The Incredibles and Christianity.

It's dead week.  I should really be studying for finals but haha they'll tend to themselves sooner or later I guess.  :P  Anyway I was thinking the other day of The Incredibles.  Awesome movie. 

How does any of this have to do with Christianity?  Well think about it for a sec.  Who, as Christians, do you think we should be?  Should be be brave and daring and ready to doing anything for the side good at all times like Mr. Incredible?  Maybe we should be like Mrs. Incredible, flexible enough to work through tough situations.  These are great suggestions.... but we should truly be like...

 

Incrediboy. 

At his age, Buddy was a fan boy, he followed Mr. Incredible willingly into danger.  He tried so hard to be like Mr. Incredible it was really incredible haha.  He might have gotten in Mr. Incredible's way sometimes, but I meant well at the time.  Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to relate God to Mr. Incredible because well, Mr. Incredible is human he makes mistakes too.  But what we should not do, is become Syndome.  The moment we try to do so, we turn our backs against everything that we are supposed to love and aspire to be like.  So yeah go forth and be a fan boy. :]

Off to Hong Kong! :D

haha tommorow I am off to Hong Kong to visit family.  Gabriel and my mom left for HK last night [we're leaving sepreately cause I have some violin stuff tommorow : //  ]. Their still on the plane right now I believe. Jetlagging videos might be put up when we come back haha depending if we feel up to making them and editing them we have some footage from last year that hasn't been edited so.... :p.  So just need to get through one more recording and consert the it's HK and cousins and aunts : D

Justice League: A Fairystory

     So I just watched an old episode of Justice League again.  About three years ago I was crazy about this show ....come'on who doesn't like batman? or flash?  I think I liked Justice League cause it combined wit with humor and action.  BUT... nooowww that i'm in inklings and we get to read all these awesome books.  I go back and watch Justice League again and it's like WOAH!!! NO WAY!!! This stuff actually has contains objective truth!
     I was talking with Gabriel the other night about orthodoxy and Chesterton's view on Fairystories.  Chesterton seems to favor Fairystories and the like because they teach objective truths.  For example, Beauty and the Beast.  "a thing must be loved before it is loveable" (Orthodoxy 47).  In teaching this message, this story lets people better understand why it was possible for such inwardly ugly beings called humans to be loveable.  Humans are loveable because God first loved humans.
     What does this have to do with Justice League?  Well Justice League is a fairystory.   In the episode, "For the Man Who has Everything".  (If you want to watch it before I tell spoilers here's the links ;]  Part I       Part II Part III Part IV  it's about 22-30 mins?)  So anyway haha it's superman's birthday in this episode and he gets a visit from batman and Wonderwoman who come bearing gifts.  While walking to meet him, Batman remarks "I mean what do you get the man who has everything?".  Shockingly, Batman and Wonderwoman find Superman in a trance like state with a plant around his chest.  A villian steps in and monologes about it.  This "black mercy" reads the hearts desire and sends the victim into a trance that fulfills it's heartly desires.  False realities that satisfy all heartly desires.  hmmm.... I wonder what that sounds like. Wentworth.  Charles Williams.  When Wentworth got caught up in all his false realities that satisfied his heart's desires he went insane (Descent into Hell 222).  He went into a trance-like state.  Annnywhoo when superman got the black mercy off of him... he screams at the villian "Do you have ANY idea WHAT you did to me?!?"  The villian response "I fashioned a prison that you couldn't leave without sacrificing your heart's desire.  It must have been like tearing off your own arm....Happy Birthday Kar-el [ Superman] I give you oblivion."  In this passage, the villian, Mongol, implies that in reality or oblivion no single person gets what their heart desires.  For Superman to leave an incrediblaly convincing world where everything that he wanted was met, meant that he had to sacrifice his hearts desires.  The difference between Superman and Wentworth was that Superman had the will and the power, with slight assistance from batman, to fight againest and deny false realities.  Wentworth on the other hand could not find it in himself to take away those false realities.  The outcome?  Superman came face to face with reality which was hard but worth it.  For Wentworth? "Presently then the shape went out and he was drawn, steadily, everlastingly, inward and down through the bottomless circles of the void" (Descent 222).  What's the moral of the story?  Don't follow your heart or it's desires?  Go ask Wentworth. ;]   
      So...was superman truely "the man who has everything"?  Thankfully, No.  Cause if he did, Metropolis wouldn't have a selfless hero to protect them.  And Superman would probably end up somewhat like Wentworth, insane.  It's not possible to in this world to truly have everything your heart desires.  Because the heart desires earthly and worldly things.  The heart yearns to put earth before heaven.  Lewis says, "I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell...If we insist on keeping Hell we shall not see Heaven" (The Great Divorce VIII) Why should people watch Justice League?
1. It's a fairystory...one that entertains the audience with stories that contain objective and moral truth.
2. It's full of wit and humor combined with action.
3. It relates to Lord Of the Rings and Till We Have Faces. (A Better World,  Season 2 episode 6 and 7)
4. It relates to sacrifice of Christ.  (Starcrossed Season 2 episode 26)
5. It relates to a bunch of other stuff too. :]

*excuse my spelling mistakes*

Hello Good People!

