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| munday spreads |
[07.13.09] |
oh yes i've slid quite a bit but i'm ok with it
i'm sorry i haven't been commenting on people's entries - they are all beautiful - there is nothing i could really add to your work =]
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| Fo' Real Fo' Sho' |
[07.12.09] |
I find it so sexy
That there's a new breed of women goin' around
One that don't need a man for nothing
I remember when a man used to carry the family
Nowadays the woman is the family
If she can carry her own then guess what...
Shawty don't need no man.
She don't need no man in her life (Her life)
'Cause her mama raised her right (Ha hah!)
Talk shit to her she talk back (Talk back)
She got a best friend and they tight. (Hey girl!)
Soul survivor in her blood (Blood)
Miss Dependent no sir (Miss Dependent)
Go getter that's her (Go getter)
She keep a couple stacks in her purse (Couple stacks)
She pay her rent by herself (Pay her rent)
Take care of her kids with no help (Take care)
She love her girls to death (Love her girls)
She would rather do bad by herself (Rather do)
Shawty don't need no man
As long as she's got her friends
Shawty gon' make her ends
Shawty don't need no man
Shawty don't need no man
As long as she's got her friends
Shawty gon' make her ends
Shawty don't need no man
(Man man man, man, man man, ma)
No man (Man man man, man man, man man)
Shawty don't need (man man) no man
(Man man man, man, man man, ma)
No man (Man, man man man,)
Shawty don't need no man
She pays her own way in the club
Ain't lookin' for no hand me downs lookin' for no love
She's fly and this shawty just caught my eye (yeah)
I see you
Gon do you
Ain't nothing wrong what you do?
She's turnin' heads
And she's breakin' necks
Shawty just so damn fly!
She don't need no man
She's got all her friends
And I don't even wanna know your name
Jus gotta let you know you're doing your thing (girl)
Shawty don't need no man
As long as she's got her friends
Shawty gon' make her ends
Shawty don't need no man
Shawty don't need no man
As long as she's got her friends
Shawty gon' make her ends
Shawty don't need no man
(Man man man, man, man man, ma)
No man (Man man man, man man, man man)
Shawty don't need (man man) no man
(Man man man, man, man man, ma)
No man (Man, man man man,)
Shawty don't need no man
She go to work and school
She's a good woman she do what she gotta do
To keep her family straight
9 to 5 bout to graduate
She's a hard worker
Difference maker
Harm will tell her
It motivated her
My single moms
If that's you you deserve two thumbs
Shawty know how to split the bills around
So shawty can get up in the club and get down
And she can two step yeah all by herself
She don't even need my help (yeah)
I respect her hustle 'cause she knows how to grind
She got a ride tricked out like mine
Her name is alone
She got it on her own (she said)
She don't need no man to cosign! (shawty)
Shawty don't need no man
As long as she's got her friends
Shawty gon' make her ends
Shawty don't need no man
Shawty don't need no man
As long as she's got her friends
Shawty gon' make her ends
Shawty don't need no man
(Man man man, man, man man, ma)
No man (Man man man, man man, man man)
Shawty don't need (man man) no man
(Man man man, man, man man, ma)
No man (Man, man man man,)
Shawty don't need no man
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| Women in the Bible |
[07.12.09] |
Are women portrayed as inferior to men in the bible?
And if so how come?
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| hatehatehate |
[07.12.09] |
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moleskin studies. Deadman was done on a really long car drive. The Second one was inspired by one of Francis Bacon's studies of Pope Innocent by Valesque. "I hate the tv" is based on one of my ongoing characters names Stephen. Enjoy! :D
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| Broken moleskeine |
[07.12.09] |
so uhmm... what would you guys suggest i do with a broken moleskeine.. lol
I broke the stiches on half the signatures in my new journal, and id like to put it back together but i have never bound a book before and dont wanna glue them back into place
any hints/tricks?
much thanks :)
.mana
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[07.12.09] |
i just posted this to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ticketride and thought i'd post here being as it's kinda like a journal... it's not very creative though, i got bored so i stapled all my tickets into a book :P the cover is horrible at the moment, so i'm probably gonna cover it with something soon. but anyway, here are my tickets from 2003 until recently...
