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Re: Carts of Darkness!

Luke — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:25:19 -0000

Fett.

Re: Basejump!

Luke — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:16:42 -0000

Hur ska man göra för att utföra ett sånt här äventyr? Krävs de mycket $$$? Nån som kan tänkas veta?

Re: Two Things To Learn From The Cisco Fatty

Luke — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:43:38 -0000

It is not about social media sites, it is about the loaylty of employees with their employer. When the employer lose the trust in the employee, there is usually just the only one solution.

People should be always very careful about their posting their job related stories, there is always someone who can read the message and say it to the employer.

This comment was originally posted on <a href="http://www.cheezhead.com/2009/04/08/stop-social-media-firings/#comment-117357" rel="nofollow" title="“stop social media firings” (http://www.cheezhead.com/)">Cheezhead</p>

Re: Kansas Anti-ID Professor Beaten - ExChristian.Net - News and Opinion

Luke — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:52:00 -0000

"Certainly no ATHEIST would engage in violent behavior!"

The point of the article is that Christians claim to be peaceful people, so they should never engage in acts of violence. So, this attack was an act of hypocrisy.

This incident explains why so many nonbelievers choose to keep their views to themselves. There is a very real fear of acts of retribution and violence from Christians. Christians are using terrorist tactics to prevent critics from exposing the fraud of Christianity.

Re: 10 Quick Tips

Luke — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:39:34 -0000

Awesome! Even some motorpacing tips can be found here: http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2009/03/tips-on-...

Great site!

Re: 10 Quick Tips

Luke — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:38:30 -0000

When cleaning your sunglasses just pour water over them and shake dry. They'll come out much cleaner and scratch free than if you wipe them with a sweaty jersey.

Re: My wife lost her faith - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:52:00 -0000

droptinni,

As I explained in my testimony I was an apologist myself when I first started having discussions with my wife. I know how you feel because I used to be like you. You believe so strongly in your religion and its such an important part of your life that when doubts surface you want nothing more than to find an explanation. I sincerely believed in my religion and I wanted nothing more than to convince my wife of the truth of Christianity. But like I said apologetics just stopped working for me after a few months. I just couldn't pretend anymore that there were reasonable explanations for everything because my wife always had a good reason why the apologetics were wrong.

I have a friend who said Mark 9 verse 1 was the undoing of his faith. "And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."" Now, Jesus is saying that some of his followers will live to see the second coming, the end times, whatever you want to call it. Well, 2000 years later it still hasn't happened and of course all of Jesus' followers are dead. So, my friend read the apologetics, which satisfied him for a while. But nagging questions kept popping up. He talked to his pastor, his friends, he prayed about yet he still was troubled by it. It took five years but he finally decided that Christians were a bunch of fools waiting for an event that Jesus had said was going to happen 2000 years ago.

The reason I included the quote from William Kingdon Clifford is because it is so true. When you hold a strong belief or have a strong desire to believe something you won't entertain questions that throw any doubt on that belief. "No man holding a strong belief on one side of a question, or even wishing to hold a belief on one side, can investigate it with such fairness and completeness as if he were really in doubt and unbiassed;"

The are two kinds of exbelievers: those who have always had doubts and those who were strong believers who then had an experience or revelation that created doubt. My wife is the former. When she found out that Santa Claus was make believe she asked her parents if God was also make believe. She was grounded for a week. I am the latter type of exbeliever as you can see from my testimony.

Christian apologetics won't convince me that Christianity is true; Islamic apologetics will not convince me that Islam is true; Hindu apologetics won't convince me that Hinduism is true and so on.

Also, Catholicism was the first unified church. Until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire there were multiple Christian sects with varying beliefs and doctrines. Some believed in the divinity of Jesus, some did not. When Christianity became the official religion of Rome these various sects got together and established a unified theology. They voted on whether Jesus was divine or not and divinity won. They also decided which gospels and books would make up the Bible. Members of any sect who didn't want to join this new unified Catholic (universal) church faced persecution and often murder. So, yes, Catholicism really is the original Christian faith and every other faith came from it.

Re: My wife lost her faith - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:14:00 -0000

"who wants wimpy malcontents in your house, just there to get away from the rain?! If you are in his house, it's because you BELIEVE, and believe in spite of the secularists, the liberals, the ACLU and all the other God haters who are trying to wish away the final judgment that they, in the back of their minds, know is acoming."

These are exactly the kind of over-emotional arguments made by people who have a desire to believe but cannot defend those beliefs using evidence and rationality.

By the way, many liberals are churchgoers. Is your knowledge of the world so limited that you don't know that?

Re: My wife lost her faith - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:24:00 -0000

/an,

Nope, Jesus is clearly talking about the Second Coming, End Times. Claiming that he is referring to the Pentecost is simply apologetics. My friend did consider that possibility, because like I said he spent five years struggling with this question.

Here is the problem with the Pentecost theory. If you read the epistles of Paul, he clearly believed that Jesus was going to return very soon. Why do you think Paul thought celibacy to be superior to marriage? Because he believed the end was coming, before all of Jesus' disciples tasted death, therefore marriage and childbearing were no longer necessary.

1 Corinthians 7
26Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are. 27Are you married? Do not seek a divorce. Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife. 28But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this. 29What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short.

Now I'm sure you'll tell me that no, no Paul was talking about something else. That is the nice thing about the Bible. If any verse doesn't make sense you can always pretend that it was actually referring to something else.

Like I said this particular issue led to the unraveling of my friend's faith not mine. I spent months questioning, reading, studying and debating before I came to the conclusion that Christianity was simply another myth and that the God of the Christians is just as much myth as the ancient gods of the Greeks, Romans, Druids, and Egyptians.

Re: My wife lost her faith - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:29:00 -0000

/an,

Another thing. I would encourage you to dig a little deeper. I did an awful lot of digging and I concluded that Christianity is not true.

Did you ever entertain the possibility that your religion is false? If you have never truely and honestly examined it from all perspectives, scriptural, historical, and scientific you have no right to claim that it is true.

Re: My wife lost her faith - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:44:00 -0000

Jamie,

I'm sure that it was not easy being raised an agnostic/atheist (which were you, they're very different) when everyone around you believes in a supernatural being or beings. But I can easily see someone who was raised as an atheist or agnostic becoming a believer, especially since Christians will try so hard to "save" someone like you.

But an exbeliever who becomes an atheist or agnostics will rarely go back. We have dug so deep into our belief systems and found them to be contradictory, cruel and false it would be almost impossible for us to believe again.

Also, you said that you had an experience that convinced you that God exists. Well, people have had experiences like alien abductions that have convinced them that beings from outer space regularly visit Earth. Do you believe their experiences?

Re: Trying to find peace in my soul - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:15:00 -0000

dce,

"One even referred me to a quote by a Pope in 300 ACE which went something like this, "This myth of the christ has served us most profitably.""

I read about a survey of Protestant clergy that was done in Britain several years ago. One third did not believe Jesus was the son of God. The more time you spend studying Christianity, or any other religion, the harder it is to believe.

A lot of priests, ministers, imams and rabbis don't truly belive but they have made a career out of religion and either don't know how to do anything else or don't want to do anything else.

I know an excatholic priest who remained a priest for six years after losing his faith. He remained a priest for several reasons. He enjoyed the respect and power. The church supported him financially and he really didn't know how to do anything else. He also enjoyed serving his congregation and helping the people in the poor immigrant parish he served. He finally left to get married but it took him a while to get used to life in the real world.

I often wonder how many clergy really are believers and how many are just doing the job for the respect and power. And for the evangelicals how many are just doing it for the money.

Re: Still Holding On - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:45:00 -0000

I don't know if the French are more unhappy than Americans but if they are I'm sure it's mainly the result of a bad economy. Personally, I'm much happier since I rejected religion.

Re: Since my departure from "the faith" - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:44:00 -0000

Freedy,

You might be interested in listeing to this show from NPR. It is an hour long interview with Bart Ehrman who has written a book called 'Misquoting Jesus.' Ehrman is an evangelical turned agnostic. He is the chairman of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156

Re: Fantasy versus Reality - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:33:00 -0000

Mike,

It seems to me that you are far along the path of questioning and you will probably eventually reject Christianity altogether. You have rejected the virgin birth and biblical inerrancy. I'm not sure if you're aware of the changes made by biblical scribes over the centuries. Check out the book "Misquoting Jesus."

Keep searching and I'm sure you will eventually see Christianity the way exbelievers see it.

