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God is a Republican?

// September 3rd, 2009 // 4 Comments » // My Thoughts

Over the past 2000 some odd years Christians have always been an eccentric group but I have to admit, I think we got dumber once we got to America.  It seems the longer we stay in America the dumber we get!  God is not a Republican People!    This may offend you or make you think differently about me but I have some news for you.  God is Pro Choice.  He is the original Pro Choice supporter.  He decided to allow you to make ANY choice!  you can choose to kill, or heal, or love, or hate, or steal or deal, or make or break, you can fly or flunk or vote or hope but the choice is yours and yours alone! (sounds a little Dr Seuss eh?) My point is … that the freedom to do good or bad is unquestionably given to us by God, our countries leaders knew that. But somewhere somebody decided that it was our jobs as Christians to be the moral police for the USA… NOT OUR JOB!   Do you honestly think that God intended to create the world, give everyone the freedom to choose right or wrong and then let YOU decide what they could and couldn’t do so that your religious panties would not get bunched up?  Why do  you think that Jesus ALWAYS rebuked the pharasees?  They were religious zealots that sought to control the population with laws that were never intended by God.  Look I love all these great christian leaders that keep telling you that we need to prevent same sex marriage, abortion, etc.. etc… but the fact is that they are incredibly short sighted.  It has been  proven over and over you cannot legislate morality!  The world will do what they want, and we as Christians should be there to pick up the pieces for them.  Look at prohibition,  abortion, homosexuality, same sex marriage,   every time those issues are subjected to intense scrutiny and outrage by well meaning “christian” activists, it only serves to alienate that group of people from Christians even further.   I would bet $1000 dollars that you take a few fishermen and start protesting their fishing as evil and ungodly and those previously harmless fishermen will become pitchfork bearing villagers bent on eradicating every christian in sight.

So before you get up on your conservative high horse and begin railing on me for being a liberal, or a democrat, or a heretic or whatever, hear me out.

I think that everyone should have the right to do what they like… just like God Created us. This works fine… the world takes care of these things naturally… they don’t want to bother with religion. i.e.  you kill someone you will probably end up dead or in jail-pretty much happens all over the world. The thing is you get religion involved with making laws… and you end up with “King James” you know… the guy that created a Church State and killed people for not attending the State Churches?  This is the same Guy we ran away from to America and decided that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”  It wasn’t the state that was the problem in the first place… it was religion all along.

Religious zealots killed Jesus
Religious zealots started the bloody crusades
Religious zealots persecuted protestants
Religious zealots have alienated homosexuals
Religious zealots are unreasonable
Religious zealots are unmerciful
Religious zealots are intolerant of anything except what they believe
Religious zealots bomb abortion clinics

So when you get all excited and worked up and angry about how all of these groups are attacking your morals and fundamental beleifs remember… we fired the first shots in this war… and God never authorized the war.

Tags: activists, Art, choice, christian, christians, conservative, Dr Seuss, exercise, Fun, God, jesus, Love, pharasees, Religion, the past

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Blog News, an RSS oops and a comment about comments

// August 8th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // My Life

Just a quick note… I did not realize that my RSS feed has been set up wrong… so for anyone that has attempted to subscribe I sincerely apologize. I believe everything is fixed and subscribing should work better now.

On to the news… as you can probably tell I have hit a streak of opinionation (if that is a word) so maybe the writers block is over ? woo hoo! I have successfully shed 30 lbs of dead weight and feeling pretty good lately (queue witty comments about “dead weight” here) Anyways I have a lot more energy and have actually considered going outside to do something other than getting into a vehicle :) I guess I owe you a post on why I am losing weight so keep an eye out for it…

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jason the bald guy

Tags: blog, Fun, Love, RSS, sin

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Insanity… The Pendulum Swings

// August 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // My Confessions, My Life, My Music

There seems to be an unspoken rule somewhere that if you are a musician then you will buy and sell more gear than you could use in several lifetimes. I

