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Name: Dan
Birthday: 5/3/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Just about anything! Sports are huge to me - ultimate frisbee, hockey, paintball, tennis, volleyball, skiing/riding, surfing, canoeing/kayaking, hunting, rally/drag/street racing, mt biking, rock climbing, swimming, quads and sleds, motox, baseball, racketball, etc. I love video games too - HALO, Wolfenstein, SWAT, Rainbow6, etc. TV - Family Guy, JAG, American Dad, Family Guy, South Park, Daily Show, Colbert Report, and Family Guy.
Occupation: student...and sick of it
Message: message me
AIM:  JesusFreak050386
Member Since:
12/26/2006
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| ...always a dweeb. We've all seen the movies and heard the stories. Fairy tales is what they are. The story about the dweeb, the nerd, the joke of the school. The story about how he or she changes from his or her dorkish ways and becomes popular and loved. They get real clothes, they learn how to walk, how to talk, they get rid of that hideous laugh. They work hard, overcome some great obstacle, and become the most popular and loved among their peers. I'm here to say bogus. Every last story. Once a dweeb always a dweeb. You can move to a new school (or go to a college where you don't know anybody) and vow to be different. You can even cover some things up for awhile. But it never lasts very long. You slip somehow - that laugh comes out by accident, you say some dorky joke, your roommate finds out that you wear whitey tighties. Whatever it is, you can't escape what you really are. So of course, if that is the realization, our society would say "if you can't escape it, embrace it!" We don't have leprosy in America, we don't need it. We choose instead to isolate people who are dorky. They wear the wrong clothes, they don't talk the right way, they have strange ideas. Essentially they refuse to conform to the norms of society, and everybody mocks them for it. So society isn't really willing to let you embrace what's different about you either. So what do you do? I don't have a clue...I'm still in denial - telling myself I can hide the dweeb I really am. So if any of you are farther along and have a solution, be sure to let me know!
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| i think that maybe opening my mouth and letting true feelings out is a bad thing. somebody try not doing it and let me know how it works out because i really think it's gonna work out better than the alternative.
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| So you're driving on down the road in your clunker. Just like you've always driven, and you're content. It works. You like it. You understand all about it, you know all of its little quirks and personally, you think it's better than those new cars that are all electric appliances and hard-to-get-to engines. You notice a hitch hiker along the side of the road, so you slow down and pick her up. She's incredibly grateful for the ride, and is more than happy with your car, as clunky as it might be. The two of you become great friends over the next couple of days as you drive along on toward your distant destination. Eventually, you have a little argument, just before stopping for lunch. To cool down, you eat lunch separately. But, during lunch, she makes a friend, and this friend has a very nice new car. So after lunch, still a little upset at you, she hops in her new friends shiny car and heads on down the road. Later on that night, as you're eating dinner alone, she shows up, her new friend sitting over in a corner booth. She walks over and says that she values your friendship very much. But that old clunker you're driving just won't cut it for her, so she'll see you around. Unless you wanna get a new car. Then she'll come with you. Amazing how things change.
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| Let me pose a problem to you. First, let me explain that I, and probably every single Christian in the world faces this problem every day. But that is not an excuse of any sort. Here is the problem. The problem is that there are certain things, different for each person, that we as Christians know, for a fact, without a doubt, to be wrong. For some it might be lying. That's easy. If you misrepresent the truth, you sin. God makes it that obvious. So we'll use that as an example. Maybe most of the time you do ok with it. But then, a situation comes up where, in our case of lying, it really seems like lying would be a good idea. Maybe it might keep a fight from occuring if you get away with it. Maybe it will keep a friend out of trouble. Whatever the reason, as you think about it, you know it's wrong. But you still choose, fully knowing the sin you are about to commit, to go through with the lie. Why in the world do we do that? I don't understand. I do it every day. You do too and you know it. Many of us may have multiple multiple of these kinds of sins. I know I do. So where does it stem from? Well for some people, it stems from an unwillingness to give up that sin. For some people, it may even be them unsure as to whether they actually want to pursue a relationship with God at all. So what do we do about it? I dunno. Some people use the fact that everyone has this problem as an excuse. But c'mon people, just because someone else is doing it makes it ok for us to do it? Sheesh c'mon. Even if you grew up with non-Christian parents I'm sure they told you that was no excuse! So do you really have an excuse? Lol, the answer, of course, is no. We have no excuse. If we actually had an excuse, then it probably couldn't be counted against us as sin, now could it? Hm. So I guess if by now you're wondering where this is going, I am too. But I think I'm going to leave it at that. I guess where this is going is up to you as the individual. Where is it going? Are you going to choose to follow Christ? Are you going to choose to give up these sins that God has made obvious to you? Guess what...if you do, God will make MORE sins obvious to you. It's how He does things. So if you make this choice, it's not a one-time-and-you're-done choice. It's a life-changing decision. Make it, or walk away from Christ forever.
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