- Image by mitko_denev via Flickr
“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
Latest Entries »
Good evening/morning.
I was running my old Merely Adequate blog on an old Powermac G4 running Complete Apache 2 2.0.52 from Server Logistics. The Mac ran fine for years. but something occurred a week or so ago that made it stop serving web pages. I decided to migrate the whole server to my Windows 7 gaming PC in a VM-Ware virtual appliance running Ubuntu Linux. It’s taken me a few days, but I finally have it set up. The initial problem was trying to migrate Movable Type, the old blogging platform I used. Wordpress is made by the same company and was supposed to be easier to set up, so I tried it and it worked great!
I haven’t posted in a while, but I wanted to share a new blog with all of you.
My cousin Wendy and her husband Bob live in, what I always say is, a post card in Montana. They’ve started a new blog together combining Bob’s photography and Wendy’s words, intertwining and inspiring each other. Be careful or you may want to run off and live in the wild too!
Life at Beaver Lake
Kailyn (The girl missing from Akron, Ohio) called her mom yesterday afternoon. She was scared and thought she couldn’t come home because she ran away. When she found out they were looking for her she called and promised her mom she was on her way home. Woo hoo!
Missing Person
Kailyn Mitchell, 17
Last seen in the Goodyear Heights area of Akron, Ohio on Sunday (9/20/09) at 1:00pm
Seen in red tank top and tan short shorts
Height: 5’5’’ 150lbs
Please contact (330)784-8324 or call the police
She has asthma and serious migraines.
If you are in the area and want to print some fliers here they are: Kailyn Mitchell Missing
This was taken from A.C. Brown’s Facebook page.
My way of “forwarding”… In memory of my father…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These are the colors that represent the different cancers.
All you are asked to do is keep this circulating. Even if it’s to one more person. In memory of victims and in honor of survivors and families.
A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle.
Please Keep The Candle Going!
February 29th, 2008 was the day I sent out my letter to my friends and family declaring my new found lack of belief. Of course, there is no 29th this year, so March 1st will have to do. 
It has been one of the most interesting years of my life. I’ve had regular theological discussions for most of my adult life, but never with such variety, and certainly never from this side of the fence.
One of the things I’ve tried to do is not make assumptions about what people believe. The labels we give ourselves and each other are so very inadequate at expressing what we really believe. There is so much variety of belief, even within each of the nearly infinite denominations within Christianity, that pigeonholing is not advisable. It’s easy to label someone a fundy or a new ager and essentially write them off. It’s much more interesting, challenging, and sometimes exhausting to try to dig deeper and see what they really believe and why.
I have constantly run into the certainty brick wall. We are all certain of many things, but I refuse to be certain about the invisible. The problem with many of the God arguments that are made, is that they depend on experiences. I’m glad that you are happy and that you’ve had experiences you identify as God, but that does not mean I will have those same experiences or even if I do, choose to identify them as God. I try to be kind, but there are times where something appears so ludicrous to me that I laugh. Really, none of us is perfect, we could all be wrong.
It’s been a good year, no disasters have befallen me, no local floods or fires, God hasn’t tried to smite me yet. Of course the year hasn’t been perfect, I experienced the same sorts of events that happened when I was a professing Christian. Work related stress from time to time, family medical issues, etc, etc. Then again, a big book I once read said something like “The rain falls on the wicked and the just.”.
Let’s see how the next year goes.
This was crossposted at atheistsandchristians.com and merelyadequate.net
Ok, I know, I know. I’m an atheist ex-Christian and I’m reviewing a Christian worship album. Crazy I know, but it’s also really good music. I listen to all sorts of music, with all sorts of messages.
This CD is a wonderful combination of great musicianship, terrific song writing, wonderful vocals, and oh yeah, lots of hand raising, foot stomping worship music! There’s something for everyone on this CD. Fast, slow, loud, soft, it’s all here. The arrangements are lush and really put one into a contemplative mood. Benjamin has been one of my best friends for many years, so you might think I’m biased, but ask any of my friends if I’m afraid to criticize their music. I’m not. One thing about Benjamin, he means every word on this CD. He completely gives his all to God, and this CD shares a little bit of that dedication with all of us, even those of us that don’t share Benjamin’s faith.
Benjamin Payne – The Way of Truth
It can also be found at digstation.com
I posted this review at cdbaby.com, digstation.com, merelyadequate.net, and atheistsandchristians.com
Sadly, no Team Ico teaser at the 2008 Spike TV Video Game Awards.
Some guessed there would be one. Jack Black was exceptionally funny and there were some other good trailers, but the one I cared about wasn’t there. Team Ico made Ico and Shadow of The Colossus, two of the best video games of all time, and some guess that they will release a game in 2009. since they are always on a 4 year cycle and Shadow of The Colossus came out in 2005.
