a gthing science project

Posted by sam at April 29th, 2005

    While searching around the net, I found this:
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) claims to be the true Christian church. The LDS church does not like being referred to as a cult, but they are a cult because their teachings differ significantly from historic Christian theology.“

and then it offers this footnote:

The term “cult” can have many different meanings. However, in this page “cult” refers to a religious group that has broken off from another religion - differing significantly in theology and/or practice.

    Ha - by their definition all of christianity is a cult except for catholicism, since they all broke away from it in the first place.  In fact, by their definition, mormons are the ONLY religion that is NOT a cult, since it’s the only religions besides catholicism that does not claim to be broken off from something else.

    Their definition of “cult” should have been: The term “cult” can have many meanings.  However, in this page “cult” is used as a scary word that we are counting on nobody knowing the meaning of.  When people think of “cults” they think of Indiana Jones and the temple of doom, and as long as they don’t look up the damn definition, we’d like to let them continue with these false notions, and then relate them to mormonism since we don’t really have any actual good arguments against it anyway.

    I would like to know how we differ from “historic chirstian theology” more than anybody else.  I guess it depends on your definition of historic.  Do you mean old testement historic, time of Christ historic, dark ages historic, or pre-mormonism historic?  Histroically, christianity has never been very consistant at all, so I wonder what standard mormons are being held to?

    Fact of the matter is, I don’t care what the world calls me.  I don’t care if the catholics or protestants see me as a christian.  I don’t care about the labels that unlearned men place upon me. 

    What I care about is that I know I worship Christ.  I feel sorry for anyone who adheres to a version of christianity that does anything else.  If you say I’m so different, than I’d like to know who it is you have been worshiping all along.

Posted by sam at April 28th, 2005

    Every year girls wear some new dumb thing they probably saw Britanny Spears wear in one of her MTV appearances.  Last year it was these half tight, half pleated skirts that looked like they accidently got put into a blender, this year it’s wearing clothes that don’t fit.  (The horrific half pants known as Capri’s have been popular for a few years now).

    So gilrs this year wear clothes that don’t fit to obtain that “layered” look as they call it.  I don’t understand why a person wants to look “layered” or what that even means.  Is it like, wear lots of layers so you can adjust for warm and cold temperatures?  Are these girls going camping or perhaps on a hike?

    I don’t know.

    I wanted to show you all an example of what I’m talking about, but I’m at work.  Searching for pictures women’s clothing here just makes my co workers give me funny looks and risks me accidentaly finding questionable material.

    So I have overcome this obstacle by creating an artist rendering of what I am talking about.  This is an image of a girl wearing a shirt thats too big underneath a shirt that is too small. 

    As you can see, this girl looks retarded.  One shirt is too short, and one shirt is too long.  If you weren’t brain dead you would buy one shirt that is just right, and spend the money you would have spent on a second shirt on some textbooks or brain pills to smarten yourself up.

    Since girls seem to be willing to wear any stupid thing that comes along, I have created the hottest fashion for next season.  My new fashion will be the wave of the future.  It’s called the “I’m a moron” look.

    The “I’m a moron” look consists of wearing a 3 eyed rubber duck hat, a shirt with a raincoat-wearing dog on it, surgically replacing you arms with deadly daggers, and wearing a low slung tire around your thighs held up by purple suspenders.

     I have created an artist rendering of my new look for women which is shown below.  But you could also just watch MTV, because Britanny Spears will be sporting the “I’m a moron” look in her next video, ready to be emulated by millions of girl everywhere.

Now THATS what I call HOT!

Posted by sam at April 28th, 2005

    Steve left for Europe today.  He is landing in Madrid and they are going to Paris, and blah blah blah.  He said it a thousand times - I should have paid more attention.  Anyway - He’s going to Europe, which is not America, and that’s all that matters for the purposes of this post.

    I have lived with Steve longer than any other person ever who wasn’t a family member.  Now, while he is gone, I will be moving away and we will never llive together again.  Or, at least not in the near future.  But probably never because he will probably Marry McCall.

    And so it goes.  New housing, new room mates, new friends, new job.  I hope it is all for the better.

Posted by sam at April 27th, 2005

    I’ve said it before, and I will say it again.  Never again will I go to the emergency room at the hospital.  If I go, I better be unconscious.

    At the end of 2003 I went to the emrgency room twice for heart problems.  Well you know what, they didn’t fix a damn thing, and debt collectors have been harassing me ever since.  Not that they should - I *HAVE* insurance, and I *PAID* my deductables. 

    I’ve ended up paying a few of the bills that insurance should have covered out of pocket, but there are like 50 bills that come from one visit - you can’t keep track.  You get a bill from the doctor, a bill from the nurse, a bill from the guy who looks at youe EKG, a bill from the bedpan.  It’s sick.  they need to consolidate all these bills into one massive bill.

    So last I dealt with this was in January.  I was trying to get a car loan and all these bills were showing up on my credit report as unpaid.  So I took care of many of them. 

    I contacted one collector and asked them why insurance hadn’t covered it.  Eventually I found out they were sending the bills to some office halfway around the country that has nothing to do with my insurance compnay.  So I gave them the correct address to send the bill to.

    Fast forward to now and I’m getting a call from this asshole who keeps leaving messages in my voicemail that he has an “important business matter” to discuss.  My ass you have a business matter.  If he was honest and said he was trying to collect I might call him back and see what he’s on about. 

    So he finally got ahold of me today and told me I owed him $650 for services rendered in 2003.  He said if I did not pay by noon on the 29th he would take legal action.

    So I called my insurance company.  They showed the bill as PAID on the 4th of April.  It had been denied (because it took the retards a year to file a proper claim), appealed, approved, and PAID PAID PAID. 

