Things about Love and Life

Lyrics to Anarchy Burger and a terrible warning about lead

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:29:00 +0000

Warning for this whole universe!

Lead when heated by lasers especially accellerated gamma radiation blows up a whole planet. This should be illegal in the whole universe. Lead is poisonous anyway. It sucks.

And

Anarchy
Kill a cat
Shoot James Brady in the back
Raise an army of rabid rats
Beat your neighbor with a bat

Anarchy burger
Hold the government
Anarchy burger
Hold the government

Anarchy
Go ape shit
Let them know you're sick of it
Write your congressman
Tell him he sucks
Only in it for the bucks

Anarchy burger
Hold the government
Anarchy burger
Hold the government

Your robbing can't sell anarchy burgers
And if you wanna be free
Order yourself an anarchy burger
Hold the government please

Anarchy burger
Hold the government
Anarchy burger
Hold the government

America stands for freedom
But if you think you're free
Try walkin into a deli
And urinating on the cheese

Anarchy burger
Hold the government
Anarchy burger
Hold the government
Hold the government please
Hold the government

Anarchy burger
Hold the government
Anarchy burger
Hold the government

Say fuck in front of your mom
FUCK!
And go to school and make an...

Anarchy burger
Hold the government
Anarchy burger
Hold the government

Later pork chops.... NOT!

Good News and Some What Bad News And Horrible news

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:25:00 +0000

GOOD NEWS FLASH!

Starhawk is finally cured of her HIV virus. Nuclear bombs *sarcasticly* were given to her. (Radiation Treatment)

I am still taking time healing from both my AIDS infection. I was cruelly brutallized by deputies in the multahnomah county jail. A drunk deputy (possibly barny's blarney) probably some pork eating NON PAGAN torah breaking NAZI FASCIST SUBCRIBING PIG put a big black. Boy, i would not ever like to see that pig with the business end of a Romulan disruptor.

MoNkEyWrEnCh =======|______|)

Argument against biometrics - Facist means to control the people

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:08:00 +0000

I for one am against biometrics. They can be abused by Big Brother to track where a person goes or what a person even buys or does. An example of a biometric device is a microchip implant that goes on the right hand or is injected in the blood stream. This chip possibly could have a person's bank account, address, medical info, or even criminal history stored on it. I know this sounds like something out of the book of Revelation (I am a Pagan and would never accept such an implant or "mark" if some creepoid gained world power nor would I ever advocate any other Wiccan or Pagan to accept such a device because it is unatural. We do not need a one world government anyway. It is just more governnment and that smells like facsism - we must instead improve things in our own communities - That is the basic philosophy behind anarchy.) but governments can easily abuse this type of technology. I would not even give a dog a biometric device if I had a dog or some other pet.

MONKEYWRENCH=======!_____!)

High time for rent control in PDX - Portland State Students for Rent Control and Housing Fairness

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:22:00 +0000

REPOST THIS REPOST THIS\

I for one am sick of skyrocketing rental rates in the Portland Area. On average, an off campus apatment (1 bedroom) costs about $650 in Portland. Part of the problem here is the 3 major property owners in the Portland area, namely American Property management, Princeton and Agressive. I suspect there is a little bit of a trust aggreement going on here to keep rental prices high in Portland. They dominate nearly all the apartment market in PDX (There are not that many indepenent landlords in PDX these days) Not only that, but all of the property owners have a 3 year eviction-free history policy. That means that if you screw up once, you are on the streets. How's that for a gentlemens' agreement. Something definitely stinks here in PDX and it is not the trash in the dumpsters or the shit in the sewers. The stench comes from City Hall and Salem where these greedy fucktards tilt the playing field in favor of the landlords' favor and stacks the deck against the renter.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The landlords in Portland are not only driving up the cost of living here but they are vampires, sucking the life blood out of this community. I am a Portland State University student and this issue has been discussed many times, including during the ASPSU elections last spring. This blatent act on the part of the landlords to gouge the renters of Portland is contributing to homelessness in Portland.

We as students and as a community at large need to challenge the status-quo (Yep, this shitty Republican corporate crap going on in PDX) and get together for change.

If You want to get involved, email me at mcarr@pdx.edu

MoNkEyWrEnCh=======!____!)

