This is an awesome parable from Fr. Larry Richards. Don't let the Roman collar scare you away. Fr. Larry is an awesome speaker. The parable asks what's keeping us from the Kingdom of God? I wasn't sure if I could get it to show up properly. I am very happy it works! I would love to hear what you think of the story!
P.S. Did anybody else notice that Fr. Larry could use a little eyebrow grooming? Hehehe, oh well, he's a priest, not a celebrity!
November 27, 2006
Regarding Happiness
Regarding Happiness
Last night I dreamt no matter what cards you are dealt, you need to chew on our potatos. How is this related to Happiness, you may ask?
OK, I will tell you something here now... Sometime around last year I felt the earth would stop. Yeah, just what it sounds like. As I was saying... Yet, somehow I didn't feel like I should have felt. I found satan himself. Insert drum-roll here, because...
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This is one of those randomly generated blog posts. It comes from the Blog-o-Matic website. I decided to copy and paste it into my blog because the phrase "you need to chew on our potatos." It's the perfectly weird phrase that I like a lot!
Last night I dreamt no matter what cards you are dealt, you need to chew on our potatos. How is this related to Happiness, you may ask?
OK, I will tell you something here now... Sometime around last year I felt the earth would stop. Yeah, just what it sounds like. As I was saying... Yet, somehow I didn't feel like I should have felt. I found satan himself. Insert drum-roll here, because...
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Date: 2006-11-22 01:50:05 Permalink Comments (0)
This is one of those randomly generated blog posts. It comes from the Blog-o-Matic website. I decided to copy and paste it into my blog because the phrase "you need to chew on our potatos." It's the perfectly weird phrase that I like a lot!
Elizabeth Claire Prophet video
Leave it to Presurfer to find this hunk of weirdness! It's a video on You Tube of an incantation against the "evil spirits of rock music." I couldn't listen to all of it because Elizabeth Claire Prophet and the others are chanting very quickly in an obnoxious high monotone! The video is a trippy mix of nature paintings and photographs. It looks kind of like a low-tech slide show with the pictures sliding around. If you can listen to the whole video I think you are immune to the sound! (Click the words "You Tube" to see the video, I'm not going to post it here.)
By the way, Elizabeth Clare Prophet is the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religion that melds world religions together. They seem to use a lot of Christian vocabulary, but I am sure they interpret the words totally differently from mainstream Christianity. So my discomfort over the chanting probably has to do more with not knowing to WHO the hell they are chanting! Here's a profile on the Church Universal and Triumphant from the Watchman Expositor, a Christian research firm dedicated to refuting cults if you care to read it.
By the way, Elizabeth Clare Prophet is the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religion that melds world religions together. They seem to use a lot of Christian vocabulary, but I am sure they interpret the words totally differently from mainstream Christianity. So my discomfort over the chanting probably has to do more with not knowing to WHO the hell they are chanting! Here's a profile on the Church Universal and Triumphant from the Watchman Expositor, a Christian research firm dedicated to refuting cults if you care to read it.
November 11, 2006
Rub the Magic Lamp
I haven't posted about myself recently. I have a new job as of September. I work at a call center doing phone customer service for Genie Garage doors. I tell people how to troubleshoot their garage door openers. (Hence the reference to the "magic lamp", get it?)
I find that people are crabby! I already know that based on my jobs at the UW Survey Center and Reserve America. But I recently had an older man tell me how displeased he was with the instructions on his wireless keypad. They are mounted on the wall outside of a garage so that a person can enter their PIN and open the garage door without the remote control. In order to program the wireless keypad PIN a person needs to press a "learn code" button on the motorhead itself. The older man on the phone was not able to get up to the motorhead to press it. He expressed his displeasure at there not being explicit instructions on location of the "learn code" button on the literature and the inside of the keypad lid. I attempted to tell him that's a security feature, but he was too busy telling me how irritated he was about it!
This model of wireless keypad can be used for any model of Genie garage door opener made after 1996. The machines themselves vary on location of the "learn code" button. Every step of the procedure is not printed on the inside of the keypad lid for security! Someone can easily walk up to the garage and follow instructions to change the PIN and enter a person's garage if not for the need to press the "learn code" button on the powerhead! However the crabby old man wouldn't allow me to explain that to him. Sometimes I have consumers ask me to get them into their garage by helping them change the PIN on their keypad. They have no "person door" to get into the garage. It's impossible for me to help them change the PIN if they have no way to press the "learn code" button on the powerhead! I love explaining these little details. I wish people were more patient and tolerant of customer service agents!
I find that people are crabby! I already know that based on my jobs at the UW Survey Center and Reserve America. But I recently had an older man tell me how displeased he was with the instructions on his wireless keypad. They are mounted on the wall outside of a garage so that a person can enter their PIN and open the garage door without the remote control. In order to program the wireless keypad PIN a person needs to press a "learn code" button on the motorhead itself. The older man on the phone was not able to get up to the motorhead to press it. He expressed his displeasure at there not being explicit instructions on location of the "learn code" button on the literature and the inside of the keypad lid. I attempted to tell him that's a security feature, but he was too busy telling me how irritated he was about it!
This model of wireless keypad can be used for any model of Genie garage door opener made after 1996. The machines themselves vary on location of the "learn code" button. Every step of the procedure is not printed on the inside of the keypad lid for security! Someone can easily walk up to the garage and follow instructions to change the PIN and enter a person's garage if not for the need to press the "learn code" button on the powerhead! However the crabby old man wouldn't allow me to explain that to him. Sometimes I have consumers ask me to get them into their garage by helping them change the PIN on their keypad. They have no "person door" to get into the garage. It's impossible for me to help them change the PIN if they have no way to press the "learn code" button on the powerhead! I love explaining these little details. I wish people were more patient and tolerant of customer service agents!
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