I'm wondering do you believe in the story of Adam and Eve, original sin, six days of creation?

Re: Fantasy versus Reality - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:02:00 -0000

Mike,

The reason I ask about Adam and Eve is because Jesus was supposedly sent to suffer and die to atone for the original sin committed by Adam and Eve. If Adam and Eve are a myth then it was not necessary for God to send his son to die for that sin. What is your view on this?

Re: Fantasy versus Reality - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:53:00 -0000

Bear,

Let me give you a brief history of Christianity.

-Jesus lived, preached, and died
-Multiple Christian sects formed and about all they could agree on was they were followers of Jesus
-A few hundred years later they got together and said we're all Christians but we don't agree on much, so lets devise a unified set of doctrines. They did and became the official universal Roman church
-The eastern Christians didn't much like the western Christians. When the pope implemented celibacy they thought enough is enough. Let's break away and they did. They created the various eastern orthodox churches
-Hundreds of years later people like Luther, Calvin, Swedenborg, etc. had problems with Catholic doctrine. They thought to themselves this doesn't make sense, so I better fix it. They went to the Bible and created their own doctrines. Of course, others had problems with these new doctrines and so decided to fix them using the Bible as their source
-The Bible is not very reliable. Even Peter and Paul couldn't agree with each other. Paul thought that you could only be saved by faith. Good works were a cynical attempt to bribe God. Peter thought this was hogwash and said faith without works was useless. As a result, the number of new Christian sects, or splintering Christian sects, all proclaiming to have found the truth, has mushroomed. And this is where we now find ourselves today.

Re: Fantasy versus Reality - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:40:00 -0000

Mike,

"There is truth in the bible though."

How can you possibly know which parts are true and which parts aren't? Isn't the Bible useless if you can't separate the truth from the fictions and deceptions?

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:54:00 -0000

"De-converted because: It's all about money and control"

That's exactly what it's about. This is why religious institutions exist. You give them your money and the right to dictate even the most intimate aspects of your life. What do you get in return? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

What do they get? Money and power. I know plenty of spiritual people who see no reason to have religious institutions act as an intermediary between them and God. If God does exist, what exactly are the various religions and houses of worship doing to bring you closer to him/her. They are not doing anything you can't do on your own.

So, to sum up, religions exist to rip off and oppress gullible believers.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:12:00 -0000

Leroy Sutton,

Of course, he was a Christian. A Christian is someone who believes Jesus is their savior. How they arrived at that conclusion doesn't have any relevance.

Most people who are Christian never had anything that they believed was a supernatural experience. By your definition probably 99% of people who claim to be Christian really aren't.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:08:00 -0000

Leroy Sutton,

John 3:6-8
6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[a] gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

John 3:2-4
2He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." 3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." 4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"

Ok, define the meaning of born again based on the above verses. It doesn't specify the need for a supernatural experience.

So, anyone who says I believe Jesus is my savior and who believes they feel the presence of a spirit is a Christian. In fact, you could say a person is born again each time they acknowledge this belief.

"I would never be so bold or presumptious as to profess to know what another man is or is not thinking."

You were bold and presumptious because you professed to know what YouJon was thinking when he converted to Christianity.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:10:00 -0000

Jeff,

Let me guess. Of all the thousands of religious sects yours is the true one.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:23:00 -0000

Jeff,

Sorry for the confusion. Who knows though. I've met people who had a bad experience in their church that started a process of questioning that eventually led them to abandon their faith. But, yeah, some "atheists" or "agnostics" do reconvert because they acted out of anger and never discovered that Christianity was baloney.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:53:00 -0000

LS,

You're very much a literalist, aren't you? Brainwashing is more of an emotional term. A person who was raised Christian by their parents, who went to church and Bible study, had some experience their church told them was supernatural, etc. will feel like they've been brainwashed when they realise it's all a myth.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:21:00 -0000

Onanite,

"My experience with many Christians over decades also points to their inability to step back from the rhetoric they have been taught and think their positions and statement through."

If they did this they would no longer believe in Christianity. It can't withstand much thinking.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:29:00 -0000

SL,

We can know he wasn't referring to real brainwashing because if he was he would have mentioned that he was taken away somewhere and forcefully converted. No second guessing is required, just a basic knowledge of the English language.

I guess you won't be telling me where they Bible specifies that born again refers to a supernatural experience.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:58:00 -0000

"Did not the original poster claim his experience as invalid by referring to it as a brainwashing?"

Nope, he never once claimed that his experience was invalid. You made that claim. There is no where in the Bible that states one must have a supernatural experience to be considered a believer.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:38:00 -0000

SL,

Nothing in the Bible says that belief must be based on a supernatural experience. Your particular brand of Christianity probably teaches that but there is no Biblical basis for that belief. One is considered a Christian if they accept Jesus as their Lord and savior. A perceived spiritual experience is not necessary.

"believe as you do and I believe as I do."

You have specifically come to this exchristian support site to try to convince people to think like you. You want to convince us that we were never real Christians because we never had a vision or spoke in tongues or whatever you believe is required to make one a "real" Christian. But you have no Biblical "proof" to back up your claim.

Re: Insiders story of big church politics and wrong doing - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:06:00 -0000

"LS: You’ve already erred once – presupposing that Jeff was a Christian when he was not... Ready to strike out again?"

So, you're not a Christian but you are born again? I thought they went hand in hand.

"I was directed to this website off a Google search and began reading the very FIRST story I saw. I hardly had anytime to formulate any thought, least of which would be to convince someone to alter their personal philosophy or belief system."

Ok, so why the heck have you dedicated a large part of your day posting here?

"Oh, by the way, have you got it all figured out yet. What is my way of thinking? What are the stars or tea leaves telling you?"

I don't believe in anything supernatural, which include stars and tea leaves.

"Hey, do yourself a favor and relax. Try to live and let live. It’s a big world out there. Not everyone is a big bad Christian come to blow your house down. "

I am quite relaxed, thanks. You're getting defensive though. We all have you on the ropes, it seems.

Re: God is dead, or a liar - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:50:00 -0000

Hi Mike

You wrote: "This continued on for twenty years. I would give up on God because that help never came. Then a few years later I would come back because I was so desperate for help. Still there was no answer to the tearful pleas. No comfort from God, no healing of the deep depression. Nothing."

I'm pretty cut about your story, and I can see how someone could move from what you did believe to what you now do.

I would like to ask though:
What help were you after? What comfort and healing? I ask these things not because I doubt your ernesty in asking, but because there are many Christians who too must suffer with lifelong disabilities and mental illnesses, and whose sincere prayers seemingly go unanswered - and yet maintain their faith because they believe that God is God and, as Jesus prayed "Your will be done."

It's fair to say that many, many people of many faiths must struggle with burdens as you have shared.

You also wrote: "
The funny thing about Christians, they always turn events around to try and make you think that it was a good thing for you. I am laying in bed, tubes running out of every hole in my body (and they made a few more too) facing a life in a wheelchair at 18 and these Christians are telling me God loves me. How absurd. I tried to follow him and this was my reward. Of course they sad you cannot blame God, it was the devil. Interesting how God is powerless when the devil is around. Excuses, upon excuses. This is contrary to what I had been taught about being a Christian."

Far out! There's no way anyone has the right to turn this terrible situation into a "good thing". It is a tragedy, & that Christian friends of yours would lack empathy is terrible - and really, not biblical. Jesus reached out and LOVED to hang with (& even heal) the down and out. Is it your assessment that God should have prevented your accident (and, to be fair then, every tragic occurence throughout history)? I think it's wrong for your friends to have sat there and blamed the devil (because I can imagine that would have sounded like a copout), they should have just supported and loved and listened to you. False piety is rubbish I agree. Did you move from this straight to the idea that God isn't in control?

I'm not quite there in my pondering God, but I'd re-examine everything you've been told & see if it matches up with what the Bible actually says. This Pat Robertson doesn't know what he's talking about, Christ never claimed an easy life. Look at his own.

Re: It just hit me - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:29:00 -0000

Hey Anonymous I know what you mean exactly.

For me, trusting Jesus means I have to sacrifice something I hold dear in my life, and so the fear of trusting in something which (I'm not sure can ever be tangibly proved) is deceptive is real and overwhelming.

1) I reckon pray. Many people here reckon this is useless, but if God is God then its worth a shot.

2) Look at the world. Look at people you love. Design or random? (Romans 1)

3) Ask people's opinions on both sides.