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noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:41:00 +0000

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Wise Woman's concoction to cure HIV Virus unofficial - Under GNU Lesser Public License

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:18:00 +0000

This is a REPOST THIS IS A REPOST THIS IS A REPOST

This is a concoction to get rid of HIV virus I got from my grandmother:

take 1 teaspoon Paprika Powder
Put in 8 oz glass of water - Slam it down throat - get chaser of water

take 2 teaspoons Ground thyme powder
Put in 8 oz glass of water - Slam it down throat - get chaser of water

In addition to this:
eat diet rich in bacon, ham and ground beef (I use frozen hamburger paties)
Bacon and ham kill HIV in semen and ground beef gives protien to strengthen immune system.

Note AZT is crap. It is a bandaid and does not cure AIDS. DO NOT USE IT. I AINT KIDDING.

JOHN MCAIN IS A FASCIST PIG and SO IS BUSH. GO DEMS. VOTE THIS NOVEMBER AND GET RID OF THE FASCIST REPUGNANT PARTY FOR GOOD. GOOD RIDDANCE TO GEORGRE BUSH

VOTE DEMS NOV IN PORTLAND THIS YEAR. FUCK ALL REPUBS.

THIS TRANSMISSION IS COPYLEFTED UNDER THE GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE AND PERMISSION HEREBY GIVEN FOR PUBLIC TO COPY AND REPOST THIS BLOG ENTRY. REPOST WIDELY ALL OVER WORLD WIDE WEB.!!!!!!!!!

American property management gouges their tennants of thier social security money and b X queen is a slut.

ThIs PaGe Is XXXXXXX by Fxxxxxxt xIxGxxxx)

- Jolly roger ( X )

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Robin Hood in the Digital Age

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:19:00 +0000

If Robin Hood was still hanging around in the 21st Century, he would be still stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. He would be a master computer hacker and could be anywhere on the planet that has an Internet connection. He would know about all access codes and security protocols, including military ones, since he has been hacking into this stuff since he was a kid. His domain would be robinhood@sherwoodforest.org.uk. He could be anywhere, including any coffee house with free wifi. He could be doing his hacking from an airport or a train station, anywhere in the world, right from his laptop. It would be impossible to catch him.

Robin Hood would break into corporate, bank and stock market computers and steal money from the accounts of filthy rich people like the Queen of England, Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Oprah Winferym as well as others and relocate the funds into the bank accounts of poor shmucks like us. The authorities would not know who did it, nor would they be able to trace Robin Hood through any IP address. All they would see is "robinhood@sherwoodforest.org.uk" on the system log. He would run Linux so his personal data on his computer would be secure.

NOTE: This work is copylefted and anyone is free to repost or pass around or add to it. GNU PUBLIC LICENSE 3.0

Underground culture - JCHC Punx / Metal / Hardcore / Rap

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:02:00 +0000

This article was composted (censored) from Portland Indymedia.org for Christian content. Another article I posted on Indymedia Portland announcing a Demon Hunter concert was also composted. This shows Indymedia's bias against anything to do with Christian culture.

In recent years, there has been an explosion in a musical genre pioneered by groups such as Petra, Stryper and Whitecross. This is Christian hard rock, which includes subcategories like punk, metal, hardcore, rapcore and metalcore. There are even some Christian grindcore bands around. These artists have a message of love and redemption in thier lyrics. One early group is D.C. Talk, who wrote songs such as In the Light, Jesus Freak and Into Jesus. Toby Mac, who went solo, used to be one of the band members. Pillar is another group that is popular, whose CD, For the Love of The Game is available everywhere. Pillar has other CD's such as Fireproof, Where do We Go From Here, and The Reckoning. Demon Hunter is another Christian band that plays metalcore. They have CD's such as The Tryptich and Storm the Gates of Hell. Living Sacrifice is a Christian death metal band. P.O.D. is a rapcore band from the 90's. They grew popular, getting airplay on mainstream radio stations. P.O.D. had a hit titled Youth of The Nation. Among other metal bands are August Burns Red, Underoath, Decypher Down, Disciple, Flyleaf, Horde and others. Christian punk bands include Officer Negative, Lugnut, Headnoise, Squad Five-O, Dogwood, Pocketchange, MxPx, Public Unrest, I.N.C., Gel Finatic, Flatfoot 56 and Project 86. Hardcore bands include Skillet and Thousand Foot Krutch. Christian rap acts include Supernatural - who is a local Portland rapper, Grits, Flame, Da Truth, La Crae, T-Bone, who was once a gang banger and KJ-52. Lately, in 2005, Dave Mustaine, front man to Megadeth became a Christian, releasing a CD titled United Abominations. When Dave converted, he quit drinking. The only change in Mustaine's music style is that he writes Christian themes in his songs. Megadeth rocks just as hard as in the old days. Many Christian metal and punk bands rock as hard as their mainstream counterparts. Christian rappers have themes of life in the hood, poverty, gang violence and repentance and turning away from the gangbang lifestyle. Many of them were gang members themselves.

