Friday, January 21, 2011

Sites To See

The SOLE purpose of this weekly series is to call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another.  Just to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as a recommendation, and I have included sites that are rather disturbing to me.  The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable.  Please, go see for yourself.





























 Link: [Vatshalya]






 Link: [WarKitty]






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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Pink Floyd vs. Korn



Another Brick In The Wall, Parts 1,2,3
Pink Floyd
Daddy’s flown across the ocean
Leavin’ just a memory
A snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me
Daddy what’d’ja leave behind for me

All in all it was
Just a brick in the wall
All in all it was
All just bricks in the wall

You
Yes you
Stand still laddie

When
When
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers
Who would hurt the children
Anyway they could
By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
Exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

But in
But in
But in the town it was well known
That when they got home at night
Their fat and psychopathic wives
Would thrash them within inches of their lives

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher
Leave them kids alone

Hey
Teacher
Leave them kids alone

All in all it’s just a
‘Nother brick in the wall
All in all you’re just a
‘Nother brick in the wall

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher
Leave us kids alone

Hey
Teacher
Leave us kids alone

All in all you’re just a
‘Nother brick in the wall
All in all you’re just a
‘Nother brick in the wall

Wrong
Guess again
Wrong
Guess again

If you don’t eat yer meat
You can’t have any pudding
How can you have any pudding
If you don’t eat yer meat

You
Yes you behind the bikesheds
Stand still laddie

This Roman Meal Bakery thought you’d like to know

I don’t need no arms around me
And I don’t need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don’t think I need anything at all
No
Don’t think I’ll need anything at all

All in all it was
All just bricks in the wall
All in all you were
All just bricks in the wall 



Link: [Korn]


Another Brick In The Wall, Parts 1,2,3
Korn
Daddy’s flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me
Daddy whatcha leave behind for me

All in all it was
Just a brick in the wall
All in all it was
All just bricks in the wall

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers
Leave them kids alone

Hey
Teachers
Leave those kids alone

All in all it’s just a
‘Nother brick in the wall
All in all you’re just a
‘Nother brick in the wall

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers
Leave them kids alone

Hey
Teachers
Leave those kids alone

All in all you’re just a
‘Nother brick in the wall
All in all you’re just a
‘Nother brick in the wall

I don’t need no arms around me
I don’t need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don’t think I need anything at all
No
Don’t think I need anything at all

All in all it was all
Just bricks in the wall
All in all you were all
Just bricks in the wall

Goodbye cruel world
I’m leaving you today
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

Goodbye
All you people
There’s nothing you can say
To make me change my mind
Goodbye

Lyrics From: [Sing365.com]

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

WhiteHeart Wednesday



MP3 Audio Player From: [BlogDumps Video]

Convertibles
WhiteHeart
Hey
Are you ready to go
Got the top turned down
On my GTO
Come on
Let’s all jump in
Gonna take this car
For a little spin
Oh
Hear the motor hum
Gonna ride it ‘til the end
Of this summers sun

Wind
Blowin’ through my hair
The sky is blue
I haven’t got a care
Feel so good
And free
Just like God
Is sittin’ next to me
Oh
Don’t you feel it too
You gotta know that it
Really must be true

God made convertibles
Oh the Son is shinin’ here
You can see it pretty clear
God made convertibles
As the High and Mighty’s known
He’s not a manufacturer
God made convertibles
As I put the pedal down
Let it give you a roll

Hey
It’s an open road
Got this tune cranked up
On my radio
The whole world
Has got the song
They just can’t help
But to sing along
Oh
Can’t hold it in
Be like this top
‘Cause they’re opened up to Him

God made convertibles
Oh the Son is shinin’ here
You can see it pretty clear
God made convertibles
As the High and Mighty’s known
He’s not a manufacturer
God made convertibles
Lemonade and apple pie
Gotta know the reason why
God made convertibles
As you the pedal down
Let it leave you on the road

God
God
God
Made convertibles

God made convertibles
Oh the Son is shinin’ here
You can see it very clear
God made convertibles
As the High and Mighty’s known
He’s not a manufacturer
God made convertibles
Lemonade and apple pie
You gotta know the reason why
God made convertibles
As you put the pedal down
Let it leave it you the road

