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| With all the brew-ha-ha about Brandon Marshall of the Broncos, and the departed Jay Cutler, I've got to wonder....
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?
You are getting paid to play a game, and you would be so bold to demand a trade because you don't fit in? Gimme a break. I don't think I'll ever make more than 100k a year, but you, who make millions, whine and bitch because your feelings got hurt? Really?? You should be glad that you get to play on a team, playing a game that you love.
And this is why I detest Cutler. He may end up being a great QB, but he has got a serious attitude problem. Get over yourself, and start playing like a team leader and not like a sissy who just had biggest wedgie of his life.
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| I was late to a social gathering the other night. I had double booked my 5 o'clock time slot with a racquetball match. I have been known to blog about mundane topics like R-ball games and video games, and to properly make them mundane a significant amount of time needs to be spent. But that's not what made me late, after all, it was a pretty ordinary game. My kill shot was a bit off, and I'm still not pleased with my backhand shot. I was pleased however, with the feel of new strings on my 2nd racquet. I finally broke the strings on my 1st racquet a couple weeks ago. Anyways....to the point of the post.
I saw Once with a group of friends. I gave it some time to marinate, but looking back at the film, I don't see what the point of the movie was. I suppose it has something to do with really doing what was in your heart....at least for the musician. There were some cute parts to the film, but overall, it was rather pedestrian in the flow of the movie....afterall most of it was a pied. I was a bit miffed by the female character though. In my opinion she did quite a bit of leading on. I mean, it was set up to be that way almost. Lonely heartbroken guy meets quirky flower girl. I won't spoil the rest of the movie with details, but I'll just say that it had some common elements with 500 days of Summer....
...Just not as brazen. Here was a female character you could hate, at least some people thought so. The underlying theme here was about love and fate. For one person, there really was THE ONE destined to meet and live happily, while the other thought such a thing was pure nonesense. As in Once, the female character leads the male character into a relationship, if that's what you can call it. If....that's what she could call it. In the end, she could have been less of a ass, but no...continued to plunge daggers into the guy's heart. Something to effect of "we are great friends." Yeah ok. Whatever that means after all crap she pulled. You just felt really sorry for the guy from Third Rock (not to be confused with Thirty Rock), and the fact that he was willing to do it all over again. Anyhow, it wasn't so much that you could hate Zooey's character, just that she was completely tactless.
The movie does bring up some interesting questions though. So what about fate? Does fate play a role in love? Or...is it just purely coincidental?
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| Enough already.
First you screwed the Packers over with that tearful goodbye. Did you really think that they would take you back after you said you'd retire?? You put them in an untenable situation. Then you screwed the Jets over by faltering at the end of the season. Old bones you say? Let's say you made some bad decisions on some passes. What is the coach going to say to you? You're freakin Brett Favre. You would just shrug it off.
Now you're going to play for the Vikings???? I know that you don't want to just get back at the Packers but COME ON! Make up your damn mind about things for once. You know, I wouldn't have a problem with you playing, but to keep changing your mind only tarnishes your reputation. And you have a tear in your shoulder? When do you think that will blow up?
Enough Favre.
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| Everyone knows I like to game. RPGs (role playing games) are my favorites D&D among them. But that's not the point of this post. I've never played the Sims. I've played other simulations such as Sim City, Sim Farm, Sim Ant, and Railroad Tycoon, but not the Sims, where you basically control people and simulate lives. Since I've never played the game, I do not know the nuances, so experienced players will have to correct me if I am wrong.
I've thought about this a bit and how it may or may not relate to God. On the surface, there is a certain determinism. You control the actions your characters and develop them through time. You have an end goal in how you want your character to develop and move them appropriately. The classical view of the omniscient God is somewhat similar. There is a grand plan (though we fail to grasp it), and we are guided by God into decisions that ultimately bring us to our purpose in life because God is timeless. God is able to see time all at once, and fashion a plan out of nothing (ex nihilo) if need be. Beyond this, the similarities start to breakdown. In the Sims, we indeed control everything, our characters bend to our will and do not develop contrary to our wishes. Assuming that you believe in free-will, humans are able to make decisions contrary to will of God.