Pro Synthesizers are a beautifull thing

Pro Synthesizers are a beautifull thing

cannot tell you how many times I have sworn not to sell or trade another single piece of gear but along comes something and the gear is gone and other gear takes its place eventually. The sad thing is that you always miss your old gear because you realize how great it was when you had it. But you sold it and it always costs more to buy it again than you sold it for. Over the last few years I accumulated quite a bit of music gear, and I really loved it. I had a bad year… the church that I was helping plant was failing despite our every effort, my autistic son Aidan started getting into my stuff and breaking it… or coming really close to breaking it badly. So I moved all of my gear to the basement thinking I could set up a studio there… I was really happy and spent a lot of time setting everything up just right. Once everything was in place I flipped the switch and started making sweet… loud music in my basement! 5 minutes later there is a knock at the door, the next door neighbor had called the landlord and complained (I live in a duplex) so I was pretty miffed to say the least.. it was the middle of the day on Saturday! There is not much better time to be loud right? Well apparently my neighbor works at night so day time is off limits. I was a little unhappy to say the least… So I tried again later at night when she should be working… again the manager is called… apparently two people live there and one is always sleeping so there is no conceivable time ever that I could play music and really jam it out…

(Now maybe you understand and maybe you don’t but to a musician there is a universe of difference in hearing the music (headphones) and feeling the music (Loud Amplifiers!!!) A musician lives or dies based on how they hear what they are playing. If you can hear and feel what you are playing then there is a synergy of passion and sound and it actually stimulates creativity and your music becomes something very alive and wonderful)

Apparently and unfortunately, my neighbor is intent on denying me even the hope that I can really Jam Out EVER! So I sat in my basement looking at all of my gear… thinking about how often the keyboards had quarters put in them by Aidan, and thinking about all the times someone has told me to turn my music down… even as an adult in my own house! and I got really mad… and really frustrated and really tired of trying to do the thing I love doing and having someone else put limits on me for their personal happiness! what about my personal happiness! So about 6 months ago I sold everything…

At this moment I am regretting that decision as I sit here completely strapped for cash and unable to buy any gear… I know it sounds completely materialistic.. but this is the real me… once you have played on a really good instrument anything else seems just not any fun at all. so grabbing a $100 dollar keyboard is not going to cut it… I have my eye on a used Yamaha Motif XS6 but my “eye” is about the only thing that will get close to it… as tossing $1800 dollars at music gear is at the top of my “things to not do if you want to remain married or alive” list.

Was I insane? YES! I sold perfectly good music equipment because I was frustrated… and as the pendulum swings back and my former insanity is realized… the money is gone… and I sit here just wanting to play a synthesizer like a beastly madman… I am Insanely trying to figure out how many times i need to go to the plasma bank to get that Motif .

Funny thing… one day I can be so focused on spiritual things… the next day I can’t beat my way out of a paper bag… Insanity… The Pendulum Swings…

Tags: Art, Fun, Love, music, musician, My Music, sin, spirit

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Snow Leopard, Iphone 3GS, Iphone 3.0 OS

// June 8th, 2009 // No Comments » // My Favorites

Today is a good day for Apple users! Apple is really throwing down the gauntlet for Microsoft, Announcing a $29 dollar upgrade to Snow Leopard… the next jump ahead of Windows 7… Also it looks like the Iphone 3.0 OS is a fantastic upgrade with the long awaited cut and paste function… something I know I have been really looking forward to. and last but not least a Palm Pre slaughtering Iphone 3GS with tons of great new features… and it looks like the Iphone 3G just got lowered to 99$ which is pretty reasonable given the state of the economy… I think that the real think that Apple understands that Microsoft does not get yet is that consumers would rather simplicity in pricing and in the product that is offered… rather than offering a million solutions to the same problem offer a few really good ones that are easy to choose from. I beleive that is why Apple is growing in leaps and bounds… l sure hope this healthy competition keeps bringing great products and stimulating creativity. Ok guys I will stop geeking out and get back to work…

for more details see http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/phil-schiller-keynote-live-from-wwdc-2009

blessings to all my apple buddies!

