Thursday, June 14, 2007

guess who this kid is





points on who ever can guess who this guy is before next week

Monday, June 4, 2007

what am I?

If you look around you'll see that almost everywhere you go people are categorizing people into different groups, like skaters, nerds, jocks, and preps,(and of course emo) but the weird the weird thing is all of these things are created by influencers, like it didn't just happen that all of a sudden a bunch of people started skateboarding and called themselves skaters first someone decided to dress and act like a skater and then other followed until it became a major "category".

But what's funny about this is when you come to homeschoolers that don't hang out with the mainstream folks and they end up having there own style, partly formed from what they like and partly from what they see, and they become people that can fit into four or five different styles all at the same time, so I asked myself "what am I?" and basically I got that except I'm also a little hippie (which is weird how many homeschoolers are like that) but in a lot of things I'm the opposite of hippie, here's why.

reasons why I'm a hippie-

1st-it's funny, I really like the VW van(as you can probably see)
2nd-I am more and more liking older music(even though I still like my share of new stuff
3rd-I'm hoping to get a very "hippie-ish" guitar
4th-I have longer than most peoples hair
5th-I have a liking for all old stuff (like records and old cars)

looking at this I may seem like a regular hippie (if there is such thing) but there is a big reason why I wouldn't call myself 100% hippie, and the reason why is my beliefs pretty much, I do not think that we should end all wars because there is a time to fight, I do not think we need to hug trees like they do because I don't think global warming is really taking place, I'm a fan of some types of rap music(but only what's under the "Christian" label)

that's the weird thing about homeschoolers, they don't have a set style, but I just consider it an advantage.

I hope I haven't gone crazy!

Sunday, May 20, 2007

memories from the tournament

1.I'll start with the stupid one, the cell phone that I decided to bring. It's seems to be okay to bring a cell phone to the tournament, but not if it's a broken one, the first day I and others had quite a good time throwing and smashing the cell phone(even though I was accused for doing it all the times, which is not the case) and we even got David Vogel to stop walking by throwing it in his path (that was really funny because he was hosting the tournament and so he was never stopping on the first day) after a while Sarah Be/I mean Chloe kept stealing it, I'm surprised I still have it.

2.the little guitar hero, it's probably pretty cool, but I didn't really care to learn a video game guitar rather than just guitar (I mean really) but the guy looked so boring for the camera and I was like "if I can't play well at least I can look like I am" so I got on and now the best pictures ever have been taken, and soon they will be shown.

3.this one started the night before, we were having a last minute little speech practice and Sarah Beth happened to be the randomist person alive, first she kept passing these notes about how she's having a toe removed or something, and when ever she got mad or acted like it she'd look like Chloe from 24, and then after I nicknamed her that she will ever more give me this evil looking stare, there are pics of this also.

4.this moment was quite fun, on friday night we had a few people over and played a few games that our family are known for, and in this one of the games was flashlight tag, and at one time me and Daniel saw that two of the girls that could quite easily scare them, so we went back in the woods, but then the girls were tagged and sent to jail and me and daniel were practically stuck in the woods, then all of a sudden we realized, we could be sitting on a bunch of poison Ive, it wasn't the best thought but it was quite humorous.

5.thank you concord club for making the DV memorial, it will ever be in my memory (pics coming)

6.and thanks to tiffany for putting the Mr.Wirtz ducky in Davids head! he'll be seeing it next week(LOL)

the only two things that I regret were that, 1.the WVM final score was not very well scored, Nick and Kayla should've both been up there, and 2.that I didn't get to talk to as many debaters, even though I did finally meet most of the people there.

In all this tournament has been so different from the last two that I think it's not even comparable to them, but it was a great one anyway!

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

abstract thought

My well waited for abstract thought is to make a list of abstract thoughts, ideas, umm things, cool things, and one just, umm Crazy thing(I guess).

