The Randonimity of Me
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Oogyboogawa
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2007/05/03 22:37:29 PM
It's going good still. I haven't done it yet today, I normally do it in the evening so that I'm tired before bed. I'm really sore, but that's good, it means I'm building muscle.
I think the main thing is probably that I have a really high metabolism(plus those days that I wasn't able to eat because of my throat messing up couldn't have helped), HR probably has a pretty high metabolism too, and you probably have a slower metabolism.
I feel great. I'm healthier than I've been in at least 4 1/2 years, maybe longer... possibly ever. I've still got a little ways to go though lol. I'm hoping I can fix or at least help some of my back and other joint problems by building more muscle. Also, I actually weighed myself yesterday afternoon before I worked out. I weight 140 not 130. At the beginning of March, I had weighed myself and was 130. I felt like I might have gained some weight since then since that was about the time my health started getting better, but I still expected it to bet 135 at most. So, I was pleasantly surprised to see I had gained 10 pounds in the last 2 months, and that was before working out I had been being more active those months too though since I was healthier so I still think it's at least mostly muscle weight. I was looking on the internet yesterday and found out that weighing 155lbs(I think it was) is considered the low end of healthy for someone my height. So I've got to go another 15 pounds before I'm even at the low end of what is considered healthy. I have a feeling though that spread out over 6'4" 15 pounds won't look like much, so I'll want to gain more so I'll also look healthy lol. I doubt I'm going to gain "too much" muscle weight anyway, so I'm not worried about gaining too much. I mostly don't eat too many fatty foods either because my dad is overweight and has high cholesterol so we try to keep most of the really fatty stuff out of the house so it doesn't tempt him. Theres still some things I eat though that he can't.
Last week was the last week of classes at NABA until I think September. My dad worked with them for over 10 years I believe, but then God called him to move on to other things, so he doesn't do much over there anymore, but we're still close with the people that are over there now. One time my dad said he felt kind of like Moses. He worked at NABA for years(and at the time, he was the only person that was actually there, the other board members were scattered over the rest of the country and just came back for a meeting once in a while), but he had to leave before they actually got to start classes there(I guess he thought of that as not seeing the promisedland).
Haha, right as I was getting ready to respond to this next part of your post, the next song started(I've almost always got random Christian music playing) and guess what it's called? "When Will the World See that We Need Jesus?"
My post went over the character limit again lol... I guess I put this next part in another post
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
I think the main thing is probably that I have a really high metabolism(plus those days that I wasn't able to eat because of my throat messing up couldn't have helped), HR probably has a pretty high metabolism too, and you probably have a slower metabolism.
I feel great. I'm healthier than I've been in at least 4 1/2 years, maybe longer... possibly ever. I've still got a little ways to go though lol. I'm hoping I can fix or at least help some of my back and other joint problems by building more muscle. Also, I actually weighed myself yesterday afternoon before I worked out. I weight 140 not 130. At the beginning of March, I had weighed myself and was 130. I felt like I might have gained some weight since then since that was about the time my health started getting better, but I still expected it to bet 135 at most. So, I was pleasantly surprised to see I had gained 10 pounds in the last 2 months, and that was before working out I had been being more active those months too though since I was healthier so I still think it's at least mostly muscle weight. I was looking on the internet yesterday and found out that weighing 155lbs(I think it was) is considered the low end of healthy for someone my height. So I've got to go another 15 pounds before I'm even at the low end of what is considered healthy. I have a feeling though that spread out over 6'4" 15 pounds won't look like much, so I'll want to gain more so I'll also look healthy lol. I doubt I'm going to gain "too much" muscle weight anyway, so I'm not worried about gaining too much. I mostly don't eat too many fatty foods either because my dad is overweight and has high cholesterol so we try to keep most of the really fatty stuff out of the house so it doesn't tempt him. Theres still some things I eat though that he can't.
