More Vonnegut on Time

Taken again from "Slaughterhouse Five" Very interesting when you think about it.


Earthlings are great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Glaze Under Fire

Went to a place called "Glaze Under Fire" on Saturday night with Andrea and some friends. I was a little skeptical at first. But it ended up being a lot of fun and we plan on doing it again in the future.

What a Week

I spent Wednesday through Friday at a church conference in Lakeland. Interesting to say the least. I am just glad that there are still some down to earth Pastors out their. My Pastor and his friend Allen were a big key in enjoying myself. Two down to earth guys who understand what it means to be a Pastor and a human being. Yes, both must coexist. After getting back I read a quote in "Death by Suburb" by David Goetz that hits the nail on the head.

They're trapped in the attractive veneer of being "perfect people". That, by its very nature, negates the transparency to form a deeper bond with a human being.

Equal Exchange Coffee

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I drank a cup of this at conference this afternoon. Pretty tasty coffee and helps people that actually do the labor and work. I ask you to check it out.

The invention of time

There was nothing I could do about it. As an earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said-and calendars.

Kurt Vonnegut--Slaughterhouse-Five

Conan O'Brien Commencment Speech

Commencement Speech to the Harvard Class of 2000

I've dwelled on my failures today because, as graduates of Harvard, your biggest liability is your need to succeed. Your need to always find yourself on the sweet side of the bell curve. Because success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

I left the cocoon of Harvard, I left the cocoon of Saturday Night Live, I left the cocoon of The Simpsons. And each time it was bruising and tumultuous. And yet, every failure was freeing, and today I'm as nostalgic for the bad as I am for the good.

http://www.february-7.com/features/conan.htm?

Been A While

I have been busy lately and I haven't been able to blog as much as I would like. A lot has been going on such as my 3 year anniversary with my wife, a great friend going off to Iraq, keeping Entegra going and of course many things going on with the Church. That is my life in a nutshell for the past week or so. I started reading Kurt Vonnegut's "A Man Without a Country" I have to say it is a great read. While I don't believe in all his thoughts and opinions, he is pretty dead on most of his rambles. Here is a notable quote.....

"Fossil fuels, so easily set alight! Yes, and we are presently touching off nearly the very last whiffs and drops and chunks of them. All lights are about to go out. No more electricity. All forms of transportation are about to stop, and the planet Earth will soon have a crust of skulls and bones and dead machinery.
And nobody can do a thing about it. It's too late in the game.
Don't spoil the party, but here's the truth: We have squandered our planet's resources, including air and water, as though there were no tomorrow, so now there isn't going to be one."


Can you picture what would happen one day if your gas station closed up, your electricity shut off, your grocery store closed? The list could go on and on. Are you confident that we have things in place to make the transition from oil to alternatives?