From the monthly archives:
An image from an article titled “Americans Care More About Gay Marriage Than Global Warming”. Quite the sweeping general statement, but interesting nevertheless.
Could it be be because the gay marriage issue gets at what it means to be human or could it be that we’re that self-absorbed? Full article from treehugger.com here
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I like this article mentioning Warren Buffett:
At a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in New York last month, Warren Buffett, no stranger to wealth, told an audience filled with bankers and real-estate developers the system was, in effect, rigged. “This is what Congress in its wisdom did: the 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter.” Buffett offered a million dollars to any fellow magnate who could prove he had higher tax rates than his secretary. (Full article)
I had read in Barack Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” how Buffett said that he’s only rich today because our society happens to values his skill-set. He would not be anywhere near where he is today, if he lived in a different time and a different place. Buffett also went on to describe that those who are well off due to what our society currently values ought to be giving back to it.
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I took an assessment a few years back that diagnosed me with having ADD/ADHD, but who doesn’t these days?
I just stumbled on to this movie documenting the factors we all suspected (pharmaceutical industry, parents, teachers, media, etc) leading to the over-medicating of our children.
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I’m not sure how much value there is in all these personality/strengths tests out there… yet I can stop. Here’s my latest below.
I’ve always been borderline Extraverted / Introverted. It makes more sense to me since recently learning that you tend to be both if you’re an only-child or much older than your siblings. Here’s more on the ENFP profile and the NF visionary trait.
The rest of it seems about right, though my wife always says, what’s the point of knowing your strengths, passions, and gifts if you don’t have the courage to use it?
I’d love to hear where you are on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and how it impacts you, you can take the test here and report back!
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A Jesus-follower shares with me yesterday
How can people lift their hands singing about the love of God, and not f*cking spend the time to really welcome me into the church? I want to be a part of the body of Christ, but no one will f*cking let me in!”
He’s attended several different churches, created and opened himself up for conversation, but still, no one’s been willing to invest the time and energy into authentically befriending him. He feels cut-off, rejected, and alone. Now what?
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The Makers of Fire is a FUTURE Oriented Think tank and Leadership Training Event that will becoming through Montreal in October this year. It’s led by Alex McManus (brother of Erwin, Creator of Voxtropolis, and founder of the International Mentoring Network, amongst other things).
It’s $79 at the door, but I’ve got two tickets for $25 each if anyone else is interested.
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We had an awesome anniversary. I don’t know about other guys, but every year I think, how on earth am I going to top the last year?
This year my goal was to spend no more than ten bucks on the night (I was so tempted to do the fancy dinner thing, but that’d just be too easy, wouldn’t it?)
I told Yvz that we had reservations (it was with the sunset) and we rushed out the door as our friend Gloria babysat.
We headed down to the beach and roller-bladed by the shore to find our food.
I was banking on a hotdogs (My wife loves hotdogs oddly) and Ed’s Real Scoop (a popular ice cream shop downtown) to keep it under five bucks each.
Unfortunately, I was shocked we weren’t able to find any hotdog stands! We ended up caving into some random sushi place (it was okay, hotdogs would have been way better)
I’ve got a bit of a fascination with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, so Yvonne made some for me from scratch! Check out how colossal hers were compared to the puny originals!
Earlier in the day I organized a speed-art project where we would both paint something that we loved about the other person.
Amazingly we had very similar concepts, though different ways of expressing it.
Yvonne’s, depicted my ‘fiery’ passion in the darkness, and how it lit up ’sparks’ in other people. the folks to the right is our family (click for a close up), I love the cute baby Stellar she painted in!
Mine, was a silhouette of my wife and how God so often pierces her heart and brings about life-changing conviction. But it never just stops there. It always erupts out of her soul as she longs to share her passion with others, bringing light to those around her.
We painted them on canvas paper and added them to a new book of memories we’ll be creating together… memories we hope to be celebrating for all eternity.
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I don’t really ever use stumble upon, but I just added gave it a try yesterday and gave a ‘thumbs up’ to my own site. Within hours it added over 200 unique hits to this site!
Stumble Upon reveals what an incredible amount of time people have on their hands. People are willing to just sit there and see what site might randomly load up for them. It’s also an indication of the overwhelming amount of information now available on the web, and how we can be so aimless in the online world, even one person’s recommendation is enough to capture our attention.
From stumble-upon, to the ipod-shuffle, to the magic 8-ball, to random bible verse generators, as much as we value free-choice in our culture, it seems to be the one thing we keep wanting to abdicate.
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