4) Don't be afraid to read the Bible for yourself and/or go to church. Even if God ISN'T real, you may as well check it out. Assess the claims according to how you "objectively" see the world as a human being.

5) Research other religions, philosophies, look at the testimonials on this site. This will likely cause you to question Christianity, but your final assessment will be well-rounded & whatever you choose you cannot be accused of being forcefed "lies".

6) Assess the quality of the authorship of different religious and philosophical texts. On what basis can these peoples' claims stand? (Can we trust them as authority?)

It's scary to trust anything. If God (here assuming he exists) was to reveal himself in his glory though, wouldn't we all be puppets? Because who would reject a revealed God in all his glory? That said, Romans 1 says that through creation God is clearly shown.

Anyways. Do your research. But it sounds, you like me, are trying to decipher whether Christ is THE TRUTH, rather than being just another world philosophy/postmodern branch. So try to assess your research in comparison to Jesus' claims.

All the best with your search!!

Re: If I'm not a Christian, what am I? - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:40:00 -0000

Anonymous said:
"Christianity is supposed to be a religion where people insist on following Jesus to the point of death, but in modern times, it is more of a philosophy."

I agree. Upon examination of Scripture, a Christian is someone who lives for Christ (as THE 'Way, Truth, Life'), and will be persecuted and ridiculed (eg. Paul).

For me, I just entered a same-sex relationship and this has caused me to question things. However, you like me, Stina, must work out whether you are rejecting a philosopy or whether you are rejecting truth.

If you determine that Christianity is indeed a philosophy, then really it is irrelevant whether you are a Christian or not. All Christians are wasting their time. If you determine that Christ was indeed God incarnate, lived a sinless life, died for the sins of mankind, and rose to life - then whether or not you are a Christian is determined by whether or not you are following him in your actions. And if Jesus is Lord, then how you respond to his actions (which the Bible says were for our salvation) is of great significance.

Cool site btw, so good to have topics of depth fleshed out.

Re: Heaven, Hell and My Bodhisattva Vow - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:10:00 -0000

Hey Astreja, hey Mark,

I think you're both beautifully strong people, and I love that you're both passionate about what you say.

I've recently been contemplating faith, & these things have entered my head from my looking at Christianity:

What is hell?
If according to scripture hell is eternity without God then fair enough if people who don't want God get hell. Who knows what being without God is like, if God really is the Creator.

Is it fair?
If according to scripture God is the source of love, and we can love because we are in his image, then if we reject the source, then perhaps eternity without love is just.

Hmm. I'd like to hear people's thoughts.

Re: Heaven, Hell and My Bodhisattva Vow - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:42:00 -0000

Firstly, Anonymous reveal yourself.
Secondly, do genuine questions contemplating the possibility of the Bible's realness warrant no answer? If ex-christians are to be comfortable in their non-belief they should be comfortable & able to respond to those who are open.

Re: Then the years of a living hell started - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:27:00 -0000

Haha I too am ticked off at anonymous Christian writers. Come on, don't be afraid to reveal yourselves like everyone else.

i) Why do people think God is bad?
That's something I'd like to just have established. Something SUBSTANTIAL, rather than, he didn't fix all my problems.

ii) Do people think judgmental fundies are the basis on which we should assess the reality or non-reality, goodness or cruelty, of a God?

Re: Then the years of a living hell started - Testimonies of Ex-Christians

Luke — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:52:00 -0000

thanks .:webmaster:.

you wrote:
"Your god is a petty, angry, murderous maniac throughout the Old Testament. And in the new testament he tries to change HIS spots, but fails. By the end of Revelations he is confining every human being who fails to accept the correct version of the approved religion into everlasting and horrific torment. Your god is wicked."

From what I've read of the Old Testament, God was there with his people and his acts, words & presence were clear. If this is accurate, his response to people's rejection of him would not be petty, his anger warranted & his 'murder' - that's interesting. Where God 'murdered' anyone who acknowledged him as God I cannot find.

I share though your thoughts that today it is obviously a lot harder to clearly see a deity. Especially with such a rich array of religions and worldviews.

Sometimes I look at nature and have a deep sense of God.

I suppose a spin-off question for me is, how do people who identify as ex-christians look at nature, especially if they once shared this awe of 'creation'?

Re: 300 million year old rock - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Luke — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:49:00 -0000

How to identify a "True Christian" by their fruits!

You get up Sunday morning and take a bath and put on your best clothes and pretty shoes and go to church.

Then you walk into church with a big selfrighteous grin and tell everyone how wonderful they are and how lucky they are to be in church with you.

Then you all pretend that you are worshipping an invisible deity and then you pray to this invisible deity and you get all puffed up over yourself for being in this man-built church.

Then you pretend to sing songs to this invisible deity.

These are the "True Christians", the one's that are pretending along with you that day.

Then the "True Christian" will never miss a Sunday or a prayer meeting, nor will they ever sway nor read anything opposing their beliefs, because they have found the one "True Belief".

The "True Christian" believes their Bible holds all truth and wisdom obtainable in one's lifetime.

The "True Christian" believes that there is no greator truth and wisdom and knowledge available anywhere in the world today, except from a book written by men, over two thousand years ago.

The "True Christian" knows that he is now superior than people that do not believe as he believes.

The "True Christian" feels selfrighteously superior than non-christians, because his bible says he is.

The "True Christian" is all about what he can obtain for himself, he's got a belief, a belief in a book, a book written by people on halucingenic drugs.

Re: Hello angry Christians! - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Luke — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:17:00 -0000

Clytemnestra said: "Do try to remember, my precious, that a christian believes that I am going to hell because I don't love his little jesus. I cannot imagine that degree of hate."

Do you really believe that a God of love actually is happy to see any of His creatures turning away from Him? Do you actually believe that it's God's hate that is causing the obstinate sinner to be seperated eternally? No, never! God loves everyone of His creatures and His heart is pounding in pain at the site of so many that reject His love.

Clytemnestra, the hate is coming from all of us that reject Him by choosing hate over love, choosing resentment over forgiveness, choosing condescension over respect, etc...

Clytemnestra said: "And I hate to disappoint any christian who might be listening, but we didn't use drugs or sleep around or shoplift or worship Satan."

Is this your standard of morality? Do you really believe that you're a truly moral person? I tell you, none of us are, Christians and non-Christians. The difference between you and I, is that I recognize and acknowledge my sinful nature. This is what God is waiting for from all of His special creation, humans. Admit that we purposely ignore the moral absolutes He's placed on each of our hearts and from that humble act, He'll begin the healing process.

You may have chosen a clean lifestyle but I do suggest you take a step down from that horse
you're riding. I've lived most of my life on that high horse and I can tell you honestly that there is only One hand that you can take that will successfully bring you to the ground. That hand belongs to Jesus....who is God.

May God's Grace touch your heart. I tell you solemnly that unless He does, no man can ever have true peace and joy.

All believers should hope and PRAY that He wakes everyone from their sleep. Because He truly does want EVERYONE to accept His gift.

God Bless,
Luke

Re: Hello angry Christians! - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Luke — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:59:00 -0000

Greg said: "God made hell to torture people because he loves us!
umm torture people?
is this your standard of morality luke?"

Would you prefer Him to drag you kicking and screaming into Heaven? If righteousness, true righteousness as defined by Jesus and imprinted on your heart doesn't interest you, then He's not your master. Why would you want to spend eternity with your master, ie. your creator, if His ways don't appeal to you?

For this reason and because He loves you too much to ever completely destroy you, He'll let people stay seperated from Him as they are choosing.

The down side of this choice comes when people (ie. souls) realize that the only reason they can love today is because of Him. Seperated from Him, we'll no longer even have the ability to love, hence the "wailing and gnashing of teeth".

Everyone has been made to love Him and be with Him eternally, everyone. It all comes down to your free will, do you agree with His judgement on you or do you actually think that the moral laws you formed for yourself are better than His?

God Bless,
Luke

Re: Hello angry Christians! - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Luke — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:24:00 -0000

God would never force you to love Him, He's just hoping that when you learn about Him through His revelation (ie. Jesus), you'll agree and turn to Him.

If my child doesn't want to come home because I don't allow pornography on our TV, does that mean that I don't love him? Just because I do know that it's better for him to be home with his family at this stage of his life, should I just disrespect my son by forcing him to stay home?

No, of course not. Despite the pain it would cause us not to have our son with us, we simply cannot allow him to stay with us if he's going to continue viewing that porno.

