Eric Writes

Thoughts and beliefs

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 03:52:00 +0000

    You know there's been a lot of attacks recently on Christian beliefs. There are those that feel they can change the meaning of scripture to fit their agenda. From hate laws being passed where for disagreeing with another person view or not holding the same views as others is hate speech. This article in and of itself has been a while in the making..

    The attacks on Christianity and the belief system in Christ has been being attacked from every which way. Be it from changing the definition of what marriage is. Marriage is defined   directly in the bible as between a man and a woman to go out and be fruitful and multiply. Jesus reaffirms this relationship " Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'  and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ?  So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." Matt 19: 4-6

      Quite simply homosexual marriage is not compatible with God's word. God is unchanging for eternity. Now as Christians we are still to love the sinners, but at the same time we are to get them to open their heart to Jesus. Now there's been a lot of push from some emergent movements to accept those of homosexuals and even promote them to the leadership within the Church. The reason this is incompatible is that when you truly accept Jesus you are to be transformed and turn from your sins. One thing forgotten within the Church today that I see is repentance. We are still to recant our sins as only he that was pure can wash away our sin with his blood. Now one can be homosexual and become a Christian, but by the glory of Christ when they become filled with the holy spirit they would turn from their sins. Having an openly practicing homosexual as a preacher or in a leadership role seems a bit of an oxymoron. Our fallen world though has come to accept these abominations as truths and guidance. But it was all predicted in the bible we were given warnings that there would be false teachers the wolves in sheep's clothing to lead the flock astray.

      Facebook has been abuzz recently with a preacher stating God says nothing about the Homosexual lifestyle, on the contrary God has quite a few things to say and none of them are in favor of such practice. Leviticus 20:13 is pretty clear: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Lev 20:13. Not sure if the pastor somehow missed this verse in seminary and for good measure this particular verse Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Since God is never changing in his ways we know to this day as it was like in the days of Lot and Noah we know it is still an abomination. Speaking of which did you know that it has been foretold that the world would return to the days of Noah and Lot in the end times. Our world and society has made what is evil good and no one is the wiser. We praise abortions, yet beg that we don't kill murderers. Some double standards of society today, where it is good to kill the innocent, yet we spare the evil from their crimes. We allow the homosexuals to show their pride in our streets and allow them to condemn scripture as heresy against their lifestyle. Biblical scripture is becoming condemned as hate speech. We saw and heard the outcry from gay groups when Phil Robertson quoted Corinthians, all the sudden he was gay-public enemy # 1. I could bring up the recent Mozilla CEO crisis also where Eichen was forced to step down due to a private donation he made in 2008 to Prop 9 in California which by the way the people of California voted in favor for 52%-48% and their sitting governor and attorney general refused to defend.

    Would people be as supporting of the whole same sex agenda if they knew gay rights activists wish for the removal of age of consent laws? I will throw an example in here of the 19 year old Florida cheerleader that was "dating" a 14 year old. How the public was an outcry that the 14 year old's parents and state of Florida were bringing charges against the 19 year old. I am sure if it would have been a guy we would have been hearing he should have known better than messing with a younger girl, but because it was a two girls all the sudden we are being discriminatory based on sexual preference. You know how they preach it's between consenting adults: well funding for quite a bit of the gay-rights movement can be traced back to NAMBLA. So wouldn't a group promoting underage relations want to have some end game in play. Well going back to 1987 one thing on the bucket-list for Gay activists was the elimination of the age of consent. So lets see a known pedophilia group does major fund-raising for Gay-rights and we the public are supposed to believe they don't want to indoctrinate our children. We all know the end game of NAMBLA is elimination of all age of consent laws so they can have their way with young confused boys. The fact the world has been so accepting of indecency and calling it good, while calling anyone against it evil shows how the prophetic clock is ticking.

So in concluding as Christians we are still called to love the sinner and hate the sin, but at the same time we are to share the word of God and pray for those lost in sin to come to forgiveness with the Lord Jesus Christ. Accept that the Son of Man came and shed his blood on the cross for the sins of the world and accept the holy spirit and be transformed away from the sinful life style. Only in him are we saved from sins.

          What better way to end than with this section of scripture.

"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."

John 15:18-20

Marantha,
Eric

Happy Thanksgiving

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:08:00 +0000

I sometimes sit and wonder if the way the world has gotten if anyone remembers the meaning of Thanksgiving. It seems more and more that we celebrate holidays for the wrong reason anymore. We have commercialized times that were meant to bring together friends and family. Looking at all the ads for material objects I wonder if our world is really better today. My wish for everyone this Thanksgiving is to simply remember to give thanks for what you have.

For instance I give thanks this year for the wonderful family I have had. For my mother, father, brothers and sister, my grandparents, and all the nieces and nephews. I give thanks because they are the greatest people I know. I also give thanks for all the wonderful friends I've made over the internet over the past year. To all of you over JTV that have been there for me over the past year.

Truthfully everyone should take the time out to give thanks. Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day to reflect on and be happy for what you have and not what material thing you want. I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if everyone gave thanks all year long as opposed to just one day. Then again I have been wondering if anyone takes the time to give thanks anymore even on Thanksgiving. It's almost as if society is more worried about what they want to buy. Thanksgiving is nothing more than a day to mark the beginning of great retail deals. We as a society have forgotten the real meaning. Does anyone remember when days like Thanksgiving were sacred? When companies would shut down for a day to give their employees an opportunity to spend time with their families? It seems more and more businesses are going with the stance of being open 364 days a year with Christmas being the only day they close. But as we keep moving forward I feel soon even Christmas will just be another work day.