Christian culture is working its way into the larger pop culture. An example of this is Demon Hunter's videos being played on MTV 2's Headbanger's Ball. Another example is the Afters making a video that is on MTV. In this case, MTV called the band and offered to play their video. Lately, songs from Christian artists have had airplay on mainstream radio stations and bands like Demon Hunter and many Christian metal bands tour with mainstream metal bands. They also play at mainstream venues and clubs in local metal, punk and rap scenes.

Open Letter to Indymedia.org

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:57:00 +0000

I posted an article on the Portland Indymedia about Christian youth and their music. Particularly Christian punk, metal, rap and hardcore. It was titled "Underground culture - JCHC Punx / Metal / Hardcore / Rap" I also posted an article announcing a Demon Hunter concert. None of these were against your publishing guidelines which read as follows

portland indymedia worker drones reserve the right to hide posts that:

1. advocate criminal activity indicating a specific time, place and/or manner

2. are duplicate posts (the most recent remaining on the newswire)

3. are obviously libelous or slanderous

4. interfere with the technical functionality of the website

5. are intended to disrupt the site

6. are empty posts (no content or gibberish)

7. are commercial advertisements

8. promote racism, homophobia, sexism, or other discrimination.

9. are obviously incorrect or misleading, including attempts to spread dis-information

10. are reposted from corporate media outlets

Other posts might be composted accordingly.

obviously, you have a blatant bais against cultures and beleifs that you do not agree with (namely anything Christian) that contradicts the "rainbow family ideas" or "new age philosophy". Indymedia, you advertise yourself to be an open newswire. It is obvious that you practice censorship. This is hypocrisy and makes you no better than CNN or FOX News, only this is a news outlet run and dominated by the left, just like MSM is corporate run. Both have bad bias and your "news" is so badly distorted. You stand for equality, yet you discriminate.

Wake up call for Christians

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:47:00 +0000

How can any Christian with half a conscience support abortion, Planned Parenthood, or the attempt to redefine marriage? How could Obama claim to be a Christian when he gives a speech about choice at a Planned Parenthood event? I think Obama is whack. He is just pandering to people of faith to get thier vote. Obama claiming to be a Christian is like the way the "Christian" slave holders used the Bible to justify slavery or the flaming homo bishops in the Episcopalian church saying that it is okay to lead a church and be openly and unabashedly gay. Homosexuality is sin. God loves them, but their behavior is not okay. No one with known sin in their live should be in a leadership position in a diocese or a church. That goes for adultery and fornication as well as homosexuality, so I am not just singling out gays here. Obama also suppoorts perverting what is meant by God to be a covenant between one man and one woman into lesbian and gay marriage. There was once a time when there was prayer in the public school system, and after it got taken out, presto! We got one heck of a gang and drug problem where kids bring guns to school and do things like Virginia Tech and Columbine. Even PSU has an official pro-choice position on the issue of sexuality, as well as an infection of secular humanisim in academia. The schools teach a watered down US history where they claim that the founding fathers were a bunch of atheists. That is not true. Washington was often seen on his knees praying and most of them wrote letters to each other affirming faith in God. Thanks to this misconception that "separation of church and state" is found in the first ammendment, groups like Americans for the Separation of Church and State sue anyone who starts a bible club in a high school or erects a nativity display in a public place. This is just whack. Secular Humanism, which is actually classified as a religion has become the defacto state religion of America. It is about time for Christians to wake up and take a good hard look around at what is going on. These secular humanistic fundamentalists can be just as dogmatic in their beleifs as a jihadist who blows themself up on an Israelli bus or a communist like Stalin who murdered half the Russian population. Oh, and the Chi Guverra guy that I always see on t-shirts personally executed scores of people.

