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Category: Life
I went to a Baptist church this weekend. With all the investigations and allegations about Mega-Churches going on, I didn't know what to expect. I actually thought I would get some fuel for my blog on Mega-Churches (it's coming, You know I have to do it). To the contrary, I was pleasantly surprised. No one even mentioned money. No metal detectors (You know, to keep the change out). Not a dramatic amount of hoopin/whoopin and hollerin. Just plain ol' church. A great choir and a good word.
This sermon was the middle of a series on Extraordinary living. I can't say enough how impressed I was. (I ain't leavin my church, but it was good.) The pastor was more than charismatic. He was a word-smith of the utmost degree. He essentially broke down being Christian. If you believe in God, we all strive to be as much like Christ as possible. That is our mission. It's not easy, by any means. But knowing is half the battle.
All of us who call ourselves "Christian" know it is a struggle. The struggle is between the Extraordinary(Christian) life we lead and the ordinary(the rest of the world). We battle ourselves because we know Christ and the journey of being Christian is the foundation. And that foundation is indispensable. EVERYTHING ELSE is dispensable. But we make EVERYTHING ELSE the center and lose focus on the foundation. A house without a foundation is called a Shack or a Shanty. I've lived some places, in some circumstances but I would never and will never EVER call a Shack or a Shanty my home. But that IS how we live.
We make EVERYTHING ELSE the center of our life because we just can't live without… And I'm not talking about bad stuff like drugs, alcohol, strippers, Maury Povich or Lifetime(really what's up Lifetime?). I'm talking about good things. Children, spouses, careers (not jobs), houses, STUFF, money, family, community, church are all blessings. But the blessings are not the center. They are not the foundation. These are all things Christ and his disciples walked away from with out a thought. Not that we all should. But, in our journey to be Christian, how many would? And be honest with yourself. (Really, What's the deal with Lifetime?) I'm at one extreme where I long to be left alone sometimes. At the other are A LOT of people I know who at least have to be on the phone with someone if they are alone for even a minute. Not that you have to be like me but can you for one day?
Extraordinary life is eternal life. And eternal life is what we all seek. So why are we even bothering with the ordinary? In collections/sales/pimping/drug dealing, we called it being hooked. It's when you get caught up in the story either you or the other person is selling and forget what you are selling. You forget your purpose in life and lose. Once you get hooked, the other person's agenda becomes the center. And, good or bad, no one (NO ONE) is on the same path or focus you are. (Married people stop your brains. Just shut it up for a minute.) NO ONE! And NO THING will get you where you want to be. Why? Because you can't take it with you. NONE OF IT!
You may as well be ready to give it away at any moment. In actuality, giving is Christian. It is the essence of sacrifice. But don't go not paying your bills because you gave it all in church. Be honest about what you have to give. Money ain't always all we have to give. (Kudos to Elizabeth Baptist for not being THAT church.) For most of us, it never will be. Be honest with yourself so you can truly keep it real. Remember your foundation and give your self. If you don't know who you are…Good luck with that shit. That's another blog.
You are slooowly on your way to having your own church Bishop Sloan. Welcome to the we don't take checks leave your bank statements at the altar evangelistic holiness hold my mule who in the hell left the gate open municipal principality church of the living repenters of naked dickiness
LMAO! I concede. This blog was fire. :-)!
THAT'S RIGHT!!! NAKED DICKERS REPENT!!!
good reading...
Life is good. I'm sharing it with the world. So this is life the way I see it...
Monday, November 12, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
The Week In Review
Since I haven't been able to make church these past few weeks (due to
sinning[lots and lots of sinning]NOT REALLY but probably), let's see if I can't
get some clarity with a little reflection. In my church, after communion, we
kneel to pray. This prayer more reflection time. I usually go over my week and
thank God for stopping me from slapping the shit out of people I've come into
contact with.
So let's pray:Lord, thank you. Thank you for giving me patience when customers call to see if the car lot they just drove by has any cars for sale. Help me stay strong when everyone around me keeps asking me to lie. (You know - Am I getting on your nerves? Sale this car. Does this car run good? At $700? This 2002? Absolutely!)
Please Lord, look out for my people. Help me find a way to convince my cousin to stop lying on his dick about ugly women. Forgive all the nakeddickers (8/25 Word of the day 2) who just couldn't sit they triflin asses at home on Black Out Friday. Forgive "The Dog", he didn't mean nigger in a bad way. Plus, he doesn't even know Al Sharpton and he never knew we now say "nakeddicker" instead. If anything, forgive his nakeddickedness. Maybe, I'll forgive him for not reading my blogs.
Bless Denzel and his new movie. I know so many people couldn't wait to watch the bootleg. I hope they were as eager to pay $10 (or more) to see it in the theater. Bless T.I. when he goes back to prison. He's a cute little guy. He may need your help. Bless Oprah. She didn't know women could be pedophiles and on the down low too.
