| October 27, 2003 Weekend thoughts/annoyances • This random thoughts section contains some personalized opinions (don’t they all?), so reader beware. I do my best to base these opinions on honest observation and cold, hard facts (notice the expression isn’t “warm, fuzzy facts”....says something about facts and truth...), so I believe they’re mostly grounded in truth, but it’s become painfully obvious to me over the years that even if you come with empirical facts, people still fight hardcore, with pitchforks and torches (sorta like in Beauty and the Beast). By no means do I even intend to belittle anyone. I only seek to belittle those that seek to exonerate themselves by smokescreening the truth, SpyHunter style. Take Ebb’s thoughts or leave them, tis the nature of free will. Heck, I hope people don’t agree with me. Cause if everyone agreed with me, that’d mean my perception of truth was too easy to accept....and we all know the real truth is hella tough to accept. So without further ado, let us reason... And remember, I’m still the goofball, video game playin, silly song writin, cool car ownin, crazy hair stylin, bad color matchin, Ebb you all know and love. • I ran out of gas for the first time in my car on Sunday. That was annoying. Although it worked out later in that I got a cool little auxiliary (is there a cooler word than auxiliary?) gas tank for my car. • Of all the beer ads out there on television, I like Corona’s marketing strategy best, with Heineken in second. At the bottom is Bud Light (do any of their commercials have any relevance to their product). Coors Light would be at the bottom, but they usually have hot chicks in the commercial which garners them a couple brownie points. But come on, whether you like beer or not, you gotta love Corona’s commercials; they’re subtle use of scenario humor transferring you to an extremely desirable locale with pretty, but not fake people. Can’t be beat. No impossible circumstances like hot chicks dancing at a club drinking beer, because a drunk chick is the most un-pure, unattractive thing ever, unlike what television would show us. Anyways, props to Corona, they win the best beer ads award. • (I took this random thought out for personal reasons. It violates the pact I took with myself sometime ago. Maybe it will resurface sometime in the future.) • If I see another online dating service advertisement pop up I’m gonna Hadoken my computer screen! Alright already, I know like everyone my age is insecure if they don’t have a boyfriend or girlfriend, you don’t have to shove it down my throat anymore! • Speaking of overrated, beating a dead horse, tv shows...notice how television networks like to turn major tragedies into big marketing dollars? I mean, you see a tragedy, and a year later you got it fully dramatilized on CBS, NBC, or ABC (I like Fox for not succumbing to this lowball standard). Whether it is the Pennsylvania miners, FBI spies, snipers, or poor girls that have been screwed by and lied to their whole lives, television networks love to turn tears and hurt into dollar signs. A bit nefarious don’t ya think? • So what’s up with all this media coverage concerning the Pope? Yo people, he’s just a decrepit old man like any other! He’s marked for damnation just like the rest of us and he is no closer to God because of his “man-induced” position than the killer on death row. He has no super powers, has no righteousness apart from God, and gets no “bonus” points for wearing a silly red hat. He’s a sinner, a liar, and an adulterer just like the rest of us and the only thing that makes him worth anything, or any of us for that matter, is whether he’s in love with Jesus Christ intimately or not. Do I know the Pope’s heart? No I don’t. But I do know people are wasting much breath and resources giving him glory for something he deserves nothing for. He deserves eternal damnation like the rest of us and only by the grace of God do we have a chance to avoid that. Dam religious hierarchy and all the posers walkin about like they’re something when they’re just dust in the wind. • I’ve written so many articles lately that have gone unpublished on Random Thoughts. I don’t know whether it’s because I’m too lazy or whether I just don’t want the world to see some of my random thoughts. • The rock super cool band P.O.D. is soon releasing their new album, the self-titled Payable On Death. (side note on P.O.D.’s name. Payable On Death refers to our sin, and the acceptance or rejection of the sacrifice Christ made in our place when God didn’t have to, ergo grace. It means all our transgressions, aka “sin”, against God past, present, and future, were already wiped clean by the saving blood shed on that cross. We are free men and women if we choose to accept that gift given 2000 years ago for our debt has already been paid....payable on death.) Anyways, their new CD will come packed with a playable copy of the Playstation 2 music/rythm game Amplitude. How stinkin cool is that?! Not only will I get to hear rockin tunes from the boys from SD, I’ll get to play video games too! Ah....bliss. Buy the CD yo’s! I think it comes out November 3. • People that think “religion” is a good thing most likely will spend eternity in Hell. (aka Matthew 7:21-23...listen to the “religious” folk and how they say “Lord, Lord!” What a slimy, snake, Grima Wormtongue-like way to try to slime your way out of conviction) . It astounds me the billions of people that just don’t read the meter in that the sole reason God came was to fuse a broken relationship between us, not bring “religion” which only furthers us from Him (see Pharisees). It’s sooooo clear if you read it without blinders on. • I don’t know if I’m proud of this or not. Maybe I’m just indifferent. But I finally got a copy of Grand Theft Auto III. Actually I got a copy of Vice City to boot also. See here’s why. Sony is offering both games in a two-pack for the Greatest Hits lineup for only $39.99. That’s two of the best games ever on Playstation 2 for a super cheap price. And to boot again, Best Buy was offering the pack for only $29.99. Well folks, money doesn’t talk, it screams. Being the gamer I am, I couldn’t resist the deal and am now happily wreaking havoc on Liberty City. I could write a whole article on violence in video games and stuff (prolly will sometime), but I’ll admit this game surely garners its “Mature” rating. Please don’t let your kids under the age of 18 play this game even if they’re mature enough to handle it. I’m tired of everyone blaming the games and game companies when the stupid idiotic parents have no idea what’s going on in their kid’s lives. It’s the parents’ fault for not regulating. Get a backbone yo’s even if your kid hates you for it. They’ll love you later for it. • Did anyone else notice that when Thomas, after realizing the Jesus had in fact risen from the dead, addressed Jesus as “My Lord and my God!”, that Jesus didn’t correct him or clarify him misnaming him? One of the like million direct references of Jesus’ divinity....Trinity anyone? Now people realize that the idea of the Trinity wasn’t pulled out of a couple guys’ @$$s in like 410AD...and that Jesus declared it himself umpteen times. So let’s see, that either makes him a liar or a truth teller.....let us be reasonable and choose. |