Going into more depth you could say that the decline in actual holidays have had an effect on American society as a whole. For instance did you know the current rate of children per American family has decreased to around 1.5 children? I almost feel part of it has to do with our culture of work , work, work. So for Thanksgiving if you have to opportunity give Thanks for what you have. If you can't go and see your family at least give them a call to tell them you love them. That is what Thanksgiving is for. Hopefully this message will touch someone today.

Happy Thanksgiving,
Eric S. Fairgrieve

Still alive

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:31:00 +0000

I haven't psoted on here in awhile. I've kept my vow alive so far by continuously writing a page a day. Unfortunately not everything has been tied to my literature goal. Also I need to replace the RAM in my laptop, I'm holding off waiting for some Blitz sale after Thanksgiving. I've also found myself reading a lot more lately.

I think I will just have the rest of the blog today be my Sunday NFL game picks.

Miami vs Green Bay: I like GB here. Aaron Rodgers has shown it was a good decision to choose him over Favre two years ago. Rodgers will continue to lead the Packers to the promise land also since Minnesota has totally blown it not only do the Pack attack win this game they are now 100% my pick for the NFC Norse division. Notables in this game: Packers Defense must stop Ronnie Brown, Dolphins Offense should mix it up more with the Wildcat, it went from 90% of the offense to 10% (and Dolphins easily winning to barely using it and the Dolphins battling). Final score 28-17

San Diego @ St. Louis: This is the make or break game for the Chargers.I'm going to say that the Rams pull out the upset. I look for Bradford to continue to improve and the Rams realistically have a shot at their division. The Chargers special teams woes continue and the Rams take this with a late game Punt return.Final 24-21

Baltimore @ New England: This game could very well be a post season preview. The Ravens a top the AFC Norse has looked impressive. They man handled the Broncos and beat a tough Steelers team. Flacco has really started to play well.But the real question is will Ray Lewis and company be able to stop the lightening fast scoring of Tom Brady. I see this to be a decent scoring shootout. I'll take the Patriots by 4 with the final being 25-21

Cleveland @ Pittsburgh: This is a statement game for the Steelers they have the chance to prove their offense will now be in click with Ben Roethlisberger. Now with the new of the Browns starting Colt McCoy I feel so bad for the rookie QB to have your first NFL start against blitzburg.However I look for Peyton Hillis to end Pittsburgh's defense's 19 game streak of not allowing a 100 yard rusher. This will be a close one and even being a Pittsburgh fan my gut is telling me that Cleveland could squeak out with a victory. But I'll go with the Black N Gold to win by a saftey (I'd say a field goal but Pittsburgh can't make any of those). 23-21

Kansas City vs Houston: I'm gonna go and say Houston wins behind their dynamic offense. Foster runs for a buck fifty against a young Chief defense. However Houston's defense will keep KC in this game to the end. The major question will be can Cassell prove his season replacing Brady wasn't a fluke? Houston wins this 17-15.

Detroit @ NY Giants: Lions here them roar. The Giants did look impressive, but the Lions have been in every game and who knows if the call would have been made right in week 1 just maybe the Lions would be undefeated because maybe they would have played harder in every other game. I see the Giants as an overhyped team like their cousins the Jets. So since I always pick against New York I am taking the Lions in a close low scoring field goal fest 18-12

Atlanta @ Philly: Well my pick here is simple if Vick is healthy and ready to play I will take Philly winning 35-21, however if Kolb starts for Philly or Vick isn't 100% then I take Atlanta to win 28-3

Seattle @ Chicago: Can Chicago protect their Quarterback. I say no and this will result in the Hawks to swoop by the Bears. Final in this will be 17-13

New Orleans @ Tampa: The Saints have been playing like the Aints once again and they have already ruined my prediction of them going 15-1 so now that I am mad at the Saints I am taking the Bucs. Also the Saints are not the same team as they were last year. Buccaneers with an upset in overtime winning by a long field goal. Final 27-24 OT

Jets @ Denver: Well the Broncos are at the bottom of the West. I will sya that just maybe the ghosts of Mile High will come and lift the Broncos to victory or maybe see if Thunder can be like Gus the field goal kicking Mule. Either that or give the horse a a mouth strap and place Thunder in at running back. When you are averaging 16 inches a carry you don't win.Orton has proven he's a good QB when he has protection which he never got in Chicago. I look for Orton to have another big game, but to break my own rule I take the Jets to win by 6. 36-30

The Battle of the Golden Gate Bridge: The wnner of this can claim they are the true owner of a bridge that well needs repaired. Oakland coming of a victory against the over hyped Chargers and actually in the race for the division. I said it at the beginning of my yearly predictions I take the Raiders to win the west at 8-8 or 907. The 49ers still have a chance at their west but I don't like them. I will take Oakland to win behind Gradokowski. Also my new pick in the NFC West is anyone but the 49ers. Oakland wins by 1 28-27 since the 49ers bumble the game tying PAT with no time left.