Tags: Apple, beleive, economy, Fun, leaps and bounds, microsoft, new features, simplicity, sin, snow leopard, throwing down the gauntlet

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The Bystander Effect…

// May 19th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // My Thoughts

The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help an individual in an emergency situation.  This to me describes most christians, we tend to get together and have tons of fun together but when it is “Good Samaritan Time” we are suddenly very busy with our lives.  This also describes many friendships… these days true friendships are difficult to find, Over the years I have become increasingly aware that the sacrifices that we make for our friends may never be reciprocated… So many times I have gone above and beyond for a friend completely convinced that they would do the same for me… Only to find that when the time came and I needed somone to be there for me… no one was there…   I adopted the saying… ” I just want a friend that is as good a friend to me as I am to them” It became a real source of pain for me… I constantly felt let down and abandoned…

One day I received a message from a friend begging me to give them some of my time… just to talk. I had let a few calls go to voicmail, and not answered a few emails… and this message was a loving rebuke that maybe I should spend less time focused on my latest obsessions and remember my friends.  Suddenly it struck me… I had become the type of friend that I was always disapointed in…

what kind of friend are you? If others are standing around do you step out for your friends?  do you sacrifice your time for your friends? Do you serve your friends as well as they serve you?

What about the people around you that are hurting?   do you take time to talk? or pray? do you take a chance and say something?

or are you just a bystander contributing to the effect?

Tags: christian, christians, friends, Fun, obsession, pain, sacrifice, sin

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That Girl!

// April 9th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // My Confessions

The Girl of My Dreams

The Girl of My Dreams

The night I met her… well let’s just say… it was unexpected. And honestly, so has almost every day since then… most people would probably imagine some type of romantic chance meeting… well it is in a way… but nothing like you think… so … here goes..

I was a loser… yep…no question about it… divorced, and all messed up I had decided to jump off in the deep end…my goal was to keep a good buzz, surround myself with women, avoid as many bills as possible, bum as much as possible, and generally avoid responsibility. It all started after the divorce… actually a whole year after the divorce!

That first year I determined… I would get back on my feet and start all over again. I was almost done with Technical School and had a great part time job as an Intern. My Ex had confiscated our only car and so my parents sprung for a little Geo Metro, it was a “get you by” car. My money was exhausted and so I was paying them $100 a month for it.

One of the awesome things that my ex decided to do when she divorced me was to immediately empty my bank account, Including the money from my Pell Grant for school. So I was immediately in a financial bind in several areas. Child support was set not long after but everything was going OK except for finances being stretched so thin. Then I got the paperwork, somebody thought it was a great idea to increase my child support based on the salary that I was “able” to make as a construction worker, before I started school, rather than what I actually made as a student, and intern. That amount was significantly more than I could afford. especially being in school! and to make matters worse… my little Geo Metro just decided to bite the dust.

That’s when it fell apart.. my year of purity, of doing what was right, my year of going back and fixing my flaws… my goals of graduating from technical school with honors, of getting an awesome job with an IT firm and becoming successful in spite of my divorce. It all fell apart… in the course of a few weeks I lost my job, and quit school, because I had no transportation. With the threat of child support enforcement taking action against me for missing a few payments I was desperate for a job. I asked my grandfather to get me a bike and I pedaled to my first interview at a local roadhouse.

All my life I had spent trying to make all the right choices…made a few wrong turns and somehow I ended up completely screwed. Mad? heck yea I was mad… I was mad at GOD… I was mad at him for taking out the maximum penalty for everything I did… I was mad because he wouldn’t cut me one bit of slack.

I remember the day I decided… If you gotta pay… you might as well play… so I made sure that every wrong choice I never made…was made up for…

Three years later… I was definitely a different person,I drank at every occasion, I had a gambling addiction, I was a bum, I actually had to eat at a homeless shelter a few times. I had no direction except to the next bar, I had no desire… except for the next woman that caught my eye. I had somehow collected a posse of friends that would keep me going, just to see what I would do next. They had no problem paying my way as long as I kept them entertained… and I obliged them gladly taking their dares, and fueling my ego.

