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TruthQuest: Christian Reality TV. So what’ll happen; they vote off the Christian least likely to win souls to Christ? We’re told not to conform to the ways of the world, but here’s a “Christian” show which conforms instead to the latest TV gimmick. That saddens me.
(Well, you never know. Maybe it’ll actually work — but wha constitutes “working” in this context? Link via Christdot.)
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. Once again, Armageddon takes it in the nuts. (link via MeFi)
(Oh, by the way, if you followed a link to this site from posts in PEX threads like this one by a member named AkoCiKiko, don’t fall for it, please. He’s just a dumb spoof troll making trouble for the community and trying to drag me back into his little bucket of swallop.)
“What level should I set the WF-ABS (White Flashes with Accompanying Blasts of Sound)?”
Man, that is so funny. In my video production days I often worked with clients who lived for nothing but WF-ABS effects. (And others who lived for nothing but Matrix speed ramps.)
I know of exactly one show which has gotten the WF-ABS effect perfect to a tee: Dexter’s Lab.
(Link via Megnut)
Speaking of cults, did you know that the Washington Times was founded by Reverend Moon? Yeah, neither did I.
PBMA cult leader gave magic amulets to his followers to ward off bullets. “And be sure to pack your suitcases and wear rubber shoes!”
Claims of PBMA membership are bouncing between 1 million, 3.5 million and 10 million. Not surprising, considering most cults’ penchant for gross overestimation. I wonder what the membership numbers transform into when it comes time to pay taxes? They are, after all, a corporation as well as a cult, right? ;)
PBMA’s “other” website, apparently. Hmmm, they believed their Divine Master Ruben Ecleo was Jesus reincarnated? Well, that’s original.
Blood and gore in the Manila headlines today: violence broke out between “Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association” cultists and the policemen who came to arrest their leader. Here’s the PBMA website, those of you who are interested. Lots of suspicious overlaps between a twisted idea of Christianity and New Age guruism:
“The story of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, Incorporated, established and founded at San Jose, Dinagat, Surigao del Norte, Philippines, portrays an abstract picture, showing a multi-dimensional aspect that gives a dramatic and colorful episode of a unique civilization and culture of a distinct group of people struggling for spiritual emancipation and striving to achieve a purposive and progressive goal for mankind, in their sincere desire to bridge the chasm of ignorance between man and the Divine.”
Wow, that was one of the longest, most ambiguous run-on sentences I’ve ever read. I don’t think it any coincidence that they refer to a “Master” Jesus, and also to their “Master” Ruben Ecleo, now arrested for the murder of his young wife. And, what’s this: another “incorporated” religion?
UPDATE: Read my entry on false messiahs, and also see Rick Ross Institute’s Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association cult archive.
I’m back from Baltimore, having found a charming pair of rooms in Little Italy. (Not Fells Point, as I originally thought.) Things are shaping up for a pretty good schoolyear.
That’s all. I must work now. Go look at this funny signature graphic.
It’s back to Baltimore for me tomorrow morning, this time to look at a promising homeshare opportunity in Fells Point. Hopefully the mess from Monday’s collision at Penn Station has been cleaned up.
From Razormouth: Christians who smoke — are they “defiling” the temple of the Spirit with nicotine? While Jamey argues that a Christian can be a moderate smoker and still be living by the Gospel, I wonder if this line of thought would hold for, say, a moderate Ecstacy-user? A moderate cocaine-user? If a Christian smoker can smoke to the glory of God, can an occasional LSD-tripper also hallucinate to the glory of God? Can a Christian marijuana-user… well, let’s not get into that… ;)
I won’t stand upon on a pulpit to declare tobacco as decidedly un-Christian, any more than food or drink is decidedly un-Christian. I don’t deny that C.S. Lewis was a smoker, or that many other great Christian minds (which I am currently at a loss to name) did puff away at one time or another. But given what we now know: that nicotine is addictive, that even light smokers are at risk, and that secondhand smoke is a health threat to others — well, that makes the question of tobacco a lot more serious than comparison to mere food and drink, doesn’t it?
(Sorry to step on the toes of my fellow brothers and sisters in the faith who do smoke. You do know my current line of work. My intention is not to make you uncomfortable, but just please don’t let any smoke float in my direction. I was getting more than enough of that poison riding jeepneys back in Manila, thank you.)
