Monthly Archives: November 2002

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tried writing something.  xanga destroyed it.  don’t feel like rewriting it.


have a great weekend… even if you did have to miss out on my post.  it wasn’t that great anyway.

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All right! it’s finally here… wednesday… only a few classes away from break…. and a few hours from my flight home…. to the land of frozenness. Well, compared to Florida, anyway. So anyway, a happy Thanksgiving to you all… 😉

I leave you all with an hiliarious song 😉

“when i was a boy of 10
I had a very best friend
fred was kind
with good intent
but just a little different

oh special fred
mama dropped him on his head
now he’s not so bright instead he’s a little bit special

we played tag
and he’d get hurt
i’d play soldier
he’d eat dirt
i like math and the spelling bee
fred liked talking to a tree

oh special fred
mama dropped him on his head
now she keeps him in the shed
cuz he’s a little bit special

i ran track
hung out in malls
fred ran headfirst into walls
i had girls and lots of clothes
fred had names for all his toes

oh special fred
mama dropped him on his head
now he thinks he’s a peice of bread
Cuz he’s a little bit special

one day talking to special fred
he grabbed a brick and he swung at my head
and as he laughed at me that’s when i knew
that special fred just made me special too

now i laugh as i count bugs
i give strangers great big hugs
next to me fred is fine
yeah he’s a ****ing einstein

Oh special Fred (me)
Now we’re not right in the head (y’see)
Now we’re not so bright instead
We’re a little bit special.”

-“Special Fred,” by Stephen Lynch

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Ha! so my school thought they would be clever and block me from using Kazaa and ftp and irc, etc, etc by blocking my MAC address… little do they realize that I have now learned how to change my MAC address to whatever the heck I want 😉 No longer will I suffer their tyranny. They will either block every MAC address in existance, or they will let me do as I please.

Also, I got Wade to approve my getting Jacobstone to send us some cds for play in the radio station… And yeah… they should be sedning them soon, so I should be able to play it for my next shift. haha… It should be fun times.

Anyway, that’s pretty much it for now. Florida has resumed normalness (70s all day today and is 64 right now) and so all is well. 2 days till I’m home for thanksgiving! muahahah!!! I’ll have to change my MAC address and give Kazaa a nice big download list right before I leave 😉

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Come on people… you’ve got to think relative to the fact that I am in FLORIDA. Last night, after we got out of the pool hall (i guess around 10:30 to 11) it was LOW 40s… I mean, almost to the point where you can see your breath…. this is stinking FLORIDA. It’s not supposed to get that cold here EVER. Something is up. And it’s not good.

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In my continued reading of the west memphis three (yes, this is something that has been bugging me, and when that happens, i spend a great deal of time thinking about it) I came across some poems written by Jason Baldwin. Anyway, I just thought they were interesting…. and this one’s pretty cool, so I’m gonna go ahead and paste it in here:

“A cry to heaven pierces the nights stillness
I stand there alone facing forever
And like always there is no answer
A million questions unanswered fill my being
I scatter them in prayers across the heavens
Thinking that somehow this time
An answer will come putting an end to this madness
Without an answer or a sign
In anger and love still I hold onto faith
Faith that He will answer my prayers
And so in faith I face forever”
-Jason Baldwin

Also, this website is fairly non-biased (anything you find will probably appear biased, as there is literally no evidence to show that they are guilty), and it is a good source of information… and I think you can read it a lot faster then you could wm3.org. So check it out:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/westmemphis/

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So the internet is down at school right now, but I am inspired to write an entry, and so I am going to, internet or no internet 😉 So yeah, writing this in word, and pasting it in when the net’s back up (which it is now, obviously, since you are reading this. Crazy how that works.)

The question of the moment for a lot of people seems to be something along the lines of “Are Christians being who they are supposed to be?”, or “Why aren’t Christians who they are supposed to be?,” or many other things along those lines. Just finished reading Heather’s post shortly before the internet went down. Her last 2 posts are talking about this. Last night at the Stavesacre concert, I listened to Mark Soloman tell about why Stavesacre has departed the Christian music scene.