My love would never stop and my pain would only grow as I'd observe him becoming more and more distant from us, his family.

This is, I hope, a descent analogy to the way God may feel about everyone that wants nothing to do with Him.

So when someone spends their entire life saying no to the family rules, what do you think might happen at this death? At this moment his mind is shown with perfect clarity by God's light just how much he hurt his family by choosing his addictions over Love (impurity, pride, hate, etc..). This light, this sudden realization of the choices he made may not cause God to condemn the son. The son will see his life, finally, in His father's light and may very well condemn himself. The son's choice, his final choice…as defined by his life’s choices, is not reversible in this state of his existence.

Our Father, everyone, is suffering to see us all rejecting His love.

Why won't you become lovers of righteousness...lovers of God?!

If something inside of you does draw you in to be truly good (even behind closed doors), then you have what it takes to fall in love with Jesus. If you're trying to do this on your own, you've probably noticed that you always fall short. Don't worry about falling short, we all do. God is hoping that you'll come to him just as you are, now, this minute!

He's so close to you, he can hear your heart beating, your breath and your every thought and emotion. Nothing is hidden from Him and there is nothing that He can't heal if you ask for help.

May God bless you,
Luke

Re: Shopping with the enemy…

Luke — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:00:34 -0000

trying ur luck wid women and shopping ...will ahve to end taht way :))ciao

Re: Leave of absence…

Luke — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:10:52 -0000

well raed ur article on southies ..from ur old blog site ..was a gud one ...i hope im not making any mistake

Re: Lancers and Mateus - Representing a Nation of Wine

Luke — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:14:51 -0000

i have a bottle of mateus it's old maybe 50's 60's how can i fine how old it is? and is it worth $$

Re: Lolla Main Event: Kanye West (8/3)

Luke — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:54:02 -0000

how about that one idiot obama sighting. yeah i told that to gullible fucking losers like him so i could get some breathing space at NIN

Re: http://consequenceofsound.net/2008/08/28/album-review-intimacy/

Luke — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:56:34 -0000

Check your article for grammar, "too" not "to". You lost all credibility as a reviewer when you mentioned the free download nonsense. it is clear you are looking for an easy band to put down and you do it on the merit on their new single Mercury clearly. I would say that it is one of the worst songs on the album but I think most of the rest is mind blowing and original.

Give it a chance and I bet you change your mind.

Re: Beale Street Music Festival

Luke — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:29:34 -0000

Jerry Lee Lewis is the MAIN REASON I go to the festival... Such a Legend......

Re: Even More On The ‘C’ Word: The Difference Between Start-Ups and Big Business (or, Partly Why I Joined a Week Old Company Upon Graduation)

Luke — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:54:48 -0000

I do not agree. Both worlds are amazing. The big companies brings administration and stability, the small ones are creative, but you cannot plan a long future with them, usually. They come and they disappear.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Bionic Dolphin Personal Submarine

Luke — Tue, 30 May 2006 02:31:58 -0000

I wonder if it was first thought of in '78? I remember seeing a shark submarine in a Tintin book, 'Tintin and the lake of sharks', and I'm pretty sure that was before '78.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Virtual Console 60 Port USB Flash Drive Duplicator

Luke — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:27:02 -0000

'fast ethernet' is a real term, and probably doesn't deserve 'mocking quotes'.

fast ethernet refers to the 100BaseT standard (100Mbps ethernet).

10BaseT: "Ethernet" 100BaseT: "Fast Ethernet" 1000BaseT: "Gigabit Ethernet"

Re: Blog Banter: hit the reset button.

Luke — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:58:00 -0000

I myself am kinda quiet when it comes to talking. Ill speak up when I see/get killed by someone. But in those rare moments when everyone is working 100% together... there is no greater feeling!

To reboot your system to progress is the most insane idea ive heard of. I would have never even thought that my console could be used in that way.

Re: Letter to a concerned Lebanese

Luke — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:56:41 -0000

You´r all right...
but after all those initiative, the Quoran will still preach death to all Jews and Christians.
Finish the Job!!
God Bless

Re: The Absolute Best Songs of 2009 (Half Way There)

Luke — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:22:02 -0000

I love Summertime Clothes. Definately deserves that #5 spot.
However, I never really liked My Girls... i don't think its as amazing as everyone seems to think...

Re: Simon Goudie » Maintenance Mode

Luke — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:50:45 -0000

iv been in the werehouse at clifton hill were the pieces of stan and bones is and i dont no how they got on tha roof. they are crazy bombers

Re: Here We Go!!!

Luke — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:24:00 -0000

Who's that stud next to the stud holding the sign?

Re: The Soundtrack of My Life

Luke — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:12:00 -0000

What a great idea. I would love to do that for myself. And what a way to be invited into the heart of another man. Thanks for sharing. I may use that in future groups. I've enjoyed looking around your site. The clip of the boy and the father took my heart. It made me wonder what my reaction would/will be to the Father.

Re: Why I Need My Music Stand

Luke — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:37:00 -0000

That's a great post. I found a website on developing
photographic memory and I've tried the tips that they offer. They worked pretty well for me. It's at www.photograpic-memory.org

Re: richtigstellung zweiter teil

Luke — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:56:00 -0000

Selbiger Dozent hat auch noch andere tolle Erklärungsweisen. Allerdings hat er mehr oder weniger eine Morddrohung ausgesprochen für den Fall, dass das Video auf YouTube erscheinen sollte. Aber wir können auch einfach nochmal das/die Brötchen/Weckle/Semmel fragen :D

Re: first impressions

Luke — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:20:49 -0000

Sounds fascinating. They say that the case method "isn't for everybody," but how can you go wrong? It's all about the argument.

Congrats, man. Glad you like it so far...

Re: The Dodos – Fables

Luke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:03:38 -0000

Dodos are beast, but what ive heard of the new album so far on timetodie.net its not anywhere near as good as their debut release (Visiter). I want songs like Jodi and Park Song... all these new songs seem to be too much like Fools... which was a song i was never very fond of.

Re: Man Utd (HDTV) : All PS3 Themes

Luke — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:11:00 -0000

Bad Theme Manu Are Crap LIVERPOOL R THE BEST

Re: Fernando Torres 2.42 Theme : All PS3 Themes

Luke — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:24:30 -0000

can u make a tiger woods theme plz

Re: Grand Theft Auto IV : All PS3 Themes

Luke — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:01:12 -0000

it is class

Re: Lamborghini Reventon : All PS3 Themes

Luke — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:58:42 -0000

it is sweet where did you get it

Re: GALATASARAY 2.42 THEME 3D ICONS : All PS3 Themes

Luke — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:00:15 -0000

it is colerful

Re: EyeCandyV3 : All PS3 Themes

Luke — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:06:44 -0000

s sexy

Re: Army Stuff : All PS3 Themes

Luke — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:27:32 -0000

its SHIT

Re: http://www.aeropause.com/2006/06/etsy-zelda-cosplay-outfit/

Luke — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:47:13 -0000

One Question, Is that a guy or girl in that outfit?

Re: http://www.aeropause.com/2006/06/game-re-enacts-al-zarqawi-takedown/

Luke — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:47:40 -0000

Hey Brinstar, there is no such thing as a country without hypocrisy, and if you think that there is you are quite dumb!

Re: http://www.aeropause.com/2006/06/revisiting-the-last-year-in-games/

Luke — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:46:01 -0000

I've been diving into Garry's Mod for Half Life 2, talk about a time suck!

Re: http://www.aeropause.com/2006/08/the-worst-gaming-peripherals/

Luke — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:36:32 -0000

Wow Doug, you don't sound like a biased moronic fanboy at all!

Re: MiniDV Backups

Luke — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:57:11 -0000

Kyle, try this !

http://www.dvstreamer.com/Download.html

Re: Late Half-Birthday

Luke — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:10:21 -0000

Yeaaa I love when partyben gets love, i have been playing that mash up for months and i still can't get sick of it!

Re: College in 7 Years and 7 Paragraphs

Luke — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:23:17 -0000

"and then one day you find, ten years has got behind you, no one told you when to run." It's amazing how fast the years go by. Seems like just yesterday that I was sneaking through the sidehatch. Coming from someone on the 8-year plan (and 5th college), I'm still trying to figure out what purpose college has for me. I've changed aspiring career paths numerous times, including sports journalist, cop, english teacher, real estate agent, and back to journalist. What have I learned in those 8 years? Nothing that I readily retain, except that my school ID made a good razor and my textbooks a bigger mirror. Ironically, I found my career outside of school, in a field I last expected: paramedicine. I'm eager to finish up paramedic school and move back to Miami, join a department as a medic/firefighter, work at least 20 years, and ride into the sunset before 50. Still, my demon remains...but it is only nine credits away from being slain.

