Surviving the Technological Future
Posted by Brett Veenstra
My bud’s over at Geeks and God pointed me to this awesome video below.
Jon makes a great followup to something Rob and MF already commented on for unplugging, and being there when you’re with real people, not your virtual friends.
He also makes some resolutions about going “natural”, and finding a way to completely disconnect using nature. I wish him well in this endeavor, must past my estimated endurance of 3 days.
Here’s… Bobby!
Posted by Brett Veenstra
Bob’s back with an onslaught of good thoughts and opinion. He’s definitely writing at another level on this post.
He apparently didn’t like the past comments, so they’re gone now, but I don’t really think anyone can read his stuff without some reaction (ergo, this post).
It really is sad that we Christians (the big we) get so jacked up about telling others they’re wrong instead of Read the rest of this entry »
1 Dollar Baby
Posted by Brett Veenstra
Kath and I rented Million Dollar Baby last week and I really didn’t know anything about it before then (other than it had a good review buzz around it).
I remember thinking how beautiful of a movie it was while we watched; characters, imagery, themes, and the story was fantastic. The climax however, left a Read the rest of this entry »
“Church” is broken
Posted by Brett Veenstra
Ok… so Bob’s latest thougths got this rant going, but this has been simmering for a while:
The modern church today is totally broken. Not, just a little, not just “not perfect”.. BROKEN.
The church should provide the following basic things: Read the rest of this entry »
Poetry, the kind I could like…
Posted by Brett Veenstra
I never got into poetry during my studies… perhaps I should have delved into satire more… here’s a great poem that I heard recently… I found the text here: (http://derekvreeland.blogspot.com/2006/08/if-chance-be-father-of-all-flesh.html)
This is from the mind of Steve Turner (http://www.rejesus.co.uk/expressions/steve_turner):
CREED We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin. We believe everything is OK as long as you don’t hurt anyone, to the best definition of hurt, and to the best of your Read the rest of this entry »