Logic

Two South Texas farmers, Jim and Bob, are sitting at their favorite bar, drinking beer. Jim turns to Bob and says, "You know, I'm tired of going through life without an education. Tomorrow I think I'll go to the Community College and sign up for some classes." Bob thinks it's a good idea, and the two leave.

The next day Jim goes down to the college and meets the dean of admissions, who signs him up for the four basic classes: Math, English, History, and Logic.

"Logic?" Jim says, "What's that?"

The dean says, "I'll show you. Do you own a weed-eater?"

"Yeah."

"Then logically because you own a weed-eater, I think that you have a yard."

"That's true, I do have a yard."

"I'm not done," the dean says. "Because you have a yard, I think logically that you would have a house."

"Yes, I do have a house."

"And because you have a house, I think that you might logically have a family"

"I have a family."

"I'm not done yet. Because you have a family, then logically you must have a wife"

"Yes, I do have a wife."

"And because you have a wife, then logically you must be a heterosexual."

"I am a heterosexual. That's amazing! And you were able to find out all of that just because I have a weed-eater."

Excited to take the class now, Jim shakes the dean's hand and leaves to meet Bob at the bar. He tells Bob about his classes, how he is signed up for Math, English, History and Logic.

"Logic?" Bob says, "What's that?"

Jim says, "I'll show you. Do you own a weed-eater?"

"No."

"Then you're gay

30

Here are 30 movies that I enjoyed. Keep in mind that this doesnt even scratch the surface for my favorites. That list would be too long.


Alien - Classic space horror. Started them all.
Apollo 13 - Awesome acting. One of those you just have to watch.
Arlington Road - Its a good movie cause the bad guys wins...dont see that too often
Austin Powers trilogy - Funny Funn Funny
The Godfather I & II - No words can explain this perfection
Goodfellas - Great mob movie...GREAT
City of Angels - Classic Romance, Gives up everything for the one he loves
Mystic River - Superb acting, Excellent script, wonderful directing
Enough - Classic revenge from the "weaker sex"
John Q - Shows the lengths a parent will go for a child
Forrest Gump - You just have to love the guy
Super Troopers - Best Cop comedy ever made. Couldnt quit laughing
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - Just so dumb it was hilarious
Dumb and Dumber - Best comedy ever made, hands down
Kill Bill Vol. 1&2 - Great directing, vivid imagination
Little Monsters - Terrific kids movie
Man on Fire - Another great revenge movie
Pulp Fiction - Utter Brilliance
Napoleon Dynamite - So simple yet its great lovable fun
Old School - 2nd Best comedy ever made
Saw - Great suspense, even better ending
Serendipity - Another great suspenseful romance
Big Hand for a Little Lady - greatest scam ever pulled
Money Pit - Everyone fixing up a house has to see this one
Black Hawk Down - Amazing Simply Amazing
Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino at his best

5 Things

I Love

1. My Friends
2. Movies
3. Learning
4. Cooking
5. Attention

I Hate

1. Studying
2. Repeating myself
3. Mushrooms
4. Cleaning Toilets
5. PMS...ahhhhhh

I Can Do Well

1. Massage
2. Argue
3. Cook
4. Watch A Movie
5. Organize

I Don't Do Well

1. Triple By-Pass Surgery
2. Put Shingles On A Roof
3. Keep My Patience With Annoying People
4. Take Orders
5. Remain Still

House

Ok, who watches the show House? Its on Fox, Tuesdays at like 7 or 8. Dont remember which cause Tivo automatically records it for me. Anyway, even if your not a medical show freak, you'll love it. This is a doctor who holds nothing back. If a patient is stupid, he says to them what we are yelling at the screen. He'll tell them straight out that they are a stupid idiot. He has wonderful sarcasm, ohh and he's addicted to pain killers. Its hilarious. I laugh on average about 13 times through each episode. Watch one episode, if you dont like it, well...I guess you dont have to watch it.

Crossing the Road.

I have finally found the answer to the question we have asked all our life.

Fate?