God made convertibles

God made convertibles

Jump on in
Start it up
Drop the top
And feel His love

God made convertibles

God made convertibles

God made convertibles

God made convertibles

God made convertibles


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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

TWO FOR TUESDAY


Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world. For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion. Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Link: [YouTube]

Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
So
So you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Do you think you can tell
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
And cold comfort for change
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage

How I wish
How I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here


 Time
Pink Floyd
Ticking away
The moments
That make up a dull day
Fritter and waste
The hours
In an offhand way
Kicking around
On a piece of ground
In the your hometown
Waiting for someone
Or something
To show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run
And you run
To catch up with the sun
But it’s sinking
Racing around
To come up behind you again
The sun is the same
In a relative way
But you’re older
Shorter of breath
And one day
Closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I’d something more to say

Home
Home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Come Monday...My Ire

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about,  websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time.  Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.”  This is subject to change, however.  In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while.  For rants promote change, and change can be good—right?  Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).



It started building to boiling point in the fall of last year. “It” being my ire, just to avoid any misunderstandings.

Well, at least this is when I started hearing of the remake of [True Grit]. For the original one starred [John Wayne], and one should not mess with perfection. Besides, the original also had [Glen Campbell], and he should be allowed to rest in peace.

What was that? He’s not dead yet? Okay, if you insist.

The final two straws (that fueled the fire enough to cause my ire to boil over) were [NBC’s The Cape] and [Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet]. For both border on sacrilege.

If you have not seen The Cape yet, don’t bother. That is, unless you do not mind watching an insipidly cheap remake of [Batman].

No, you do not have to take my word on it. For below is the official trailer for the series, and if you are the mood for some more bile, you can watch the pilot episode online [here].


In all fairness, I was actually looking forward to The Cape. For I heard that it had great potential, and I almost made it through the first episode.

By the way, did you happen to notice that much of the time [The Cape] is not wearing a mask—not even out in public? Considering the fact that his face has been shown on every news outlet in the area for days, don’t you think that this might hamper his efforts to hide his true identity from his enemies? Hence, the main reason why I almost made it through the first episode.

Ah yes, details. It is said that the devil is in them, and this is truly telling. For what is being said is that it is the details that define what is really going on, which is something that appears to not matter all that much anymore.

Alas, I hear echoes of my father when I say "stuff" like that. For one of his favorite mantras was that anything worth doing is worth doing right, which is evidently Greek to far too many in the entertainment industry these days.

Case in point: Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet. For it is set as a comedy while the “comic” book character is about as serious as one can be.


Okay, if I had bowl full of [Maui Wowie] and a couple of fifths of [Jack Daniels], I would probably think that the movie was a blast. For if anything, it would help make me forget the character’s [former glory], but since I spend my waking hours these days disgustingly sober, all I have is my ire.

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P.S.: Just in case you may think that I have become just another cranky old fart, I was doing some channel surfing a few minutes ago, and I was delighted to see two episodes of [Stargate Atlantis] on our local [ABC] affiliate, [KSPR]. My delight did not last long, however. For when I went to see which episodes they were, the first one was [The Kindred, Part 1] and the second one was [Harmony].

Um, did you happen to notice that the first episode there was the first part of a two-parter? Subsequently, wouldn’t it make sense to put both parts on back-to-back in a situation like that? Details.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you mumbling, and yes, our Heavenly Father truly is in FULL control of ALL that happens. Therefore, all of this moronic behavior may not be the fault of those who fail to recognition the significance of details as they go about their business.

To be perfectly honest about it, I am fairly comfortable with being a hypocrite at this very moment. For my ire needs to be vented, and I want a target to hit! That is, other than the Lord God Almighty, of course. For He is a much better shot than I am.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

A Sunday Drive

Back during my childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived.  Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a weekly series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.  The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.


























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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Stages of Development Repost

The following is another chapter from [Bittersweet Refinements].  Since each part is connected to the rest, it would do you well to keep reading (and listening for our Heavenly Father's explanations, of course).


