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  Mark 6:55 pm on January 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: LOST ( 2 )   

  LOST: I’ll Be Your Constant 

  

  Not gonna lie.  Obama’s inauguration yesterday was nice, but let’s be honest – everyone’s really been holding out for the season premier of LOST Season 5!

  Will Jack and Ben really reunite and work together to bring the Oceanic 6 back to the island?  Even if they do, will they ever find the island again after it mysteriously disappeared?  What’s up with time travel?  What’s up with the monster?  A few theories:

  The monster is a creation of Ben.  Certainly he could have used that against the Dharma Initiative during “the Purge” – but as a young man it wasn’t around yet.  It responds to his command, and won’t tell anyone else what it is.  It’s Ben’s “security system.”

  The island was moved not only in place, but also in time.  Either that, or it was further cloaked (previously it was only visible through following a specific coordinates, now you must also set your clocks back an hour!)

  John Locke is only dead because he lost his constant (time travel requires a constant to keep from having seizures).  I think he’ll still be alive on the island in the future/past.

  Ben and Charles Widmore are both insanely rich guys who are “playing a game” similar to the short story The Most Dangerous Game, which involves an island and a rich man who has hunted every animal on earth, and has begun hunting humans too!  I think Widmore is “hunting” Ben and he “changed the rules” when Ben’s daughter was killed.

  I’ll probably add some more theories later

  

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    Mark 1:44 pm on January 22, 2009 Permalink

    woohoo! totally called it – the island is floating outside of time. the rest of the theories have yet to be revealed.

    i wonder why only charlotte is experiencing the effects of “time travel jet lag”…will she have to find her parents (who were part of the dharma initiative) before its too late?

    also – i think kate is trying to meet up with sawyer’s “long con” lady, the woman kate met and who helped kate escape the feds. my guess is that sawyer wants to repay the woman and needs kate’s help to do it.

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  Mark 4:49 pm on January 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: african-american, barak obama, democracy, heussein, non-violence, power, president   

  Congratulations, my President 

  

  Congratulations to the American people, for their 44th non-violent transfer of power.

  Congratulations to Barack Heussein Obama, for being elected this nation’s very first African-American president.

  I look forward to continue serving this nation I have been called to.  I anticipate participating in the great things that will happen on this earth over the next four years.  Healing a planet, committing a workforce, establishing global peace and justice, and offering hope to the hopeless.

  While I understand myself as an American, it is not my primary identity.  I am proud to participate in the dream of democracy and freedom in our age, but it is not enough to commit my primary identity to.  Even more than my national citizenship, I am a citizen of the world.  Even more than that, I have a citizenship in a Kingdom, whose leader brought hope and change long ago:  My Lord, my CEO, my President – Jesus Christ.

  Congratulations, Jesus Christ, for 2,000 years non-violent subversion of power – even when your church took other paths.

  Congratulations on offering a chance of communion with God to me and every person.

  Congratulations Jesus Christ, my President.

  
   
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  Mark 10:15 am on January 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: biblewiki, emergent church, martin luther, ted talks ( 3 ), tony jones ( 2 ), truth, youversion ( 2 )   

  The People are the Orthodoxy 

  Ever wonder where Christian Orthodoxy comes from?  I read a fascinating article on that over at Emergent Village.  It turns out that the pope and his cronies called the Magisterium (who were originally established to protect against gnosticism) had grown so powerful that they could actually broker truth to the masses exchanging loyalty (tithes) for protection (communion, citizenship).

  Magisterium essentially withheld Scripture from the masses, thus keeping it out of their control.  They taught that the Word of God was too holy to be transcribed or spoken in any language other than Latin, a dying language.

  By the 1450′s the Catholic Church needed money, and began selling indulgences (handwritten forgivenesses on pieces of paper).  Officiates would travel all throughout Europe selling these tickets out of middle hell by the hundreds.  When the printing press was invented they found they could print these indulgences literally by the millions, which was the equivalent of printing money.  That is why the printing press succeeded, and why the church became filthy rich, and kept the masses under their control.

  Martin Luther, when he tagged his 95 Theses to the door of a Wittenburg church, he was complaining that the Catcholic Church was corrupt, in part because of its selling of indulgences.

  We tend to think that the printing press was a noble invention used to advance biblical literacy.  Sorry!  We entered the golden age of the printed book through the heartless pursuit of filthy money by corrupted power.  Thankfully, God used that sorrowful time to print his Bible in German, the language of the people and started a revolution that continues to this day.

  So, who will hold the keys to orthodoxy in an age of limitless voice?  In a world of blogs, podcasts, and internet watchdogs, Tony Jones suggests that “those committed to the social web will become the new Magisterium.”  Now we have access to God’s Word not only in printed form, but check out YouVersion, a collaborative online bible studying community.  Or BibleWiki.  Now we the people access to the halls of science, technology, medicine, and history like never before!  It may mean questioning long-held traditions and assumptions of truth, but the goal is Truth (as in, Way, Truth, Life = Jesus) not truth (being right and being mean about it).

  Like the dream of Martin Luther, we can discover the truth on our own – and the people control the Orthodoxy!

  

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    Sean 10:47 am on January 14, 2009 Permalink

    very provocative man. If I hear you correctly your saying we should make sure information is free to all people, and the search for truth should be a collaborative effort of the masses not a previllaged few.

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    Mark 10:53 am on January 14, 2009 Permalink

    yo got it bro! we’re entering the age of the masses. i just read an article on how obama created the most powerful political machine in history through grassroots community organization and influence. not only can we find truth together, but we, as a whole church, can solve the world’s problems.

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    Sean 11:33 am on January 15, 2009 Permalink

    You’ve got my attention, I see how the internet provides for mass communication and distribution of information, but I lost you about how we can solve the worlds problems. How would you suggest we encourage the church to solve the worlds problems using the internet. I’m interested.