One particular night… I ended up alone.. all my roommates were gone, I was depressed and remembering a simpler time… when I trusted GOD… GOD… I was still so mad at him! I started thinking about what I wanted.. ” I just wanted to have a family… was that so much to ask!?” ” I just wanted someone to love me like I loved her… I wanted her to feel lucky to be with me… and for me to feel lucky to be with her.. ” suddenly I started writing “her” down… I thought of her hair… of her long legs… of her sweet smile.. her shape and how she flirted with me.. I imagined every single inch of her body…and every part of her personality… as I dreamed about “her” My yellow legal pad was full… so I stopped and stared at it… that’s what I wanted.. right there… an impossibility.. a person so full of contradictions that it didn’t even make sense. How could someone like that even notice a person like me? I flung my legal pad into the corner and yelled at GOD.. “I refuse to do anything! much less darken the door of a church if you don’t even care enough to give me someone like that! I stormed out of the house and headed for the nearest nightclub…convinced GOD was done with me.

It could have been three weeks, or three months… that’s not really the point.. is it? what matters is that I found myself again without friends… my latest girlfriend had left me hanging to go out with her friends and I was bound and determined to have some fun anyways… I cleaned up and headed out to a local dance club intent on doing some damage and hopefully finding someone to keep me occupied for a while.

I wandered around a bit checking out the scenery and finally caught up with a bartender buddy of mine and brokered a deal for the night… free drinks all night if I set him up with a friend of mine. I grabbed a bar stool and started in on my first drink… a few friends passed by completely wasted already and we joked and talked a little… as they walked away… I noticed the friend I was supposed to introduce to the bartender, I started to make the introductions but someone else caught my eye… an amazingly tall and stunning brunette was walking straight toward me! for a moment she seemed somehow illuminated in the dark smoky nightclub. It was impossible not to notice her! filled with liquid courage I quickly swooped in and took a chance… offering her a drink… at the same time… trying to process what was going on.. for some reason all of my smooth lines were gone… and I was out of my element… she was calm and friendly, flirtatious even a bit aggressive. But I was completely smitten…as the night went on and we got to know each other we got pretty wasted… Suddenly I experienced a moment of clarity that has yet to be repeated… I looked at her and a sudden amazement struck me… this was the girl that I wrote down on my legal pad! I thought… “NO WAY!!.. that is impossible!!” I told God I would not darken the door of a church… . . . ” OH MAN! I looked at her again… and it was true… every fiber of my being was convinced that this was that girl… from my legal pad! every detail every single thing that I liked was there! It was impossible!!! but some how it was true!

Suddenly I was babbling to her that all I ever wanted was to have a family and serve God and all kinds of stuff that you don’t say to a hot chick in a bar! unless you are trying to chase them off! I was a hopeless case… it was Friday night at a nightclub, I had the girl of my dreams in front of me….and the words came out of my mouth… “I just need to get back in church…”

Yep it had hit me… this was her… God was putting her right in front of me… and I was not taking any chances… a voice in my head said “this is the one you don’t screw up… cause it won’t come back around again.”

She looked at me so simply … like she waiting for the words to come out of my mouth… and she said “So why don’t we go to church Sunday together..”

What followed that night has been an amazing adventure, I called my mom the next day and firmly declared that I found the girl that I was going to marry. We were married 6 months later and amazingly today 7 fantastic and wonderful years later…I am more convinced than ever that my amazing, complex, exciting, flirtatious, beautiful wife… is That Girl… the one I dreamed up and wrote down on a legal pad.

Jason Carroll

Jason the bald guy
jasonthebaldguy.com

Tags: Art, choice, choices, Family, friends, Fun, God, Love, nightclub, responsibility, sin, sun

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