The battle of two overhyped teams that suck horribly aka Cowboys love Vikings: You know there is a thing called a tie in the NFL regular season and usually I don't pick ties, but these teams are the overhyped of the hyped. They wanted everyone to believe they were good teams. but when the regular season started they weren't ready. I say this should be the game that the Vikings realize they made a mistake with Brett I'm retiring Favre. I think this team is 100% better without Favre. Jackson can actually move in the pocket and since the Vikings can't block I say give the younger faster QB. I say next year the Vikings ought to trade a 2nd round pick for Vick (they should have done it this year. ) Dallas another team that thinks they are good. Could have downed the ball to end the first half in week 1, whatcha do a shuffle pass that is fumbled and returned the other way. Also you were playing well against the Bears even sacking the QB 5 times in the first half and whatcha do the 2nd half you stopped blitzing. So in this game to guarantee neither team gets out of the gutter I am saying it will be a tie unless the Vikings place Jackson in and then I will say Jackson to Moss wins the game. 10-7

Indy@ Washington: Just because I dislike the Colts and even though they left Baltimore before I was born we still hate the Colts around here. So I take Washington to win a shocker with a 64 yard kick by Ganoe as the clock expires. Ganoe definitely has the leg to own the NFL's longest field goal all to himself. Redskins in a shootout 38-35

Tennessee@ Jacksonville: Both teams have been impressive. The Titans have woke up since losing a close one to the Steelers. Vince Young has played great since being benched. He also now knows his spot isn't safe if he's having an off day. Fisher isn't afraid of bringing in the backup Kerry Collins (who btw 2 years ago led the Titans to the playoffs. I haven't got a chance to watch Jacksonville besides week 1 when they played a competetive game against Denver. I say Young leads a late rally to bring the Titans out with a victory 17-14

Well that's Week 6's picks.

Vows

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:59:00 +0000

Well after hitting some roadblocks I'm vowing to get back on track. So I will give daily updates of my garbled mess of a story here shortly. Overall I have been writing what I was calling my goal of one page per day unfortunately it hasn't been on the same project. I almost feel like I have too many ideas. I need a machine to hook up to my brain that will automatically type what I'm thinking. Then I feel I could at least complete one novel.

Time is static

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:21:00 +0000

I wonder if time really exists.As lately it seems to both accelerate and stop. I believe I will release a short story on here soon. I don't have much to say today. I am surprised that the Steelers are undefeated this year so far. Odds and ins life is the typical and norm. I'm also waiting to hear back from several jobs I applied for. Writing is going at a random pace. Some days I'm getting great progress others I'm just squeaking by with what I require myself to write. Overall this has been an interesting experiment.

Running out of time

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:24:00 +0000

The ancients bestowed upon him a curse of immortality. He and his legions would live on forever. The blood was splattered for miles. The warlords of neighboring villages started to cower and wonder if they could win this war. They found one weakness in the count and that was his love for women. There was a young lady by the name of Camilla that was the warlord from the East's daughter. They enticed the count with her. The girl had one wish from the count and that was to live with him for eternity. She betrayed her own people to change th heart of the count. She became the first new one not transformed by the curse itself, but by love.

Mind numbing

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:20:00 +0000

The mind went numb he no longer could tell he was human. He now seeked the blood of humans. He turned more vicious than he use to be now drinking the blood off his victims.In remberence he started placing their heads on spears outside his city walls. His new reign of terror was about to begin.

The sakrentos

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:48:00 +0000

It was normal in the start my mind was brimming with creativity that slowly disappeared.The mind was soon erased and man could no longer accept his reality. Instead man ran and created what he called civilization to separate himself from the other animals. But truly man is no better than the others. Soon man's animal instinct returns. This gave birth to the lands of Vlad Tepes. Tepes made a deal with the gods to grant hims immorality but it came at a price. Tepes would have to obtain so many human sacrifices per year for the gods. Tepes changed his name to that of Dracula and he also gave birth to a new breed of humans. These humans could potentially live forever, but each was given a task of obtaining and drinking the blood of humans. Eventually the race evolved where the blood of humans was required for them to live.

Into the Woods

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:57:00 +0000

I found myself developing my Orwellian political satire's plot. The Animal's have had the rule of the roost for a mere 200 years, but have started to slip up. They have somehow let their government go out of control with wasteful spending and for some reason they can't understand how they've come down to only two coices. Somehow the Elephants and Donkeys have taken control of the animal government and created a two party system. There however was soon to be a spark with the Caterpillars wanting to go back to the roots of the animal system. This new party was simply named the leaf party after the caterpillar's favorite snack. It had a diverse amount of animals stepping forward and not just Elephant and Donkey loyalists like the other two parties. The silent majority was angered by how both the Elephant and Donkey parties have run their government. It was no longer a government run by the animals for the animals and of the animals, but a corrupt government.

A part of me has died

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:15:00 +0000

I find myself cornered not knowing what is real and what is fantasy. I look and I feel, but is it really real? Did I come across a world of fantasy or did I somehow come across a new reality? Did mankind just create myths from reality to hide the truth? We live in what is called reality, but are truly real? Maybe the human itself is the myth and other things are the reality. The mind is slowly melting away. We stumble and we fail and we continue the struggle hoping to exist. But what if this existence is nothing but a mere story? What if man really only subconsciously exists? Maybe man is just derived from myths and started to think he exists, but is nothing more than a thought. That was the keen thinking of a great mind.

The brain no longer will function

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:04:00 +0000

This is just a warning that brains have turned to mush. The control of the mind has come near. I really need to get into a writing mood. I've almost made trying to write this story I'm working on more of a chore. I sit down and start to write and see hey 1 page guess I can stop for the day. I think I'll try to relieve myself from stress and blind myself from page counts. I feel all I've done is burn myself out and maybe damage some of my creative integrity.I will continue writing onwards one page per day. Not sure if I will post on here with a progress report if I only do one page per day. But I will post something here related to my writings and musings. I have a backlog of poetry I think that can take up space here when I really have nothing to say about one of the stories I'm writing. Yea I broke my habit yesterday and wrote some pages on a secondary story. For the love of me I just couldn't progress much on my main story. I think writer's block has caught up on me either that or me being lazy and only writing one page a day. I"m going to try not to miss posting a blog for a few days again. But I honestly just forgot all about posting the past few days. Weekends just seem to make me lazy.