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The real dirt on Planned Parenthood

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:46:00 +0000

Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States and it was founded by Margaret Sanger, a racist and proponent of eugenics, a philosophy all about racial purity and limiting the fertility of blacks, Jews, the poor, disabled and other "defective people" and "human waste". This is the same kind of thing that drove Adolf Hitler to exterminate six million Jews in Germany during the Holocaust. The original name of Planned Parenthood was the Negro Project, or as revisionists write, the American League of Birth Control. The Negro Project tricked the elites of black community, including even ministers and doctors, into thinking that abortion was the solution to the low social stautus and poverty the black community suffered. It promised abortion and birth control would alleviate the ills of the Negro by reducing the black population. It was not abortion that ultimately did this, but the black community rising up in protest of the injustice around them that elevated thier status in american society.

Planned Parenthood also aids and abets criminals, namely staturatory rapists who have sex with teenagers. These teen girls then get an abortion and Planned Parenthood conceals the identity of the partner of the teenager and fails to report the incident to the police or the parents. There is such a video documenting this on You Tube:

Here are some quotes from Sanger:

On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people

On the purpose of birth control:
The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

This is a wake up call and call to action for the churches of America and all Christians to protest this wicked organizaton wherever they set up thier baby slaughterhouses. Pastors must preach against Planned Parenthood from the pulpit. The unborn are the least fortunate among us an Jesus calls us all to help the less fortunate. God will hold us accountable for what we do about the murder of innocent lives.

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Abortion - The Silent Scream

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:15:00 +0000

I want to make a stand here. Abortion is murder. It is the murder of innocent children who have no voice. These unborn children do have rights though, and thier rights supercede the right of a woman to go get her unborn child vaccumed and utterly torn from her uterus. There are ultrasound clips of the baby trying to move away from the cold, steel instruments of the abortionist. If you look carefully, you will see an expression on the face of the unborn child screaming as it's little body is being torn asunder and sucked out of the uterus of the mother. This is called the "silent scream." Only a cold-blooded callous evil woman would go in to have this done to her own child. I used to be pro-choice until I met a friend that was not wanted by her father. He wanted her aborted and when he did not get his way, he daily verbally degraded and abused and isolated my friend for 19 years of her life. This friend of mine led me to faith in Jesus Christ. Here are some videos of the "silent scream." These films expose abortion for the horror it really is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THS2zZ4m260&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33BpDzkDOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJzSiAPXTiQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SHeFSyUYOM&feature=related

Repost: Open Letter to the RIAA - by Morgan Shillingburg

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:25:00 +0000

An Open Letter to the RIAA
by Morgan Shillingburg

Dear RIAA,

I've been seeing your posters around campus saying things like "Illegally downloading copyrighted files is STEALING!" and "Jail House Rock!" on them. While impeccably eye-catching, well laid-out, and amazing at getting your point across, I can't help but think that maybe, just maybe, you're missing something.

Your main argument against illegal music downloading is that it has cut into CD sales. Did you ever stop to think that maybe it is YOU that has crippled your own industry? Hear me out for a second.

Seriously, RIAA, have you turned on the radio anytime recently? Have you heard the "amazing" singles from the musical "artists" whose albums we're supposed to buy? I know it's hard to pick up in print, but the quotation marks used in the last sentence were there for sarcastic effect.

Laffy Taffy. Fergelicious. Bringin' Sexy Back. Don't Cha. This is Why I'm Hot. Milkshake.

Perhaps I'm being too subtle, RIAA. Let's look at some lyrics from the chorus of Akon's hit, "Smack That".

"I feel you creepin', I can see you from my shadow.
Wanna jump up in my Lamborghini Gallardo.
Maybe go to my place and just kick it, like Taebo.
And possibly bend you over.
Look back and watch me
smack that, all on the floor,
smack that, give me some more,
smack that, 'till you get sore
smack that, oooh."

