New poem, Playing Pool

I have finished the first volume of William Jones Church History, and I’d like to jot down a few notes before launching into the second. It is often told to me that only the Catholics can claim that their history goes back to the time of Christ. Such claims are uninformed. Though much of history is obscured due to the affliction of those who opposed the church of Rome, the record of the Novations, Paulicians, the Christians in Piedmont valley in 800 A.D. who were taught by Claude a bishop there, and the Waldenses who came some hundred so years…

James Lileks is my hero

The Handy Slogan Generator!. What will the think of next?

New poem, Utter Dependence of God.

Jonathan, age 11, upon being inspired by his father, promptly let flow his creative genius and thus the product of a sharp mind has encapsulated the essence of the day. How do you solve a problem like Korea? How do you catch Saddom and pin him down? How do you find a word that means Korea? Both bad guys, terrorists, and clowns. Many a thing you know you just don’t tell them. Many a thing they just don’t understand. But how do you make them stay, and listen to all you say? How do you keep the terrorist from their…

This will probably provoke some amount of discussion, but I need a place to note a growing list of things that require further research. Note: Updated 1.22.2003 Why was it necessary for a Pope, when none existed for 600 years after the church was established, and when there appeared to be no centralized authority structure, at least until Constantine. Why is the Oral history of the Catholic church given so much weight, when previous examples of oral history were rebuked by Christ because it contradicted the written word. The Catholic church claims to be the pillar and foundation of the…

The November 2002 Photo Essay pics are now live!

Its important to be quiet when you’re hunting. It is perhaps one reason why hunting is liked so much by men. Alone with nature, the beauty of God’s own creation stretching out before you in all directions. Getting up well before dawn, and watching the sun rise slowly over those snow capped mountains. Then there is the thrill of the chase! The adrenaline fed rush of the contest between man and beast. The prize is life and food for your family, the knowledge that you are able to provide another day of peace and comfort for those you love. But…

The winter is cold and I’ve felt its touch. Sitting in my living room, listening to the sounds of Dante’s Prayer, I find myself in a rare mood. Winter is hard for me, of all the seasons its bitter sweet, for it follows after Autumn, the season of my heart. Its harder in winter… harder to be creative, harder to feel, harder to put forth the energy needed to be all things to all people. I desire very much to withdraw, to retreat to the safer regions of my soul, hiding behind a mechanical exterior, unwilling to expose myself to…

Orson Scott Card, science fiction author, and now political analyst, offers an explanation of US foriegn policy. Now, I’m not a political pundit, not am I up on the latest movement within the white house. I have always stood upon the philosophy that for the average American to think even for a moment that he is better able to understand what is going on in foreign fields, is foolish and stupid. The vast majority of Americans don’t even know how much American can know about what goes on in foreign nations, knowledge that the President does know. You simply have…

My first epic. I post it here for your evaluation first, as I’m not sure its finished. Post your comments, thoughts, ideas and such. At some point I will either write more, make changes, or just post it as is in the poetry section. Thanks! Note: The Anarion featured here has no relation to Isildur’s brother and the setting is my own creation and should bear no resemblance to middle earth. The etymology and origin of the names, though they were heavily influenced by Tolkien and can be translated using Quenyan, make no claim to actually be Quenyan. Anarion’s Lay…

Dear Mrs. Ellen, We don’t resent you, we welcome you. See… we’re on your side. After having been subjected to years of female ridicule and distain, the male society welcomes with open arms those women who are willing to love those things about us that we were born to yearn for. Men want to be noble. Chivalry isn’t dead, its suffocating. I don’t speak for all men, and I’m sure you don’t speak for all women, but for what it’s worth, LOTR isn’t a locker room, and women are welcome.

Community is one of the foundational tenets of the web, and one reason why bloggerdom has become such a driving force behind the web and what people use it for. GeoURL.org is a website that speciallizies in bringing people together, or at least letting people know who they’re close too. Don’t mind the awefull interface, that will improve… we hope… but the application is pretty darn cool… if you ask me…

Taken from my comments on this post by Jason B. on ablogapart.com My comments sum up my thoughts concerning things God has been teaching me over the past six months, and I thought them important enough to post here outside ablogapart.com’s forum.Man is an emotional being, even when directed by his mind; his emotions are a driving force behind everything he does. Dwelling on the horrors of hell or the happiness of heaven serves to evoke the emotions bound to such places, making the desire to avoid the one more passionate and gain the other more poignant….I was just thinking…

For those of you who care, which in the case of this post shouldn’t be many, walljm.com runs on a CMS built by moi, and it’s in need of some improvements, so I thought I’d list them here so I don’t forget… don’t mind me, I’m just ruminating out loud… Currently walljm.com is several pages of ungly asp embedded html code. It’s about high time I spent some time converting some of my code into more portable functions, as well as seeing if I can’t seperate my html from my code a bit more. Trackbacks need to be added, as…

I think its time to add Trackback functionality to walljm.com. If you are interested in building your very own trackback engine, you may refer to this post for more info.

I don’t recall if I have ever read Neuromancer, though I have heard of it. William Gibson, the author, has a blog though, and that I find terribly fascinating. This is so because I have often wondered what one would look like when written by a professional writer. I don’t consider political pundits and newpapermen as professional writers in that sense, as they sepnd their lives writing short articles, ideal for a blog truly, but often falling short of that full immersion that someone who writes books for a living attains. Specifically, magazine and newsapaper journalists don’t have to constantly…

When I was a sophmore in college I did what was probably the most daring and crazy thing i’ve ever done. I dyed my hair bleach blond. *grin* oh yes… call me crazy. In case you were wondering what I looked like… there were pictures… *grin*

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