Seeing as the lunatics are out and about celebrating Halloween, I thought I’d post my weekly funny video’s. I subscribe to a bunch of blogs posting funny stuff and here is a collection of some of my favorites for this week.
Funny Soccer Clips
We Aussie’s love our Aussie rules football and call the round ball game soccer. Here is a clip of some funny moments…
Cheer Leaders
My heart goes out to this highly talented profession…
Funny Interview
Ok this one’s staged but a funny watch nevertheless….
George W Bush
And finally a little video I found hilarious. A dinner impersonation involving not one but two Bush’s.
Whether you think it holds water or not, the 911Truth movement is gaining traction. In a recent report on MSNBC Tucker Carlson show, a poll was cited saying that one third of Americans believe the US government is not telling the truth about 911.
Now for the record, I am into 911Truth. Simple logic dictates that the official story the media and government spins is full of holes. I’m not saying that all the government is involved. I’m talking about rogue elements of the current administration with roots that go beyond parties and stretch before Bush’s administration and will reach reach into the next one.
If you sit on the fence on this debate or are not too well versed, I invite you to check out the following clips.
It’s certainly food for thought. As a result of 911, we have the “War on Terror” – a war many people have said will last for 100 years. After successfully selling the story that Iraq had WMD’s, now the propaganda machine has it’s sites set on Iran.
The CIA has set up a large propaganda machine, similar to the one set up for the war in Iraq, to prepare the public to swallow the “we need to go to war against Iran” pill. An interesting news report can be viewed here.
Tell me, did we ever find the WMD’s we were sure Saddam had? You know, the ones where fancy diagrams were presented at the UN in an effort to draw up support? Nope. And now we are about to be duped again by an Administration led by a liar and a criminal.
The neocons of American politics are a deadly, war hungry, hell bent group of leaders with people like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al, execute policy designed to implement PNAC – whether we like it or not.
For an interesting read on how this is panning out, read this article by Jim Holt, a New York Times Magazine and New Yorker writer. It talks about the untapped potential of Iraq’s oil – worth an estimated $30 trillion. But that’s not all. It also delves into protecting America versus the surge of China’s power. It talks about the US being the importer or cheap oil into Europe and it talks about the threat of Iran to this whole process.
And then we wonder why Iran is on the American radar. Iran is not a nuclear threat. Sure it has a whacked out leader, but so does America. No, Iran’s got oil also.
To protect the PNAC plan, the US will stay in Iraq on a long term basis. It’s building bases. Big ones.
Click here for the Google Maps page so you can zoom in on a base 40 miles north of Baghdad – and check out the football fields, swimming pools and fighter planes on the runway. It’s been said that the only runway used more then the one at this base is Heathrow airport.There are at least 5 of these super bases spread throughout Iraq. Designed to protect the oil fields American companies will soon have control over. And they will be used to launch an offensive against Iran – a mere 400 miles east of the base.
So. Still think 911 was caused by 19 hijackers controlled by some nut in a cave? Or can you see how “convenient” 911 was to implement the plans of the neocons?
It was somewhat of a surprise for me to read the following from Bill Hybels:
“We made a mistake.”
Hybels is the Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church – the 5th “top Church” in the US. Many of you have read his books. In a nutshell. Hybels Pastors one of the largest and influential churches in the US.
In a recent article in Christianity Today’s “Out of Ur” blog, is an article outlining the results of a “multi year qualitative study” into “what programs and activities of the church were actually helping people mature spiritually and which were not.”
Being a “program driven” and “seeker sensitive” church, Willow Creek has spent millions of dollars setting up all kinds of programs designed to increase participation and therefore making the participants better disciples of Jesus.
What the research actually showed is that all these programs did not lead people into a deeper relationship with Jesus. Having spent 30 years building this church model and advocating it to others, Hybels has called this report the “wake up call” of his life.
“We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’ We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.” – Bill Hybels
To get a feel of what Willow Creek has learnt from this study, I recommend you check out the video’s mentioned in the above article. Greg Hawkins is the Executive Pastor and his video can be seen here. Bill Hybels is here.
Every church leader should look into what they have to say. You may come from different denominations and/or have different views. But this research is good and you will glean wisdom from it if you’re humble enough.
The Bible talks about building on the foundation Christ has begun. He is the Cornerstone and everything will be built around Him. Man has been building for 2000 years and some of the best and worst of humanity has been witnessed as people build upon the great Foundation.
But there is a sobering passage of scripture for all leaders..
“Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.” 1 Cor 3:12-15
Anything you and I do “for the Kingdom” will be tested by fire. Probably most of what we do will be burnt up due to the pathetic nature of our “works.” Things we do thinking that we are doing a great job will probably mean nothing – mere straw in a raging fire.
It’s great to see Hybels re-evaluating his efforts at Willow Creek. Maybe without him even knowing it, his building materials are changing into something more fireproof. In doing so, he will be more effective then he already is and God will receive more glory.
To keep things sane a little here, I’ve decided to add a weekly, or close enough to it, video clip that I find amusing.
This week, I joined a group on Facebook where the owner is trying to sign up 1,000,000 people who dislike Bush. Well if you’ve been following my blog, you would understand any lack of hesitation in joining up.
Bush is a neocon thug. What exactly are the neocons trying to preserve? Big government, big business and big foreign policies to protect the first two “bigs”.
So I checked out the video’s posted and found heaps of funny stuff. I have added two below for your viewing pleasure.
For the record, I don’t bash Bush cause he is a Republican and I’m a Democrat. I’m an Aussie and am far removed from the typical debates raging in the US. I dislike him mainly due to his Foreign Policy’s.
As a guy outside the US, it is sickening to see American Foreign policy unravel itself in the “National Interest” of itself and to the detriment of all others. And Bush and his neocon worldview has taken this approach to a new and sickening level.
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecc 1:9
You can’t follow current events these days without hearing of genetic engineering, cloning or the debate over embryonic stem cells.
DNA – the blueprint of life, is present in every living thing. Within the double helix of anything with life lies a remarkable data storage system which – for you Matrix fans – happens to store a digital message.
Every detail of a living organism is stored in the strands of DNA. Every nanosecond, this data is accessed like a hard drive on heat, copied and replicated countless times on this planet.
God, our ultimate “geek” (with all due respect of course) continues to trash evolutionary thinking with the existence of DNA. Newly established sciences such as Information Sciences are screaming proof that there is an extreme intelligence behind all of life.
And God set this all in place back in pre-historic times. Thousands of years before the flood as He was master engineering all of reality, scripture records…
“And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.” Gen 1:11-13
“And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.” Gen 1:20-25
Do you get the impression that God creates and then allows His creation to re-create according to the pattern He created? DNA is His tool for allowing this to happen.
Then after He set all this in place, He created His ultimate earthly creature – mankind. A being in His image to subdue and rule over everything God had created and declared good.
But the enemy of God is not blind to the workings of God. By commanding some of his angels to have sex with humans, Satan knew that mankind would not reproduce according to it’s own kind.
A new hybrid creature, a demigod – half physical and half spiritual, would result. The DNA of mankind forever and irrevocably changed. The “seed of the woman” destroyed forever – therefore thwarting the Messiah to enter into human history and redeem man back to God.
You got to admit, Satan’s plan was as genius as it was evil. And to think that he almost achieved his goal is a sobering reality as when God surveyed the land, He only chose to save Noah and his family from the flood. So let’s look at Noah’s story.
“These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” Gen 6:9-10
You get the impression that Noah was a good guy with words such as “righteous man” and “Noah walked with God”. But the term “blameless in his generation” refers to his physical purity. The word “blameless” is the Hebrew word “tamiym” and is most often translated “without defect” and is splashed all over the pages of Leviticus when it talks about the physical purity of animals chosen for sacrifice.
So to unpack all this, Noah was a good guy, a righteous and Godly man. Furthermore, his lineage was also unblemished from what was tormenting earth – that is the unholy reproduction of demigod like creatures known as the Nephilim.
His wife and the wives of his sons must have also come from “blameless generations” as they were also saved. Which indicates that not all human DNA was corrupted. But is must have been very close as scripture records…
“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” Gen 6:5-6
And…
“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.” Gen 6:11-12
In those days, the heart of God was grieved that He had made mankind. Why? Because it had stopped reproducing after it’s own kind. What God had once declared very good, was now engulfed in a murderous and evil reality where even the plan of God was threatened unless He took a drastic step.
The flood.
I hope you now have a greater appreciation of why God used the flood to wipe mankind off the face of the earth. It wasn’t simply because there was sin on earth. There was a very specific sin on earth. But this specific sin raised it’s ugly head after the flood also and I’ll get into this next time also.
Furthermore, it was this specific sin which drove Hitler mad and was the cause of WW2. For those of you who want to race ahead, join the dots between Nephilim, Atlantis, Demigods, the Aryan Race and the Swastika.
Ah yes, the mystery of lawlessness held back has been raging for millennia. It wasn’t time during WW2. But will it be soon?