As always, bless the children. Just because they come from retardation and nakeddickin' they don't have to be doomed to the same.
(Meditation...)
In Jesus' name.....
SLAP!!!!!!
LMFAO, you are hilarious, I love it!!!!!!!
So I've heard its best to pray "Lord have your
will" than to request "specific blessings" because it minimizes
our disappointments when our prayers aren't answered in in what we'd consider a
timely fashion or according to our liking. And often times, what we pray for
may not be in our best interest or the better interest of whom we've asked God
to bless. Perhaps God has already blessed Oprah, The Dog, T.I., Denzel (and
dare I include the NAKEDDICKERS too) with the very same "issues"
you've requested their deliverance from... we're all in need of the occasional
reality-checks to keep us real with God!
Thanks for the blog invite... I've enjoyed this mini trip into your would of thoughts... and am looking forward to reading more. Peace out!
What's a Nakeddicker? =)
Thanks for the blog invite... I've enjoyed this mini trip into your would of thoughts... and am looking forward to reading more. Peace out!
What's a Nakeddicker? =)
LMAO!!!
Monday, November 5, 2007
Black People Don’t Read
From before Instagram and SnapChat, we tried to warn people. Instead, we chose to join the idiocy, myself included. (After much protest on my end) Today, I'm not satisfied with pictures of words on Instagram and 140 characters on twitter.
The problem is not literacy. The dullards who follow Trump, the morons who watch Fox News, The fools who listen to Rush Limbaugh can read. Their problem (and many of ours) is comprehension. We have simplified things so much that we fail to think about the deeper meaning of things.
I usually don't pay attention to chains but after what I witnessed on Black Friday, I have to post one that caught my eye this morning.
BLACK PEOPLE, PLEASE, READ & HEED. POIGNANT.
The sad thing about this article is that the essence of it is true. The
truth hurts. I just hope this sets more Black people in motion towards
making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black comedian, even joked that
Blacks don't read.
Help prove them wrong! Read and pass on.
Please Note:
For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn't hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.
Dee Lee, CFP
Harvard Financial Educators
Dee Lee
THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery Look at the currentmethods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book." We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books
readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.
GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).
Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.
They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in start a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them "Status" or that they have achieved their Dream.
They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcast destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.
SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success.
However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organization seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.
They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best
speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)
They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!!
Something many of us have known for a long time. After reading this, how many of us will change?
This is really true.
Wow. Thanks for reminding US the state that WE are in. It's sad but true. We tear each other down on a daily basis with our images, our music, and our ignorance. I listen to rap just like everybody else, but KNOWING that it's just entertainment makes all the difference. We've got sooooo many issues, I don't even know where to begin.....Maybe someone who has read this (myself included) will think about volunteering, or even working with a literacy program...help kids and adults recognize that knowledge is power. I'm formerly a Juvenile Probation Officer so trust me, I've seen firsthand the state that our future is in....
I have always said that slavery is not dead... It's just in a modern form. But at this point, the only way to try to correct things are through knowledge and spreading the word. Will everyone be receptive??? NO!!!! But I do feel like it is our social duty to make our people aware of the injustices that continue in our lives on a daily basis.... I read all the time... And I read a little bit of everything. When I am done reading a book, instead of storing it on my bookshelf, I pass it on to someone else. That's just one thing I do though.... But if everyone made an effort I think we could definitely make a difference. But what will ever be just in a country with a constitution that was originally written by 'white slave holding men' for 'white slave holding men'??? Answer me that!!
Yes, the truth does hurt. It is so sad to admit that whenever I see or hear something negative that our people have done I always say "That's black people for you". So change starts with me. I definitely feel that our people are/will perish for their lack of knowledge.
The problem is not literacy. The dullards who follow Trump, the morons who watch Fox News, The fools who listen to Rush Limbaugh can read. Their problem (and many of ours) is comprehension. We have simplified things so much that we fail to think about the deeper meaning of things.
I usually don't pay attention to chains but after what I witnessed on Black Friday, I have to post one that caught my eye this morning.
BLACK PEOPLE, PLEASE, READ & HEED. POIGNANT.
The sad thing about this article is that the essence of it is true. The
truth hurts. I just hope this sets more Black people in motion towards
making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black comedian, even joked that
Blacks don't read.
Help prove them wrong! Read and pass on.
Please Note:
For those of you who heard it, this is the article Dee Lee was reading this morning on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn't hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.
Dee Lee, CFP
Harvard Financial Educators
Dee Lee
THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery Look at the currentmethods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book." We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books
readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.
GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).
Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.
They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in start a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them "Status" or that they have achieved their Dream.
They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcast destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.
SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success.
However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organization seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.
They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best
speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)
They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own, as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!!
Something many of us have known for a long time. After reading this, how many of us will change?
This is really true.
