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Name: Tim
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Temple
Birthday: 8/30/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: disc golf : ultimate frisbee : usm : guitar, dulcimer, mandolin : politics : : theology : the o'reilly factor : anti-abortion : jerry seinfeld : seinfeld (the show) : writing/thinking : bands - andrew peterson, jars of clay, relient k, five iron frenzy, switchfoot, u2, rich mullins and a ragamuffin band, roper... : authors - cs lewis, donald miller, john eldredge, st. augustine, brennan manning, joseph heller...
Expertise: guitar maybe? : 1 john : quoting movies such as the ten commandments and apollo 13
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
4/5/2005
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| It's almost 1 a.m. and I should be in bed. I'm in a writing mood, however, so I'm going to update this thing that I never touch anymore. For anyone out there still in touch with this journal of mine, here is an entry at long last. Every night I stay up later than I want to and the next morning I hate myself for it and tell myself I'm not going to do that again. I do it again. So I tell myself that tomorrow night I'm going to get 8 hours of sleep. Doesn't happen. I say this to emphasize that my life has turned into a cycle of repeating disenchantments. I tell myself that tomorrow will be the day that I'm going to do something about what I hate in myself, and I never do. For at least 2 years it has been this way with my relationship with God. I've failed in achieving what could be classified as a decent relationship with God. I go from failure to failure in my spiritual walk. I've lost most of my passion for everything but laziness. My only accomplishment is in fulfilling my desire to scrape by. I would even take back my passion for classes, but that seems to be gone too. I'm in need of resurrection.
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| I honestly did not think it was possible for me to have any less respect for the Democratic Party. After all, when they are led by such fanatics as Howard Dean and John Kerry, what more can a Republican hope for to scar the face of this already pockmarked party? However, my disappointment at the failure of Joe Lieberman to win his party’s primary in Connecticut was instantly replaced with joy at the fact that this party has proven it is even less out of touch with any moderate thinkers than previously estimated. Joe Lieberman, a three-term Democratic senator and poster boy for the moderate Democrats (a dying race), has been abandoned by his party for yet another anti-war/Bush/Republican leftist. My disdain for this is equaled only by my repulsion at seeing the victor of the primary, Ned Lamont, take a stage with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. How these “men of God” can pass themselves off as anything other than crackpots is beyond me. Lieberman’s defeat is a victory for the Republican Party. I have heard it said that “liberalism” is an acceptance of varying ideas. The Democratic breed of liberalism is really the very close-mindedness they accuse the Republicans of having, only in the other direction. Lieberman's defeat just adds further to the appearance that the Democrats are out of touch with anyone who supports the war in Iraq, fighting terrorism, and strengthening our national defense. I'm not saying this is how all Democrats feel, but it is the party's appearence to those whom the leaders of the party have ostracized, those not on the far left side of thinking.
This is a letter to the editor I wrote today (with some additions). I haven't sent it in to the paper yet, but if I do, I hope it gets printed.
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| The middle east is a mess. Setting aside whatever prophetic meanings may lie underneath the current action, which I don't really care much about and certainly don't know much about, the situation baffles me. I'm not going to hide that I'm pro-Israel, and as someone who is neither a pacifist nor in favor of the abolition of the death penalty (a fundamentalist perhaps?) I'm also not going to hide that I don't always shun every act of violence. I feel bad for saying that, but when it comes to fighting terrorism and Islamic extremism, I'm rather Republican. But the conflict is still beyond me. Although I'm sure that the news can be said to be slanted in either direction, liberal or conservative, depending on what channel you watch, I feel fairly confident in saying that Israel and the Islamic groups that threaten them have fairly different mindsets. Israel seems to do quite a better job recognizing that even in a deeply religous country, the state comes first. The Islamic nations appear to me to be stuck in the Old Testament. They are so deeply entrenched in their fundamental beliefs, they cannot see any difference between country and religion...they make them one. They seem to only want to destroy the US and Israel, or I suppose Western civilization to be broader. I feel bad when I want to cheer for Israel on TV, because I know that civilians on both sides are being killed, and I really do not want that, nor do I advocate it. I wish I had a Muslim friend I could sit down and discuss all this with. I really do want to see both sides better.
In other news, I miss my SNU buddies and am looking forward to starting back at school. I miss my youth group at Edmond. I almost miss classes...gasp.
My dream job: Director of Communications for the White House...yay Toby Ziegler.....only those who watch West Wing will get that.
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| Heaven on earth
We need it now
Im sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
Im sick of the pain
Im sick of hearing
Again and again
That theres gonna be
Peace on earth
Where I grew up
There werent many trees
Where there was wed tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mark
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you
And its already gone too far
You said that if you go in hard
You wont get hurt
Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
No whos or whys
No one cries like a mother cries
For peace on earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now hes in the dirt
Peace on earth
Theyre reading names out
Over the radio
All the folks the rest of us
Wont get to know
Sean and julia
Gareth anne and peter
Their lives are bigger than
Any bigger
Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
Jesus in the song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on earth
Hear it every christmas time
But hope and history wont rhyme
So whats it worth
This peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
There's some U2 lyrics for 4th of July. This song was on my mind.
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