    So I called the asshole back at the collections agency.  I told him that it had been paid.  He told me I needed to pay him anyway or they would take legal action.  I told him to go ahead and waste his time and money getting a lawayer to serve me papers.  I will just show the judge the paperwork from my insurance company.  Maybe I can get a cease and desist order out of him.

    What kind of business wants you to pay them twice?  Who are these assholes who have so much power over our credit? 

    The moral of this story, kids, is that even though government healthcare is lower in quality, it is a better alternative than the retarded monkies who are running our health care industry.  I would rather go to some third world country and get healthcare, risking disease and death, than go someplace in the US  and have them harass me for years afterwards.  They save your life for what?  So they can make it a living hell.

Posted by sam at April 26th, 2005

    So I talked with Brandon from HP today and he officially offered me the job and sent me the paperwork for getting me hired.  The pay is a little less then I had hoped, but it’s still pretty freaking great. 
   
    I start my new position on the 9th.  So sometime between now and then I will be making the move to Salt Lake.  Hopefully a move for the best.  I went and handed in my two weeks at Nu Skin.  My boss said he was sad to see me go, but he understood.

    Indirectly related to my move to salt lake - our show sucked tonight.  We did not have enough time to do any type of good promotions or anything.  There were very few people there, and most of them came for other bands.  Worst of all, none of my friends showed up, except for Brian - to whom I am etenrally grateful.

(you were warned…)

The fact that none of my friends will come see my band play makes me think that moving to Salt lake is a great move after all.  Maybe if I’m away from the comfort and security of already having friends then I will get the juevos to meet some new people. 

    Don’t get me wrong - I love the friends I have, but they all have girlfriends that take up all their time.  The more I see people happy with eachother, the more pathetic and lonely I feel. 

    Truth be told - simply having a girl around won’t fix me.  I feel so far gone that only the kind of love that makes me want to be a better person will fix me.  The more I think about it, the more I’m unhappy because I realize I’m way too picky.  Way too picky.  The girl I need is one in a million - but evem after that she had to like me back.

    I hate being frustrated.  I hate having to think about girls all the damn time.  I hate my body telling me what to do.  I hate eating.  I hate having to sleep.  in a perfect world my mind is always in control…

Posted by sam at April 23rd, 2005

BTW, I stole that picture from ’s live journal. 

It’s not a great flyer, but you get the point

Posted by sam at April 23rd, 2005

    Wow today has been a most excellent day - so far (jinx). 

    I woke up to Ryan from Sherwin Williams (old job) calling me.  A package had arrived there for me.  You see, my phone broke and I called in yesterday to have them send out a warranty replacement.  I didn’t realize it would come so quick!  It took less than 24 hours to get my new phone.  So now I have a new, working, awesome phone.

    So I went and got my phone and took one that I had borrowed from my buddy Lincoln back to him.  While there I dropped my car off at a shop a few blocks form his house and went to band practice.  By the way, the powerless is playing a show monday at club omni in provo.  Be there.

    Anyway - they checked out my car and found the problem.  It was a bad coil after all - and they actually found the part for $60 (normally 100+) and said they would put it in for free.  Awesome.  It will be here tomorrow.

    So then I go to work and my boss sends out an email to everyone asking who likes third eye blind.  I wrote him back and told him I did.  I was the only one to respond, I guess, because he walked over a few minutes later and gave me tickets to the third eye blind concert tomorrow.  Steve is going to go with me.

    Pretty good day so far, eh?  Well it gets better.  I just checked my messages and HP offered me that job in Salt Lake.  Awesome.

Posted by sam at April 22nd, 2005

Posted by sam at April 21st, 2005

    I got called into a training meeting today and it was Sexual Harassment Training.  If there is something on the face of this planet more entertaining than sexual harassment training videos I don’t know what it is.  It reminded me of the fear/love video in Donnie Darko.

    I managed to recover the script from todays Sexual Harassment video:

Bob: Susan, you’re looking mighty fine in those hot pants!  I’d sure like it if you wore those every day!

<background fades to black, so all we can see is Susan’s face, which is now very serious looking>

Susan: sexual harassment…

<background lights back on so we can see Bob again>

Susan: Bob, what you are doing right now is called sexual harassment, and it’s illegal.

Bob: Damn, bitch!  But you supa fly!

Susan: I’m going to report you to the HR department!

Next scene:  Bob is being beaten by security guards and is thrown out of the building.  Coworkers standing by the water tower nod in approval at Susan’s courageous whistle blowing as she walks by. 

I wouldn’t say it was the best Terintino film I have seen, but it was one of his early ones. 

Also in training they told us that we couldn’t have religious discussions or put up pictures of religious icons (the pope, the prophet, etc.)  Which is silly.  There is such a thing as overly sensitive people, you know.

Posted by sam at April 20th, 2005

    Well I was sure that the job I applied and interviewed twice for two weeks ago had been given to someone else.  I guess not - since they called me up this morning and wanted another interview.  I went in and talked to them at about 1:30.

    The interview was really short - like 3 minutes maybe.  It was with a guy named Brant (or Brandt??).  He basically asked me why he should hire me, and if I was an animal what kind would I be.  Then we talked about Robert Trujillo from Metallica for a while.

    I told him he should hire me because I will do a good job for him.  Then I asked  him why wouldn’t he hire me.  I told him I was a giraffe, because I’m really tall - I can get things off of high shelves - I can reach clients that other can’t.  Okay, I know it’s cheesy but it was all I could come up with on the spot. 

    Anyway, he said I would hear from someone as late as Monday.  It looks like my chances are pretty good again.  I’m back in the game!