Last week was the last week of classes at NABA until I think September. My dad worked with them for over 10 years I believe, but then God called him to move on to other things, so he doesn't do much over there anymore, but we're still close with the people that are over there now. One time my dad said he felt kind of like Moses. He worked at NABA for years(and at the time, he was the only person that was actually there, the other board members were scattered over the rest of the country and just came back for a meeting once in a while), but he had to leave before they actually got to start classes there(I guess he thought of that as not seeing the promisedland).
Haha, right as I was getting ready to respond to this next part of your post, the next song started(I've almost always got random Christian music playing) and guess what it's called? "When Will the World See that We Need Jesus?"
My post went over the character limit again lol... I guess I put this next part in another post
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Poster:
Oogyboogawa
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2007/05/03 22:37:52 PM
I think not only do we need to spread the word to nonbelievers, we need to focus a lot more than we are on training up new believers. When someone comes to the Lord, they are a spiritual baby. Yet so many times, it seems like we pat them on the back and are happy that the became Christians, but do anything to help them grow. Babies need to be fed and watched over. They don't know how to do anything on their own, they need to be taught. We need to give them their spiritual milk and gently correct them if they start getting into trouble. Too many times we expect them to just magically become adult Christians, or maybe people just don't care. I've seen people go forward in church to accept the sacrifice Christ made for them. I believe that they were sincere about it, I'm not talking about people that just do it for the show. Then they come to church for a few weeks or months but since there is no program specifically there for them, they don't see any growth, get discouraged, and gradually stop coming to church all together. If we try to teach the new believers the same concept as the adult Christians, that is like expecting a baby to be able to eat a steak. It won't work, they need milk, apple sauce, and strained peas. Of course there's the other end of the spectrum where you continue trying to feed adult Christians milk, apple sauce, and strained peas... That's a whole other problem that I could go off ranting about though.
I guess I got carried away there, but what I'm saying is that I do believe we need to go out and spread the word more, but after that we also need to help those people we shared the Word with to grow and form a firm relationship with the Lord.
One of the "illustrations" that I've been typing up on my computer relates pretty well to this, and it's something I've been thinking a lot about lately. I may post it later.
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
I guess I got carried away there, but what I'm saying is that I do believe we need to go out and spread the word more, but after that we also need to help those people we shared the Word with to grow and form a firm relationship with the Lord.
One of the "illustrations" that I've been typing up on my computer relates pretty well to this, and it's something I've been thinking a lot about lately. I may post it later.
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
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Himura
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2007/05/04 21:08:30 PM
It doesn't sound like you got carried away at all Oogy since what you say is the truth. Every believer grows at different rates occording to thier ability to grow in the Lord and they all need to be nourished; however, different levels of maturity create different "diets" of spiritual food.
One is not able to live and grow spiritually on the basic spiritual "diet" alone which I believe is partly what plagues this country. It is either part of the "diet" is ignored completely or is disreguarded as too difficult and avoided. If this truth was known to people and they actually listened to it, I believe that the Church would be completely different.
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Of course there's the other end of the spectrum where you continue trying to feed adult Christians milk, apple sauce, and strained peas... That's a whole other problem that I could go off ranting about though.
One is not able to live and grow spiritually on the basic spiritual "diet" alone which I believe is partly what plagues this country. It is either part of the "diet" is ignored completely or is disreguarded as too difficult and avoided. If this truth was known to people and they actually listened to it, I believe that the Church would be completely different.
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Poster:
Oogyboogawa
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2007/05/08 19:41:38 PM
Hmm... I've been kind of slacking on updating this topic I guess.
Anyway, I just thought I'd mention on here that I sent in an application today to be a volunteer worker at Collide Festival in Bells, Texas(near Sherman). It's a big annual Christian music festival. On their website, it says they normally have about 20,000 people show up for it, and they use over 1,000 volunteers. I believe there are over 40 artists/bands scheduled to be there, and I think they still get more signing up now and then.
It's a three day event on June 7th, 8th, and 9th, but if my application is accepted to be a worker, I would be there earlier to get things ready and probably afterwards to help clean up and stuff. On the application there is a place where you can request a specific job, but I could end up doing just about any of them I think. Though I did put down what my top choices would be.
