Godzilla 2000

Guesse what i'm watching today? Godzilla 2000. I'm on vacation next week so I got a bunch of stuff to watch. It ought to be fun, i've been listening to Watch the Directors, so my need to see list keeps growing, I don't know if i'll be able to catch up. I also got the book by Tim Lahaye "the rapture" it is the 3rd prequel book to the original Left Behind series. I bring that up because I have heard comments on SBE and on etcetera about those books and the people who read them and they wern't possitive comments. I was wondering what it is that is wrong with them? I have read all of the Left Behind books and now these, I have a problem stopping when there are other books left to read, the same reason I watched Matrix 3 even though it sucked so so so bad. These books havn't sucked though, I have enjoyed them, though it does seem to be an excessive # of books to tell the story. Oh, I have seen the 3 movies too. I admit that when I started I was one of those who would only read christian books, watch christian movies and listen to christian music, and no video games at all. I'm not like that anymore but I still like some of them. The difference is now I also like to read Koontz, and watch Tarantino and all that "bad, bad" stuff. Does music get any better than Nine Inch Nails, well besides Michael Card?? I have an xbox now too, I love Halo...

I found this sight about 2001, it is pretty entertaining and give an explanation of the movie. Apparently there is no official explanation, they just want us to each figure out what it means to us. http://www.kubrick2001.com/ I still don't know what a starchild is though...

2001

I just re-watched 2001 today, I saw it back when I was in high school, it came up in a few podcasts about great scifi movies and stuff, so I thought I would re watch it. I still don't understand any of it. The part in the middle about the trip to Jupiter and HAL going bonkers and trying to kill everyone and Dave shutting him down to survive, that part made since. The big black box makes no since, all that suff at the end is just nuts. What am I missing? I understand that it was made in 68 and the fx and all would have been stunning back then but other than that where is the greatness? Unless that is the greatness of it.

Lego Creation

My son wanted to put this on the internet, I said, sure! Cool huh?

I don't know much

I'm thinking I must not know much about movies. No one seems to like Spiderman 3 yet I did, I admit that I didn't like all the time spent on PP and MaryJane and I totally didn't like the crybaby stuff, but I just shook my head and watched the rest of the movie. I liked having lots of villains it gave more to watch. Adding to this thought I watched Shawshank Redemption this weekend because I have always heard that it was good and I had never seen more than a few minutes of it. It was good, I totally enjoyed the movie and thought all of the actors did a great job and I totally liked the story. On the bonus DVD I found out that it was a Steven King Novella that was cool too, they mentioned that the movie has been voted as the best or near the best movie ever on the imdb along with The Godfather and Citizen Kane and a few others like that. I looked it up, it is right there at #2 after The Godfather. Now it has been a while since I have seen the Godfather but from what I remember it was a good movie but I don't' think it would make my top20 list. Star wars was on the list but way down closer to 10, what's with that? Signs was not anywhere on the list, The Princess Bride was down in the 100s. So what I draw from this is that apparently I don't know much about movies. THX1138 is another one that I saw in the last week, that movie was outstanding, I loved the vision that George Lucas had and he was trying to portray his current day, he thought it was bad then? Some people tell me it is just because my tastes are different, but why? Shouldn't I be able to tell a good movie from a bad one? I think Shawn of the dead sucked, but 28 days later was excellent. I am just a little weirded out to find that I am so out of the norm on something that I have such an interest in as movies. I don't have film or art training but I thought my opinions would at least line up a little with the rest of the world. With all of that said, I saw a Hallmark Entertainment version of Frankenstein, with William Hurt and Donald Southerland, yesterday, I loved it, totally different than any other depiction of Frankenstein that I have ever seen, the monster was really Victor and the creature wasn't a big dumb brute he was well read and quoted great works and only wanted to not be alone, buy the end I was glad to see Victor die and even then the creature cared for his body and carried it away with the love and respect of a son to a father even though the father never showed it to him. I want to read to book now because if it is like this version I believe I would thoroughly enjoy it.

Commandments

I am having a problem the last day or two with somethings I have read vs. what i am hearing. In the gospel of John i keep reading things like 15:14 "Your are My friends if you do what I command you." 14:23 "if anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him" 15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." Then today i read 1st John 2:3-6 "By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, I have come to know HIm, and does not keep His commandments , is a liar and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked." 3:6 "No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him" 3:10 "By this the children of God and the dhildren of the devil are obvious; anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nore the one who does not love his brother." 3:22 "whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight."
That is not all of it, I am just trying to resolve the issue somehow that God loves us regardless but against these and other scriptures it seems to say that we have to keep "His commandments" which by the way are what? all i could find immediatly surrounding this was John 15:12-17 "This is My commandment that you love one another, just as I have loved you." so is this instead of the old commandments or on top of them or inclusive of them. My real point though is that I don't keep the old commandments or the new ones, does this according to these words from Jesus mean that I am not accepted, Loved or whatever you want to call it. I know i don't live righteously and i don't "love my brother" I trust Jesus and His sacrifice to pay the penalty for my sins but is that not enough? Is He not pleased with me since i don't live up to the commands that He has given, this seems to be teaching the opposite of what i hear from Steve Brown and Marc Driscoll and Greg Dumas and most bible teachers i have heard. i am lost and confused and wondering if i have any chance. i was just thinking.....

What do you do when you feel that you are called by God to be a pastor yet you don't want to do that? He makes you go to school and even after you turn from Him for a few years He still drags you back and gives you the same call. I know now that I am even less worthy and capable of such a duty than I was before but it still seems to be there, even when I hear Mark Driscoll's discription of what "ministry" is like, I still feel like that is what He wants, and I still don't want to do it. When I listen to pastors I think, I just plain don't know all that stuff, and I am not that good at comunicating anything. These guys are great, I listen to them daily and am dumbfounded. I read there books and think, "no way". But I can't not do what God tells me to do right? Steve Brown today was saying once again how much of a sinner he is and I feel the same way, only I know I am way more evil than Steve Brown. At one time I finally accepted the call and went to work to get prepared. I started theological school, I was doing youth ministry, I was teaching, I was learning, I even got to preach at my church twice when the pastor was on vacation, I was in tune with God. What was I thinking? I didn't know what I was doing, and now i'm just worse than that. So, what to do, I feel as though I could enter any profession but never be satisfied or fullfilled, until I am doing what God wants. Just a thought.....

Spiderman 3

I got in to see Spiderman 3 on opening day right before it was sold out for the night. That was 3 in the afternoon. I thought the movie was great, it was more than i expected. I liked that they spent less time introducing the villians than usual, a little time on sandman and no time on harry and really no time on Venom. The whole crybaby Parker thing bothered me, but i think he is supposed to be some sort of sissy wimp anyway and in this case they may have been trying to make an extreme differentiation between his sensitivity and caring before Venom and after. I still didn't like seeing him crying that much, or at all. Also i totally dug the "bad" Peter way cooler than the normal one, he actually kicked some tail and showed mary jane a thing or two as well. I never read any of the comic books so i'm not sure if they did the original justice or not, but i liked it.