Here's the list of good abstract thoughts

1.(I have to start with this one) you know your a manly man when your idea of fun is dipping a lighter fluid soaked torch into a fire and then swinging it around until the news paper that was tapped on to it flying off into the air(yep, that's what I did this afternoon, after practicing speeches for like an hour) (for explanation remember what I said when you see my brothers movie fear)

2.you know your a girl when, umm... you do.. something with Starbucks like every two seconds and.. um stuff.. and you shop for close in a all girl coffee shop and way to expensive "I'm never going to where this I just want to buy it" close store and boring stuff like that.

3. you know your probably dead tired when you get on the computer for like an hour and do entirely nothing, and then go to homestarrunner.com and like watch the new toon soon that finally came out.(what, I'm not talking about anyone in particular 'blink blink')

4.you know your thinking abstractly when you suddenly open a synonyms antonyms and homonyms book and read something "scrupulous-cautious, careful, a bunch of other things that are not that important and stuff like that.

5. the DNA evidence was tampered with.

6.if electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons( I feel like an evil doer whenever I say that, LOL)

7.Q.if macs are the best why do pc's exist?A. they exist to show the greatness of macs and there overpowering superiority... or maybe because bill gates found a way to become a millionaire...

8.ACTS, a deed. AXE a tool. you just read one of the most radom things ever.

more coming after the tournament.

here I go again

yeah, I haven't posted in a while, I guess it's cause I normally don't like posting unless it's a night when I don't have a obligation other than entertaining you guys and so I post, but I haven't had an open night, even now isn't my best time, I'm on our PC and it's quite annoying, it's like, typing on a, cobble stone pathway instead of something like, smooth and good(like a mac)so besides that there's not really anything to say about the present surroundings.

So I must entertain you guys by talking about the past weeks of my life that I haven't been able to post about.

This week is like craziness to the second power. First of all, this week is one of the last weeks I'm finishing up school(or supposed to be) and at the same time I've been practicing speeches for the tcc speech and debate tournament, the two don't mix well so one must be neglected, and of course because school is of lesser priority that is the one that is being all but ignored. At least my speeches are good, and I guess that's kind of school.

along with this me and nick bought a new cd by red, it's quite a good cd! enough so that nick actually half bought it instead of only buying the popular ones, that makes it prety good!

I've just gotten an abstract thought about another post, and because this is kind of like a 'talk about my life and amuse thoughs who have such little of one that they have time to read this(lol just kidding)' I'll leave this to a new post about my abstract thought(s)

goodbuy

Monday, April 30, 2007

HE'S HERE!!!!!(again)

With all this (talk of)war and (talk of)panic it seems that many people have lost there heads, and I'm not just talking about the crazy people who probably have lost there head, I'm talking about people even in the church there are people going crazy with the whole "everything is bad in our days" madness (even though life for most of the common people who say things like this are normally better than royal life 200 years ago.




But don't you all know!?! The anti Christ is alive and here today even in all our common lives from when we were young!! You don’t believe me? I’ll prove it to you.

I’ll start with when we were very young, what is one of the biggest influences of the average child? It isn’t any toy of book or game, it’s the TV. And what is the most popular show for younger children? Barney! Your probably saying “how could that cute purple dinosaur be the anti Christ? You’ve obviously have lost your head John!” But I tell you it’s true, and I’ll prove it.

1. Lets start with what we have
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR
2. Because the devil would only be roman we will use proper Latin and change the U’s to V’s
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR
3. Again, because the devil is roman we will take all the roman numerals
CVVLDIV
4. Convert these into there Arabic values
100,5,5,50,500,1,5
5. Add it all up and what do we have
666!!

If you watched Barney when you were young repent now and maybe mercy will be shown (LOL)

But the anti Christ has gotten even deeper into our lives than we think, even now you could be using his evils, he’s even gone so far as to penetrate the world wide web!!

Every time you go to a website you have to type “www” and believe it or not that is the sure mark of the beast!

You see in the Hebrew language (remember, that’s the bibles language) there no W’s, so they use V’s instead, and in the Hebrew alphabet guess what the 6th letter is, you guessed it, it’s V, so www would be 666!!!

