tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post4397827621020231390..comments2023-03-26T08:22:49.965-05:00Comments on Never cry over spilled guts: Now available at the deli counter! Also content update. Will explain.Fiat Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10441862977921307080noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-76805140514538467362009-08-27T09:57:22.792-05:002009-08-27T09:57:22.792-05:00what a great post :) i love your description of yo...what a great post :) i love your description of your job. meaningful *and* funny! <br /><br />and i love your song too :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-9993622034465873912009-08-19T01:10:28.776-05:002009-08-19T01:10:28.776-05:00Died and rose from the dead, I meant to say.
Seve...Died and rose from the dead, I meant to say.<br /><br />Several grammatical errors in my previous comment also must go uncorrected because Blogger uncoolly does not allow one to edit comments. :pFiat Lexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10441862977921307080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-22998458819839371392009-08-19T01:06:08.608-05:002009-08-19T01:06:08.608-05:00Craig B:
Thanky! Now if I can just find a series ...Craig B:<br /><br />Thanky! Now if I can just find a series of stretches to do between customers to reduce my back pain, I will be golden. :)<br /><br /><br />Yeah, the differences between the training videos and what we actually have to do to get stuff done within the time we have will take some getting used to. But I promise never to do what that guy did! I'm better about glove-changing and hand-washing than a lot of my coworkers, and I hope I can keep that up.<br /><br />I said Hi to Dave for you. Perhaps he will comment and say hi himself--he posts as "Anonymous" but since he's my only such commenter it's not quite so anonymous.<br /><br />Ryk is cool; I hope he will post more. I am fascinated by the ongoing Ryk & Tracy saga. Although it seems I am not to be much of a part of it, still. It is rare to see two people of such vastly differing opinions who don't know each other in real life go head-to-head for so long without it turning into a fight.<br /><br />Amber - <br /><br />I'm glad you liked [it's not fair]; it's one of those songs I worry about posting because of the angry-frustratedness. In fact I am working on another one right now. Songs the best way I have to both explain my feelings and get them out of my brain in a way which is minimally hurtful to all concerned. <br /><br />Oh, and trust me, if I had a way to record videos, I would be putting things on Youtube. Even when I finally get together with that recording-studio-having gent I met at the Abbey and record an album's worth, I will both offer CDs for sale and also host all my track free on Limewire. Partly for karma/penance for all the musics I've stolen over the years, partly because I really, really want my musics to be heard and don't want to restrict that to people who have money. And besides, I think the <i>real</i> money's in merchandising. I've been meaning to get a cafepress store for years. Teehee! What d'you think of a t-shirt that says "God hates bullshit / (and so do I)"? Would it sell?<br /><br />Ah, yes, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." Or another one I've been turning over and over lately though I've forgotten chapter and verse on it, "For I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father but through me."<br /><br />Although it may seem, from the way I present it, that I am "wading through bullshit" out of mere intellectual curiosity, this is not the case. The new song I will be posting soon deals with this issue. Rather than retreating myself into intellectualism as a way to avoid confronting these matters on an emotional level, I am only writing out here for public consumption those things which I have managed to safely intellectualize. I do not want to show my little nuggets of information to you, and everyone else who stops by, until I have have hosed them down with icy intellectual water and thereby anesthetized them to a certain extent. <br /><br />Because, while I may be categorically angry with Christianity as a social institution (and this anger in me was only recently converted upwards from despair!), it is not fair to lay the blame and the recrimination for it at the feet of any one individual. The failure to adequately communicate was mine and yours and theirs and happened over a space of many years. And no one would be helped by any attempt to apportion blame. The only useful thing I can do is try to describe and understand <i>what went wrong</i>, so that we all may avoid these errors in the future. That is my aim in these "true confessions".<br /><br />But it's like I said to Ryk. In order to take on the name of "Christian" one only has to believe that humans are born broken, that Christ as equally God and man died to fix that brokenness, and to accept Christ for oneself. All else can be argued out afterwards with God. And we know from the Bible that God likes it when people argue with him. Because in general arguing and haggling are honest and not bullshit. And God <i>hates</i> bullshit.Fiat Lexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10441862977921307080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-59511342207572571342009-08-17T10:31:53.502-05:002009-08-17T10:31:53.502-05:00Clarification: Okay, John 3:16 guy himself is nuts...Clarification: Okay, John 3:16 guy himself is nuts (just did and internet search) but John 3:16 the verse contains the essential information. <br /><br />There are other wonderful verses but if you are just going to read one and want to be done that would be a good simple one.Amber Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639247040732640210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-61922550798591438472009-08-17T10:24:38.200-05:002009-08-17T10:24:38.200-05:00"And it only makes my back hurt and my feet h..."And it only makes my back hurt and my feet hurt, not my soul." Yay for less painful employment, I am glad for you.<br /><br />Ravel kicked butt, however it's not fair made me very happy to read. I don't want you to get bogged down in stupid pointless bullshit. Sometimes I feel that p'rhaps you want to examine it out of intellectual curiosity but there is no reason for wading.<br /><br />Okay, you watch sports, right? You've seen the John 3:16 guy, right? Well read John 3:16, it is that simple, it got all you need to know, then you can go back to sports or whatever and you are set.<br /><br />You may say if it is that simple why do people complicate it? You've met people, they are weird and do strange things for a variety of reasons. That is most of the answer. The other bit is that when someone says 'hey, I can haz and it wasn't even hard, I want to share' they you try to explain it to other people and just trying to explain it usually gets more complicated. Why does God love the world? Why do we need salvation? What's this about a son, etc.<br /><br />Then it gets even more complicated when people have different explanations. However to avoid all that just pay attenion to the John 3:16 guy, believe and you are all good. That is what it says.<br /><br />Oh Mom and I were talking about 'Wouldn't it be nice to be Financially Solvent' that song is so funny, with irony and everything. We were saying it should be on youtube, except then you would not get paid so it should be on iTunes.<br /><br />Okay, have a great day :)<br />AmberAmber Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639247040732640210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918255.post-45801691540876796042009-08-17T07:53:52.892-05:002009-08-17T07:53:52.892-05:00Actually, it sounds like you are doing well behind...Actually, it sounds like you are doing well behind the counter there. <br /><br />Not trying to gross you out, but the guy behind the counter at the local meat market (he was the owner's son) obviously was suffering with a cold, and kept wiping his nose on his un-gloved hand. (I had my spaghetti w/o meat sauce that night.)<br /><br />Say "Hi" to Dave for me. Also, I see that you have Ryk's blog listed. He was the first to comment on mine when I started it.<br /><br />Craig Bstranger.strange.landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095085549321636456noreply@blogger.com