Wednesday, March 30, 2005

good or bad

well, i had a earth shattering post about the true essence of concerts after i saw ladysmith black mambazo last saturday, ok well maybe it wasn't really earth shattering, but due to the fact that blogger lost it when i posted it and after numerous attempts at recapturing the same meaning i gave up. anyways... i started noticing the increasing prevalence of spiritually related t-shirts a while ago, but when an article about it made it on the front page of the anderson independent-mail (originally from the ny times) i knew a trend had started, especially since it had reached anderson, sc. i am still trying to figure out what kind of impact some of these shirts have on the world. obviously some of them only have a negative impact, but some project a much more ambiguous message- is it trendyness or does the wearer actually believe? does it make a difference? has a t-shirt ever really inspired anybody to do anything? i am not sure if there really are more believers or if it just appears that way as i have grown more involved in church. either way it doesn't really matter because i'm not sure that anybody i know was saved because of seeing someone with a spiritual t-shirt. so if this is the case then it negates the possibility that they have any real positive effect. this leads me to believe that the best thing for people spreading God's word to do would be keep being a good Christian which doesn't mean buying trendy t-shirts.

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Uno

i am intrigued at how someone can write the most ordinary and mundane things in a blog and yet someone will read it. first you see something that catches your eye for no particular reason and so you begin to read that sentence which then runs straight into the next sentence which some how directs you into the next paragraph. all of a sudden you are at the end of that post and you are wondering what has happened to the past five minutes of your life. you know that you have not learned learned the meaning of life by in that brief span of time, but somehow you feel like your life was enriched in some small and unquantifiable way. i can't promise that i will be able to provide any great insight in this blog, but i hope to atleast write something that is enriching in some way