Table for 7

Alright, so my brother-in-law Eric did this on his blog and I was so intrigued that I had to come out of hiding and resurrect my blog. Here are the rules: you have to choose 6 people who you would like to have dinner with (living or dead). They cannot be fictional characters and they cannot be people who you would normally be able to have dinner with. So if it is someone alive, then it has to be someone famous, not your brother or something like that. This is one dinner, not six, so you have to choose people who would be able to hold a conversation together. Oh, and it cant be Jesus because everyone would say that. So here are mine in no particular order:

1. Erasmus – He is one of the most intelligent people ever to have lived and he lived in one of the most interesting time. He had his hand around Marin Luther’s neck while throwing punches at the pope with his other hand and I would love to talk to the man who could get away with that.

2. Socrates – If there was any lull in the conversation, he would be able to get it going again. I learn the same way that he did, by asking questions and finding answers in other people’s responses, and I want to see him in action.

3. Noah – I want to know what the earth looked like as one giant ocean. I want to talk to him about what it was like to hear the voice of God tell you that He was going to flood the Earth wiping out all of humanity and has chosen you to live and re-propagate the Earth.

4. JJ Abrams – Anyone who knows me might have seen this coming. I would want to talk to him about Lost and some of his other projects that are in the works right now.

5. Adam – I would want to talk to him for some of the same reasons as Noah. I would want to hear what it was like to walk with God without knowing any sin. I would want to know what the Earth was like in God’s original intention. And I would want to ask if it got boring living for 900 years.

6. Martin Luther – I had trouble with this last one thinking of someone I would like to talk to instead of someone I just like to study about. I would love to talk religion with him. With him on my right and Erasmus on my left, I think it would make for a very interesting discussion! Plus, I would love to hear a discussion between him and Adam on the nature of man.

Chuck Norris

Some out there might have heard of Chuck Norris facts. They have been around for a few years now and are just funny statements about Chuck Norris written by fans. For instance, one of my personal favorites is, "Crop circles are Chuck Norris' way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie down." If you want to check out more you can go here. Well, Chuck Norris has become well aware of these facts and thinks they are funny and has gone on some talk shows with some of his own. Well here is the penultimate Chuck Norris facts column. It is written by Chuck Norris in one of his columns for World Net Daily and it is about what would happen if he became president. Check it out here.

Funny Story....

This here is a very funny story. I read this and started thinking to myself "How emberassing is it to be knocked unconscious by a silly fish!" What a lightweight! Then I looked up what a sturgeon was. How would you like to be hit in the face with one of these???

To Any Out There Who Still Might Be Checking This Blog...

So...I haven't posted in a while, for a month and a half now, and here is why. The following is my confessional to anyone out there who still might be listening: I constantly have all these thoughts and questions (not doubts, just questions!) about God and the meaning of life, the universe and everything. When I hear myself ask some of these questions, I feel like I am being heretical and so I usually do not ask. I know that this is common and that it happens to a lot of Christians when they reach adulthood and try to make their religion their own instead of that of their parents. At this point in peoples lives as they progress out of the immaturity of "youth group mentality" and through the early twenties where they think they know everything into their mid-twenties and thinking that nobody knows anything it gets pretty tough. It feels like the same growing pains that you felt when you were a kid, except now the brain is what is hurting instead of the body. I look forward to my thirties after this "questioning" period is over and I can settle on some answers (I hope!) But since this is my place where I am expressing all of these questions, even if I do feel like a heretic or a doubter, I am going to try to work through these things. If I am asking some pretty easy questions, please let me know. Tell me that I'm a dork and the answer is right here looking me in the face. And I will pledge to go to the Bible more and seek my answers from the source of all knowledge.

Is this not the most beautiful woman in the world???

Hogzilla

In case anyone missed this story a few months ago, this is the world's largest known pig. It was found and killed in southern Georgia a few months ago after rumors that a "hogzilla" was terrorizing the locals. They are now making a horror movie about it. When, exactly, did we run out of good ideas for movies?

Answers in Genesis

There is a new Creation Museum opening up in Cincinnati next month. It is done by a group called Answers in Genesis. It cost them $27 million and is done very well. It features animatronic scenes of humans co-existing with dinosaurs and Noah building the ark. It has received a lot of buzz in the media (it was even secretly crashed by Bill Maher) The media's rection has generally been bad, most articles poking fun of the Christian community in general for the beliefs of the Answers in Genesis organization. What do you think? Do you think that this is a good idea in promoting the Gospel? Do you even agree with the assumptions of AiG?