Are you SERIOUS, RIAA? "Kick it, like Taebo?" And you expect us to drop an Andrew Jackson for his album? For the same amount of money, I could spend all day Tuesday watching We Are Marshall, Pursuit of Happiness, Happy Feet, Dream Girls, and Smokin' Aces twice each at Cinema Theatre.

So go ahead, talk about how we're hindering the amount of money your "artists" make. Do you know what the word "art" means? Well, according to Dictionary.com, art is "the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance."

I don't think Akon's masterpiece, "Smack That" is of more than ordinary significance, and I wouldn't use the words "expressive" or "aesthetic" to describe it. Yes, it's catchy, but I think somewhere along the lines of your money-grubbing marketing schemes, you took the "Muse" out of "Music."

Meanwhile, the highest paid musical tour of 2006 was the Rolling Stones, which made $138.5 million from 39 shows. I know, RIAA. I was surprised it wasn't that prodigious virtuoso, Fergie Ferg, either. When was the last time they had a hit?

And, I'm sorry, but it's hard to believe your sob stories of how much we're financially crippling the artists themselves when the great composer Mims has lyrics like the following in his songs:

"I’m in there driving cars
Push them off the lot
I’m into shutting stores down so that I can shop"

Poor, poor Mims. If I download music illegally, he won't be able to shut down stores so he can shop anymore. My heart goes out to you, Mims. Here's my money. No, I think downloading music illegally will require musicians to put out better albums.

And it's kind of funny how you get upset when we don't buy CDs, but when you sign a record deal, you cheat the artists. I know how they work, but how come you don't tell the masses?

Here's what PerformerMag.com has to say about record deals:

"Most major labels still offer a royalty that is a percent of Standard Retail List Price (SRLP), usually ranging from 10-15%, sometimes depending on whether the deal is “all-in” (artist pays producer royalty out of artist’s royalty). Major labels then deduct for packaging expenses, free goods), and other items, and also list a multitude of situations where those royalties will be reduced (i.e. foreign sales, record clubs, etc.) (http://www.performermag.com/IndieVSMaj orContracts.php)."

This means they say you'll pay artists 10-15% of all album sales and then make them pay for a bunch of other stuff. How is this fair?

Not only that, but Janis Ian, a Grammy award-winning songwriter who had a bunch of hits from the 1960s and 1970s explains the following on her website (http://www.janisian.com/article-intern et_debacle.html):

"A label can shelve your project, then extend your contract by one more album because what you turned in was 'commercially or artistically unacceptable'. They alone determine that criteria."

This means you have the musician's wallets and souls in a vice, don't you, RIAA? Funny how this information doesn't get released to the press and never makes your posters. I'd call that propaganda, wouldn't you?

And, according to that same article, America is the only country Ian is aware of that doesn't pay artists royalties for their live performances. What's up with that, RIAA?

Not only THAT, but some of the highest paid musical acts- Dave Matthews Band and Phish- have made their money off of illegal music file sharing. People who hear the illegal versions are more likely to come out to the concerts.

So, how about this, RIAA. Take your posters around campus and shove it. I don't want to see any more of your mind-swindling propaganda. Work for our money. Sign thoughtful poets with instruments who actually have something to say to your labels. Otherwise, the days of singer/songwriters and bands that change people's lives are long gone. D4L's Laffy Taffy is not the "Stairway to Heaven" of our time, no matter how much you want it to be.

Love,
Morgan Shillingburg

XXOO.

PS. Brian Warner once said, “How can America hate something that it created? It's like being mad at your own sh**. You should have eaten something different." I think this quote applies to you.

Oh, and if you don't know who Brian Warner is, look him up. Later, RIAA.

There is much resentment toward the RIAA. They are taking away digital freedoms like recording off the radio and other things, and they encourage DRM or digital rights management by pushing Congress to pass laws forcing innovators of new technologies to intentionally cripple thier products. All this for making an extra buck from the low quality garbage that is passed off as pop music on the airwaves these days. I personally listen to bands like Pillar, Skillet, David Crowder Band and DC Talk, just to name a few.