If you believe in fate I think your loonier then a toon. If it’s meant to be it’s meant to be…I cant stand that. Fate does not exist. You a believer in the Bible? If so I don’t know how you believe in fate. Here’s is my thoughts on why, “what’s meant to be will happen,” doesn’t exist.

Do I believe in fate – no. Let us draw a distinction here between fate or predestination. By the way, there is no short answer to this with scriptural proof so get comfortable.
Predestination or fate – the idea that your life has been determined before you have lived or that the end your life will arrive at is inevitable. The idea of this comes from testament from Paul in Gal 1:15 and John 13:18. However close examination of the scripture shows that these verses have nothing to do with man being predestined rather they simply exhibit the calling out of the apostles in the formation and completion of God’s plan. We see examples of this throughout the Old and New Testament as individual lives are utilized though history in the completion of God’s grand plan.
In stark contrast to the idea of predestination is the fact that is boldly pointed out that man is a free will agent. Heb 3:6, 3:14, 6:11-12, 10:36 strongly points this out. In addition to this, the whole gospel of Christ is in stark confrontation to the idea of predestination. If we were predestined to be saved or lost, why did Christ have to die? This idea also spills over into our secular lives in that God made us free will agents in everything we do. He set creation in motion and we live and die by the choices we make. If we did not then how could we be punished for doing wrong or rewarded for doing right? We couldn’t because it was not our will but someone else’s will we were living by. Fate just does not and can not exist. I'm sorry.

Mock

Why is it that we tend to mock that which we do not understand? I have never understood this. I do it too, I’m not saying that I don’t. But when we see or hear of something new, we’ll say that’s just stupid. And in reality we don’t have the slightest clue of what it is or what its purpose is. When people try to explain it to us we get all defensive and mad. Its just because we’re jealous of either, they know what its about or they have another view on it. Why do we get jealous over something we don’t even know? Are we intimidated by it? Next time that you hear or see something that you don’t have the faintest idea of what it is. Before you make your judgment on it, do your research. Find out what it is, what its used for, all the facts. Then give your opinion, never know it might change once you understand.

Interesting Facts

Light Travels:
160,000 miles per second.
9,600,000 miles in a minute.
576,000,000 miles in an hour.
13,824,000,000 miles in a day.
5,045,760,000,000 miles in a year.
50,457,600,000,000 miles in a decade.
504,576,000,000,000 miles in a century.

Explosions on the Sun send particles into space, creating luminous displays called auroras that can be seen from Earth.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have rings.

There are more dogs in the United States than there are people in the United Kingdom. There are more cats in the United States than there are people in France.

George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, and his wife Laura got married just three months after meeting each other.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

Ants don't sleep.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

I wonder why that is....think we use it too much?

Space

There are over 400 Billion stars in our galaxy. There are over 400 billion galaxies. Saying that there are the same amount of stars in every galaxy, which there arent, but if there were that is over 160 sexillion stars. If there were an average of nine planets there would be over 3 trillion planets. Can you even picture that number? Now do you think that we are alone? Dont you think that it would be a great waste of space if we were? 3 trillion planets and only one is in use. I'm not saying that I do believe in aliens, but I wont say that I dont. If God can make us who's to say he didnt make more. Say like one inhabited planet for every galaxy. Makes sense, why waste all that space.

What Book of the Bible Are You?

You are Romans.


Which book of the Bible are you?
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Hypocrisy Pt. 2

Again, this is going to be talked about in the perspective of my religon. Although I'm sure it happens in every church. My church preaches that thou shalt not forsake the assembly. Unless of course your on your death bed, and even then its kind of questionable. I personally think that there are situations in which God would be pleased that I did what I did instead of going to church. Example would be like, helping a dying person, or something. But this isnt where I was going. So...we arent to forsake the assembly. I am one of those people who loves to look at the attendence and the money intake and the budget. All of that stuff. Well if you look at my church and many others that I've been too, you'll see a slight decrease in attendence from Sunday morning to Sunday night. And when I say slight, I am being facetious. I am used to seeing about only a 1/3 of the people that attend Sunday morning come back for Sunday night. Is this hypocritical to you? Or I am just being to legalistic about this? You tell me.