( click click )
edit: i have a new username: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) keepitsimpleee which i'll be using from now on. :)
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| Jesus and the soldier |
[07.11.09] |
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I posted my sermon from last week on Jesus and the centurion here -- in case any one is interested.
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| Question - interfaith related |
[07.11.09] |
How would you react as a Christian if someone, out of good will, used a non-Christian religious method to try to help you? For example, a Muslim praying to Allah for you, a Hindu performing some ritual/puja, a new ager giving you a "healing rock" or something, or even (more difficult case) someone shamanistic offering some sort of relic (even if it's Pagan)?
I've been in situations as a Buddhist where I wanted to offer a Medicine Buddha to someone sick, or give advice, or tell them I've been praying or reciting mantras for them, but honestly I'm afraid it would freak them out. So I usually pray or recite mantras privately and don't tell them directly, and instead I give them a different gift like food.
I'm mainly referring to people who are very sick or going through difficult times, or even dying -- would it comfort a dying Christian or just create confusion? Thanks.
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| Two confessions, two responses |
[07.11.09] |
In John 1:43-51, Nathaneal confesses to Jesus, "You are the Son of God; and the King of Israel." Jesus responds, almost with suspicion, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these."
However, in Matt 16:13-20, Peter makes a similar confession: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus' response is congratulatory: "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven."
How do you reconcile these different responses to the same confession?
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| A song to share |
[07.11.09] |
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I thought I would share the words of Matt Redman's, Blessed Be Your Name, as a praise and thank you for the amazing God that is there when ever we need him. ( Read more... ) |
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| YouTube Art Journal Vids |
[07.10.09] |
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"All My Loving" by Jim Sturgess, from Across the Universe |
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Hallo all. c: I'm brandy-new: both to this community, and to the art of art journalling. I'm not sure how well this'll go, because I'm very, very (VERY) flighty and I tend to grow lax and leave projects incomplete. Hopefully, I'll be able to commit to art journalling. I just know I'd regret it if I never actually tried to do it.
Anyway, moving right along...
I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions when it came to YouTube videos that focus on art journalling techniques. I've found some with a quick skim-about, but a lot of them are very lengthy and the authors are horribly boring (they droned on and on about random shite, instead of focusing on the point of their video!).
I'm also open to your suggestions, though I find that visual explanations are best for my simple mind. :P
I don't really care what techniques are featured in the videos you wish to provide, I just want to know a bit more about what I can do with my art journal once I get one!
Thank you, you guys. I hope I turn out at least one complete art journal to show you all.
Take care, and may the muse be with you!
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| Peace Corps? |
[07.10.09] |
So, not to steal the idea of a recent poster on here, but I am considering the Peace Corps.I put off the idea for quite a while, because it seemed like a cop out, as if I was saying that I wasn;t willing to try and build a life here in the US, that I was, in fact, a "quitter" for considering something that isn't a paying job. I asked God for clarity, and got no clear answer other then "Pray".This is something that I know would say I am considering doing.. The key word being CONSIDERING. Even though I have been overseas, and essentially am more then Qualified, I am not going to just rush into in the way that I did when I was a Missionary in Kenya.I am going to continue to look for steadier work, and pay off my bills and build income regardless of whether I apply and get in. If I get in, so be it, if not, it's not a big deal. Some people make this a Do or Die kind of thing, which seems to be anti-spiritual and profoundly unhealthy to me.
I have a inkling that God is calling me back towards Africa in some capacity, one which isn't entirely clear, but may be slowly becoming clearer. I am determined to do it not because of some self-serving interest, or because I must "save Africa" but because it is the only door that remains open with God standing next to it. As JFK said, (I) choose to to these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. If I choose to do it, it will be out of love for the people I spent 10 months of my life with, for those who have nothing to offer me but the fact that they are alive and have a story, not because I need to create my own story.
This is not a delicate decision, nor one I expect anyone here to essentially help me decide. What I do ask is prayers, and for those who may have done Peace Corps, advice. I am going to talk it over, pray about it, then consider if I want to apply. The nice thing about the process being that I have some time to think it over, as the process takes anywhere from 3-6 months on average, sometimes longer.
