A full Friday
I saw Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" on Thursday night with Rachel Downey and her mom. As a movie, I give it about an 8/10. I thought everything was quite well done, and the intent of the movie was carried out in a very powerful and captivating way. The only thing that I found to be lacking (the only real reason I don't give it a 10/10) was character development. I understand that Gibson's intent for the movie was to portray the suffering of the last hours of Jesus' life. However, the suffering portrayed would be much more emotionally meaningful to the viewers (especially those unfarmiliar with the story), if there was more time spent showing Jesus before the final events. It would give a bit more context to the suffering, and thus make it more meaningful to the average viewer. If such character development had been in the movie, I beleive it would have appeared less as a "shock effect" approach than it did; not to detract in any way from how amazingly shocking Jesus' suffering was. It would have appealed on a more personal level, which is what Jesus is all about: being personal. Nonetheless, the movie was excellent.
As a person who believes Jesus' teachings and loves Jesus, I was moved by the movie (NO PUN INTENDED!!!). It's about time someone made a movie that features REAL love, and not that crappy, sappy drama you see in other movies (like Moulin Rouge). Jesus knew how to love, unconditionally. That's what amazed me most. And his actions were not based on some pathetic, desperate need for another person. He layed down his life so that we could live, and not only that, but he prayed to forgive those who were killing him as they did it (namely, everyone who has ever lived). If that's not hardcore, pure, unconditional love, then I don't know what is. There's one thing in that movie that convicted me more than anything else, and that's justice. Jesus took a stand every time he heard injustice. I LOVE the scene when he saves Mary Magdeline from getting stoned. He steps right in front of everyone, putting himself in harm's way, because that was the right thing to do. He could have been stoned along with her, but he did it anyways, because she was being unrightfully condemned and was unable to defend herself. I love that. That's awesome. I felt convicted, because I realized that I don't speak up nearly as often as I should, mainly to avoid having to deal with people's petty problems.
So Friday has been a pretty interesting day given last night's heartfelt conviction about how I deal with social situations. I rode my bike up to work as usual, except the weather was actually pleasant for once. Riding in the winter is not physically more difficult. It's just a pain in the butt to manage all of the clothing and itemry thereof. So it was nice to have a nice day. Work was pretty hectic in the morning though, and when Jeff comes in at 10:00, if the store isn't in tip top shape he gets pissed off. He always gets pissed off, because it's his way of controlling people, but the store was pretty trashed due to a very busy morning (which is entirely understandable, that simply happens sometimes). Jeff had no just reason to get pissed off at the morning workers. So as soon as he started telling people off, I decided to say "Jeff, would you just chill out. There's no good reason to get so angry. You're just going to make everything more unpleasant than it needs to be, seriously." See, this is actually out of character for me. Usually I would make some sort of joke about how Jeff always gets mad, because that's my way of appearing aloof to the situation, as if I'm too good of a worker to be phased by that kind of distraction. But the truth is, Jeff's attitude bothers a lot of people, myself included, and unrightfully so. I'm glad I spoke up, it felt good, and it actually shut Jeff up pretty quick, because he knew that what I said to him was the truth. Even though he still complained, he didn't broadcast it anymore :-p.
The rest of the work day was pretty normal. I had my 5th free Chipotle burrito for lunch. It was awesome as usual.
I lost my cell fone on the bike ride home. It was very windy, and after I answered a call from my friend Neva, I must have forgotten to zip my pocket up when I put my fone back in. I don't know where my fone is, and I even went back after taking a nap. I searched for it, up and down the 3 mile path that it could have potentially been in. It was nowhere to be found. It is most likely that someone has it and is using it for his or her own amusement.
After that little episode Kevon came over to pick me up. We went with Neva and Margaret to get some food at Chipotle, where I used my 6th free burrito coupon. That was my last one. I was still hungry, so i bought another burrito and ate it. That made me full... very very full. Then we went to the Arena Grand, because Kevon and Margaret wanted to see the passion. Neva and I were fine with seeing it again. I must admit, seeing it two nights in a row makes it very difficult to appreciate. That's the kind of movie you need to watch infrequently, because it's so intense. We also had iced cream!