BMW

The BMW 760I. Isnt it a site for sore eyes? mmmm makes me drool. V-12, 6 Liter, 438 Horse Power. It'll go 0-60 in 5.4 seconds. Top speed is around 150. Dont you want one? I know that I do. I cant wait to get one. Only ummm, lets see, oh, only aboout $120,000. Makes you want to have two huh? Haha. I will have one. One day.

Diplomacy

My kind of diplomacy is a .13 cent bullet. Forget trying to explain yourself and bargaining. It doesn’t work. The United States Government isn’t the fairest or the nicest, but just listen to this. When someone is in dire need of help, say from a tyrant, terrorists, or just a natural disaster, who do they turn to for help? Oh that’s right, its us, the United States of America. We help the Iraqi people by getting rid of their tyrant leader and now all they want to do is complain about us being there. In World War II, we bombed Japan almost out of existence. Then what did we do, we send over about 50 billion dollars and rebuild it for them. Here recently, hurricane Katrina. President Bush gets on television and gives a Mandatory evacuation. Katrina comes thousands of people are trapped, killed, in need of help. What do we do? We help them, we send them food, water, clothing, money. All of this help and then just like normal, complaining. They blame Bush for the hurricane. Ok well, they were warned. Now for the people who lost their homes, I feel pity for them, but those who stayed and, I’m sorry, lost loved ones or died themselves, too bad. They were told to get out of there. They said, we don’t have money, we don’t have cars, we have kids. Ok, well bum rides or walk. They were given a good long notice. I could of walked to Canada before it hit with the notice that they were given. Pity for them, I have very little to none, especially since they want to gripe and complain about our government. So here is what I think. If someone is in need, too bad. Lets stay to ourselves. Until countries/people, learn to shut up and quit whining, forget about them. We’ll see how long they last without us.

F.Y.I.

This drives me nuts so I'm putting it out there so everyone will finally get it straight. Frankenstein is not the monster. The monster is just called Frankensteins monster or creation. Frankenstein is the Doctor. Hence the name, Dr. Frankenstein. I dont know why that is so hard to keep straight. This is just one of those small errors by everyone that drives me insane. But I guess there isnt such a thing as common sense since everyone is different. Ohh well, I forgive you guys, just get it right from now on.

I.Q.

So I just took an I.Q. test. I've only taken like 500 of these things since I was 10. Just like every other time I scored above average. So supposedly I'm smarter then the average bear. But what does that mean. Whats average. A High School student, a college student, what? How do I know how smart I am. I dont feel like a nerd. But I dont feel like the level of an idiot. I am knowledgable in a lot of areas, but i'm not a prefessional in many areas. Anyway, I'm not bragging about my scores, ok well maybe I am. I like being smart, even though I dont feel any smarter then anyone else. I suggest you take one sometime, they are annoyingly fun. haha.

Gas, Where Your Money is Going.

When the news reports on the price of crude per barrel they are talking about 42 gallons. An average refinery takes that 42 gallons per barrel and makes about 25 gallons of gasoline, about 10 gallons of distillates (jet and diesel fuel) and the remaining 7 gallons are split up into bunker oil, asphalt, propane, butane, natural gas and coke). One thing to keep in mind; the government (Federal and State) charge a flat tax per gallon. In Utah, the State tax is $0.25 per gallon while the Federal tax nation wide is $0.15. So like all flat taxes the more sold, the more taxes are recovered.

So you are probably wondering where the $2.75 per gallon of gasoline goes? Gasoline and distillates are the most profitable products. Most the time you actually loose money on the bunker oil and asphalt.