But it gets even better (or should I say worse) WWW.yahoo.com is the conformer of the anti Christ, yahoo would be yahu in the Hebrew language, and it also happens to mean He is God!!! So when ever we go to www.yahoo we are going to “666 he is God”!!!!!!! repent!!!!!!!!!!




Yeah, you see what I mean, there seems to be the last days madness going around, but is this biblical? No, you can find precisely who the anti Christ is by going to 2 John 7 where it says

"For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as the coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the anti Christ"

This pretty much sums it up, anyone who doesn't think Jesus is lord is the anti Christ, and we need not any of this insanity that is here, it's harmful to others too, they could think "if the Christians are wrong about this couldn't they be wrong about other things?" and then those who could've come to faith might not.

...but for the most part I'm glad the internet isn't the anti Christ.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

dream car

Today has so far been a pretty normal day for me besides one very interesting (in a good way) happening, that happening happened to start earlier this week when we saw my dream car parked at an old gas station, it wasn't any special Ferrari that everyone wants but no one gets. it was a VW van!!!! probably 72 or something, it was awesome!

For a long time (or... well, a few months) the older VW van has been my dream car, so at first I thought it was really cool that someone parked his VW at this old gas station, but after a few days I got suspicious that it might be more than just parked, so I got my parents to drive by the place after church and look and see if it was really for sale, and sure enough it was!! the only thing that stopped me from buying it right there was that I can't drive and if I did even get my parents to buy it my brother would have to drive it for me and then it'd end up as his car, so I'll just wait until I get my permit to get one of them (and to think my grandparents used to have until like two years ago that my dad used to drive)

But seeing the VW did make me think that they could be rare (that might be an excuse to buy it now) so I googled them and looked them up on ebay and found out that they are kind of rare but there findable. Besides finding them I also found some very good pics of them that I have posted
this first one is my favorite









Yeah, in a few years you'll see me driving to debate with one of these, and I'm not joking!

Saturday, April 21, 2007

a forth of a quarter.

It's 10:46 at night and I am not ready to go to sleep, so I thought to myself what a a great time to blog about my everyday life, so here it goes.

well to start I'll just explain what my title is all about, it was a quite humorous moment, but it might not be as humorous on paper (or... screen?). this evening we (my family) were supposed to go to this churchish thing, but, because my dad is working nights you can imagine his tiredness. So instead of going to church me and my brother went to Starbucks because my sister from collage came back for the weekend and she brought her new friend from uncc to starbucks with all her older friends and so we were hangin out there, and as it will, time made it's mark of boredom on me my bro and another dude named Nolan, and because we were near Harris-Teeter we were like "okay, to revive our amusement we should go in" (even thought it didn't sound so proper it was still the same basic thing[y]) so after some interesting-ness-es me and Nolan decided to buy a thing of donuts, and of course we did, but without the help of nick my brother, in other words nick didn't get any, and on the car ride to drop Nolan off he eventually bought one for 75c, but then after that I realized Nolan sold his last donut and all the other ones were mine (I felt happy) but then of course it happened that nick and Nolan started making these extremely stupid puns about a quarter of a quarter and stuff like that, the conversation is as follows-

Nolan-"Okay John, I'll give you this donut(that was already mine) for half of the quarter of this quarter that I'm going to give Michael(my sister) out of my own good heart so it's really an act of free will and of goodness that you give me you donut" (this was fallacious on propose)
Nick-What is a quarter of a quarter?"
Nolan-"oh, it's 8 pi"
John(this is the really bad pun of the night)-"oh yeah cause a quarter is a curricula and you have to have pi for it"

this would be a lot funnier if it were like a strongbad e-mail and all of what I say is on video, it'd be much more interestinger (sb should have a blog) oh well.

In all you guy probably didn't laugh at any of this but that's okay because I'm not paid to entertain you and it was fun and funny for me to write about it, so sorry for the wast of you time (lol)

Now some more random facts about my past day and past life(but mostly past day).