Haha long time since I last posted.  I apoligize.  :[  sooo to update people on what I've been doing since my birthday [goodness me... that was a long time ago!] 

I.  Inklings!
Inklings is great fun :].  Fun people.  Fun tutor :]. and Fun books.  I never imagined that I would come to enjoy inklings THIS much! :P  Like I said before, I got into the smaller class that started out with.... eight people was it? O_o  hmmm haha well anyway now we have six people.  :\  Still joyous fun though :]] I wonder though... Why does Inklings make everyone read all the hard stuff at the beginning and all the fun and happy stuff at the end?  I mean, come on Descent Into Hell for third book?!?! It's murderous I tell you! :P  But then comes the good stuff... like Till We Have Faces or A Severe Mercy! [Those two are some of my all time favorite books].  Their AMAZING!!!  and the discussions just make it MORE amazing! :] 

II. Music!
So I just finished a violin audition... soo glad it's done!  I played the Bach partita No. 3- prelude here's a link...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIemzStWOog   [I didn't play it near as well as Nathan Milstein did]
Also played this little diddy..sure you all would reconise it ;]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbwVJVNvMh4

Annndd I played the butterfly Lovers concerto...sadly...I played it badly :[  ohh well there's a next time to make it better :]  I only played the first 5 [?] mins...  haha here's a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtgmPADvnvc

:]  annnd that's about it i believe...have fun peoples.... jolly good fun!

BTW... I like comments...just sayin'  ._.

Fifteen...

"'Cause when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you

You're gonna believe them
And when you're fifteen feeling like there's nothing to figure out
Well, count to ten, take it in
This is life before you know who you're gonna be......
Fifteen ...."
haha gotta love Taylor Swift! =]

soo haha fifteenth b-day...is it just me or does the excitment of birthdays die down after a while?  Like i remember when i was like 5... I was SOOOOO excited for my birthday..now it's just ohh look it's my birthday.  Sigh...it's werid growing up i guess...and i still havn't learned how to spell. >_<

"If fifteen...for a momment...caught in between 10 and 20....and just dreamin'...."

sooo annyways my birthday went a little something like this.  Woke up..checked facebook got 19 ppl to wish me happy birthday! =] then played violin...went to school.. got more birthday wishes! =] went to inklings..they put a pen cap in one of my cookies...which was extremely flaky then they called it a candle! ^^ have to say most CREATIVE cake ever! =]  I was happy i got a card from alex! it was so cute it had like Sitch on the front then a message inside...=] soo happy.  haa then rode home then checked fb again to find 45 MORE birthday wishes then went out to eat at souplantation with my family... got a card from Gabriel ^_^...then ate a real cake =]..and yes i did put ALL 15 candles on the cake....in smily face form.. :)  Came home checked fb again to find MORE birthday wishes...then went through 70 + fb pages saying thanks!  ahh and every birthday comes to an end...

"15 there's still time for you

Time to buy and time to lose yourself
Within a morning star
15 I'm all right with you
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live" - five for fighting 100 years

still soo inexperienced....=] ...one of my friends say your life doesn't change much from the age of 12-25 =/ haha doesn't feel any different...but i guess thats a good thing...well goodnight world!  May God bless this next year! =]

I like cookies...

I like them a lot....so I MADE SOME!!! ^^

sooo.... these are probably the first decent tasting batch of cookies I ever made.  I made with some cereal and flour and what-not.  =]  I took some pics while I was making them.....here they are:

Ingredients

Sifting some flour..power..and soda ^^

Mixing things together : )

Mixing in the cereal

TA-DA!

...and yes...they were good. ^__^

The Clock...that tick-tocked.

So...bout' two nights ago..my mom comes home with this funny antique looking clock.. Now my mom has had problems with alarm clocks in the past.  There was the original one, but my innocent looking cousin decided to throw it everywhere...thus rendering it useless.  So thus began my mothers search for the perfect alarm clock.  She searched at Ikea only to find an alien device that was far to complicated. 
She found this clock,
but my dad saw that it tick-tocked. 
But that didn't bother me, 
for they didn't see
that it's small hammer and giant bells
was all the reason for the sells

Ok so the whole point of this post is....like WOW this clock is AWESOME!!!...like it's small it looks quiet.  But like seriously! It. Wakes. you. up.  no joke....like cell phone alarms well they sorta work but they don't shock your mind into awakeness... now this clock....when it rings you literally shout, "Holy Moly" when you wake up cause it's so loud.  It's so loud that after hearing it you feel like you've been awake for at least 2 hours.  yeah.. it's. awesome.  Only thing is that you have to wind it everynight... and it ticks =/ but it's still pretty AWESOME!!!