the Lord. Moses reminds them in Deuteronomy 9:7-29 of how he fasted from food and water for forty days because of their actions in the desert and then how he again had to fast for another forty days because they had crafted the golden calf and worshipped it. Not only is it only by the penitents of Moses that the people were saved from the anger of the Lord, but his prayers that he offered up as he lay prostrate for both sets of those forty days.
Moses then sets out to announce all the commands the Lord has created for the people to follow, and the list goes on and on but fascinatingly in Deuteronomy 13:1-4 Moses speaks of when another prophet type comes into the midst of the people telling them to follower other gods that they must not listen to him because it is a test from God, and in a way it seems like all of the things of God must and have to go through Moses before they get to the people. He always has the middle man role, and without him it is futile. After it is all said and done Moses announces in Deuteronomy 30:1-6 that in order to remain in the good graces of the Lord that the people must follow all the laws that Moses has put before them, and that’s it! Now it seems that Moses has taken himself out of the picture and that people only need to follow the law of God to be prosperous and live in the Promised Land.
Now everything can come together and we can make sense of why there needed to be a Moses in the first place. One he had to deliver the people of God out of Egypt and into a place where they had to be totally reliant on God and no one else. Next because of their fear of God on part of their seeing their own uncleanliness, God needed Moses to receive the Law for which his people were to live by, because without them they would still be in the desert worshipping a golden calf that would not speak, heal, or love them. God also needed Moses to mediate for him because without him they would have had no direction into their promised land and God cannot lie, (Titus 1:2) because he had already promised them entry into a land he had set apart for them.
Here is where everything gets a little tricky. Moses not only is undoubtedly the leader of his people and mediator before them and God, he can make atonements for their sins. In the previous stated verses we see how the prayer and petition of Moses makes atonements but sometimes God cannot just sit back and allow his people to act in this manner no matter how much Moses pleads for them. Exodus 32:30-35 is the account of how Moses is trying to make atonement for his people, but it is only halfway good enough for God who then sends a plague down on the people, and even the brother of Moses and chief of the priests Aaron is afflicted. At least he didn’t kill all of them, so Moses did save them in some way. The interesting factor here is that Moses leaves himself out of the sin, and why not, who wants a plague cast down on them from God, but this is not always the case. In Exodus 34:9 we see Moses say “forgive our wickedness and our sin” thus adding himself into the lot of sinful people that he is always trying to save, something unseen until now.
How is that Moses thinks that he can do this, and what gives him the power? I believe it is a twofold gift. The first part is that God must call the person into servant hood in order to become a leader, endowing them with the Holy Spirit to do the miraculous and to stand in his presence without consequences. The other is that these people now only need to ask of God and he delivers, it’s that simple.
Moses is not the fist or last to do this. Abraham in order to save Sodom pleaded with God not to destroy it not once but five times, and the Lord was good on his word but Abraham could not find 10 righteous men in the city and the city was brought down. (Genesis 18) Jonah is another example of having people ask to be saved and they were. (Jonah 3) A New Testament example is John the Baptist who in Mark 1:4-5 has no power to set people free from their sins but instead calls them to repentance, thus it is by their own asking of forgiveness by their personal repentance that they are able to understand the things of Jesus who would come later. (Luke 7:29-30)
So it is possible for Moses, or in fact any man who in Jewish terms who comes before the messiah to vicariously redeem the people of God by simply asking. All it takes is a calling of some sort and the assumption of God given leadership position to do this. In fact, since Jews still have no messiah, I could atone for the sins of their people if I called them to repentance and to following the law set up by God just as Moses did.
