Most Recent Stories & Articles for Spirituality / Religion
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Wife Saves Hell's Angel from Stabbing!
- Posted On: 9/17/2009
No, this isn't a headline from The Onion. My wife, ... my kind sweetheart wife, was driving toward Los Angeles a couple of mornings ago for a school outing and stopped by the gas station for some coffee. A woman ran in screaming "Call 9-1-1. Someone is being stabbed!!!" Of course, the majority of everyone rushes outside to see the action, including my wife. In the seconds of observing that everyone at the gas station, including a stout, young marine were standing there watching a young 30-something year-old man proceed to stab a 60+ year-old biker repeatedly while his elderly wife stood by helplessly, my wife realizes the perfectly logical thing to do is run in between the activity and scream "STOP IT! STOP IT!" Now, I wasn't there, but perhaps everyone at that point was thinking "Oh, yeah. Maybe we should try to stop this." I'm certain of one thing... the 30-year-old was stunned into a moment of paralysis while he decided what the heck to do next. Thank God he didn't decide to proceed stabbing anything in front of him!!! He went for his truck and proceeded to back out. My wife is so incredibly pissed at this guy and amped up on adrenaline, she does the next logical thing... runs over, stands behind the truck, and screams "#@%^#@!!! What are you going to do?!!!! Run me over?!!! #!^$#%!#%@%@!!!!!!!!!" Thank God the police pulled up simultaneously with guns drawn. Turns out the stabbing was over a patch on the biker's leather jacket that had something to do with the Hell's Angels. The young guy had actually followed the biker off the freeway to attack him, yelling "Give me your jacket." My wife explained all of the logic of this behavior to the police that the young guy had an issue with inappropriate use of the Hell's Angel patch on the jacket and had to attack the guy out of duty, since the biker wouldn't allow him to tear it off of his jacket. Makes sense to me! ??? What?! The police of course, questioned my wife, "How do you know this?" while the younger assailant eyeballed her wondering the exact same thing probably quite angry she knew these things. All thanks to her mom's forethought to raise her daughter amongst members of the Hell's Angels, mostly in bars. Oh... Yes, it's perfectly silly and ludicrous behavior. Yes, it's crazy and insane. Wait... or is it because of what we're raised to believe? I mean, to attack and stab a 60-year-old over a stitched patch in a leather jacket out of a symbolic effort to "serve your duty to a membership"? Sounds like gang membership, sounds like terrorism, sounds like Frat hazing, sounds like any group's silly initiation "rites of passage" that members (usually men) invent. Is what you believe worth killing a life over when the life of you or another isn't threatened? What about when your belief involves "saving" a person's life after death based on religious views? Is killing someone with the judgment of causing "eternal" death or damnation right? "Religious war"? Killing over killing? ... After a post like this, I'm so hungry right now, I could share the cost of paying someone else to kill a cow, so I can eat some of it... :P
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My Personality Type
- Posted On: 8/30/2006
Most of my co-workers have posted the results of their personality test on the outside of their cubes. So, being a team-player, I took the test too (results below). After reading much of the content describing the ENTP personality type, I have to say that I do not greatly disagree with my identification as an ENTP. Most of the items apply to me and often pinpoint my daily approach.
Your personality type is ENTP.
Extraverted (E) 57% Introverted (I) 43% Intuitive (N) 82% Sensing (S) 18% Thinking (T) 60% Feeling (F) 40% Perceiving (P) 59% Judging (J) 41% -
Genesis Reborn
- Posted On: 4/24/2006
For some reason, I pulled a Bible off my bookshelves and blew off the dust and decided to begin reading in Gregorian chant (the way monks do). I decided to see what I sounded like and things quickly escalated into a complete melt-down of music. Listen as the first 3 verses of Genesis are reborn in a new light of awakening. (*Requires Windows Media Player - sorry...)
Use caution with your volume controls for them high notes! I warned ya!
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."
Genesis 1:1-3 The New International Version