Drowning in thought

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:40:00 +0000

Back to struggling. I don't think I can place together anything that is coherent at this time. My mind is totally blank at this time. They must have erased my mind. I was so close to revealing their secrets yet I just became a victim. Will anyone be able to stop them? It's just another cold and dark night with me fearing for my life. They had drained me of more than blood. I am slowly disappearing from the world. The sickness is overtaking my body. I fear I won't survive. If I happen to survive I hope to finish my great work to warn others of the chaos that they cause.I shall fight onwards and hopefully make it to completion.

Fear the darkness

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:50:00 +0000

I find myself running from the darkness. I seems to follow me wherever I go. I'm fearing for my life they keep coming after me. I feel I no longer have any protection. There's nowhere to hide from the darkness any longer. They slowly pick the world apart one by one. There's not much that can be done as they grow stronger every night. They have slowly realized their own power. They await the chance to feed upon the blood of the unexpected. But their rampage has now spread and is no longer contained in the small town. They slowly go and feed upon the innocent. They no longer have any regard for human life. I have slowly revealed their nature to the world, but it falls upon dead ears. Now when they come out and seek victims upon the night it is no longer one isolated case, but it has reached a large amount. No one has seen the linking between the various deaths. They don't want to admit it is the true terror of the night a myth you may say. People have turned their eyes blind to the real nature of the world and claim anything that's not science is a myth. Yet lo and behold they still perish from the vampire's bite night by night. I no longer can control this creation of mine it now will seek to destroy the human race.

Lost in translation

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:46:00 +0000

Ever have what seemed like a wonderful idea and then sat to try to write it down? I seem to be having that syndrome lately. It all seemed so good in my head, but as soon as I write it down t either doesn't translate as good as it seemed in my mind either that or the way I write it clashes with how I thought it. To be honest if I could throw out the conventions of English or any written rules out the window I feel I could create something better. Rolling power outages have kept my writing down today. I did achieve what I saw as three decent pages. So today's been a day of searching my mind for ideas. I love thunder storms just not when they cause rolling power outages. I'd personally would like the weather to clear up for a bit so I can go outside and do some writing. I need to get my brain cells moving and what's better than fresh air.

Off to writing land

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:03:00 +0000

Tonight's the kind of night that I think I should make progress. I feel after a few lackluster days that tonight I should see the progress I want to see. I also got myself distracted on starting another short story over the last few days borrowing a bit from Orwell. In fact it can almost be seen as a spiritual successor to 1984 simply titled 2020. It's a short story I intend to finish after my current project. But I feel tonight is a good night to write about vampires. I'm really hoping to get enough done to maybe start having some editors look at it. But that is yet to be seen.

Late post

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:16:00 +0000

Well due to the primary election today I forgot to update here. Not too much to say really. Well I look for having something to actually speak of tomorrow or well technically later today.

Political babbling

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:38:00 +0000

Well with primary season under way and election day coming up on November 2, 2010 I feel I should discuss my political picks and why. In fact I see politics as sports competition anymore. I sometimes wonder why we vote for people that go out and spend millions of dollars on advertising themselves. With the money that these politicians spend on advertisement I'm pretty sure if all that money went into paying off the national debt the debt would be a lot less than it is right now. Also does it make sense to spend $250 million on a job that pays only $400,000. I think these people have to be idiots. However I don't necessarily feel the candidates are idiots themselves, I feel our system is idiotic. If anything every candidate should be given the opportunity to speak at debates, but due to how our debates flow today you see the media ask softball questions to their favorites.But the money having to be spent too be president is absurd. We need campaign reform that should limit spending to no more than 3 to 4 times what the projected salary would be. So instead of spending $250 million the campaign reform would place a 1.2 to 1.6 million cap on spending meaning that candidates would have to use public means to get their message across. They could use public radio and television to express their views.

My other complaint is primary season is way too long for the President race. I mean we have such a long drawn out process where candidates are pseudo-campaigning for two years. I dislike the fact hearing about who will run for president two years from now. We should adopt the British campaign system where they are given maybe a month before the election to campaign. So now that most serious contestants would be at the same level with same money same amount of time to campaign and with the public sources of information given fair amounts of time to each candidate it would be about the issues. Not that Barrack Obama has twenty thousand billboards and tv commercials saying vote for him, it would be about what he would do for the country.

Also debates should welcome all contenders that will be on the ballot for the the general election and not your republican and democrat only. The Green and Libertarian parties both have been doing impressively in being listed on almost every states ballot. Any candidate that is on the ballot in 2/3 of the states ought to be invited to the Presidential debates. Then the nation would finally get to see the different view points. Also instead of a two hour debate or one hour debate I'm talking about having the candidates debate until all the questions are answered. Also during rebuttals I don't want the moderator cutting the candidate off every 5 seconds let them express why their opponent(s) view(s) on an issue are wrong. Instead we have the moderator rush candidates through the debate so they can make their allotted time. Politics should be serious but we take and make it a joke.

