Today on the noon news, channel 5 was discussing a new satellite that is being launched into space today. It is the biggest one ever launched and its purpose is to provide satellite signal to cell phones at all times so that people can get internet and tv on their cell phones. Subscribers will never have to worry about loss of connection because the satellite will always be there sending out a signal.
I don't even want to know how many millions (maybe even billions) of dollars it has taken and will take for this endeavor just so we can watch tv on our cell phones!! Give me a break! People are already attached enough to their cell phones without having tv available on them! It's not like we don't have big screens at home.
There are starving, unloved, diseased, and dying people all over this world who would be happy and much improved to be able to live on a dollar a day. It seems like our priorities are very out of place. I urge you not to be a supporter of this satellite project. Instead of spending money on something for your cell phone, donate something to someone in need.
Enough is enough. Americans are too obsessed with the next technological advancements that we have forgotten the simple truths and values that matter most in life. This world is too hard because we allow our lives to be too complex. I cannot say it better than Thoreau so I will leave you with his words:
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Oprah today (you won't believe it)
My former youth pastor, Brian Dawson, sent me a link via email to a youtube video about Oprah's beliefs that there are multiple means of salvation for everyone and about her support of Eckhart Tolle's new book A New Earth. Here's the link he sent me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA
It was really ironic that he sent that because I actually watched a really crazy episode of Oprah today by chance (just so you know, I do not regularly watch The Oprah Show. I have some issues with Oprah). Here's the response I sent back to Brian via email:
It's so ironic that you emailed me that video about Oprah because you wouldn't believe today's show! I was eating supper this afternoon at a country cafe and our waitress could not stop watching the Oprah show on tv. She intrigued me so I watched to see what it was about. They had this man on there who is pregnant! He was there with his wife. I couldn't understand so I kept watching. Come to find out, the man is actually a gay woman who has gone through a sex change and has chosen (as "man" of the relationship) to get pregnant via IVF. Oprah was fully supporting them! Imagine what kind of problems that kid will have! I know that the argument of homosexuals who want to have kids/adopt is that the child will grow up in a loving home (which is probably true). However, love is not all you need. I just know how hard it is to grow up in a functional, straight two-parent, loving Christian home. It would be even that much harder to grow up like this kid will. The kid will be the laughing stock of his/her entire community forever! It's hard enough learning how to be a man/woman today when people have mixed up the roles so much. This world is going to hell in a hand-basket!
Here's a link to today's show:
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200804/20080403/slide_20080403_350_101.jhtml?promocode=HP22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA
It was really ironic that he sent that because I actually watched a really crazy episode of Oprah today by chance (just so you know, I do not regularly watch The Oprah Show. I have some issues with Oprah). Here's the response I sent back to Brian via email:
It's so ironic that you emailed me that video about Oprah because you wouldn't believe today's show! I was eating supper this afternoon at a country cafe and our waitress could not stop watching the Oprah show on tv. She intrigued me so I watched to see what it was about. They had this man on there who is pregnant! He was there with his wife. I couldn't understand so I kept watching. Come to find out, the man is actually a gay woman who has gone through a sex change and has chosen (as "man" of the relationship) to get pregnant via IVF. Oprah was fully supporting them! Imagine what kind of problems that kid will have! I know that the argument of homosexuals who want to have kids/adopt is that the child will grow up in a loving home (which is probably true). However, love is not all you need. I just know how hard it is to grow up in a functional, straight two-parent, loving Christian home. It would be even that much harder to grow up like this kid will. The kid will be the laughing stock of his/her entire community forever! It's hard enough learning how to be a man/woman today when people have mixed up the roles so much. This world is going to hell in a hand-basket!
Here's a link to today's show:
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200804/20080403/slide_20080403_350_101.jhtml?promocode=HP22
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