But do we really if there is a predetermined plan for us? Yes we do make decisions and are genuinely offerred a different choice at each junture in a decision making moment. But is our will really free if as Christians we are to conform our will to what God wants? Is God a Master puppeteer that while allowing us to move along, ultimately holds the strings to our lives? While most people would disagree that God acts as a Puppeteer, it doesn't miss the mark by much if the classical ominscent God holds. In the Sims, we would be akin to a classical God, though I don't really think that God is all that interested when I go to the bathroom. Curious though, is there anything that God programs as "automatic" processes, such as going to the bathroom that doesn't require God's attention????
If the Christian God indeed has a plan for all of us, and not just some of us, then what purpose do non-Christians have? Are they mere test subjects for Christians to act goodly toward (not to be be confused with godly)? Is the good Muslim or good Hindu damned to hell because he or she does not believe that Jesus is Lord and Savior? Hypothetically, let's say a Muslim does everything that Jesus tells him to do in the Bible, but does not believe Jesus to be divine (as Muslims do). How is God's plan for this Muslim radically different than a Christian who does the same deeds, yet confesses Jesus as Lord and Savior? Can one accept the good deeds done by non-Christians but then readily claim they go to hell? Does the Bible contain all there is know about how to lead one's life, that it is absoulte? If so, it would appear that Christians should have ALL the answers. But do they?
It has been argued that no....Christians do not have all the answers.
http://www.chicagotemple.org/sermons/2009_8_02.php
Furthermore, as the world changes, Christianity must also evolve. The issue at stake, however, seems to be that Christianity doesn't want to evolve. It remains too rooted in Original Sin, Atonement, and Judgement. Orthodoxy (the right way to believe) reigns supreme as does Sola Scriptura and Sola Fida. While understandabe since these concepts were a part of Christianity's Jewish heritage, are these traditional concepts the best that Christianity has to offer? Vatican II would argue otherwise, as does the Good Samaratin. I observe that we Christians sometimes get dangerously close to Pharaseeism (if that's a word). Too often we follow the Letter of the Law and not the Spirit of the Law. Christians trade what the Jews had in the Torah for the Bible.
So, does God predetermine our fates, giving us a written Guide that if followed, automatically gives us salvation? Is the Bible some type of "software" that runs our lives on autopilot without a need for God's attention? What happens if there are I/O errors or corruptions in the code? I would argue that no, our fates are not predetermined. God gave us a mind to deal with I/O errors and corruptions in code, that the Holy Spirit, which Tertullian worked so hard to include in the Godhead, is immanant in ALL of us, giving us the ability to add human experience to our understanding of how God works in the world.
Think about this. If God were controlling us in video game-like fashion, why is God frustrated by our actions?
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| So after the softball game today, I went to Hawkeyes for some beer and grub. It was empty. There were a few people around, but no one was really eating anything. This was at 10PM. The special was a $4 pint of 312....not much of a special considering a regular pint of something else would have been $5. Then again maybe this place charges $6. Not a good start to the night if that's the best drink special they have. I looked through the menu and didn't find anything particularly appealing, but Hawkeye's isn't gourment food or anything like that. I remembered that one of my friends liked the buffalo chicken wrap, so I decided to try the buffalo chicken quesidilla as an alternative. I got my beer pretty quickly....but the food.
I waited, and waited....must have been at least 25 minutes. I'm the ONLY one inside the entire bar that has ordered any food. Everyone else has only drinks. Why did it take so long for the food to get done? The server was nice enough, but she didn't stop by once in that 25 minute stretch. She wasn't all that busy either. Sure, I wasn't pounding down my beer, but at the very least she could have stopped to see if I needed anything else.
I finally got my food, only to be disappointed. The chicken was not deep fried as she claimed. It was obviously breaded chicken with buffalo sauce on top. It was a good amount of food amd hot, but not at all crispy like it should have been. Mega demerits on this one. The only thing I'm really waiting for and it's not what I expected. I don't think I'm going to go to Hawkeyes again....unless it's for some drinks....from time to time. There always is Drum and the Monkey nearby. Maybe they won't disappoint?
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