Moving onto Congressional and Senatorial campaigns again the money that's required to be raised even for a seat in the House of Representatives is getting ridiculous up to 3-6 million to compete. This position makes $160,000 a year so I can see maybe spending twice that at the most. For 1 the job of house of representative is meant as a short term job that's why there's a two year term, but what happens is an incumbent gets so much support from special interests that it's impossible for an opponent to compete. I am all out in favor of two consecutive terms for both congressman and senators, meaning they can serve more than two terms, but they need a break after two consecutive terms. The problem and where our corruption is, is not with the President. The House and and Senate are more prone to corruption because they seek reelection after re-election. So let's add that stipulation onto the Senators and Congress and we could see corruption drop a little. However by limiting spending we place the incumbent down to the same playing field as their opponent. Again debates should be held on local news affiliates so we can see how the candidates match up. How many people know what their congressman/woman's views are on issues?. I'd say most people don't. I'll even go on a limb and say most people don't know who their representatives and senators are.

Those are just some reforms I would make to the system. I feel it would create more competitive elections and give us a more educated electorate who are not just out there voting for their party line. Also people need to actually vote. America has such a low turnout at the polls no wonder the country has gone to hell and has become an elitist jungle. If we get to 55% of registered voters we're lucky and for midterms that number is closer to 22%. So that means not even half the country is trying to vote or voting and this isn't counting those that aren't registered to vote. I don't want people to think I'm racist but want to know who don't register to vote.... Black people. For all the struggles they went at to gain the right to vote they have a problem registering to vote or if they are registered showing up at the polls. They went and marched in the streets wanting that right to vote, but honestly they rarely cause an impact on the outcome. Now they did come out in full force to vote for OBama, but did they vote for right reasons or because he's black.Now from what I was hearing around the college campus some of the black people I knew were being quite racist in that it's now our time to stick it to the man. As in that Obama was gonna automatically make living better for blacks. Others did have the valid points that they agreed with his politics. But it seemed the majority came voted for him because he's black. I now wonder if the Republicans decided to replace McCain with Palin would that have created a movement among women voters to come and vote for Palin. Then again with as progressive as women have become would they go for a conservative female? Is it even possible to be female and conservative anymore? Our new norm in society would tell you that's an oxymoron since women want all equality and all rights men have. I bet if it was possible they'd also want a penis too. (Not trying to be sexist or anything just trying to get the point of equality out there). So I'm not sure if it is as polarizing as a black person running for the office. Obama did spend more than any candidate in history though almost outspending McCain 3 to 1 or possibly 5 to 1 depending on what numbers you look at.

Well I needed something to put in this blog today since authoring my novel has been a bit slow today. I feel I'm gonna have a break out day writing soon. Guess I need to provide some entertainment while I'm doing the bear minimum of one page. Well these political babblings have been brought to you by our sponsors.

Down the rabbit hole

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:00:00 +0000

That's how my mind has felt lately. My thoughts just keep rushing together and I almost feel I can no longer place together coherent sentences. Also NFL season kicking off is quite distracting when I'm a big football fan. I almost feel like my brain needs something to reawaken my creative juices. I definitely need o find a way to recharge my batteries. Funny thing creatively I've been writing down ideas for what I want to write after the current piece of work. I'm trying to get my mind back onto my current novel, but it has been so hard lately when other ideas start flowing. I did realize I need to go back soon and divide what I've written so far into chapters. In my head I divided it into chapters but while writing for some reason I forgot too. I also feel I may need to make some plot points simpler. I believe it will keep a reader more entertained. Well today is just another agonizing day of me getting myself in gear.

Typical update and college football

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:13:00 +0000

Well today I killled the so called "cause" of the vampirism outbreak, but the people soon realized nothing was going back to normal, but the infections were starting to get worse. Honycue almost figured the law enforcement would pull everyone off the case after the murder mystery was solved. So now he turns to the two people that helped solved with capturing the "murderer" .

The gridiron classic of the college football season has been upon us for a week and there were some upsets. James Madison knocks off Virginia Tech who now starts the season 0-2. This could hurt the Boise St. Broncos who opened up against Virginia Tech. The Broncos are however the team that I would consider the uncrowned champion of college football over the past few seasons. They rack up an undefeated season and the big colleges never want to play them during the season. USC never had the stones to pick them up when Boise was looking for more quality opponents. In fact I never saw Texas or Ohio St or Alabama or any of the SEC wanting to play Boise. So Boise picked up VT the ACC dominant powerhouse and beat them. Unfortunately now that VT isn't be dominant it looks like that win will be for moot.

In other news my Terps are actually looking impressive for once in non-conference play. If the ACC teams didn't always beat one another up I'd say it would be the division with the national champion every year problem is usually the conference part of the schedule leads to one or two losses a year. However if an ACC team sweeps through the season undefeated they would deserve to play in the National Title game, for the ACC is the toughest conference in all of College Football. Hopefully the terps get through the non-conference part undefeated and can make a run in the ACC this year.

The Irish lost a heart breaker to Michigan. Overall it was the tale of two quarterbacks for the Irish. When their starter went down after the opening drive the backups when 0-8. The Irish probably regret not kicking field goal before half time which would have gave them a chance at a long field goal for the win at the end of the game. Overall this was a good game.

Bama so far is being impressive against Penn St. Showing they may deserve the #1 ranking.

My question is why rank teams at the beginning of the season. It's quite detrimental to un-ranked teams that go unnoticed unless they defeat a ranked team. Shouldn't we wait until week 5 or 6 to rank teams nationally. Then we can weed out the so called good teams if they start out the season horrible. Honestly how was VT still the number 13 team after losing to Boise. Shouldn't have some 1-0 team be number 13 instead. Rankings therefore are worthless until around week 5.

