Summer is over

Wrote this last summer and came across so seems like a good time to put this out there:

summer is over,
and im depressed cause of that
 and im still waiting for the girl
that belongs in my life
 to be my special someone
and i dont know when that will happen
, maybe she is comming back from S.C. soon
 or maybe she is a red wearing hardworker,
 or maybe even i havent met her yet
 and that makes me not depressed but not complete.

Why do People think the South will Still rise again?

Why do people in the south believe that the south will rise again, i have no idea but that makes them crazy sons of bitches. I remember one time i was at work and I was waiting on a customer at work i turned around and saw the greatest thing in the world.  a bald headed guy with the confederate flag tattoed on his head, a confederate flag shirt  , and he was wearing confedrerate flag shorts. I was thinking to myself that im not black and i wanna kill him, but does that me me an asshole or a guy who cares fopr what is correct. WHy in the world would a guy wear/do something like that to himself and the only reason would be that he is the cream of the crop when it comes to rednecks, he still believes that the south will rise again or he is in the KKK; either way this guy would have had to be the biggest asshole in the world and i wanted to hurt him for doing that to himself.

What are the Crusades?

The Crusades were a number a religiously authorized military campaigns

foregone by the European Medieval Christian Church in order to restore

the Christian control of the Jerusalem (Holy Land). The Holy Land is a very

significant part of the Catholic/Christian faith because, Jesus’ birth, ministry,

crucifixion, and resurrection had occurred. The Church felt that they needed to

 take that back after the Muslims had taken it over because of the Expansion of

the Muslim Seljuk Turks in that area and that did not sit well with the Church.

 There were many good reasons besides the obvious ones that made the crusades

a success, for example, The Crusades had an influence in the European Middle

Ages. The Crusades showed that you can rely on the Church to protect you and

your religious beliefs, because at the beginning of the Crusades, and helped to

keep the Islamic forces out of certain parts of medieval Europe. The Crusades

also helped to open up the Medieval European Church adopt science, medicine,

and architecture due to the prolonged exposure and conflict with Muslim/Islamic

people.

Excommunication and New Ideals

I want to say that I thought that someone could be excommunicated for saying certain things

that go against the church. I read that Martin Luther was excommunicated for going against the church,

partly because he was coming up with different ideals then what was “forced” upon him since he was a

catholic. The Pope told Luther to renounce what he wrote and posted against the church, and it took

several months later when the pope decided to actually excommunicate him from the church because

he didn’t listen to the pope. So, in some instances you can be excommunicated for saying things that

become “unpopular” according to church ideals. On small scale ways of thinking people are allowed to

say what they want but if what they say causes a large scale disruption then they should be deserving of

a large scale punishment. In certain cases, I feel that what I was  taught in religion is being forced upon

myself instead of being what I choose to believe. Sometimes I think that no matter what religion you

 belong to I feel that you are to believe in certain things but it also seems like I can’t incorporate new

ideas into my religion even if I think that some ideas aren’t correct in my eyes but I want be strong in my

religion but I want to try and believe in new ideals.

Gnostic Christianity

Gnostic Christianity is a movement that was not just a religious one but it was

also a philosophical movement. It had roots in pre-Christian times; Gnostics

combined elements taken from Asian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek and Syrian

pagan religions, from astrology, and from Judaism and Christianity. Some of the

Gnostic Christian beliefs were that the Jehovah of the Hebrew Scripture was an

inferior Creator-God. He was viewed as fundamentally evil, jealous, rigid,

lacking in compassion and prone to committing genocide. In addition, the

Gnostics felt little to no discrimination towards women and they seemed to be

 more understanding of outside religions.

The beliefs of Gnosticism seem like a radical approach to Christianity but that is

 what would have attracted people to it, and people were starting to get annoyed

or maybe tired of what was going on with Christianity. The Corruption of the

Church at this time created a lot of animosity between people and the Church so

people started to stray away from the normal standard of Christianity to

something different. The allure of Gnostic Christianity was that God was not

necessarily all knowing or all-powerful and the humans and some control over

what God had set out for people. Christianity in 1500 C.E. would be a more of worshiping an extraordinary human being type of god instead of a more all knowing type of god. Christians would be more self-reliant on religious aspects and there was a greater fear of God not just respect, but a pure fear of God.  In Gnosticism, God was portrayed as someone who could come down upon you and hurt you in any severe many if he felt that

you were doing some thing wrong or you had done something wrong. Since the

people would know of God’s extreme capabilities they would always be on their

toes and watching what they were doing, because they did not want God to kill

them or ruin their lives. People would also have God as the upmost top of

 everything in their lives or God would get jealous and maybe he would do

something to you because they would have made him jealous.

Christianity at this time would be stricter and more reliant on the physical

 structure of  things and how they have a direct impact on your relationship with

God. I am just glad that this form of Christianity did not get into full swing, and

maybe because of all the extremes in this type of Christianity is why they did not

slip through the Christian cracks.

           

Film Adaptations of Books

             Most film adaptations are good ideas because, when people go to the theaters to see the film they sometimes come out of the movie like wow I kind of want to read the book. Also, a lot of the time when books are turned into movies the books themselves gain more popularity because they books are being spread around to everyone even if it’s a movie. There seems to be a large positive marketing for books being turned into movies because the people that make the books/movies make a lot of money and the people watching the movies enjoy them so much that we have 8 Harry Potter Movies and 5 Twilight movies.     I really enjoy the fact that so many books are being turned into movies, some of my favorite books have been turned into books and I could not have been any happier. Probably my favorite books that have been Turned into movies are: Harry Potter, Holes, Jurassic Park, Jaws, GoodFellas (yes that was a book-it was called-Wise guy), and the Godfather. I hope that movies like this keep coming along, because as long as movies like these are being made people will go see them and directors will keep making money , and movies like these will keep gaining popularity.

Raymond Carver(Beginners,and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love)

Here’s some  significant difference between the texts:

I tried to wake Cliff. He was passed out. (W)

I tried to wake cliff, but he was passed out. (B)

This example illustrates how small changes in the text affect the ways in which the rhythm of reading works. In the minimalist example from WWTA, the causative ‘but’ is removed and the sentence is divided. It creates a stopping effect, slows the reading down, and in the context of this passage (and story) underscores the feeling of sudden wakefulness or nervous attention. There’s no smooth transition to support from her partner; Cliff (his name itself suggestive of large immovability) remains defiantly unaware of her ordeal. How the story is read, the pace and flow of the text, helps with the minimalist effect