During the times that the music isn't going on, they also have seminars where speakers talk about different topics, and I believe they have a daily church service.
What do I get out of it?
A free t-shirt
Free entrance to the entire festival
Possibly the chance to meet some of my favorite bands
And the blessing of being able to serve others
Plus, I think most of the jobs actually sounded like they'd be fun lol. One of the jobs is driving the bands around to where they need to go on those little go cart things. That'd be pretty cool lol, but I bet they'll have a lot of people volunteering for that job, so I will probably end up doing something else. There were lots of jobs that I think I would enjoy though. I may get to help out working with some of the equipment on stage, that'd be pretty cool too.
So anyway, be praying for that. I just sent off the application today, not sure how soon I would hear anything back.
www.collidefestival.com
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Anyway, I just thought I'd mention on here that I sent in an application today to be a volunteer worker at Collide Festival in Bells, Texas(near Sherman). It's a big annual Christian music festival. On their website, it says they normally have about 20,000 people show up for it, and they use over 1,000 volunteers. I believe there are over 40 artists/bands scheduled to be there, and I think they still get more signing up now and then.
It's a three day event on June 7th, 8th, and 9th, but if my application is accepted to be a worker, I would be there earlier to get things ready and probably afterwards to help clean up and stuff. On the application there is a place where you can request a specific job, but I could end up doing just about any of them I think. Though I did put down what my top choices would be.
During the times that the music isn't going on, they also have seminars where speakers talk about different topics, and I believe they have a daily church service.
What do I get out of it?
A free t-shirt
Free entrance to the entire festival
Possibly the chance to meet some of my favorite bands
And the blessing of being able to serve others
Plus, I think most of the jobs actually sounded like they'd be fun lol. One of the jobs is driving the bands around to where they need to go on those little go cart things. That'd be pretty cool lol, but I bet they'll have a lot of people volunteering for that job, so I will probably end up doing something else. There were lots of jobs that I think I would enjoy though. I may get to help out working with some of the equipment on stage, that'd be pretty cool too.
So anyway, be praying for that. I just sent off the application today, not sure how soon I would hear anything back.
www.collidefestival.com
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Poster:
Himura
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2007/05/08 21:01:12 PM
I will keep that in prayer Oogy and hope that you get accepted. It sounds like a opportunity to serve the Lord by helping out with setting up and doing what you can to help. I will also pray for your safely since it is a large event and something could happen with such a large number of visitors. I would not want you to get an injury right after you are healed from another.
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Poster:
LES
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2007/05/09 22:40:43 PM
That sounds just perfect. You can be doing a good work and still have fun and learn.
Do the organizers of this event provide room and board for out of town volunteers ?
I do hope you get to go -- I am going to and check out the link now.
Do the organizers of this event provide room and board for out of town volunteers ?
I do hope you get to go -- I am going to and check out the link now.
Poster:
Oogyboogawa
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2007/05/10 04:49:21 AM
Yeah, they have a camping area that is free to anyone that is going to be at the festival for more than one day. I think I'll have to either provide my own food or buy it there, but I figure I can just bring a big ice chest with simple stuff in it, plus then the melted ice will be drinking water later. They said the water there is good to drink but it's got lots of iron in it so it might taste different... I don't think it'll be that big of a deal for me, but I'll probably at least bring some of my own water anyway.
That is all assuming of course I get accepted. I know they said they use over 1000 volunteers, but I don't know how many people volunteer and don't get used each year. That reminds me though, on the application, there was a space for a "pastoral reference." I always think it's funny to put my dad on those lol.
In other news, I've been kind of fiddling with one of my websites. www.johnrileywarren.com used to just be completely blank and I'd upload a picture there once in a while. I finally decided that since I've got a domain name of my own name, I might as well at least put something on there. I'm not entirely sure what to put on there yet, but I've got a couple ideas and at least now there's a page up there(a splash page and then an actual home page). I guess that's the first step towards actually doing something with it. Maybe now I'll be more motivated to do more with it.