I had a sad moment today too, you see this gas station that's right near me church has this really good really cheep energy drink that tastes better than most, and today I was tired and because of this I had an excuse to get my bro to stop by the place and get us some rip it (that's the name of the energy drink, I wasn't just trying to by cool by making up some stupid name :wink:) but to my sadness, it wasn't holding them anymore, and this was bad news because 'rip it' is only a dollar and all the other ones are at least two, but I still got a pretty good amp, and I know where 'rip it' is still held so I can still have it (yay for randomness)

right now, besides being on my blogger place, I am also on the forum were I strangly see that there are a lot of people who get on at (now) 11:20, that's pretty late! (I'd better get to bed)

I hope I didn't bore you guys away too much...

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(as you can see, I don't want to go to bed, but I'm now going, goodbye)

John

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Clearing things up

After someone read my post about evil he said that is sounded like I was saying that God created evil, this isn't what I mean. My answer to the question "if God is all powerful and all good why does evil exist?" according to my definition is this-

"So my conclusion is that because evil is the opposite of good, and good is that which is pleasing to God, evil is that which is displeasing to God, and the reason that evil exists, is because if there is no concept of that which is displeasing to God, there cannot be the concept of that which is pleasing to God, therefore, by creating good the concept of good, the concept of evil was created."

John

P.S. thanks daniel for telling me that it sounded like I meant God created evil just for it's sake :D

Let me ask you, how do these two people look at all the same

This is a very interesting story that has given me the pet nickname of "sire", let me ask you, how does the second picture look like me at all?
this

and this?


they shouldn't look at all like each other, because one of them is me (a 13 year old boy) and one of them is James sire (a I believe 70 year old man) so how where these two ever compared?

It started, as most humors things in my life start in worldview and speech class, one of my speeches, which turned out to be the absolute hardest one to complete was "why should anyone believe anything at all?" I can post the speech later but the thing was I am very competitive about my speeches, and because this was a hard speech I wanted to have this be one of my best speeches, so what I do is go and find a interesting website that has numerous podcasts about many Christian subjects, and it just happens to have the speech by sire (which inspired my speech and WV teacher, Mr.Wirtz to make the speech topic) anyway, I wrote the speech which it is now one of the best speeches I have.

But when I mentioned that I got this podcast, Mr.Wirtz gave me one of these looks that he's famous for and said "ah, Sire, you look like him" and I was thinking to my self (this is before I saw any picture of him) "is that a good thing or a bad thing?" and my question was answer right after I thought that when Mr.Wirtz said "he's 80 years old"...LOL it was all a humors moment, I knew Mr.Writz was just picking on me, but then I saw a really picture of sire. Yeah, LOL, I don't see how I looked like sire, it was funny. But what was funnier was the fact that he sounds nothing like he looks, in the podcast, I imagined this older looking mad that was clean shaven and gray hair, Sire didn't really seem anything like what I imagined, but he did go along with the fact that if you speak on the radio or anything like it you always end up not sounding like you look, LOL

Mr.Writz has been busy with other stuff and we (my who class) haven't seen him sense the week he said I looked like sire... hehe, I still have a chance to pick on him back for calling me sire, LOL

John

P.S. I look horrible in the pic of me, I look so much better than that in real life, LOL

More pics





Okay, here are the two other ones that I have on our pc. this first one (trees one whith the name) is the one that inspired me in the first place.

All these pics were taken by eather me or my family and I edited them, I hope you liked them!

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

pics






This^one is kinda weird because I don't have it edited right, but it was influenced by the one that nick showed me earlier.

