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found poetry in the new testament
1.
Band together
know jesus christ armed students to present us gods word.

2.
Make her put away the child
Then command her to come to you.

3.
When they saw their treasures they departed saying:
"until I destroy the prophet, all the children are dead.

4.
In those days
the kingdom was crying to you
to say to yourselves
"he is coming after me and he will burn me, for thus it is."

5.
good for nothing earth of heaven
you shall murder without your brother.
deliver his heart.

6.
if you do not even sound a trumpet when you love openly
you do not like them
in this manner you lead evil forever.

7.
seek the things that you consider
in your own eye
holy
or you will find he who seeks Him
is lead to destruction

8.
I will come
I am worthy
For I am heaven.
Go your way and be certain you have to.

9.
He said:
"Men! Be good."



My friend Charles gave me this tiny new testament and I am turning it into my art project. doodles and found poetry, a good time. I am not religious. I guesss its a testament to my beliefs or something. I am having fun with it. for sureee. I might take pictures of some of the pages.
 
 
 

   
Rachel's Tears
I waited a couple of days to post my entry about this book because the very day after I mentioned that I was going to write about it, Dylan Klebold's mother was on tv talking about the years since the Columbine tragedy. It has to have been some difficult years for all of the families and former students involved. So I had to reconsider the post a bit.

This book is very important to some changes I began making in my life about 2 years ago. I just happened across it at a used book store and I had never heard the story of Rachel Joy Scott

Basically, Rachel Scott was an extremely faithful student who attended Columbine High School and she was killed there. In her backpack among her school books and cosmetics were her diaries. She wrote constantly about her faith and the challenges of her belief and her love for God. She wrote that she knew she was going to die for her beliefs -- all teenagers are given to flights of melodrama - but the book made me really consider what I may not actually know, or even be able to comprehend about faith and God. 

Before reading this book, I allowed myself to be very close-minded about anything spiritual. I lived in a gray enclosed world of 'live now and it will be all over soon'. I don't necessarily agree with the entire belief system as Rachel did or wrote about, but it did wake me up and make me think. It was a little nick in the cynical armor I had covered myself in. It is a very interesting, intense and sad story but a good way into understanding the lives of faithful Christians. 


 
 
   
 

The religious explanation of the world is quite complicated.
Remember how humanity was a few thousand years ago? It was simple. No laws, no economical repression, no pollution. The Man has always been good at one thing: complicating things.

Nature gave as readymade food, but still, we managed to create complicated recipes full of refined ingredients which are nothing but absolutely innutritious and highly addicting.

Nature gave as two legs to walk to wherever we may need to go, but we managed to create cars, planes and space shuttles. Are these really necessary? Aren’t we just going to waste more resources to build things that don’t really need to exist?

Nature gave as beautiful free sunrises, sunsets, night skies, forests, mountains, lakes, flowers, animals.. but still, we need to pay for art.

We could grow our own vegetables and raise our own animals, but still, we prefer to work hard for a paycheck only big enough to pay for some of our indulgences..

Randomness is a part of nature, storms and catastrophes are just a part of it, but still, we prefer to explain disasters as God’s punishment or God’s way to make us grow in spirit.

The human nature is capable of things that are almost impossible, but we prefer to talk in God’s miracles instead of believing that when we work hard enough, with enough dedication, WE are capable of miracles.

The easiest explanation for the world could be *none*. But still, we prefer to complicate it all by creating religions. And some of them, so hypocritical, that if God really existed, he would commit suicide for such shame.

SERIOUSLY, STOP ASKING FOR MONEY!

IF JESUS EVER REALLY EXISTED, I BET HE NEVER ASKED FOR GOLD COVERED CHURCHES OR FANCY OUTFITS.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-Thomas Paine
 
 
 

   
Ban the Burka

I completely agree with Pat on this one. 100 percent.
 
 
   
 

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