We have not built a new refinery in over 20 years in the USA. Our refining and distribution systems are not upgraded because of the uncertainty of return on investment due to environmental regulations and unfair competition abroad. Also, if these impediments were removed we do not have the technical employees to operate. It is cheaper and easier to build, operate and maintain complexes overseas and simply ship the finished products here. Only 4% of our college graduates are engineers while China and India have 30%. We should not be proud that we lead the world in percentage of lawyers. Lastly, we have proven oil reserves that are not put into production because of our environmental anarchy. We import over 50% of our crude from countries that do not have a democratic government.

The Breakdown of Gasoline

The Rough Split of $2.75/gallon

$2.75 total
$1.67 Price of $70 per barrel of crude per gallon
$0.25 Utah State tax, it varies from state to state though
$0.18 Federal Tax
$0.07 Cost to refine
$0.10 Cost to transport
$0.05 Cost to Distribute
$0.05 Taxes
$0.38 Profit

Education for the day.

Missing Books?

The Bible. Is it complete? Do we know all of what we were supposed to know. The Bible wasnt put together Old and New Testament until around the 3rd century. There wasnt Holy Men inspired by God that put it together either. It was put together by regular men. They decided what should go in and what should be left out. Who's to decide that but God? What if they left out some of the most important books for our salvation? Do you know what these men did with the books that they didnt use? They burnt them and sold them. The Bible we have now I believe to be the work of God, but it was put together by regular ole men and has been edited by several people. Did you know that King James took things out of the Bible just because he didnt like them. We can never get that back. What are we supposed to do. I think we have enough to know what needs to be done to get to Heaven. But still, who were they to do what they did with the Bible. If I dont like a verse I cant just white it out and it not apply to me anymore. It doesnt work like that. So what if those lost books have important knowledge that we as Christians need? You tell me cause I dont know.

Caramel Pecan Pie

This is my own favorite recipe. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do!

You will need the following:

45 - 50 Caramels
1/4 cup milk
1/4 margarine
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups of pecans
1 deep dish pie crust

Melt the caramels with milk and margarine in sauce pan over low heat. Stir occasionaly until smooth.

Combine sugar, salt, and eggs in a small bowl. Mix well then gradually add into caramel sauce. Stir in pecans. Mix well then pour into pie crust. Dont over fill pie crust.

Bake at 350 degrees for 40 - 45 minutes or until golden brown on top. Let pie cool for at least 4 hours. Contents will not be hardened and is very messy, but very good. Best served with cool whip or ice cream.

Enjoy!

Prayer

I’m not trying to sound like a skeptic, but that’s how its going to come off. I am just one of those people with a mind that is open and constantly thinking, and asking, “What If?” About the only thing I don’t need proof for is that God Exists. That is something that I do not doubt. But praying blows my mind.
We laugh at those who do hands on healing because supposedly it is a miracle that only Jesus and the apostles could do. And of course the apostles could pass on their power to others, but these people couldn’t pass on the power. It died with them. Prayer is a miracle too. Well not prayer itself, but the idea that prayer heals people. It’s almost the same thing as hands on healing without the hands. If miracles don’t happen anymore, which I firmly believe that they do not, how does prayer work.
The mind is a very strong thing. If it believe something so firmly that it can happen. For instance, if a woman or girl wants to be pregnant, and she believes herself to be pregnant even though she isn’t; her body will go through what an expecting mother will go through. Lactation, lose her period. Its an amazing thing. The mind is a very powerful thing. So hear is my other question. Does prayer not really work how we have always believed. God knows how powerful our minds are. Is it just a way to give us hope for when we pray about our health getting better. And our mind is thinking well I gave it to God now and he’ll heal me. So then the mind starts thinking your going to get better and you do.
I really don’t know. I do know that its an amazing thing. Prayer to me is a miracle. But if miracles don’t happen, how does prayer work?

Fiji

If you are a water drinker, you have to get Fiji water. Yeah I know. Its a little more expensive then your other waters, but it is grrreat. It comes in a cute little square bottle. Its taste is divine. The crisp, cool, smooth, and soothing taste of it quinches your thirst better then anything else in the world. I'm a water fanatic. If your not, you still need to try this water, I give you my personal guarantee that you will love it. And if by some chance you dont like it, well, I dont really care, cause I love it. hahaha, enjoy.

