Jesus is Omnipresent.

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If Eli Soriano does indeed argue that God is not omnipresent, I wonder how that relates to Ephesians 4.10: “He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.” (Note that Paul is saying that Jesus fills all things.) Eli Soriano is wrong on that very important count. Ergo, he is a false teacher. Case closed.

More from an ex-member. The ADD cult’s official message board is now password-restricted, but you can still get a taste of that ol’ Kaanib goodness from me. Kaanib.net.

More on the PBMA Cult

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More newsclips on the PBMA Cult from this message board post. His followers really did look on him as a reincarnated Jesus, omnipresent and omnipotent. Maybe he just felt that way from all the drugs.

Invisible Cities

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Reading assigned for Interactive Design class: Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities,” a fictional retelling of Marco Polo’s accounts to Kublai Khan of the cities he has seen. Except that all the cities are, in one way or another, amalgamations of Venice. I can’t shake the feeling that I’m just re-reading Plato’s Republic in little bite-size nuggets.

Through the course of the semester, we will be required to make an interactive multimedia experience out of at least one of the Cities. Anyone who has read the book, do you have any preferences?

iMac working!

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Posting this from the iLamp in the graduate computer lab. Yay, they resolved the performance issues. Now I can blog AND do my AfterEffects projects at the same time!

PBMA, the Rubenian Cult

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Text message received this morning: “I’d like to comment with regards to the PBMA, people keep saying that the PBMA is cult … no its NOT!”

No further theological insight was offered. Not that any theological insight into a cult like the PBMA is really feasible.

Cult: “a group of people, which claiming to be a Christian, embraces a particular doctrinal system taught by an individual leader, group of leaders, or organization, which (system) denies (either explicitly — definite — or implicitly — absolute) one or more of the central doctrines of the Christian faith as taught in the sixty-six books of the Bible.”

Let’s see… Ruben Ecleo was venerated as a “god” and “Divine Master” who could perform miracles, and his followers were fanatical even to the point of bloody violence.

Man claims to be God + violently fanatical followers + legalistic New Age interpretations of salvation = Cult.

Simple enough. Also see my entry on False Messiahs.

(I’d love to see what goes on in their email, since their home page has been down for a while.)

First Day of School

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What. A. Day.

Typography for Multimedia class would have been spent re-learning all my AfterEffects skills, if only the iLamp hadn’t kept crashing. And crashing. And crashing. And not just mine; half the class’ iLamps were going out. And you know where the power switch on this thing is? Back left, small and flush with the casing. Took me two minutes to find out just what to press to turn it on. Ha. Switch, my foot. Roll that up and smoke it, Ellen. (Paulo proceeds to duck from the hundreds of soapbar mice which will undoubtedly be thrown at him after this comment.)

Other than that, the first day of school was great. Campus is beautiful, teachers are wonderful, subject matter is amazing, classmates are all cool and friendly, and regardless of crashing hard disks, those iLamps are still way fun to work on.

The end of the day was spent at Friendly’s with Kyriosity, Barukatash, and WayneWhitmer. Fun night, capped off with a quick trip to GreenLeaf to get me an ESV.

And now I’m home. It’s been quite a day. And now, for the first time in over four years, I have to do some HOMEWORK. :P

Jasper the Cat

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“Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!”

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Okay, I’ve gotten pictures of Jasper the Cat out of my system. Tomorrow, I’ll start a new photolog series from my wanderings through the Maryland State Fair: a fun, farm-y affair of cows and horses, sheep and llamas in a petting zoo, lots of carnival rides and games, and in one corner, a high school robot competition sponsored by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Going to the Fair

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Who in Baltimore wants to join me at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium? I’m planning to make a quick jaunt tomorrow morning (Labor Day, Sept 2). Drop me a line.

(Update, 9/2/2002: Okay, I’m back. It was a bit depressing being there all alone, *sniff*, but I got lots of pictures. And a nice pair of sunglasses, too.)