I am taking Boise to finally break the BCS and win at least the AP poll where they started at number 3. Most likely we won't see them in NC game, but if they run the table we will see them get the AP Poll and maybe even the coaches. The Harris poll is computerized so I don't acknowledge it and I don't acknowledge the BCS as the best system.

Free flow of ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:20:00 +0000

Ideas flow across the page slowly, then there's a break in the dam and all the sudden my ideas flow out of control. I did get a good five pages written today. This strange weather from hot to cold is really messing up my rhythm. I need a nice temperate day where I can go outside to sit and type. Today was totally too cold thus I gave up after only five pages. I love having fresh air flowing thorough my veins and it seems to awake my creative juices. Today almost felt like winter fast-forwarded itself in . It seems I have a few days a week that are productive and some other days where it almost seems if writing is a chore. I'm hoping tomorrow warms up a little and leads to a very productive day.

Break from typical updates almost

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:05:00 +0000

I wrote a lonely page in my story today not much to brag about. However I also wrote NFL predictions earlier today so I will include that here for something. I almost feel the days where I jsut write one page sometimes leaves me with nothing to talk about really. Well here's some NFL predictions may the vampires take over the NFL.

Well with the NFL season upon us I have taken it upon myself to make my predictions for each division. Some picks are out there, but I don't want everything to be th same as the so called professional forecasters.

AFC East:
1. New York Jets 12-4
2. New England Patriots 11-5
3. Miami Dophins 9-7
4. Buffalo Bills 3-13

New York is a lock at finishing first if Sanchez stays healthy, now if Sanchez gets injured at any point then the Patriots should easily jump over the Jets. Though Brady did lose a step last season and teams have started finally figuring out New England's Run and Gun offense (aka they use a modified Run N Shoot). New England should still get a wildcard though. I also feel Brady has lost a step. The Dolphins will only go so far with their Wildcat offense. The mopdified single wing offense has slowly become a novelty. Note Pittsburg with Kordell Stewart where it fizzled out within 3-4 years. Buffalo just hasn't really improved though CJ Spiller could win Rookie of the Year he's only one player. We all saw how far that got Barry Sanders.

AFC North:
1. Ravens 11-5
2. Steelers 10-6
3. Bengals 10-6
4. Browns 7-9

Though I hate to admit it the Ravens are currently the best team in the North. THey acquired TJ Houshmazada to use in either the slot or 3 wide sets. They have an established QB in Flacco. They still have a punishing defense even thugh the keys in the defense keep getting older. The only question is will the defense hold up over the long season. THe Steelers season depends upon how they do in the first 4 games without Roethlisberger. I have them going 2-2 across this four game spand, but they could finish worse or better. The Bengals are most people's hands on favorite to win the North unfortunately they seem to always go back to playing Bungle football and with both Pittsburgh and Baltimore with superior defenses that like gettting to the QB the Bengals maybe hardpressed for wins in the division. The Bengals also are a team that may get into shootouts and I'm unsure if their defense will stop the other team enough to win. The Browns apparently are still struggling from the Paul Brown curse, but could very well surprise this year. With Holmgren in the front office this is the season for Mangini to win or most likely leave town. So the pressure is on the Browns, but unfortunately I feel this is Mangini's last season there.

AFC South:
Colts 14-2
Texans 9-7
Titans 8-8
Jaguars 6-10

Who can bet against the Colts and Peyton Manning. If any team cold run the table it is most likely the Colts. Though the Manning contract talks could be a distraction, but Manning seems to be a cool cat. THe Colts very well could be making it back to the playoffs. The Texans aren't there yet, but do keep improving and I look for them to atleast match their record from last year. The Titans could shake things up, because if they played how they did in the stretch alst year they could dehrone the Colts, however if they play like they did at the start of last season they could find themselves playing catch up again. The Jaguars could very well be Mr. Irrelevent in the South. Their division oppoenents are just better than they are. The Jaguars also are lacking in many key areas.

AFC West:
1. Oakland Raiders: 8-8
2. San Diego Chargers 7-9
3. Kansas City Chiefs 7-9
4. Denver Broncos 5-11

I feel with as weak as the west is Oakland will triumph and win the divison at 8-8 or maybe even 7-9. This is the bottom of the barrel of the AFC and I had to pick a team. Though many would say the Chargers are favored, they lost Tomlinson whom I still believe is the best back in the game today. Also I feel the verdict is out that the Chargers made the wrong choice in the Brees-Rivers QB controversary. The Chiefs have improve, but I don't see them winning the West just yet. It is a possibility though with as bad as I find this division. The Broncos seem to start out good every year. Heck it's a possibility that they could start 5-0 and then choke. The division has been their's to win the past two seasons and they've choked. This season I look for them to struggle and to go to Tebow late season when nothing matters anymore.

NFC East
1. N.Y. Giants 11-5
2. Washington Redskins 10-6
3. Dallas Cowboys 7-9
4. Philadelphia Eagles 5-11

The Giants are hands on my favorite to win the East. THough Washington very well could give them a run in for the money as Shanahan finds a way to win almost everywhere he goes. (I exclude his one year stint with the Raiders where he had no chance to build a winner). If McNabb stays healthy the Redskins may finally have a QB that can atleast lead them to the NFC Championship game. THough I feel it maybe another year of Eli. The Cowboys and Eagles are really irrelevent in the East unless the Cowboys offense finally starts ticking in the Redzone. Their first team offense did so poorly in the preseason I don't believe they'll click soon enough. The Eagles imo went from contenders with McNabb to the bottom of the barrel. I look for Vick to start by the end of the season, but it maybe too late to salvage the season.