Stages of Development

Concerning him we have much to say, and {it is} hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.  For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.  For everyone who partakes {only} of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.  But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.  Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.  And this we will do, if God permits. [Hebrews 5:11-6:3 NAS]

No, this is not meant for everyone[1].  For it all depends upon what our Heavenly Father wants to accomplish in and through someone[2] that determines when, and to what extent, He will allow and enable them to enter into the knowledge and understanding of His absolute truth[3].

It is, however, meant for a lot more than want it to be.  For far too many are well content with the knowledge of already having everything that they need in Christ Jesus[4] without having any idea just what that really means[5]—nor having any desire to learn[6].

No, this has nothing at all to do with us earning our keep.  For it is written: For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. [Ephesians 2:8-10 NAS]

On the other hand, it does have everything to do with the kind of relationship that our Heavenly Father wants to have with His children by faith[7].  For to think that there is nothing more to it after accepting Christ Jesus as being your own personal Lord and Savior is like a wife thinking that there is nothing more to her marriage after the wedding vows have been exchanged.

Alas, have we not been given written confirmation of this?  Yes, we most certainly have been.  For it is written: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.  You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.  Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.  I am the vine; you are the branches.  If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.  If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.  This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” [John 15:1-8 NIV]

Needless to say, none of that should be taken as a threat.  For it is meant for the benefit of all concerned[8].

It does, however, involve some things that are naturally unsettling[9], and not the least of these has to do with coming to terms with the realities of our situations in this world.  For it is written: I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.  He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.  He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.  He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.  He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.  He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.  Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.  He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.  Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding, he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.  He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.  He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.  I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.  He has filled me with bitter herbs and sated me with gall.  He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.  I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.  So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”  I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.  I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.  Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.  They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.  I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."  The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.  It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.  Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.  Let him bury his face in the dust—there may yet be hope.  Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.  For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.  Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.  For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.  To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land, to deny a man his rights before the Most High, to deprive a man of justice—would not the Lord see such things?  Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?  Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? [Lamentations 3:1-38 NIV]

Yes, the rest of the passage goes on about being justly punished for sins[10], and this is exactly what is going on in far too many cases[11].  For there are times when we do bring more hardships down upon ourselves than would be absolutely necessary to accomplish our Heavenly Father’s purposes[12].

Nonetheless, that does not discount the absolute truth of the matter truly being that there would not be any hardships of any kind to our lives in this world if it was not for it being in accordance to our Heavenly Father’s will.  For it is also written: I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me.  I am the LORD, and there is none else.  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. [Isaiah 45:5-7 KJV]

No, there is no way of getting around it.  For what did all of those children (most being of His own chosen people[13]) who died in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust do to deserve their plight?

Yes, many would argue that it was just a result of being born into a fallen world.  Some would even go as far as to insist that it was because of being Jewish, but what choice did they have—either way[14]?

No, there is nothing to be gained by ignoring what has been made so very obvious[15].  In fact, there is actually much to be lost—and not just in regards to integrity, neither[16].  For the more it is made clear that our Heavenly Father truly is responsible for ALL that happens, the more satisfaction He can receive.  For it takes a very special kind of love to want to still be with someone who appears to have done you much harm[17].

Yes, it naturally sounds rather crass (to put it mildly), but when all that our Heavenly Father has endured[18], even going as far as to experience the spiritual death of a full and equal part of Himself[19], is added to the mix, a much weightier issue must be considered.  For why would He subject Himself to all that He has (not to mention us) unless it was worth it[20]?

No, I cannot naturally blame anyone for being reluctant to accept these things[21].  For ignorance is bliss when it comes to such[22], but the time has come for a great, great many to grow up[23].

{1}Matthew 13:10-12; {2}Philippians 2:13; {3}1 Corinthians 2:6-16; {4}1 Corinthians 1:4-9; {5}1 Corinthians 3:1-3; {6}Luke 9:23-26; {7}John 15:15; {8}Jeremiah 29:11; {9}John 15:18-25; {10}Lamentations 3:39-66; {11}Colossians 3:25; {12}James 1:2-4; {13}Genesis 17:1-21; {14}Job 5:7; {15}Luke 12:1-3; {16}Matthew 25:14-30; {17}Job 1:21-22; {18}Genesis 6:6-7; {19}Matthew 27:46; {20}Romans 8:15-39; {21}James 1:5-8; {22}Ecclesiastes 1:18; {23}1 Corinthians 13:11.
 
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