Homosexual Judges

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Homosexual Judges

The Bible is very clear on many things. One topic is homosexuality. Another topic is that God gave us a free will. Another is that God alone is the Judge. Another topic is that Christians should love sinners, which is another way of saying that Christians should love other Christians. Of the many wise teachings Christians disobey is what the Bible has to say about sowing and reaping.

But, even more than Christians love disobeying the Bible, they love judging others for disobeying the Bible. Now, homosexuals want to judge Christians, proving the Bible right: you reap what you sow.

 

104 Trends in History

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104 Trends in History

@PacificDT Editorial Blog:

Prelude to Conflict: Asia, February 23 | Symphony

The Desk:

JesseSteele.com icons… GitHub, LinkedIn, Instagram, dropped Google+ because, seriously, who uses it?

SugarCRM → SuiteCRM… another falling out between the corptocrats and the guys who actually make it work.

…Open source programmers fight with MBA’s like parishioners fight with pastors.

Books & Brands:

Thinking about new book… 2 Years Ahead: Why why so many say, “See, you told me so.”

  • I have a 22GB Dropbox account because I am 2 years ahead of everyone else.
  • Mailbox is a great system. Did you hear about that?
  • Six years ago, I said Obama would make people angry and not to worry about it because it would be good for the country to pay attention. Now, people are angry and I’m not worried.

Speaking of being ahead of everyone else, let’s talk about homosexuality…

News & Politics:

Rob Bell on Opra—Quoting letters from 2,000 years ago “as its best defense” makes the Church “irrelevant”…

But…”Don’t judge” would make the Church VERY relevant! Rob should know that since Mars Hill’s main growth came when he was teaching through Leviticus.

Homosexuality and Bible’s issue is that Homosexuality is a choice because it’s an activity, not a feeling. People may be happier to make a choice not to do various activities and to do other activities. I keep all options on the table, including what the Bible says. Many people want to consider all options except the Bible and, more importantly, they explain the Bible inaccurately and “obey” it improperly. One does not need to be a judgmental jerk in order to obey Biblical morality. In fact, the two are in conflict.

Unfortunately, the Church is wholly insensitive to the heart on the Homosexuality issue. They haven’t addressed the issues, only been insensitive jerks. Homophobia defines everything as “homosexual”… including hugs, dressing well, and useful swimsuits. I reject the terms “gay” and “straight” because, first, they actually have totally different meanings.

More importantly, I reject the categories they represent. “Gay” and “straight” attempt to define an individual by their “orientation”. By those standards, we need at least 360 terms, arguably 3-D coordinates to boot. Why 4-D since we should consider speed and velocity of people’s “drive” and passion.

If we didn’t define each other by feelings, if we didn’t categorize sexuality by our tastes in fashion, and if we listened more to each other, homosexuality might not be as common. There are so many assumptions surrounding the issues. People don’t like the topic, so they avoid it or address it too quickly with too broad of a brush.

I don’t want to live a homosexual life because I don’t want that road or the auxiliaries that come with it—and I don’t mean rejection. I’ve been rejected all my life. I have often had many tastes in things that homophobes regard as so-called “gay”, but have nothing to do with sex. For me, enjoying those things doesn’t mean I need to engage in homosexual sex.

I’m allowed to choose not to be homosexual and think that I’m happier for it.

I’m allowed to not judge people when I make my own decisions.

And everyone is allowed to share their own preferences with others.

If someone else makes their own choice and you feel judged—even if their choice is to be judgmental of you. That’s their choice and you shouldn’t feel judged just because of what other people do. You are who you are. I am who I am. And God will judge all of us concerning all of His commands in His own time. I am trying to be ready and I hope you are too.

The Church criticizes Rob for the few questionable things he says, but don’t give credit for the things he is good at. Too much judging. They are very angry people.

Bigger problem: Only Jesus was incarnated, we are God’s Image. “Seeing God” in each other… sounds like something Shirley MacLaine would say, though most people don’t know who Shirley MacLaine is. That wasn’t Rob’s idea. It’s been said before.

I find my life happier if I obey the Bible, if I hold the ideas of the Bible. I’m happier. Life makes more sense to me. I get more things done. I’m a happier person.

Being a happier person… THAT is my best defense for why I read letters from 2,000 years ago. Letters that last last because they have proven their relevance time and again. The Church won’t be irrelevant by reading timelessly relevant letters, but by not being happy as the 2,000-year-old letters teach us how to be.

http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/Full-Episode-Oprah-with-Rob-and-Kristen-Bell-Video

http://rcsprouljr.com/jce/rob-bell-not-faring-well/

Mailbox

Obama voters are angry about paying an Obamacare fine… Just shut up. Learn about voting. Fix it next election. And, don’t worry.