> Jesus|Freak

Jesus Freaks - Christians in Pop Culture and Media

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:59:00 +0000

It seems that in the blogosphere, Christians are constantly criticized and often put down. The comments range from a ridicule, to a sneer to a downright derrogatory remark about "Christian fundamentalists", "fundies", "Christian right" etc. There is more to it though. There are liberal Christians who are working for social change. Dr. Martin Luther King, himself was a reverend and Christian leader. It seems that when someone mentions "Christian", a person will get a thought of someone like Jerry Falwell or some televangelist.

The most vehement attacks towards Christians come from "evangelical" atheists. This is a new breed of atheist fundamentalism, with a message of convincing people that there is no God. I have seen some of their blogs, spreading stereotypes and misinformation about Christianity, perpetuating the stereotype that Christians bomb abortion clinics, want to support torture and war, hang gays from trees and that Christianity is responsible for more deaths than anything ever. In fact, atheism is responsible for more deaths than all the religions put together - Christian, Muslim, Jewish and pagan. All of this in the 20th century. People like Stalin, Pol Pot, T'sung Mao, Fidel Castro and other atheists have killed Christians, Jews, Buddhists and other religious people in the name of a dogma that exalts the state along with the dictator of that state.

There is more to Christianity than decrying the immorality of abortion or rock videos or pornography. Christians have declared things like racism, corporate greed, homelessness, and hunger to be immoral. For example, the African American church has a long tradition of working for social change, starting with Fredrick Douglass and the abolitionist movement to end slavery. Christians like John Newton, the author of the famous hymn, Amazing Grace, was a powerful force that helped end the slave trade in the British empire. Pope John Paul II denounced both capitalism as greed and communism as slavery.

>Jesus|Freak

Jesus' love working through Christians Drew me to Jesus

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:09:00 +0000

Before I knew the Lord, I was depraved. I was into the occult, wicca to be exact. I was a chronic LSD and pot user and I wanted witchcraft to be the official religion of the USA and Christianity overthrown. I then met an autistc girl who was a Christian who told me that Jesus loves everyone and that He wants to have a relationship with me. At the time, I thought God hated me and was waiting for me to die so he can send me to hell to roast forever. My autistic friend told me that God loves me and does not want me to go to hell - that all I have to do is ask for his forgiveness and turn from sin. I did so, and soon after I joined a small street church that encouraged and loved me as well as taught and prayed for me. I was a member of that church for two years and I still have relationships with those people. This was not my image of Christians that I thought. I thought Christians wanted to bomb abortion clinics, turn the middle east into glass and hang gay people from trees. These Christians I knew were loving.

When I started fall term at PSU, I joined a church that did outreach on campus. We meet on campus and it is another small loving church where everyone knows each other. This is ideal for me, because those megachurches are just too big to be personal. Small churches are better to form loving relationships in.

All too often, Chistians will preach a "turn or burn" message to people. This message, one that I have heard many times, offered me little hope. It never worked to bring me to Jesus - it did the opposite. Christians who loved me unconditionally drew me to Jesus - not someone trying to scare me out of hell.

Jesus did not come to scare us. He did not come to condemn us either. He came to love us and save this world.

Digital Freedom - Open Source Vs. Closed Source

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:24:00 +0000

The open source revolution is here to stay and the software corporations are fighting it. Microsoft is trying to illegally stop the propagation of the Linux operating system by claiming that Linux violates over 100 software patents held by Microsoft. It is both illegal and immoral for Microsoft to use its monopoly power to force their bug-ridden products on the industry. Vista is buggy by all means and it runs slow. It also uses a substantial amount of system resources to run, using 2 GB of memory to run efficiently and 1 GB to run at all. Linux only uses about 700 MB of memory with Compiz running. Linux with Compiz does everything Vista does and more. In particular, the Ubuntu distribution of Linux is easy to install and run, running "out of the box". Linux usually takes up less space on the hard drive. It is a better, more efficient operating system.

One of the problems in the computer industry is that hardware manufacturers are slow to provide support for Linux. This gives Windows an unfair advantage in the market. Also, Windows is often the only choice when a new machine is bought, but comanies like Dell is offering Ubuntu as an option for an installed OS.