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| Zerubbabel’s speech about women |
[07.10.09] |
Gentlemen, is not the king great, and are not men many, and is not wine strong? Who is it, then, that rules them, or has the mastery over them? Is it not women? Women gave birth to the king and to every people that rules over sea and land. From women they came; and women brought up the very men who plant the vineyards from which comes wine. Women make men’s clothes; they bring men glory; men cannot exist without women. If men gather gold and silver or any other beautiful thing, and then see a woman lovely in appearance and beauty, they let all those things go, and gape at her, and with open mouths stare at her, and all prefer her to gold or silver or any other beautiful thing. A man leaves his own father, who brought him up, and his own country, and clings to his wife. With his wife he ends his days, with no thought of his father or his mother or his country. Therefore you must realize that women rule over you!
Do you not labor and toil, and bring everything and give it to women? A man takes his sword, and goes out to travel and rob and steal and to sail the sea and rivers; he faces lions, and he walks in darkness, and when he steals and robs and plunders, he brings it back to the woman he loves. A man loves his wife more than his father or his mother. Many men have lost their minds because of women, and have become slaves because of them. Many have perished, or stumbled, or sinned because of women. And now do you not believe me?
Is not the king great in his power? Do not all lands fear to touch him? Yet I have seen him with Apame, the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Bartacus; she would sit at the king’s right hand and take the crown from the king’s head and put it on her own, and slap the king with her left hand. At this the king would gaze at her with mouth agape. If she smiles at him, he laughs; if she loses her temper with him, he flatters her, so that she may be reconciled to him. Gentleman, why are not women strong, since they do such things? —1 Esdras 4:14-32 NRSV; for fuller context, see here
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| the incarnation |
[07.10.09] |
Today I just wanted to speak again about what I perceive as the theological heart of christianity. It is the incarnation, God becoming a man in Jesus Christ. It is so big. It is one of those things which I come back to again and again, something I really like to celebrate in my thoughts, when I am able to really focus on it, that is. But unlike other christian meditations, this actually comes to me easiest.
Think about it ... in Christ we have God becoming a man. We have God experiencing human life.
We all have the same experience, and now we have a God who simply knows by heart and experience what the human existence feels like. Before Jesus' advent, people knew God as a thundering voice perhaps, at Sinai, or as in the story of Job. They knew there was a God "up there" in the clouds. Those who trusted Him already knew that He would be there for them and provide for them.
But now we have something unimmeasurably more. We have this God coming to us, not through a door, not down a stairway, but by being born as a baby like us, naked, screaming and helpless, and later, with full diapers. And later in the story, He went away like that. Naked, screaming and helpless.
I know a christian man who set out to do something, and he went and founded a christian help station for bulgarian gypsy orphans. But he did not only help them, he learned from them. Some of these gypsies over there already knew Jesus, and that very differently from how Jesus is known in Europe and America. These kids could never identify with the well fed Jesus from certain old pictures in western churches. They did not want this Jesus. They wanted their Issa, the God who was not above living in daily troubles like most of mankind.
When you sit there before your computer, wait a second and raise your hands. Look at them. Jesus has the same hands as you. The same skin that aged and became wrinkled. He likely had scares from working as a carpenter. You could look at your face in the mirror. You would see eyes, and Jesus had those too. Not some strange lights blazing with fire as in a comic book of super heroes. Human eyes, in which you can see a life lived, in which you can see the depth that only a man who knows life and suffering can have.
That's really what christianity is about, one half of it anyway. The other is, just like God put on humanity, now we must put on divinity, but not as the devil tried to deceive us into, by sin and force and pride and violence. No. We put on Jesus, the new man, the perfect man. And Jesus perfection is not about a man who does everything correctly all his life. It's about a man that can love God, a man that develops such a character that he can do all the things Jesus did, including sacrifices that lead to resurrections, the divine intervention that changes how things would flow normally, if there would not be a Father God who takes an interest, and a Holy Spirit who comes to make us live with God here and forever.
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