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
That is all assuming of course I get accepted. I know they said they use over 1000 volunteers, but I don't know how many people volunteer and don't get used each year. That reminds me though, on the application, there was a space for a "pastoral reference." I always think it's funny to put my dad on those lol.
In other news, I've been kind of fiddling with one of my websites. www.johnrileywarren.com used to just be completely blank and I'd upload a picture there once in a while. I finally decided that since I've got a domain name of my own name, I might as well at least put something on there. I'm not entirely sure what to put on there yet, but I've got a couple ideas and at least now there's a page up there(a splash page and then an actual home page). I guess that's the first step towards actually doing something with it. Maybe now I'll be more motivated to do more with it.
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Poster:
LES
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2007/05/10 11:55:35 AM
I did go look at some of the site --- it loaded so slow I did not take time to look a it all -- I did check out the camping. Oh but that will be hot in Sherman -- but then I do not like the heat and humidity and it does look
like a lot of fun and a very good opportunity. I suspect that you are just exactly the sort of person they are looking for. I think your Dad would be the ultimate reference. That is really going to be a very big deal.
If you do go I do so look forward to reading what you have to say about it and hopefully you will take some pictures, now that would be great for your:
www.johnrileywarren.com
site. I am going to go tere and see what you have been doing.
like a lot of fun and a very good opportunity. I suspect that you are just exactly the sort of person they are looking for. I think your Dad would be the ultimate reference. That is really going to be a very big deal.
If you do go I do so look forward to reading what you have to say about it and hopefully you will take some pictures, now that would be great for your:
www.johnrileywarren.com
site. I am going to go tere and see what you have been doing.
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Oogyboogawa
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2007/05/10 13:50:30 PM
Yeah, collidefestival.com is pretty slow on dial-up.
It will be hot, but probably not much hotter than it is here. I'm sure I'll be able to deal with it. I may need to get a couple new pairs of shorts or something for while I'm there, I don't have many shorts that still fit me.
I was thinking the other day that it would be nice to be able to take some pictures, but I don't really have a working camera. The only reason I've been able to upload pictures before is because we have an old digital camera but it dies after taking one picture(sometimes you don't even have time to take a picture).
A new camera is one of those things I would love to have, and think I could put to good use, but don't have money to buy. You're right though, that would be a cool thing to be able to add to my site. It'd be cool if I could get pictures of myself with some of the bands or something too...
Anyone wanna sponsor me? Haha :P
Tell me what you think of my site. I honestly don't know what colors match or clash or whatever, so I don't know if the ones I used are good... no one has said anything to me yet, so I guess I didn't do too horrible. Tell me what you think of the general design too, not just the colors. I'm not always good at knowing what "looks good" I like the way it looks, but I want others to like it too lol.
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
It will be hot, but probably not much hotter than it is here. I'm sure I'll be able to deal with it. I may need to get a couple new pairs of shorts or something for while I'm there, I don't have many shorts that still fit me.
I was thinking the other day that it would be nice to be able to take some pictures, but I don't really have a working camera. The only reason I've been able to upload pictures before is because we have an old digital camera but it dies after taking one picture(sometimes you don't even have time to take a picture).
A new camera is one of those things I would love to have, and think I could put to good use, but don't have money to buy. You're right though, that would be a cool thing to be able to add to my site. It'd be cool if I could get pictures of myself with some of the bands or something too...
Anyone wanna sponsor me? Haha :P
Tell me what you think of my site. I honestly don't know what colors match or clash or whatever, so I don't know if the ones I used are good... no one has said anything to me yet, so I guess I didn't do too horrible. Tell me what you think of the general design too, not just the colors. I'm not always good at knowing what "looks good" I like the way it looks, but I want others to like it too lol.
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All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Poster:
LES
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2007/05/10 22:31:26 PM
I will be back tomorrow for a better post ! I have to go cook supper, it is Survivor night. :) :)