NFC North:
1. Green Bay Packers 12-4
2. Minnesota Vikings 10-6
3. Chicago Bears 7-9
4. Detroit Lions 4-12

Sorry Favre fans, Rodgers has proven that McCarthy has made the right decision to pull the trigger on Favre. Rodgers has improved each season he has been the starter and I look for him to be the best QB in the NFC barring Drew Brees. Green Bay should be ready to sweep Favre and the Vikings this year. The Vikings are a better team with Favre, but he does his whole fake I'm retiring thing every off season. I actually will look for some defnses to be gunning for him Also who can say if his ankle will hold up. The Vikings could finish as good as 15-1 that is if they can recover from the early defeat to the Saints. I however don't look for them to recover and I see a blowup between Childress and Favre which coul damage team morale. THe Bears have made some improvements and if Cutler gets some sort of protection and has time to throw the ball he could be the second coming of Jim McMahon. However Chicago hasn';t really improved the O-Line. Detroit is slowly improving and could make a run in a few years. Stafford will have to stay healthy however. Give the Lions two more years and I can see them wnning the North.

NFC South:
1. New Orleans Saints 15-1
2. Atlanta Falcons 12-4
3. Carolina Panthers 9-7
4. Tampa Bay 4-12

Overall this is the roughest division in all football since I see the Falcons and Panthers as contenders to New Orleans. New Orleans is hwoever just the current best team in the NFL. They will look to defend the Super Bowl Title and could repeat as champions. The Falcons are probably the biggest threat in the division and if the Ryan gets into a rhythym he could compete with Rodgers and Brees as the best QB in the NFC. The Panthers are a young team and don't have the distraction of paying Peppers a lot of money this year. They instead have went with younger players they've been grooming the past two seasons. Overall the Panthers could make a pounce in the division and finish better than I predict. The Buccaneers have reverted back to the Yuccaneers. They have been irrelevent since having Dungy build up a team and firing him to bring in Gruden. Gruden truly did nothing it was Dungy's team that won the Super Bowl not Gruden's. Tampa has been dying and becoming more irrelevent each season.

NFC West:
1. San Fransisco 49ers 11-5
2. Seattle Seahawks 9-7
3. Arizona Cardinals 7-9
4. St.Louis Rams 4-12

This is the 49ers year to impress. Smith came on strong late last year to show that it was the right decision to take him as a #1 pick way back when. THe 49ers probably are the most complete team in the West and I don't see the rest of the division as a threat. The Seahawks are now in the Pete Carrol era and well Carroll has been here before when he coached the Patriots. I don't see Carroll winning it all this year even though he's use to winning. Maybe next year he'll have a team to compete against the 49ers. The Cardinals would be odds on favorites to win if they had Kurt Warner. I say they should send the team over to Warner's now and get him suited up for week 1. With Warner the Cardinals would easily win the division, but with Lein, er Anderson they'll be lucky to get a few wins. My advice is call Warner now. The Rams are rebuilding and maybe they should call up Warner also... Bradford is a shining star, but I don't believe they have enough weapons around him. Also their O-Line will have to do a bette rjob protecting the QB.

I mysawell do a mock playoff predictions too.

Pittsburgh will head into Baltimore in the first Round of the playoffs in the typical 3 vs 6 matchup. Pittsburgh is a threat as a number 6 seed and has previously won a Superbowl from this seed. Can they repeat again. I Do have Pittsburgh winning in OT against the Ravens in the first round of the playoffs.

New England goes into Oakland in the 4 vs 5 matchup. The Raiders miracle season (sic 8-8) continues as they finally enact revenge for the snowbowl/tuck rule game. Final comes down to a safety late in the game that sets the Raiders up for a victory.

Pittsburgh goes ino Indianapolis, but unfortunately this time Big Ben does not make the big tackle. Manning lights up the scoreboard and no comeback for Big Ben this time. 28-14 final.

Oakland goes into New York to face the Jets. Sanchez has a good game and ends the Raiders playoff run.

New York vs Indianapolis Manning throws a game losing interception as the Colts were driving for the go head FG leading to a final of 28-21

NFC Playoffs
The Redskns win the tiebreaker over the Vikings and head in against division rival New York in the 3 vs 6 matchup. The Skins pulll out a late game comeback driving 90 yards in the last 2:00 minutes for the victory. 24-21

The Falcons head into San Francisco for a matchup that becomes a gun fight. Smith makes a late game mistake that sets up the game winning field goal for the Falcons. There are a lot of points in this game with the final 46-44

The Redskins season ends the following week in New Orleans. The Saints just blow away the Skins and run to a 49-7 victory

The Falcons head to the frozen tundra of Green Bay and Lambeau Field. The Cheeseheads are out and after a slow start Rodgers lights up the scoreboard in the second half with 28 unanswered points. UNfortunately for Rodgers Ryan isn't done and answers with two late scores to tie the game up. In overtime The Falcons take a risk and decide to go with an onside kick after kicking a field goal.They recover the onside kick thus ending the game and making the new playoff overtime rule moot. 31-28 O.T.