Tweets:

This week:

Chinese New Year

Cleaning

Programming WordPress plugins in PHP

Review of Taiwan’s Xiaolin Village

Talking about visiting many Churchianity congregations.

103 Shine and LAMP

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103 Shine and LAMP

@PacificDT Editorial Blog:

Prelude to Conflict: Asia, February 16 | Symphony

The Desk:

Local LAMP, enjoying Linux

“Kubuntu Studio”…technically impossible, but I did it.

Two years of Podcast… started early February, skipped three weeks.

Big Circle & a developer

Books & Brands:

$1/month on it’s way… making headway

Created my own logo, 18 hours

Two years of the Podcast, one week skipped.

News & Politics:

ISIS… Not worried, waking up from political correctness

Petition for police shooting central database

Democrat-Republican Party

Mexican vote will backfire

Miscalculate (Not Miss Calculate)

Brian Williams… this should be about NBC, not Brian

This week:

Cleaning apartment

Celebrating 6 years in Asia

Passion of the Christ: two friends

Taught a piano song to a kid, by ear from Lady in the Water

Shine the light, be wise, but don’t blame. Don’t rebuke the darkness… takes emotional determination.

Friends video me, no big deal

The Point:

Open Source Invention

Open Source Invention

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Open Source Invention

Open source licenses are emerging as a solvent business model. Some call it “freemium”. It’s the concept that we don’t own our own concepts. So, we share them with the world.

Through this, money no longer comes from our brainstorms, but our own work—the application of one’s ideas. The open source model has little fear of ideas being “stolen” because craftsmanship, on-the-job know-how, and case-by-case decision-making are the skills of an artisan, which cannot be stolen.

Jesus searches heart and mind, but rewards us according to our work, just like an open source customer? Maybe open source was his concept.

What Is News

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What Is News

Governments view journalism as an indoctrination tool, for better or worse. Journalists see it as the work of demigod who can’t lie by definition. To ISIS, newspapers are just as flammable as the infidels who write for them and read them. And to the readers, news is not worth paying money for since social media gossip is faster and less inaccurate.

In America, negative news sells.

Is hate any different if it comes from ISIS against the West or from a Baptist arguing with a Pentecostal? We argue a lot. But only hearts change laws and only love changes hearts.

102 Stand Up

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102 Stand Up

@PacificDT Editorial Blog:

Prelude to Conflict: Asia, February 9 | Symphony

The Desk:

T-shirt factory, forgiveness, friendship

How to kill mosquitoes:

Kaohsiung taps the sea to fight dengue

Books & Brands:

$1/month coming: ownCloud, WordPress, sugarCRM, webmail:

blog, store, domain, cloud-sync, documents, bookmarks, calendar, contacts, email, more coming

premium plugins not on WordPress.com

you own your stuff

compatible with other services and clients

custom cloud: eg. your Amazon S3 bucket, Dropbox, etc

content exportable, service fully duplicatable on a personal site

This week:

Parents, grandparents

Asia: make money, lost care for school or ethics…

Chinese entrepreneurs

Bruce Wayne v Tony Stark

Cold front: dust from China

Stand up to the gossip machine and nonsense

Quality of Rules

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Quality of Rules

Good rules are like an elevator; 95% doesn’t go to the top. Or, like a bridge that spans 95% of a river, “almost perfect” rules mostly get in everybody’s way. But, why would anyone do a rush job of making rules?

Those who make the most rules are most likely to break them. They really don’t care about following their rules. So, turbo-rule makers don’t need rules that work to fulfill their own, personal reasons for making rules.

Excessive, almost-across-the-river rules seem wise, to those who don’t need to follow them. Actually, it’s addiction… or an unneeded bureaucrat justifying his own job.

Who’s Yer Boss?

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Who’s Yer Boss?

Innovation is at a standstill because tech industries have too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Manufacturers in Asia want to be like Western brands, but they reject the Western methods of consulting for their creative brainstorming. Asia wants the face of the West without the mind.

Looking back at the lingering civil wars in China and Korea from 60 years ago, not much has changed. “Blackmail by tears” from controlling mothers and self-made victims in America aren’t different either. It’s as if everyone has their own problems they hope to solve by bossing someone else. After failing, they blame God.

Episode 100!!

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Episode 100!!

@PacificDT Editorial Blog:

Prelude to Conflict: Asia, January 26 | Symphony

The Desk:

New programming formats for the podcast to start with the PDT editorial blog, Symphony (Prelude, etc)

Blogging Podcasts

Include stories from my very interesting life

George is still new, even after 100 episodes

Books & Brands:

Innovate: Branding New Tablets

Know Each Other (update)

Jesse Yonge Tea & Coffee Collection

This week:

Fondu, the maybe-GF, and free tea

Driving tonight

Kids fighting

The Point:

Who’s Yer Boss?