Re: Custom Compiz Effects in Ubuntu 8.04 | Tombuntu

Luke — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:50:33 -0000

The minimize, shade, and focus animation don't work for me in heron either for some reason.

Re: Create a Bootable USB Drive the Easy Way in Ubuntu 8.10 | Tombuntu

Luke — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:25:52 -0000

Great tutorial, works fine after initially crashing and having to give the usb drive a couple of prods with gparted.

I have a question.

The advantage of this loop-back setup is not just the system setup independence but also presumably the ability to really simply reset the usb to the vanilla settings?

The reason being that smartypants here decided it would be a good idea to change the Livesessionuser password mid-way through an update install (via the about-me dialogue), thus breaking the update manager.

If I can blank the loop-back file, will this fix my ubuntu-usb or am I going to have to rebuild it?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Re: When did you last impress yourself?

Luke — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:29:00 -0000

When I manged to unplug myself from the windows ecosystem.

Re: An Interview With The 14-Year-Old Kid Behind KidTechGuru

Luke — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:42:00 -0000

What is the name of the guy in that picture, and was he a student of Shanghai American School. I think I knew him...

Re: An Interview With The 14-Year-Old Kid Behind KidTechGuru

Luke — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:47:00 -0000

What is the guy in that picture, was he a student of Shanghai American School? I think I know him, but cannot remember who he is...

Re: Yes, Believe It

Luke — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:15:00 -0000

Jeez, you are a geek

Re: Apple wants 10% of iPod accessory revenue

Luke — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:52:00 -0000

Kudos for sticking up for the consumers on the Music Industry thing... but BOOOO on the 10% thing on accessories.

Re: Apple wants 10% of iPod accessory revenue

Luke — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:40:00 -0000

that's the EXACT argument the music industry said to Steve Jobbs about his own iPods???

Re: iScroll2

Luke — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:35:00 -0000

so, Xanga sucks donkey juevos.

Re: top 10 ways to look busy at work

Luke — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:24:00 -0000

The Screenshot one is no good. One time the boss caught someone at our office. The guy went to the bathroom or something and Boss tried to close the program on the computer and when he "clicked" nothing happened.

*BUSTED!*

Re: What is X?

Luke — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:48:00 -0000

dude... you went from uber GEEKDOM to beyond GEEKUNIVERSEDOM

Re: Flash-Fu

Luke — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:49:00 -0000

that flash thing sucks. If you were really good with flash, you'd make the boat fly.

Re: Flash-Fu

Luke — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:03:00 -0000

hush! When I make my boat go on a path... it'll be in the air! Don't make me get medival on you!!!

Blog more! Flash less!

Re: New Myth Busted: Eating Turkey Does Not Make You Sleepy!

Luke — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:54:00 -0000

Don't care what the study says... all I know is: After I eat turkey... I get sleepy. And it's not psychological either, cos I'm not even thinking about the turkey when I'm getting drousy.

Re: Randomnicity

Luke — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:28:00 -0000

It's ok Joe. *pat pat*...

People don't leave comments because you call them "super fat" and "banana hammock".

Re: Inspirational Logo

Luke — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:47:00 -0000

I used to work at KUMON... I think that logo properly reflects the mood of the children there.

Re: Inspirational Logo

Luke — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:32:00 -0000

Alexander Chang,
Please don't have kids. Or move to Canada. hahaha!

Re: Inspirational Logo

Luke — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:34:00 -0000

Also,
I found this tid-bit explaining their new logo... they refer to it as "the thinking face"...

http://www.kumon.ne.jp/english/about/thinkingface.html

I just think they got a crappy designer.

Re: REGULATOR.

Luke — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:34:00 -0000

God bless you buddy - That is a monster number you put up there. Good luck on the last one!

Re: Bulldog tug of war pictures

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:40:55 -0000

Your blog look incredibly cool. I love it.

Re: Andre the Limo Car show Win

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:15:14 -0000

I am hooked to your blog. I love it.

Re: Honeymoon Island Limousine Shoot

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:38:08 -0000

Love all your limos.

Re: Kobes Steakhouse Review and Pictures

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:11:16 -0000

This place looks really interesting.

Re: Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights Pictures

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:46:19 -0000

I am also following you on twitter John.

Re: When adults act like Children

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:30:56 -0000

Leave them on their own John.

Re: Michael Phelps Bong Picture Exposed

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:32:13 -0000

People just want to see bad things about celebrities.

Re: The Stretch Escalade Gets Here

Luke — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:49:47 -0000

I have bookmarked your blog.

Re: Josh Barnett PLEASE KO Fedor Emelianenko

Luke — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:56:39 -0000

I have to admit I am and have been a serious Fedor Emelianenko fan for years in the same way I was once for Mike Tyson & Roy Jones Jr & Marvin Hagler. He is an amazing fighter and so well rounded and really I cannot see anyone better then him at the moment (I am in good company with people like GSP and Couture in agreement).

As for being "bitch slapped around the ring by Andre Arlovsk" I just went back and watched the video - he did look unsettled in his ring position but I did not see any major blows landed, until of course Arlovsk got well and truly bitch smacked and put down lick sack of potatoes.

And for getting rocked - that was Kazuyuki Fujita and really that showed some amazing chin considering he then switched the fight and tapped him out with Rear Naked Choke submission.

Also Randleman Suplexed Emelianenko and looked like he had broke his neck, but he recovered and tapped him out in a Kimura. So thats thing with this guy, his stand up is fast and strong, his ground work incredible and he has a chin and amazing heart to come back.

So yeah considering what you say I still stand by my belief he is the best. As for the UFC I think the person to really challenge him will be Cheick Kongo as opposed to their current champion with an Amazing 2 wins 1 loss record.

Re: Josh Barnett PLEASE KO Fedor Emelianenko

Luke — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:50:11 -0000

Some good points John and to sing from the same book this fight really will be the proofer Fedor need's (outside of the UFC). I have to agree Tim Sylvia was no real competition in fact he looked way out of shape and quite porky and Arlovski showed bad judgment and composure.

Hey,do kick another post after the fight! I have started following you on twitter so will keep an eye out.

So what do reckon to Mir and Lesnar and more importantly the winner of Cain Velasquez vs Cheick Kongo taking on Lesnar or Mir?

Me I would love to see Cheick kicking tens tons of gas out of Brock Lenar...whenever I see Brock I expect him to pull out a broad sword and shout "By the power of greyskull!"

Re: Just a reminder

Luke — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:43:00 -0000

Hello. I am new to blogging and enjoyed looking at your site. How do you change the typical Blogger templates to one personally designed like yours? I would appreciate any thoughts. Blessings.

Re: Radiohead – Paranoid Android (Gareth Pearson Arrangement)

Luke — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:46:12 -0000

What a beast.

Re: Deltanove, Modena

Luke — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:58:37 -0000

JHONNY NN TE NE PANDAREEEEEEEEEE!!!! DELTANOVE SENZA DI TE E' COME UNA BATTERIA SENZA LE PELLI!!!

W LATTE+

Re: Nuovo rilascio nvidia 169.09

Luke — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:20:00 -0000

ma scusa

fai una copia di ma scusa

fai una copia di xorg

sudo /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

scarichi i driver dal sito nvidia,esempio questi per 32 bit

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32...

poi

ctrl alt f1 ,dai login e password

esci da x

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (gdk per kde)

entri nella cartella dove hai scaricato il driver,fosse nel desktop

cd /home/tuonome/Desktop/

sudo sh nomedriver.run

dai tutti si,l'ultimo no (cosi' non modifica xorg)

riavvi x

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

tutto qui :-)

Re: Midnight Hotness: Aubrey O’Day

Luke — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:50:04 -0000

she looks exactly like barbara eden in the last photo!!

Re: Agan & Anne’s Wedding

Luke — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:32:00 -0000

Goodness gracious me... Is your aunt Anne Aran? The woman looks like her in the pics...

Re: Agan & Anne’s Wedding

Luke — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:19:00 -0000

Wow... Ann looks as cool as the charming warm- hearted gal I knew years ago!!! Her lucky husband looks familiar but I can't quite recall where we've met before though.