Shoes

The shoes makes the person. I dont consider myself to be a fashion freak. But...when it comes to shoes, I'm a freak. I love them. I dont always have a brand new pair because when I find something that I love, I wear it until it literally falls apart. The shoes dont have to be expensive by any means. I have several pair that I got from walmart and payless shoes. But I also have my expensive shoes that I wear only when the occasion calls for them. But you have to be specific. Something that works for me might now work for you. Some people need more of an arch some need less. Which by the way, incase you didnt know this; just a little FYI for all of you people, if you dont have good arch support and you have back problems, yeah you need new shoes. I will almost guarantee that the lack of arch is the reason for the back pain. You might look into it.
So the old styles are coming back, Hard. Some are good looking like the Cortez and Converse, others need to stay in retirement. Me I really dont care about the name brand. Nike has some good ones, yet if you dont take extra good care of them they turn to crap FAST. Adidas seems to hold up well along with New Balance. But of course this is all my personal opinion, find what works for you and stick to it. Woah, and dress shoes, ooo dont even get me started.

Dreams

Ever since I was little I have been told that if you die in your dreams that you will die in real life. That has always freaked me out. You know when you have those dreams that your falling off the edge of something and its a long long long way down and you think your never going to hit, and right before you do, you wake up. Yeah well mine was exactly like that. I had one of those the other night, only thing is, I didnt wake up. I hit and I didnt wake up. I saw my blood all around me. I watched myself die. I didnt wake up. Well, I mean I did, but when my alarm went off. Not before I hit the ground. Scared me. Anyway, So I just wanted to get that out in the open and let everyone know that you wont actually die in real life if you die in your dreams.

Hiccups

Hiccups. A.K.A. Singulitis. Don't you just hate them. They have got to be one of the most annoying harmless things that we humans can get. Agree? I remember when I was a little kid, say age 5 - 10 or so, I would get these things and my dad would ask me if I wanted him to scare me so they would leave. I always said yes thinking he wont be able to do it. And anywhere from 5 seconds to 5 minutes later he would scare me and I always fell for it and they always ended. haha. Oh, I have better ways now a days to get rid of them though. Here are a few ways that you can try, just to see which ones work for you. Eat a teaspoon of sugar, slowly drink water constantly without taking a breath, get water in your mouth stand on your feet and tip your head upside down, or hold your breath and tighten your stomach muscles, or you can do what my uncle does and gag yourself. I wouldn't try it. Well Best of luck to ya.

Hypocrisy

Churches and Religon in General. This is just irritating me to no end. I'm not going to talk about a certain church or religon, but i'm going to use mine as examples in what I talk about. I dont need to specify a church or religon because they all do what i'm about to talk about. I am a member of The Church of Christ. I'm not going into why I am a member there because thats not what this post is about. This post is about the Legalism and hypocritical acts of the churches today. There is no perfect church out there, you show me one and i'll join, no matter what religon. I grew up with the teaching that if you dont use the Old King James your going to Hell. In religon, being conservative is good, but being fascist is just as bad as being liberal. Telling a kid that he's going to hell because his shorts are a millimeter too short is not the way to go about things. There are two churches in my town. They used to be one, but they split over 20 years ago. Did you read that right, 20 years. The church I grew up in has a grudge against the other and has no desire to try and mend that relationship. Families have been split apart. The church I grew up in is Legalistic and thinks that they are perfect in every way. They are too busy criticizing everyone else that they dont see their own faults. Its not up to us who's going to heaven or hell, its up to God. Quit with the criticizism, and the judging others, let go of the grudges, kiss and make up, that or shut up.

First Entry

How is everything going. First time really making a blog entry. Dont have much to say at the moment, which is kind of unusual. Usually people cant get me to shut up. Not too much is new. I have a new digital camera that I have been playing around with. It's amazing what you can do with these things now a days. Ok, well I'm going to hit the road for now. Adios.