Another problem with Vista is that it "phones home". It is secret what information Vista sends back to the Microsoft servers but I don't trust it for one minute. It reminds me of spyware. Another problem is that it encourages DRM or digital rights management. DRM limits a user's freedom to use a particular software, video or music product as the user sees fit. I don't like DRM. It is defective by design and I will not buy music from online music stores - I will get the CD at a record store.

My laptop came with Vista installed and it took me fifteen minutes to figure out how to reset the computer so it would boot off the Ubuntu CD. I called it the "Windows that would not take no for an answer." Needless to say, Vista only lasted that fifteen minutes, then it got erased, with Ubuntu getting installed over it after a reformat of the hard drive.

>Jesus|Freak

Christian Unity, Christian Love

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:30:00 +0000

Ever since the Great Schism which divided the Eastern Orthodox Church from the Roman Catholic church, divisions have spilt the body of Christ. We need to have more unity in the church. There seems to be divisions in America - liberal Christians and conservative Christians, black Chrisitians and white Christians. Despite our differences, we need to work together. I have seen various churches and youth groups come together and serve under the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon. The ministry is called Night Strike. What they do is feed and generally care for the homeless and poor under the bridge. At Portland State University, there is a student group who's purpose is to promote unity among Christians and Christian student groups on campus. We all have one goal - to share Jesus' love by serving and loving ones in need. Then God does the work of bringing that person to the point of giving his life to Christ. It is through giving unconditional love to people through Christians that will win them to Christ - not telling them how bad they are. People already know how bad they are. Our job is to show them that God loves them. Often times, these people think God hates them. People are often times the way they are because they have been abused in some way. A little kindness from God's people will go a long way to bring them to Jesus.

We must love everyone, no matter who they are. Some Christians hate homosexuals, for instance. We are supposed to love them, even though we don't condone thier lifestyle. We are supposed to even love our enemies as Jesus commanded us to do. We must forgive as God forgave us, because if you don't forgive others, God will not forgive you. Remember, people who are in sin are enslaved to it. We need to pray to God to set them free. We must pray for our unsaved loved ones, friends and family, as well as coworkers. Lastly, we must love each other and pray for each other and we must quit gossiping about each other. Gossip kills a church faster than anything does.

We really do need to come together as a church and start loving each other and loving and serving people outside the church. We need to care more for the needy and poor among us and in our communities and pursue God with all our hearts.

>Jesus|Freak

Fighting evil - Spiritual warfare

noreply@blogger.com (monkeywrench) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:37:00 +0000

Evil exists in our society. That is evident. Many Christians try to combat it by attempting to gain political power to try to stamp it out. This approach does not have the power to set people free from various bondages. Legislating a moral precept does not change a person's heart - only prayer does. We can only fight evil, which comes from Satan and his demonic agents, with the power of the Holy Spirit. Our weapons are not carnal, but are spiritual, with the power to pull down strongholds. A stronghold is anything in a person's mind that keeps out the truth and keeps lies in. The battle is in the mind. Groups like the Moral Majority have drawn ridicule, struggling for real change. That is because they tried to fight on their own strength. We as Christians need to fight in the spiritual realm. Occultists and people who serve Satan operate on the spiritual and supernatural realm and so can we through the Holy Spirit. Every region and city on earth is controlled by territorial spirits. We need to be a praying church, praying for each other and our commmunities, as well as our unsaved friends, family and coworkers. We need to pray for God to send his warring angels to strike down demonic forces that are holding our cities, college campuses and communities, and our nation in bondage. We need to pray for miracles.

The Church in America understands little about praying for miracles. Miracles is how God manifests His glory and miracles occur in third world nations along with mass revival. I have even heard stories that the dead are being raised there. We need to pray for healings for our loved ones.

Then we as a church need to get out of our separatist holy huddle, go out into the world and be salt and light to a dying world. That does not mean that we are of this world or that we should immitate its sinful ways, but how can we impact a lost world if we are barricaded wthin the four walls of the church. We need to go out and be the church and reach out to people. There is a hunger for God's love among the people in this world that we should fill by loving and serving them.

We as a church, once we repent of sin that has existed in the church, need to pray for a move of God's Spirit and be ready for when that comes. And be Christ's hands and feet.

>Jesus|Freak