Wow. Thanks for reminding US the state that WE are in. It's sad but true. We tear each other down on a daily basis with our images, our music, and our ignorance. I listen to rap just like everybody else, but KNOWING that it's just entertainment makes all the difference. We've got sooooo many issues, I don't even know where to begin.....Maybe someone who has read this (myself included) will think about volunteering, or even working with a literacy program...help kids and adults recognize that knowledge is power. I'm formerly a Juvenile Probation Officer so trust me, I've seen firsthand the state that our future is in....
I have always said that slavery is not dead... It's just in a modern form. But at this point, the only way to try to correct things are through knowledge and spreading the word. Will everyone be receptive??? NO!!!! But I do feel like it is our social duty to make our people aware of the injustices that continue in our lives on a daily basis.... I read all the time... And I read a little bit of everything. When I am done reading a book, instead of storing it on my bookshelf, I pass it on to someone else. That's just one thing I do though.... But if everyone made an effort I think we could definitely make a difference. But what will ever be just in a country with a constitution that was originally written by 'white slave holding men' for 'white slave holding men'??? Answer me that!!
Yes, the truth does hurt. It is so sad to admit that whenever I see or hear something negative that our people have done I always say "That's black people for you". So change starts with me. I definitely feel that our people are/will perish for their lack of knowledge.
Friday, November 2, 2007
The Week In Review 11/7/7 (Prayers)
Since I haven't been able to make church these past few weeks (due to
sinning[lots and lots of sinning]NOT REALLY but probably), let's see if I can't
get some clarity with a little reflection. In my church, after communion, we
kneel to pray. This prayer more reflection time. I usually go over my week and
thank God for stopping me from slapping the shit out of people I've come into
contact with.
So let's pray:
Lord, thank you. Thank you for giving me patience when customers call to see if the car lot they just drove by has any cars for sale. Help me stay strong when everyone around me keeps asking me to lie. (You know - Am I getting on your nerves? Sale this car. Does this car run good? At $700? This 2002? Absolutely!)
Please Lord, look out for my people. Help me find a way to convince my cousin to stop lying on his dick about ugly women. Forgive all the nakeddickers who just couldn't sit they triflin asses at home on Black Out Friday. Forgive "The Dog", he didn't mean nigger in a bad way. Plus, he doesn't even know Al Sharpton and he never knew we now say "nakeddicker" instead. If anything, forgive his nakeddickedness. Maybe, I'll forgive him for not reading my blogs.
Bless Denzel and his new movie. I know so many people couldn't wait to watch the bootleg. I hope they were as eager to pay $10 (or more) to see it in the theater. Bless T.I. when he goes back to prison. He's a cute little guy. He may need your help. Bless Oprah. She didn't know women could be pedophiles and on the down low too.
As always, bless the children. Just because they come from retardation and nakeddickin' they don't have to be doomed to the same.
(Meditation...)
In Jesus' name.....
SLAP!!!!!!
So let's pray:
Lord, thank you. Thank you for giving me patience when customers call to see if the car lot they just drove by has any cars for sale. Help me stay strong when everyone around me keeps asking me to lie. (You know - Am I getting on your nerves? Sale this car. Does this car run good? At $700? This 2002? Absolutely!)
Please Lord, look out for my people. Help me find a way to convince my cousin to stop lying on his dick about ugly women. Forgive all the nakeddickers who just couldn't sit they triflin asses at home on Black Out Friday. Forgive "The Dog", he didn't mean nigger in a bad way. Plus, he doesn't even know Al Sharpton and he never knew we now say "nakeddicker" instead. If anything, forgive his nakeddickedness. Maybe, I'll forgive him for not reading my blogs.
Bless Denzel and his new movie. I know so many people couldn't wait to watch the bootleg. I hope they were as eager to pay $10 (or more) to see it in the theater. Bless T.I. when he goes back to prison. He's a cute little guy. He may need your help. Bless Oprah. She didn't know women could be pedophiles and on the down low too.
As always, bless the children. Just because they come from retardation and nakeddickin' they don't have to be doomed to the same.
(Meditation...)
In Jesus' name.....
SLAP!!!!!!
LMFAO, you are hilarious, I love it!!!!!!!
So I've heard its best to pray "Lord have your
will" than to request "specific blessings" because it minimizes
our disappointments when our prayers aren't answered in in what we'd consider a
timely fashion or according to our liking. And often times, what we pray for
may not be in our best interest or the better interest of whom we've asked God
to bless. Perhaps God has already blessed Oprah, The Dog, T.I., Denzel (and
dare I include the NAKEDDICKERS too) with the very same "issues"
you've requested their deliverance from... we're all in need of the occasional
reality-checks to keep us real with God!
Thanks for the blog invite... I've enjoyed this mini trip into your would of thoughts... and am looking forward to reading more. Peace out!
What's a Nakeddicker? =)
Thanks for the blog invite... I've enjoyed this mini trip into your would of thoughts... and am looking forward to reading more. Peace out!
What's a Nakeddicker? =)
LMAO!!!
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