To top the late night off, I got home at about 1:30 and started talking with Cellamage (real name Jon) about strategies for Call of Duty. We talked for about 2 hours, and we made a lot of progress. We finally have a full understand of how each other mentally approach every fascet of the game, and have come to an agreement on how we should prepare the team for the CPL Tournament. That's a really huge step, one that most clans never actually complete. We're planning to get a server, and making sure everyone is all set up with the game by the beginning of next week. This is gonna rock, and we are all individually making a lot of progress in our skills. So there's a lot of exciting stuff going on with our clan, =BBoL= (Big Bunch of Llamas). If you're curious about the tournament, then check out www.thecpl.com
Yeah, I should really get a couple of hours of sleep in before I work in the morning. So I'ma go do that. Peace y'all.
As a person who believes Jesus' teachings and loves Jesus, I was moved by the movie (NO PUN INTENDED!!!). It's about time someone made a movie that features REAL love, and not that crappy, sappy drama you see in other movies (like Moulin Rouge). Jesus knew how to love, unconditionally. That's what amazed me most. And his actions were not based on some pathetic, desperate need for another person. He layed down his life so that we could live, and not only that, but he prayed to forgive those who were killing him as they did it (namely, everyone who has ever lived). If that's not hardcore, pure, unconditional love, then I don't know what is. There's one thing in that movie that convicted me more than anything else, and that's justice. Jesus took a stand every time he heard injustice. I LOVE the scene when he saves Mary Magdeline from getting stoned. He steps right in front of everyone, putting himself in harm's way, because that was the right thing to do. He could have been stoned along with her, but he did it anyways, because she was being unrightfully condemned and was unable to defend herself. I love that. That's awesome. I felt convicted, because I realized that I don't speak up nearly as often as I should, mainly to avoid having to deal with people's petty problems.
So Friday has been a pretty interesting day given last night's heartfelt conviction about how I deal with social situations. I rode my bike up to work as usual, except the weather was actually pleasant for once. Riding in the winter is not physically more difficult. It's just a pain in the butt to manage all of the clothing and itemry thereof. So it was nice to have a nice day. Work was pretty hectic in the morning though, and when Jeff comes in at 10:00, if the store isn't in tip top shape he gets pissed off. He always gets pissed off, because it's his way of controlling people, but the store was pretty trashed due to a very busy morning (which is entirely understandable, that simply happens sometimes). Jeff had no just reason to get pissed off at the morning workers. So as soon as he started telling people off, I decided to say "Jeff, would you just chill out. There's no good reason to get so angry. You're just going to make everything more unpleasant than it needs to be, seriously." See, this is actually out of character for me. Usually I would make some sort of joke about how Jeff always gets mad, because that's my way of appearing aloof to the situation, as if I'm too good of a worker to be phased by that kind of distraction. But the truth is, Jeff's attitude bothers a lot of people, myself included, and unrightfully so. I'm glad I spoke up, it felt good, and it actually shut Jeff up pretty quick, because he knew that what I said to him was the truth. Even though he still complained, he didn't broadcast it anymore :-p.
The rest of the work day was pretty normal. I had my 5th free Chipotle burrito for lunch. It was awesome as usual.
I lost my cell fone on the bike ride home. It was very windy, and after I answered a call from my friend Neva, I must have forgotten to zip my pocket up when I put my fone back in. I don't know where my fone is, and I even went back after taking a nap. I searched for it, up and down the 3 mile path that it could have potentially been in. It was nowhere to be found. It is most likely that someone has it and is using it for his or her own amusement.
After that little episode Kevon came over to pick me up. We went with Neva and Margaret to get some food at Chipotle, where I used my 6th free burrito coupon. That was my last one. I was still hungry, so i bought another burrito and ate it. That made me full... very very full. Then we went to the Arena Grand, because Kevon and Margaret wanted to see the passion. Neva and I were fine with seeing it again. I must admit, seeing it two nights in a row makes it very difficult to appreciate. That's the kind of movie you need to watch infrequently, because it's so intense. We also had iced cream!
To top the late night off, I got home at about 1:30 and started talking with Cellamage (real name Jon) about strategies for Call of Duty. We talked for about 2 hours, and we made a lot of progress. We finally have a full understand of how each other mentally approach every fascet of the game, and have come to an agreement on how we should prepare the team for the CPL Tournament. That's a really huge step, one that most clans never actually complete. We're planning to get a server, and making sure everyone is all set up with the game by the beginning of next week. This is gonna rock, and we are all individually making a lot of progress in our skills. So there's a lot of exciting stuff going on with our clan, =BBoL= (Big Bunch of Llamas). If you're curious about the tournament, then check out www.thecpl.com
Yeah, I should really get a couple of hours of sleep in before I work in the morning. So I'ma go do that. Peace y'all.