Jews of today and of the biblical era’s saw this also in the Isaiah scriptures of the suffering servant. Now as a Christian I see this as prophecy concerning Jesus, and if you think about it, Jesus does fit the bill, but this is not fair to Jews and I will try to keep the Christian insight I have on this topic to a minimal. From my understanding most Jews will tell you that the person described in the 4 passages in Isaiah about the suffering servant is either the nation of Israel or the coming messiah. Isaiah 42:1-9 definitely looks like a Christ like figure but I could see how it could be seen as the nation or people or Israel who as a rejected and small people can take their light into the world for the gentiles to see and be saved by, even though Judaism is not a religion that tries to win converts, it would be plausible that just by them being them that the world is saved. This can also be said about Isaiah 49:1-7, but Isaiah 50:4-11 and Isaiah 52:13-15, 53:1-12 paints a very different picture. This by far shows a messiah figure who not only redeems his people, but takes the beating they deserve for them, and it is some beating, it is one due to all the sins of the nation of Israel and some may even say the whole world.
Back to Moses, he is the mediator, the bringer of the law, the messenger of God to his people, atoner of their sins, yet he cannot atone for his own sin and he must face all the consequences. Without trying to sound too Christian this looks a little like Jesus, who was without sin yet had to take on the sins of the entire world and to even become sin itself and die so that others may live. Now Moses does not die for his people, but on account of his own sin, the similarities are there and cannot be overlooked. This all goes down in Number 20:2-12 where the people in the desert are calling for water and Moses strikes the rock three times out of anger and water is brought forth. The sin comes because God command Moses to do this out of faith and not out of anger, and to only strike the rock once not three times. Because of this Moses cannot enter the Promised Land. The man who freed the slaves of Egypt, who called down plagues, who atoned for the sins of Israel, who lead them through the desert for forty years of wining and complaining cannot enter the Promised Land because of one sin. What irony, but this is the sacrifice of the called ones of God.
Moses even after all of this continues on as the leader of the people of Israel until his death and even raises up Joshua to become the next mediator and leader of the people he sacrificed his life for. If anything, the character in Isaiah is not the suffering servant of the Old Testament but Moses is, in constant dilemma between his people and God, he is the one who always has to settle the score.
As a Christian I cannot resist looking at all of this through the perspective of one saved by grace and covered in the blood of Christ. First of all Moses is a representation of the law, which Christ came to fulfill and not abolition, making it perfect and in fact harder to follow. This makes us so much more reliant of God then even in Moses day when we needed the mediator because even the mediator couldn’t stand up to the new law. In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount he takes the laws and expands on them so much that no one, not even Moses could have lasted on their own accord. (Matthew 6) This is the reason why Christ is needed, to become the sin and abolish it forever, so that when we believe in him that we may share in the same abolishment of sins. Christ as the mediator sets the perfect world to live in for us because he in turn creates a situation which lets us go directly to the source, God, by his power. He has made us a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession. (1Peter 2:9)
The suffering servant in Isaiah in Christian perspectives is Jesus and when you sit back and think about it, it makes perfect sense because all of what was spoke of took place through Jesus and by Jesus. Jesus Christ is the one who bore are shame, and who made it so the people could be returned to the promise land or heaven, for good, even after all their sins, even Moses couldn’t do that, and no other man could either. Even if you don’t believe that, Jesus was the only one that claimed that and this makes the possibility that he fulfilled the Old Testament scriptures all the more realistic.
I believe that the law was set up so that we would fail. Only by failing do we need God, and at the same time God needs us, it’s a two way street. God wants our worship, and we want God to be not only be in completion of everything we were originally meant to be but for the forgiveness of our sins that separated us from him since Adam in the garden fell.
At the end we can see that Moses could make atonement for his people and that he had the authority to this only by asking. This goes the same for Jesus who asked the father to forgive us and it was done. (Luke 23:34) We can see that the suffering servant is a few things, metaphorically Moses dealing with his people, a messiah figure atoning for the sins of his people through punishment a.k.a. Jesus in the New Testament, and the Nation of Israel being the atonement for the sins of the world before Christ came to make it final through his sacrifice. As a Christian I see that vicarious redemption is still in play today, as we submit ourselves under the authority of Christ who takes our sin away, all we did was ask and it is made so. We stepped into the ring of Judgment only to have Christ replace us in that very same ring, so vicarious redemption didn’t die with Moses but it lives on through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Fung Shui Revamped