The Falcons head into the Super Dome to face off against the Saints. This is just routine for the Saints as they knock off the Falcons for the third time in the season. Hartley kicks another game winning Field Goal to take the Saints to abck to back Super Bowls.

The Jets are the underdogs in this game and the Saints show it's no fluke they won last year. Brees and the Saints just dominate the game as Brees breaks Young's record for TD pass in a super bowl with 8 TDs. THis becomes the biggest blowout since the Redskins destroyed the Broncos. Final Score is 64-10.

The Saints unless something goes wrong such as Brees getting injured are the best team in the NFL. I don't see anyone competing against them this year. The AFC as a whole barring the Colts and maybe Steelers are not on par with the best of the NFC which is the reverse from 3-4 seasons ago. The Steelers are the wildcard in the AFC if they make it to the playoffs as a 6 seed I'd watch out for. They seem to play better when they have something to prove. The Ravens finally have an offense and very well could have the defense to compete against the Colts. But overall none of the teams I feel are on the Saints level.

(Now watch the Saints will prove me wrong by being blown out tonight.)

Go go go

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:01:00 +0000

Well today was a pretty fun advancing day. Moving the plot forward here and there. Shuffling characters around. Watching the struggles between life and death. Today's been probably one of my best days in awhile. I actually feel accomplished today. Besides advancing my story I did some other personal writing too. I actually decided to apply for my first professional type job. I'm also preparing my college resume type package also for the various colleges I'm interested in attending for my Master's Degree. So not only did I continue with the novel writing today, I also went back to proof read some previous work to touch it up for my Portfolio. I realized I hate writing a resume because it's nothing more but a brag sheet. I hate talking myself up, but in reality that's all a resume is. College portfolios are very similar in that you brag about why you should be accepted into said program.

The night has grown dark and the town has become pitch black. They want the blood of humans to continue their life.They want to remain their youthfulness and immortality. Man has long forgotten the gods that cursed them. Man slowly tries to eliminate all gods and claim humanity is God. Humanity started to rely on its science for everything.That is what makes humans, both ignorant and arrogant. Man awaits it's final judgment with the gods. But they will come and feed upon your blood when you least suspect it. You can keep telling yourself they don't exist, but they do. They have grown hungry and feel it's time they drink the blood of humans once more. They have grown tired of living off of blood from the blood banks and wish to use their fangs once more. They will strike and you may never notice it. Or they may feel daring and kill you outright.

Back to the frying pan

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:50:00 +0000

The weather is so unpredictable this time of the year. Today I found myself sweating too death once again while writing. The cooler days make it so much easier and more comfortable to write for longer periods of time. Today I wrote two pages that I definitely will re-examine. Hot days are not the best for writing I'm hoping I have the will power to write here in a little while. The night air also seems to always bring out inspiration for me to write. Only one small sub plot was advanced so far today. I sort have left this character for awhile in limbo and figure I better further his story a little bit further.

I almost feel burnt out in writing. I sometimes wonder how I convinced myself to write at least a page a day until I finish this novel. I almost feel as I created a chore for myself instead of enjoying the story I'm crafting. I mean when I'm brainstorming I still have the passion, it's when I sit down to express everything from my brainstorming sessions to paper that really wears me out. I'm sort of getting into a rhythm though especially since some of my brain storming is developing ideas for a possible series someday. It will just be if I can continue expressing it properly in written form. I just feel exhausted today namely I wasn't expecting such a heat wave after it had cooled down lately. September is that unpredictable month where it's 70-80 degrees one day and then the next it's close to 100 degrees. But I have written further than I have ever written a story before. So I did hit a milestone with the small bit of progress I made today.

Slowly slowly crittly crittly

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:48:00 +0000

The alliance between detective and protagonist has been developed. The cemetery scene is slowly being setup. Will the detective overcome his skepticism of vampires existing? The bumpy ride continues for the quaint town of Pulchuraville. Will the renowned detective be able to piece together everything or will he rely on the intuitiveness of young girls that were trying to figure out who their new neighbors are. The mysteries continue to unfold in Pulchuraville and become more confusing. Also apparently there was a curse involved somewhere along the ways on this small town. Also will the newly transformed vampire find his ways out from the woods after ignoring the words of a mysterious individual.

My blood alone will no longer be enough to quench their thirst. They soon will descend upon the Earth once more. They have tried to stay hidden since being cursed. They were once human. They however came upon an ancient relic in the ancient times which was both a blessing and a curse. It granted immortality, but at the price that the light of the sun could destroy them. They also had to gain sustenance from the blood of humans. Though they appear in mortal flesh, the mortals would become their prey. The one who's wish was granted was Vlad Tepes. He wished to be immortal. The ancient gave him his wish, but the ancient knew Vlad was one who lived in a life of gore so forced the condition of blood on to Vlad. The origins begin with Vlad and in that last day the curse will end with Vlad.

There's a change in the weather

noreply@blogger.com (Arek) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:00:00 +0000

I can feel fall coming towards me. Gonna be that chilled weather. I am starting to get new ideas each day for writing projects. Really can't say I made much progress on my stories today. Instead today's writing was mostly dedicated to more political issues. I may just copy and paste the entire article here since can never tell if people may be interested in political babble. Honestly all I really wrote today was an article on what I see as a controversial law and list. I guess it maybe an interesting read. But I am planning to spend the wee hours of this night in adding to my main story which is now starting to exit the short story spectrum. It almost is entering into the novella stratum and hopefully I can have it reach into the novel status. Today's been a slow day overall. I must add to my story though and I'll try to post my political musings here in a bit.