Can’t get enough. It’s so true man…we’re selling our souls, willingly.
I was trying to find a way to get Netflix or Hulu to work with my PS3 when I found PlayOn. I’m sure there are other options out there, but didn’t find many that looked as developed. You can try it free and that convinced me that it would be easier than hooking the laptop up via HDMI every time wanted to watch something at more than 1440×900!
Depending on the ‘channel’ you watch, the quality is moderately low *cough*Hulu*cough*. This is really just wishful thinking on my part, even with the year 2010 right around the corner.
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Right off the bat. My last post was not very well thought out. I was shooting from the hip. My main point didn’t come across very well, and was at least detracted from by they way I staged it.
The main point of my last post: Obvious social injustices have been, and are being swept under the rug.
The way I staged it, and the title “Who freakin cares about tortured terrorists” showed immaturity and hurt what I was trying to say in the first place. An over-reaction to a problem just creates other problems.
So know that I do not support torture. But justice should be served. It’s a hard line to draw, right? I mean, if justice was truly served all the time we would all be in deep. Nobody would get out of speeding tickets, or any traffic violations at all. Anyone who has stolen [shared] music, games, or applications off the internet would be facing hefty fines and prison time. And all these are just surface level crimes. Take it further – what about sin? What about a Holy God? Those two don’t go well together at all!
It’s hard to imagine God being perfectly just, and offering grace freely to all who believe. At first glance it doesn’t make any sense. Grace and justice are polar opposites! How would God be true to His nature and still allow us to be forgiven? He wouldn’t be – except for Christ! Thankfully God does not deal with us only in terms of justice, but also with mercy.
God “justifies the ungodly” (Romans 4:5) through Christ’s life and death! His wrath was poured out on, and his justice satisfied through Christ. Salvation is a result of both mercy, and justice!
In conclusion – while God has allowed the government authority to judge and sentance for time being, we are called to pray for our enemies, and feed them if thety are hungry. It’s often hard to swallow, but none the less true. There could be a lot more said about our role, the government’s role and how things should be, but for now I’ll stop here.
Blogs are for ranting right?
A lot of what I hear on the radio on my way to and from work centers around torture. Did it happen? When? Who did it, and for how long? Where was it happening? I’m sick of hearing about potentially tortured, potential terrorists.
At least there might be reason to believe that these people did something wrong.
Do you hear about sex trafficking or abortion? That’s been happening for a long freakin time. There are obvious atrocity’s taking place right in front of us, some of which is legal. And all I hear about on the news is people whining about human rights for the “20th Hijkacker“.
I don’t know what these prisoners have done. Whether they are innocent and being held anyways, or if they have intent to kill people in the name of Allah. If I was innocent and got tortured anyhow, I’d be pissed for sure.
The point however, is that people who are explicitly innocent are being slaughtered with vacuums and forceps every single day. Girls young and old are being beaten and raped, gagged and dehumanized at all hours of the day and night. Not just in India or Burma but here in the States. People are paying for all of this.
There is a demand, therefore somebody has the supply.
Can we get our priorities straight? Stop being so desensitized about all of this! This world is full of crap and there is no getting around that for now. But that doesn’t mean we just tollerate it. Don’t allow yourself the luxury of being numb to all of this pain. Think about about it. Get angry.