I'll have more but they are on my (family's) deal so I can't really put them up here right now, anyway, macs are so much better :D (sorry, macs are my favorite)

John

Album art

Just today I was doing school when Nick (my brother) call me to the computer and showed me a picture that was quite interesting and artistic, so later when I decided to make a blog I was like 'why don't I take pics like nick and make an album art thingy'(me and nick thought his picture looked like album art so we made a name and everything for it, it was pretty cool)

so here are the pics :D

Actually I need to post them on the thing below so look for it :D

Evil and good

In the last year I have joined this group called the cultural commission, it's a speech and debate league I guess you could say that's all over NC, and this group (tcc) has a speech and debate forum which I am now on quite a lot. This forum has a miscellaneous forum were everyone, if there in speech or debate can discuss any topics, one quite large topic Was called "If God is all good and all powerful, why does evil exist?" and me and my Daniel newton (a member of that forum) both were discussing this together for quite a while, the main thing was that no one could come to the conclusion about what the definition of evil even was, there were mainly two thoughts about this,one was that evil is the absence of good, and the other was evil is the distortion of good.

A few days ago I got an e-mail from Daniel who has discussed this topic quite a lot, the e-mail said this-

"If evil is the absence of good, it doesn't exist. If evil doesn't exist, then all there is is good. If everything is good, everything is equal. If everything is equal, Christianity is no better than any other religion. And leads to pluralism and other such evil paths... What do you think? I'm confused."

I don't really agree with all that has been said here, if everything is good then everything is morally equal, but not truthfully equal, so it wouldn't lead to pluralism, but it would lead to moral relativism which contradicts the christian worldview.

So I first asked him what he thinks the definition of good is, and we both agreed that the definition of good is that which is pleasing to God.

In the end this is my reply to the hole question (and if this post sounds like I'm just replying to Daniel sorry about that, I'm just using what we said as a background for this topic]) was this-

"The reason you concluded evil was the absence of good is because you thought that that is the opposite of good, that isn't the opposite of good, the absence of boy is part of the opposite of boy, but the real opposite of boy is girl, which a girl is the absence of being a boy, but if you say that the absence of boy is girl alone then you find that girl doesn't exist.

This can be applied to good and evil, you guys said that evil is the opposite of good, which is true, but you then said that the opposite of good is the absence of good, which you then came to the conclusion that ether that's not true or evil does not really exist.

But the absence of good isn't the full opposite of good, it's only a part of it, the opposite of good is that which is displeasing to God, and that's what evil is.

Now we come to the real question, if God is a powerful and all good then why does evil exist?

The answer is, if the concept of pleasure to God exists, the concept of displeasure to him must exist, think about this, if the concept of pleasure existed without the concept displeasure wouldn't that make it not real pleasure at all?

For instance, God said the world was good, what would that mean if there was no concept of it not being good? It would mean nothing because for some concepts to exist there must be it's opposite. If God said something was 'good' (which is pleasing to him) what would that mean if there was no opposite thing to be the alternative of what God called the earth, so good couldn't have existed unless there was an opposite standard which is evil.

So my conclusion is that because evil is the opposite of good, and good is that which is pleasing to God, evil is that which is displeasing to God, and the reason that evil exists, is because if there is no concept of that which is displeasing to God, there cannot be the concept of that which is pleasing to God, therefore, by creating good the concept of good, the concept of evil was created."

which is my main belief on the subject, a question that arouse after this was " was God able to derive pleasure before Satan fell?" and I'd say yes, even though displeasure to God wasn't in heaven before Satan fell the concept of displeasure to Him was still there, so pleasure to God existed and displeasure to Him (or the concept of it) existed, but before Satan actually committed displeasure to God, only the concept of displeasure to God existed and it was not practiced or used until Satan committed it.

It was quite interesting to think through this topic myself, after I came to the conclusion that evil is displeasure to God it seemed quite obvious, but then again, I observed this discussion before I even started thinking about it.

That's all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this!

John

hello everyone!

Hey everyone! this is my newly opened blog, I decided to make it because so much of my time is spent just thinking I decided to put it into words, I think about serious stuff most of the time, like chess and philosophy, and sometime I think about crazy, funny stuff, like apple computers and Dr.pepper, so I hope you like reading my blog.

John