New Year Reminder

January 19th, 2010 • Comments »

Just a reminder to stay focused on what you are doing as the New Year unfolds. The world has been overflowing with opportunity and creativity like never before. But most of it is profit-driven regurgitation and mass-marketing of empty hype and latest trends. Stay away from the garbage and keep your mind focused on your goals. Distractions may snag your attention for a moment, but you’ve got to catch yourself as soon as possible and realize that you’re wasting valuable time unless you’re doing what you truly want to be doing.

Consider these illustrative examples:

Example #1 You are working on the Web blogging about something interesting. One of your goals is to grow your blog into a successful website. As you write your article, suddenly an email rolls in and you find yourself reading the latest chain-email of humorous nonsense. At this point, you stop yourself and realize that the email fluff is utterly irrelevant and requires nothing more than a simple click to the Trash bin.

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Sorry Santa..

November 30th, 2009 • Comments »

..but you’re not real, and everyone knows it. For some reason though, that fact still doesn’t stop parents from lying to their children every year. Like a bunch of mindless lemmings, the lying parent fails to acknowledge that Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, not some fat freak flying around in some magic sled pulled by a flock of talking reindeer. Give me a break. You can take your pointless traditions and flush them down the toilet. You can’t have it both ways — you’re either telling the truth or you’re lying — there is no “in-between.”

So this year, instead of telling lies to your kids, why not do something healthy and positive by explaining the truth about Christmas? Tell your children that Jesus Christ was born to take away the sins of the world, and that, because of Christ, God and man have been reconciled. This is the true meaning of Christmas — not the hokey-pokey hollywood garbage that sells GAP khakis and cheap chinese toys. You don’t need that trash. It is nothing more than empty materialist distraction. Time to wake up people. Continue »

Family Hatred

September 6th, 2009 • Comments »

Browsing the MSN home page the other day, I read an article about a family with 19 children. “Wow,” I thought, “that’s a lot of kids.” Interesting, but nothing really worth tripping out on and making a big deal over. After all, large families are nothing new. Perhaps a bit unusual for a stereotypical American family to have so many kids, but even then, it’s like, whatever — more power to them. I hope they all live long and blessed lives.

End of story, or so I thought. Just as I was ready to close the browser and get back to work, I decided to pop in and browse through the Newsvine comments for the article. I wasn’t expecting much, maybe a few tasteless jokes and mindless rants about having too many kids, but perhaps something interesting as well. To my surprise, there were over 1,200 responses, with more rolling in every minute. Even more surprising was the overwhelming hatred displayed in a vast majority of comments. Usually, those Newsvine threads are fairly mild, with a reasonable balance of different views and ideas, but for some reason the vast majority of responses on this thread were in vehement opposition. Continue »