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Selfless, Humble, Faithful

It seems these days everyone puts a lot of stock in self-esteem. They don’t want teachers marking tests with red ink because it hurts the students’ self-esteem. They don’t want students to have their own crayons, because someone may have a better/bigger box than someone else. They want everything level, everything fair. The list goes on and on. I say fubar. When I was in school and got a test back with red ink all over, I knew I messed up. I knew that I hadn’t tried hard enough and I needed to work harder. Did it hurt my self-esteem? Sure it did! But they call it a test for a reason and if you can’t pass, you shouldn’t feel great about it. The next test I studied harder and I can’t remember failing twice in a row.

Today kids are expected to be treated as adults, I say fubar. They aren’t adults, they are kids and they should be treated as kids. All our society is doing is creating a bunch of selfish, self-esteemed, irresponsible kids. They have no responsibilities, they aren’t even ‘tested’ anymore. They aren’t taught to be adults. I say get rid of this time out, no red ink, community crayons fubar and teach kids responsibility, teach kids we aren’t all equal. Allow the kids to willingly share with one other, make them learn how to work together instead of making life seem to easy. You know the best way to make someone better? Tell them they aren’t good enough! How can someone ever get better if they think they are already just as good as anyone else?

I think self-esteem isn’t that great. It’s good to know your strengths and weaknesses. It’s good to know that you aren’t as good at something as Joe, but better than him at something else. I think when we don’t all think we are the greatest, we come together better, we work together better. Someone has to be the best, but they aren’t the best at everything, chances are they may even be the worst at something. I think we need to work on instilling some selflessnes in our society. Teach community, instead of trying to force it.

Today kids act like they expect to always get what they want. I say fubar. I can think of a lot of times I didn’t get what I wanted when I wanted it. Did it kill me?  No. It made me take better care of it when I did finally get it. It made me work harder to show I deserved it. I bought my first swing set when I was 5 years old, saving the $1 bills my mom would give us to get candy with at the grocery store. Did I want candy? Sure I did! But I wanted a swing set more and I knew my parents couldn’t afford one. I know I didn’t pay for the swing set by myself, but having $100 saved up didn’t hurt my cause and my dad never mentioned how much more he had to pay for it. I bought it by saving and by showing that I was dedicated to it, not with the money. We need to be more humble, to realize we can’t expect everything to be given to us when we reach out our hands.

Above all, it seems we’ve lost faith. Of course we have! How can we have faith when we are selfish and proud? As soon as something goes wrong, we don’t have anywhere to lean and we lose faith. The economy is a perfect example. A bunch of selfish, proud rich people lose some money and they expect to be bailed out. I say fubar! Capitalism works, but only when we let it! Sometimes things have to fail. If nothing ever fails, then nothing ever gets renewed. If nothing gets renewed, then progress stops and everything stagnates. We ran up housing costs to make more money, even though we knew they weren’t worth as much and the people borrowing money for them couldn’t afford the loans. What’s going to happen?  Gee, maybe the people that can’t afford the loans don’t pay them back, so the lender loses money, people stop over spending on houses, the housing market goes back to what it should be anyway, and a lot of money disappears? Oh no! What to do? Well, don’t do it again for one thing! Don’t give a bunch of crooks even more money, just because they couldn’t manage the billions they had. Have a little faith.

Everything has a cycle. Everything seems to come back around eventually. We’ve had some rough times this cycle and I don’t think it’s working. Let’s bring back a little selflessness. Let’s bring back a little humbleness. The faith will find it’s own way.

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More writing, more sites, more goodness

I have a few domain names I rarely, if ever, use. I’ve decided to start putting them to good use this year. I plan on writing some articles on ProfoundGrace.com or .org (if I don’t make them the same site). Those will mostly be articles for Bible studies and things like that. I also plan to rebuild BeSquishy.com, using the Clay framework.

I want to write more on here, but most of the things I have to write about lately are about the Bible. Tangant.com will mostly be personal/development type blogging. I’m kind of stuck on a couple of things in Clay right now, trying to decide the best approach to take, so I haven’t worked on it a lot. I hope to dive back into it and finish out the 0.5.0 milestone, then I can release it and hopefully get some useful feedback.

My wife and I have been having some problems lately, so that has kind of prevented me from writing on here. I don’t really know what to say, since I don’t like writing about stuff that personal, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to get some of it out. Our problems are my fault, btw, which is hard to say, but still not so easy to fix. I’m trying, I just pray she doesn’t give up on me. I definantly see things in a different light now, I just hope it isn’t too late.

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Good Bye 2008

2008 has come and gone, it seems every year is in more of a hurry to go by than the last. Maybe 2009 will bring more of the good and less of the bad. It’s another year, another day. May God allow each of us blessings in 2009 and beyond.

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Merry Christmas 2008!

Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope everyone got a chance to take a break. Everyone seems to get so stressed out and ends up forgetting it’s a holiday, not another day of work.

God Bless!

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

Terrible movie…

The end of it is a Liberal’s utopia: all the power goes out, the vehicles, die, the oil rigs stop pumping, and everyone just stands there like, “uh gee George, what do we do now?”.

I admit that we need to “clean up” our act, but this movie is another example of fanatics who would kill someone for wearing a fur coat and then cry because they stepped on a cricket in the process. Global warming is part of the cycle, everything has a cycle. Here we call global warming Spring, we can’t wait for it to get here either.

I only rate so good because it has decent effects…

Rating: 30/100

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24 inch Monitor

My wife got me a new monitor for Christmas.

I freaking love it!  Thanks baby! :)

Check it out

Not only is it big, it has inputs for my xbox and pretty much anything else i would want on it…  freakin sweet!

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Back in Minot

I made it back, although the drive wasn’t all that fun. Luckily we didn’t get in any storms, but the roads were pretty nasty and slick the last 800 miles or so.

I’m glad to be back, but the weather here sucks..!

-2 degrees (f), feels like -18

-2 degrees (f), feels like -18

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Less than a week to go..

I’ll be back to ND early next week. It’s been a nice change of pace down here in TX, but I’ll be glad to get home to the wife and kid. I wish I could take the weather home with me.

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Yes Man

Last Saturday I watched an early screening of Yes Man, starring Jim Carey, here on base. I really liked it, possibly one of Carey’s best movies. If you have a chance this weekend, go out and see it (it opens Saturday I believe).

The premise of Yes Man is Carl (Carey) tends to lean toward the negative on everything. One day an old friend convinces him to attend a cult-like conference about ‘Yes’. Instead of saying ‘No’ to everything, Carey begins saying ‘Yes’ and his new direction takes him on a pretty wild ride. I won’t spoil anymore than that, but just imagine what life would be like if you said ‘Yes’ to everything and some of the crazy things that could happen.

Rating: 100/100

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Still in Texas…

Yup, still here..  I have about another week of training before I head back to the frozen tundra. I’ve been liking the weather here.. hasn’t and probably wont hit negative yet.  Training has been going OK, it’s kind of boring, but it’s kind of good to get away from normal work for a little while.

When I get back I plan to write a lot on here.  I have a lot I want to talk about, such as politics, some of my development projects, and maybe even some rants here and there (if not included above).  Hopefully my PHP framework will be ready for release pretty soon, then I can talk about it on here :)

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