My short answer to the question can be found in a comment on heather’s site. (http://www.xanga.com/item.asp?user=billythestick&tab=weblogs&uid=6548228). My extended answer can be found right here, right now (crazy how that Southeastern slogan comes up like that.)

Basically, if you ask me, primary problem with the church today is that nobody has the slightest hint of a clue of who Jesus was, what he did, what he stood for, etc, etc, etc. If they did, they either would be completely different then they are, or they certainly wouldn’t call themselves Christians. I read this on the Project 86 message boards the other day…:

“Some christian-labeled guys were asking a Muslim sitting in front of me why he did not believe in Jesus. He answered them with another question, “Do YOU believe in Jesus?” Needles to say, they promptly answered with a YES.

He smiled, chuckled, and shook his head. “No you don’t. If you really did, you wouldn’t be doing half the things I see you do…””

He may have been slightly off. Yes, they believed in “Jesus,” just, they know absolutely nothing about him. They believe in a “fictional Jesus.” The Jesus they made up in their minds. I think if Jesus was here today, he would be judged and condemned for the things he would be doing by Christians everywhere. There was only one group of people, in fact, that Jesus was really harsh of, and that is the legalistic and hyprocritical and “religious”. Yet that is exactly what most Christians today are. So I think that now… every day, I become more like Christ, and, therefore…. Less like a Christian.

Second problem is ignoring the greatest commandment, and rather focusing on legalism. Forgetting the heart of the law and condemning people for not following the letter of it. The greatest commandment is love. To love God and to love your neighbor. Everything else is secondary to that. Yet commonly in the church we look down on people. The most prominent example I can think of is people looking down on homosexuals. Yes, I believe homosexuality is a sin, but I believe that it is no more of a sin then lying. And if the greatest commandment is love, then certainly, if anything it is a GREATER sin to look down on someone for being a homosexual then it is for them to practice homosexuality. The judgement of “Christians” has never resulted in anything good. Two best examples I can think of are the crusades and the Salem witch trials. More recently, I feel that this played a role in the convictions of the West Memphis Three. After finding out specifics of the case, I feel very strongly about it. These three guys, who were teenagers at the time, were accused of killing the 3 boys as part of a satanic ritual. This was just a little over 10 years ago, and it’s not too far off of accusing someone of being a witch and hanging/burning/drowning them. They were convicted with no real evidence, and none of the 3 practice Satanism. Yes, Damien Echols has an interest in the occult. But guess what Christians…. There is a difference between that, and Satanism. I certainly do not think it is a good thing, and I think that the power of it stems from an evil source…. But that doesn’t make it the same as Satanism. The question is, is Damien’s situation just? Because he has an interest in the occult, is that deserving of his having been in prison a little over 10 years now, and does he ultimately deserve to die for it? (he is on death row). As far as I can tell, this is the REAL reason why he was convicted. The other 2, Jessie and Jason, seem to have just gotten dragged into it along the way. Both of them are serving life sentences. I got sidetracked there, but.. I think it’s very important. People need to show the love of Christ. Not make wild allegations against people.

I guess that’s really all I have to say about it all for now. If you want to comment on anything, or have any questions, feel free.

Godspeed.

FREE THE WM3! – http://www.wm3.org

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Stavesacre concert last night was fun.

Was a band there called Cool Hand Luke, which I had heard OF a lot, but never actually heard… anyway, they are REALLY good. Especially their drummer… 😉

Mark Soloman lost his voice like one song into the set, but they kept playing anyway… You could tell he was hurting a lot of the time though. Didn’t really seem to be himself at all.

Got a parking ticket. Very poorly marked “15 minute parking from 8 pm to 8 am” zone.

I will add more to this later maybe.

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So some days you just wish you were back home…. or get nostalgic and want stuff to be like it used to be. i’m feeling a little bit of both right now. don’t know why. good old randomness.

on another note: Harry Potter is the devil and the pokemon are his demons. it is also likely that the communist smurfs are in cahoots with them.