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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.


MAIN THEMES

On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.

On Christianity
I’m convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let’s not plant the cross before we carry it. I’m not trying to con you.

On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.


OTHER THEMES

On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.

On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.

On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.

On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?

On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.

On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.

On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?

On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.


CHAT





Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009





I've had this self-styled quote on a strip of paper stuck to the top of my monitor for years. today, i'm consigning it to the bin. i never really knew what it meant. but it's strange, that today of all days, with all the uncertainty of the world before me, i put this quote down.

there, buddy. come down.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON RELEVANT NONCONFORMITY

"What if we could say to our kids, 'You are different; you are Christian.' We are a contrast society, not just a hip counterculture. What marks us as different must be more than something external or superficial; it must be a peculiar way of living ... Our hope is that the posmodern, post-Christian world is once again ready for a people who are peculiar, people who spend their energy creating a culture of contrast rather than a culture of relevancy. If we are to be relevant to the world we live in, we must be relevant nonconformists." 

- Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President

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Monday, April 20, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON THE BOMB

"If it's not love, then it's the bomb that will bring us together."

- The Smiths, Ask

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Friday, April 17, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON FRIDAY

"I don't care if Monday's blue / Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too / Thursday, I don't care about you / It's Friday, I'm in love"

- The Cure, Friday I'm In Love

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
TO QUOTE: ON THEREFORE

"Another important connective is therefore. Whenever you see a therefore, go back and see what it's there for." 

- Bible teacher Howard Hendrickson gets witty about Biblical grammar

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Friday, October 17, 2008
TO QUOTE: ON THE PRICE OF RECORDS

"I think the current prices are ok, what is it £7.99 online? That's enough to keep my swimming pool full of mineral water."

- Noel Gallagher

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Saturday, September 13, 2008
TO QUOTE: ON GETTING MARRIED SOON

"Is anyone getting married soon? I wanna paint the walls."

- My dad

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
TO QUOTE: ON NOT KNOWING

"I don't know that I don't know what I don't know."


- Me

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Monday, May 12, 2008
TO QUOTE: ON NOTHING

"Nothing comes from nothing except nothing."

- Me

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Monday, January 21, 2008
TO QUOTE: ON AMERICAN FREEDOM

"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."

- Tom Morello, Rage Against The Machine

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Monday, August 13, 2007
TO QUOTE: ON PARALYSIS

"We could sit for years, staring at our fears."

- Guillemots, Annie, let's not wait

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Thursday, July 19, 2007
TO QUOTE: ON EQUIVALENCE

"I'm convinced that Williams is the culinary equivalent of Arcade Fire."

- Me

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
TO QUOTE: ON STABBING

"True friends stab you in the front."

- Oscar Wilde, A picture of Dorian Gray

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
TO QUOTE: ON MADONNA WEARING FUR

"I wouldn't be surprised if she made that African boy she adopted into a coat and wore him for fifteen minutes, then threw it away."

- Morrissey on Madonna's fondness for fur, Gigwise.com

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Friday, July 13, 2007
TO QUOTE: ON LOVE, CAPITALISM AND MARXISM

"When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary."

- Will O'Brien, Alternative Seminary, Philadelphia

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