I recognise Peter Quick-plesantly surprised he's now a pastor... didn't see Robinson & Mary, Michael Labo & Mutang Tagal.

Re: “We’d like people to stop selling proprietary software. It’s bad for the world”

Luke — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:46:32 -0000

I don't see how proprietary software is 'bad for the world'. Cisco should just make the source code available to anyone who requests it - then they'll be in compliance and will still make their money; the GPL has nothing against you charging for distribution of a GPL product, it only expects you to make the source code available to anyone who wants it.

Re: “Some Reasons Why I prefer Gnome over KDE”

Luke — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:22:06 -0000

Ewww Gnome is horrid. KDE is so much more rounded and polished IMO; but it is just that - my opinion.

Re: Eclipse 3.0 M8

Luke — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 02:40:19 -0000

It's as handy as ever ^_^

Re: Ma scusate, in tutto ciò Malpensa come finisce?

Luke — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:13:03 -0000

Antonio, in quale pessima scuola del Sud (doverosa cit.) hai studiato per scrivere così male e argomentare peggio?

Napoli: fatto.

Alitalia: fatto.

Qualcuno si starà toccando le palle, sperando di non essere il terzo...

Re: Okkioalbruttonegraccio! Alza la cornetta…

Luke — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:47:02 -0000

Pronto sì, vorrei segnalare un negro che non mi convince dalle parti di Denver, mandate qualcuno?

Re: Old People Hate Animal Collective, Beirut, Indie Rock In General

Luke — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:28:06 -0000

I love that he said they won't get far from Baltimore. AC is already so huge, and they've been everywhere. These old people make me giggle.

Re: 01254266550

Luke — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:31:18 -0000

I am with 3 and I tryed to cancel/change mycontract yesterday with no success, then when I get up this morning I have 2 missed calls from this number at 0530AM!
Surley they not trying to sel me a new contract at that time of the morning!

Re: 07719396677

Luke — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:21:46 -0000

I got a text from this number, saying I was entitled to compensation.

Re: 01132043110

Luke — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:35:40 -0000

that number pisses me off rings i answer they put it down

Re: M.I.A. is having an awesome 2009, 3 weeks in.

Luke — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:36:07 -0000

Slumdog Millionaire is ridiculously overrrated. The second hour of the film is tedious to say the least.

Re: The Pragmatic (RAC) – Circles EP FREE

Luke — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:46:08 -0000

oOOOooOOoOooO i like Deathmatch

Re: Repeal daylight-saving time

Luke — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:56:05 -0000

zivo24 ... even if you don't like Berith's reasoning, why would you actually DEFEND daylight savings?

Re: 2008 U.S. Gas Price Year in Review

Luke — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:26:32 -0000

One more,

Dec 8, 2008 - Was looking for GasBuddy.com and end up running across Petrofix. Cap my price at $1.833. Prices go lower and I kick myself!

All joking aside, I am prices are back to the level where I started. I still think it is a good deal. It is easier to picture gas prices at $2.50 right now than under $1.00. I guess we will see.

Re: The Dark Side of Solar Panels

Luke — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:45:44 -0000

Is that like the dark side of the force?

Re: Do You Need A Computer?

Luke — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:51:57 -0000

Yes. Pure and simple for communication and of course, reading tree hugger!

Re: Zune HD vs iPod Touch 2g

Luke — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:35:27 -0000

@ devilo86

This is new so you wouldn't have seen this yet. But prices for the Zune Hd are 220 for the 16gb and 290 for the 32gb. And there was the rumor of the 64gb which looks like it would be true because everything else from that source has held.

This launch is good for Ipodders. without the zune, Apple could very well keep their prices where they are. Thank you for competition.

Re: Hack Your Toilet and Save Water

Luke — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:41:56 -0000

These toilet mods are such a great idea. Imagine the water savings if these were installed in all new homes.

Re: Happy Trails: Cycling Holidays Take Off

Luke — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:42:27 -0000

Any recommendations?

I went to the UK recently, and it looked like the Forth and Clyde canal would be a nice bike ride. But, the girlfriend would like to avoid camping when possible -- so having a pub and a hotel room at the end of each day might be worth the expense.

Re: Revisiting Potenco's Innovative Pull-Cord Generator

Luke — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:26:44 -0000

Revolving doors...

Enought said..

Re: Ethanol Boom? What Ethanol Boom?

Luke — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:41:20 -0000

The farm land is already there. Just that farmers are growing corn instead of other things. Ethanol is by no means the miracle fuel, but it is one part of the large picture. There isn't going to be one single product that will replace oil, it will take everything. Ethanol, electric, hydrogen, bio-diesel, solar, wind, nuclear, ect. Plus corn is a bad crop to grow anyways for ethanol. Switch grass can grow anywhere in the US, and it provides almost 3 times the ethanol yielding rate that corn does.

Sure you pollute to get the corn to turn into fuel from the tracker and the refineries, but that pollution is still going to be there whether they grow corn or wheat. Ethanol refineries are also more eco friendly then oil refineries as they can be much smaller to produce the same amount of fuel and require less energy to produce the required fuels.

Seems to not have gone bust. Just that it didn't take off like it everyone made it out to do, just like all the other alternatives. Ethanol will still stay around, produce more fuel and grow into something much bigger, at least in the midwest states. Kansas is supposed to be able to claim energy dependence by 2015 or something like that because of ethanol.

Re: Video Smackdown: NukeFree.org vs. Nuclear Energy Institute

Luke — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:02:27 -0000

Our musician friends tell us that nuclear waste will remain "deadly" for 280,000 years. Assuming that to be ten half-lives, I'm very interested to hear what specific radioisotope or radioisotopes they had in mind with a half-life of 28,000 years, and what their yields in used nuclear fuel are.

Nuclear power plants do not produce weapons grade plutonium, and even if the plutonium produced in used fuel could be weaponisable at all, it cannot at all be weaponisable if it is not seperated via PUREX extraction, and it is this which is the critical step in weapons proliferation. This seperation of a pure plutonium stream is not required for the efficient reprocessing and recycling of used nuclear fuel.

Re: E-Paper Surpasses Dead Trees In Life-Cycle Test

Luke — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:26:17 -0000

I'd like to see a GPS or a cell phone using the ePaper display technology to replace the LCD screen. The ePaper display only uses power when the image on the display is being updated, and it's also marvelously adaptable to different lighting conditions. So, you don't have to blast an LCD-style backlight to make the screen brigter than, say, sunlight.

The big stumbling block seems to be the update speed. My girlfriend has an eBook reader, and it takes a couple of seconds to change pages. Menu-navigation using a cursor doesn't work so well -- Sony included a button for each menu selection (kind of like an ATM machine) that make the device very usable, but the ePaper display is not yet a general-purpose display.

The other problem with the Sony eBook reader is that it's mostly intended for DRM's books purchased through Sony's Windows-only interface program. Those of us who want to use the tool for our jobs can put PDFs onto an SD card, but the dimensions of the screen make tricky to read PDFs intended for 8.5"x11" sheets of paper. Project Guttenburg provides classics that can be loaded this way, as well. But the device is still a little clumsy in this respect. If they release an 8.5"x11" version of the eBook reader, it'll be a big hit among academics, since research papers and student theses/dissertations are often intended for US Letter and/or A4 paper. That could easily save 50k pages of paper per year per medium-sized academic department.

But, if the ePaper display can update fast enough to replace B&W LCD displays on embedded devices, those of us who value utility over flash-bang-glitz will be very happy to own GPSs, cell phones, and other portable electronics that use this display technologies.

Re: Taking Back the Streets: International Pillow Fight Day

Luke — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:38:34 -0000

This is one of the few videos that has ever had my cat riveted to the screen! She watched the whole thing!

The only other thing I've seen her actually watch on a screen was some science-fiction movie where an alien (who looked like a red beach-ball) attacked the crew. She watched that. :-)

Re: TH Forum Highlights: LED And CFL's Not Energy Efficient, Solutions for Vampires, Volunteers Wanted

Luke — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:30:01 -0000

The question is: How much will the consumer save by converting to LED lights with equal light output but with 150 lm/W efficiency? The answer may surprise you because the answer is ZERO. Why zero?

This is only true if the house has direct electric resistance heating. My house has a heat-pump, so it costs maybe 20% as much electricity to provide the same amount of heat as a resistance heater (like a light-bulb or an electric baseboard heater).