I just found out that my last posting was my 31st blog and that it was the site that was messed up, so everything was Fung Shui After all!

Blessings

Fung Shui

I saw that I had 29 posts and it just didn't feel very Fung Shui to me So I'm posting this random blog just for the heck of it and so I can have a nice even number!

Blessings

The I Generation

SELF CENTERED
SELF ABSORBED
ME FIRST OTHERS SECOND
and it makes me sick.

We are living in the I generation, and there's no going back people, it is the end of the world as we know it.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you has gone out the window, and been replaced with HOW MANY IM (instant message) WINDOWS I CAN HAVE OPEN AT THE SAME TIME!!!!

I-pod, I-Phone, MYspace, I-Tunes, I'm sick of all of this.

Everything has become about how fast and how up to date we can get things for ourselves. We can even get a car by just signing our name and paying NO money. What in the world does that tell you about getting the quick fix!

This is generation I and it is taking over the world. No longer do we care about helping our fellow man, but rather how we can help ourselves to what we WANT and not just to what we NEED!

I blame major corporations, but I am no hippie Democrat and I believe that they are a central part of our society, but it's the advertising, the promotion, and their craving for more and more profit off the backs of their customers.

There is a saying: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
But I feel it needs to be changed to "Once you make money, you only want more"
Interestingly people survived before currency just fine, why can't we?
Today people freak if they don't have their cell phones, but if they didn't have money...FORGET ABOUT IT! They won't be able to make it to McDonald's...Holy Crap that would be a disaster.

The I generation needs to be changed to the US generation where we each help one another by providing fair opportunities and losing the self serving attitudes for serving others honestly attitudes.

Hope this will change some minds out there.

Blessings

Heros

It's December 1st, I've washed my hands with hot water AND soap, time for a posting!

This morning as I was watching the History Channel I began to think,
Where have all the hero's gone?
We have no hero's in America or even the world anymore
Sure we have people that do amazing things,
Public servants, parents, movie and comic book superheros even
BUT WHERE HAVE ALL THE REAL HERO'S GONE?

In the past we had professional athletes who won the hearts of children and adults
Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, but that is all gone today
With Steroids, and records in the books with asterisks next to them,
The reality is that sports stars are more noteworthy today for the scandals they are involved in.
Dog fighting, rape, womanizing, drugs, guns
Kids can't look up to these people!
The whole idea of being in the spotlight as a role model has evaporated with multimillion dollar contracts and endorsements from major shoe companies.

We used to have parades for soldiers who came home from war,
But that all started to change with the ultra liberal hippies who spat on our defenders of freedom when they came home from Vietnam.
Scared and looking for welcoming arms away from their enemies, they were ridiculed, mocked, called baby killers, insulted, and all this for their attempt to keep Communism from spreading across the globe. Little did they know that it had already overtaken America, the home of the SEXUALLY FREE, and the NOT SO BRAVE.
General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War suggested that to end it America would need to drop an atomic bomb on China. President Truman thought this outrageous and had him fired, but not before he came home to a hero's parade, before he was never heard from again.
People still saw his accomplishments before his faults and they celebrated him for it.
Today we see no generals coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan getting celebration like this, we only see President Bush getting spit on like the veterans of old.

People are so quick to get the true story that mystery has faded from our culture. There are no more fairy tales, no more myths, no more giants of grandeur and magnificence. We only see cowardly actions and Britney Spears flashing her vagina and shaving her head. What has the country come to? It's no wonder why the rest of the world laughs at us and sarcastically answers, "and this is a Christian country?"

With the media, Internet, and the new I first generation, we lost all our hero's.
Police are called racist and brutalizer's
Parents are sued by their children
Presidents are mocked and it's called free speech
And everyone sits down on the coach at night to watch Will and Grace...
America is at its most stupid point in history, and it's only going downhill.

So lets bring the hero's back people
How about we have something to believe in and celebrate
Lets make giants out of men again and take pride in our nation for bringing them up.
Lets get rid of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and all the other media sluts turning our little girls into anorexic porn queens.
With that lets get rid of P Diddy, J-Z, 50 Cent, and the rest of those Thugs who turn our young men into killers and drug abusers.
How about we take out Barry Bonds, Michael Vick, and the other athletes who shame the games they play with their poor work ethic and illegal activities,
AND IN THEIR ABSENCE MAKE REAL HERO'S AGAIN!!!!

Wake up America, start living with your hearts and not your lust and altered minds!
Lets start the next generation off right, with adults who aren't overcome by ADULT ENTERTAINMENT!

Blessings