Also, in the summer, the air conditioner doesn't have to remove as much heat from the house when I run CFLs. The heating effect of incandescent light-bulbs is quite noticeable; the heat-pump air conditioning system went out in my girlfriend's apartment last summer, and we made the temperatures bearable by switching her incandescent bulbs to CFLs. (Plus, it gave us something to do.)

So, sorry, your blanket statement is wrong. In houses that only feature electric resistance heat, you're right -- but you're just plain wrong wrong for houses that have heat-pumps, oil-heat, wood-heat, district-steam heating, solar hot-water hydronic heating, or any other kind of heating system.

Re: TH Forum Highlights: LED And CFL's Not Energy Efficient, Solutions for Vampires, Volunteers Wanted

Luke — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:21:23 -0000

What Luke says is true, the effect in the summer of reducing the cooling load easily makes up for the loss from heating in the winter,

That's not quite what I said. I said that in my house, CFLs are more efficient in both the summer and in the winter because my house is heated/cooled by a heat-pump.

For instance, if I run a 100W light builb all day (12 hours), it will use 100W*12hrs = 1.2 KWh and deliver about 1.2 KWh *3412 BTU/KWh - 4095 BTU of heat into the house. The author is correct that this calculation is exactly the same for an electric baseboard heater -- and for all I know, that may be the heating system that he has in his house.

However, for my house, if I deliver that same amount of heat to my house through my heat-pump, I use many times less energy to do so. (I said 20% above, which wasn't quite right -- 33% is closer, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Efficiency -- but it depends a great deal on the ambient temperature.) So, with my heat-pump, I use about 0.4 KWh to deliver that same 4095 BTU! But, now I need a light -- let's assume (incorrectly) that my CFL produces no heat. A typical 100 watt-equivelent CFL uses about 23 watts of electricity, so the bulb uses about 0.3 KWh. So, now, my heat-pump + CFL system is using 0.7KWh instead of 1.2KWh -- so it's nearly twice as efficient. In real life the heat-pump + CFL system would be a great deal more efficient, since I can't heat my house with just the 100W light bulbs!

Oh, as your for 90% loss from electricity, I must disagree. Those steam turbines are pretty efficient; they're pretty darned close to that 60% thermodynamic limit, and the transmission losses are more like 10%-15%, so the real-life efficiency of heating with electricity is close to 50%. My university uses the waste-heat from their power-plant to power a steam district-heating system (known as combined heating and power), so the numbers are much better in the winter.

Re: From the Forums: Buy a New Car or Keep Old One?

Luke — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:51:08 -0000

The average driver drives about 12,000 miles a year. I drive a great deal more than that (currently about 45,000 miles per year). You drive a little less.

If you don't drive much, I don't think it matters much what you drive -- just so long as you keep the vehicle in good repair. If it burns oil, junk it immediately. Replace the catalytic converter, if necessary. Keep the exhaust system in good repair. Take care of those nagging check-engine lights (the oxygen sensor and the EGR are there for a reason). Use good tires, properly inflated. Use the vehicle only when its capabilities apply to a particular situation. If you do all of those things, then keeping an old car makes a lot of environmental sense to me.

As for me, I'm driving hundreds and hundreds of miles per week. What I drive matters a lot, from both the environmental and financial perspectives. My Jetta TDI is pretty good from the carbon-footprint side of things but, due to the frequency of repairs, it's lousy from the financial side. The Jetta can run off of processed veggie oil, so it has an

My girlfriend's Prius is a wonderful car from both the financial and environmental perspectives -- but it lacks any sort of alternative-fuel capability (the hybrid system does an amazing job maximizing the benefit you get from burning gasoline, but all of the energy still comes from gasoline).

Another thing to consider is that the next generation of cars coming out in the 2010-2011 timeframe will have a lot of environmentally friendly features. There should be a number of new small/clean/high-mileage diesels and hybrids on the market. There's a lot of hype about the Chevy Volt (a plug-in serial-hybrid that can go 40 miles on battery power and then an additional 300 miles on gasoline) -- if the hype condenses and GM sells the real car, then it would be worth the wait. If GM doesn't deliver, Toyota probably will deliver a plug-in Prius about the same time.

If you're interested in this stuff day-to-day, I can recommend a few blogs:

http://www.autobloggreen.com<br />
http://www.greencarcongress.com<br />
http://www.gm-volt.com</p>

Re: Mapping the Alternative Energy Potential of the United States

Luke — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:53:45 -0000

Why does the wind stop here at the Ilinois border?

Having just moved here, I can understand that the local politics could probably produce enough hot air to account for the discrepancy, but the data still looks funny....

Re: Largest Wind Farm in Kansas (250 MW) Built by Italian Energy Firm

Luke — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:50:23 -0000

We need an american company to start making these wind farms all over so we can save energy and stop using coal.

Re: Eat A Camel, Save Australia’s Environment

Luke — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:39:50 -0000

In response to RM: Have you actually seen the size of the area that this is talking about? It is huge, not to mention that Australia’s population density is only 6.7 per sq mile, compared to the USA which is 80 people per sq mile. Although in other parts of the world things like urban sprawl are pushing animals out, there are no "cities" as you know them that far north. To get a better picture, Western Australia is more than three and a half times bigger than Texas, and only has 2.1 million people, 85% of whom live in the south west corner of the state. Unfortunately the only way to manage these populations, because of the area they are spread over, is to cull them by using aerial marksmen. Birth control methods are in-efficient because of the effort in subduing a herd for long enough to administer the birth control. Even if birth control methods were used, the camels that are still wandering the desert are using valuable pasture lands which are normally grazed by sheep and cattle, which results in even lower profits for the farmers. That would not be a bad thing if they were making a truck load of money each year, but because of the current drought, no one is going to tell them they have to suffer further cuts to their income.

Re: 2008 U.S. Gas Price Year in Review

Luke — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:26:32 -0000

One more,

Dec 8, 2008 - Was looking for GasBuddy.com and end up running across Petrofix. Cap my price at $1.833. Prices go lower and I kick myself!

All joking aside, I am prices are back to the level where I started. I still think it is a good deal. It is easier to picture gas prices at $2.50 right now than under $1.00. I guess we will see.

Re: The Dark Side of Solar Panels

Luke — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:45:44 -0000

Is that like the dark side of the force?

Re: Do You Need A Computer?

Luke — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:51:57 -0000

Yes. Pure and simple for communication and of course, reading tree hugger!

Re: Nikon D300 vs D80

Luke — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:30:19 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to write this comparison. To be honest, 90% of the things you wrote are found on the product brochures found all over the net. The D80 is not as bad as you have described above ISO 400, but then your expecatation may be higher.

"D300 has better protection against dust?" That has yet to be seen. Sure it has more seals in the body, but at the lens mount, it's as vulnerable as all other Nikon cameras. Also, the dust shaker in the D300 is not perfect, dirt will still stay inside the mirror box, and the sensoer will still get dust particles. One still needs to clean the sensor, but not as often. By the way, cleaning a sensor requires great care, but you're scaring people by calling it a surgical procedure. After about 3 times, it's as easy as cleaning one's ear with a q-tip. Seriously. Sensor dust is here to stay, every DSLR owner needs to learn to tackle it.

"... being able to focus on its face without having to readjust the shutter is simply awesome." You probably know this already, but the D80 can do the same (and so can the D50 & D40), Continuos Focus mode.

"...you can use an expensive pro battery and get up to 8 frames per second using the MB-D10 on D300." I wouldn't consider AA batteries expensive pro batteries. They still give you 8fps.

"...D300 is a huge upgrade from D80." It'd better be. It costs twice as much. It's a two-step upgrade. A fairer comparison is to the D200.

Thanks again for a good post of your personal opinions. I own both, and the D80 is still a wonderful camera.

Re: http://www.reyjr.com/2009/08/to-where-you-are-by-josh-groban.html

Luke — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:19:18 -0000

Talaga naman! Galing!

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Re: http://www.reyjr.com/2009/07/michael-jackson-is-dead-and-why-i-even.html

Luke — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:57:00 -0000

Yeah, must be the shoes. ...Gravity defying boots. 8-) :-D

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Re: Calling a .NET Web Service From Rails (original)

Luke — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:46:29 -0000

Very useful, thanks for this.

Re: Cool Cat Teacher Blog: What's Worth Fighting for in Your School?

Luke — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:26:00 -0000

Alright, let's try this again with a shortened link!

http://snurl.com/21jvb

Re: Cool Cat Teacher Blog: What's Worth Fighting for in Your School?

Luke — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:04:00 -0000

You might enjoy this post from a couple of years ago in my blog.

http://lukeallen.blogspot.com/2005/10/sometimes-they-remember-darndest.html#links

Re: Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Never Give Up Hope: Video from the Wild to Prove It

Luke — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:13:00 -0000

Perhaps this video should be required viewing for any parent/teacher group asking itself that age-old question, "What can we do?" There is strength in numbers!

Re: http://vixandmore.blogspot.com/2009/08/real-estate-breaks-out-while-major.html

Luke — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:58:57 -0000

seriously, what is this sh!t? the markets have two choices:

1) turn premarket futures green before the bell

2) turn gap down green after the bell.

if Asia closes down, the US can't open in the red. a month od this??? what a baloney market!

Re: http://www.crimene.ws/2007/05/devil-and-josh-mauldin.html

Luke — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:14:56 -0000

"but are you are clearly not equipped with basic physics or biology,"

(And clearly I'm not equipped with basic grammar!)

Re: http://www.crimene.ws/2007/05/devil-and-josh-mauldin.html

Luke — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:13:37 -0000

Dawn, I'd like to congratulate you on the pure volume of regurgitated anti-evolution propaganda. I would bother attempting to debate with you, but are you are clearly not equipped with basic physics or biology, I would be wasting my time (but try typing half-life theory into wikipedia!).

Finally, with regards to your statement "agree that he should rot in jail or get the death penalty."

Didn't 'god' say "Thou shalt not kill"?! Check it out, I think it's the 6th one. So who are you to argue with an imaginary creator?!

As for my two cents, usually, I'm a fairly compassionate guy, and whilst I don't buy into the 'he's pure evil' argument, clearly his crime is too disgusting to be forgiven. 25 years in prison sounds about right.

Re: http://www.reyjr.com/2009/08/mass-for-cory-aquino-at-la-salle.html

Luke — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:23:37 -0000

Nice of you to write about it, Rey.

Re: http://www.reyjr.com/2009/08/how-to-prepare-for-your-first-bloggers.html

Luke — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:25:29 -0000

Oh, don't forget celphone so you can tweet all nyte long. 8-)

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Re: Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 8 Reasons Bloggers Hide Their Blog: A Call for You to share a link to your blog

Luke — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:00 -0000

My name is Luke. I'm a retired teacher who has spent over 33 years in the classroom, primarily with 6th-8th grade students.

I am a member of ICE, Illinois Computing Educators, and have served on the planning committee for IL-TCE, the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators, for the last 7 years, coordinating tech staff volunteers for the conference and working with Web 2.0 resources for the conference.

I have been a conference presenter at IL-TCE ten times and have also presented at the MECC conference in Minneapolis, IETC in Springfield. TETC in Nashville, METC in St. Louis, and the Mt. Vernon Conference.

I received my B.A. from North Park University in Chicago and M.Ed. from National Louis University in Evanston, Illinois.

People sometimes ask me now, how it feels to be retired. My usual comment is that it's nice to work because you want to, not because you have to. I keep myself busy with substitute teaching, managing my website of resources for teachers and doing those odd jobs around the house that I didn't have time for before I retired.

In my "spare" time I enjoy golf, the outdoors, reading, digital photography and, of course, fiddling around with stuff on the computer.

I estimate that in my 33 years of teaching I have had over 6,000 students pass through my classrooms. I hope that some of them can find their way to this blog and perhaps use it as an opportunity to keep in touch.

The intro to my blog sort of sums it up...Being the blog of a retired teacher with just too much time on his hands, hence, Retired Old Fart's Links, Musings & Observations. (Also, because I'm retired and you're not!)

The focus is on technology, primarily applications and utilities the average teacher might find useful, interesting or just plain fun.
R.O.F.L.M.A.O.

Re: John Callaway

Luke — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:00:21 -0000

John was the best - he will be greatly missed...

Re: * UPDATED * Hang in there, Carlos!

Luke — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:03:12 -0000

Carlos is awesome. He's tough and can beat this.

Re: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/08/karmic-gdm-screen-update.html

Luke — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:29:47 -0000

wow this looks like a mockup that would never be implemented but its good to see inovation.

btw

thanks for relaunch+redisign of website

Re: http://rafaelcorrales.blogspot.com/2009/03/jordan-vs-kobe-vs-lebron.html

Luke — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:36:00 -0000

I think it'd be interesting to consider the quality of defense (and the interpretation of the rules by the officials) in these two eras (one of MJ and one of both Kobe and LeBron). Hand checking, for example, is no longer allowed... but in MJ's time was the status quo. There are a host of videos that I've watched on Youtube where they'll show how much screening, checking, and other physical contact they had in MJ's time. I'm certainly no expert, but just from watching the videos, Kobe and King James have it much easier to put up the offensive numbers.

I also happen to be from IL and grew up idolizing Jordan, so I may be just a bit bias. :)

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2009/07/baby-m-comes-to-stay.html

Luke — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:01:06 -0000

Congratulations guys. I wondered where you were going to go with the name and it seems that my speculation was correct. Already having the bookends of the alphabet with A and Z you had to go for the middle with either M or N. It seems that you guys think like me. Or maybe it was just a coincidence.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2009/07/robots-how-to-serve-man-cookbook.html

Luke — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:12:56 -0000

I once read a brilliant short story called "To Serve Man" about an alien race called the Kanamit who came to Earth and sorted out all our problems by making war impossible and solving our food supply problems. All seemed very rosy until at the end of the story one of the characters discovered a book in the Kanamit language called "How to Serve Man". It turned out to be a cookery book.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2009/06/meeting-doodles-5-xtrack.html

Luke — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:55:13 -0000

How about a Doctor Who themed doodle of some kind?

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2008/12/103-done.html

Luke — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:21:00 -0000

Congratulations mate. I'll happily volunteer to be a sucker.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2008/09/putin-vs-tiger.html

Luke — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:47:00 -0000

I'd like to believe that this wasn't a set up but when it comes to Putin I'm too cynical these days.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2008/07/news-about-new-star-trek-movie-for.html

Luke — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:05:00 -0000

I've never really been into Star Trek as I'm more of a Doctor Who man. However this could be good and I'm really looking forward to Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) playing Scottie.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2008/06/fox-news-covers-burning-hearts.html

Luke — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:53:00 -0000

I like the way they refer to you as a 'Poetry Website".

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-birthday-z.html

Luke — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:40:00 -0000

Sorry to be picky but if Z has just turned seven then surely you are looking forward to living the eighth year of her life together?

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-make-video-podcast.html

Luke — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:18:00 -0000

Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/12/hoo-boy.html

Luke — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:36:00 -0000

I just took the same test and apparently I'm only 18% The perfect girlfriend. I was interested to see what American accent I have seeing as I'm English. Never mind.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/10/arizona.html

Luke — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:46:00 -0000

I'm not an American and have never been there but I thought I'd enter anyway for the state that I have the most connection with because my only cousin lives there.
This poem was written in honour of the work done recently by the University of Arizona into rheumatoid arthritis

Spice of Life

Joints begin to seize
And movement is pain
But never fear
Help is at hand

A natural remedy
To an age old problem
Is found in the West
From a source in the East

Eat curry
Yes eat curry
I don’t know which
Just make sure it contains the vital ingredient

Turmeric

© Luke Harrison 2006

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-story.html

Luke — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:39:00 -0000

Loved the story, very reminisent of Issac Asimov.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/07/swab-poopdeck.html

Luke — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:29:00 -0000

It's great to read your comments on films, I especially found your comments on Superman Returns insightful.
I've been thinking of doing a Superman special for my podcast and wondered if you'd be interested in guesting on it?
Luke

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/05/happy-anniversary-35-years.html

Luke — Thu, 25 May 2006 04:46:00 -0000

Hey Matt, I can definetely see the family resemblances

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/03/office.html

Luke — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:49:00 -0000

I assume you are talking about the American remake of the show and not the British original?

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/03/3-important-events-this-weekend.html

Luke — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:49:00 -0000

Seeing as you have sisters plural and they are celebrating their birthdays on the same day one assumes that they are twins. A strange coincidence as I also have twin sisters who will be 20 this coming monday.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/02/pet-steps.html

Luke — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:51:00 -0000

Pet Steps... For all the times you've seen them in the wild and thought, 'They'd be nice in a domestic setting'.

Re: http://mikalatos.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-did-t-rex-cross-road.html

Luke — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:30:00 -0000

Why did the T-Rex cross the road?

The chicken hadn't been invented yet.