October 2011
2 posts
Starbucks.
So, a lot of you may know, i work at Starbucks. I have being working there for a year now. And I love it, i have definitely had my issues with it, but all in all, it is a great job. Something that people don’t understand about Starbucks is how Great of a company it really is, all the customers see is the raising prices, and the mean barista on the other side of the register. What you...
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August 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
3 posts
Day 1 of the Daniel Fast.
April 2011
2 posts
Barista BINGO →
usbc2011:
Competitors say and do cute things in competitions. To help you get through all 38+25+6=69 rounds, here’s a Houston Edition USBC Bingo card. (Inspired by ones we’ve seen in the past, with some current barista buzz-words.)
How to play:
Version 1 - Standard Game Play
Each time a competitor…
“Jerusalem, if i forget you…”
March 2011
4 posts
"The Man Who Fell out of Bed" Oliver Sacks
When I was a medical student many years ago, one of the nurses called me in considerable perplexity, and gave me this singular story on the phone: that they had a new patient - a young man - just admitted that morning. He had seemed very nice, very normal, all day - indeed, until a few minutes before, when he awoke from a snooze. He then seemed excited and strange - not himself in the least. He...
February 2011
13 posts
“Homework! Oh, Homework!
I hate you! You stink!
I wish I could wash you away in...”
you know you're getting older when all the "young"...
thats weird.
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn’t answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
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That student was Albert Einstein.
Stick that in your theological pipe and smoke it.
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
10 posts
Top 10 Biggest brain damaging habits, according to...
1. no breakfast. 2. over eating. 3 smoking 4. high sugar consumption 5. air pollution 6. sleep deprivation 7. head covered while sleeping 8. Working your brain during illness 9. lack in stimulating thoughts 10. talking rarely
Most girls are pretty. Seriously. →
early-onset-of-night:
When people think of “pretty” they’re thinking of “celebrity”. Not the same thing. Celebrity girls all look pretty much the same: sort of thin and angular. Human girls are different. They’re curvy or chunky and have far more personality to their looks. They lack the generic-ness of celebrity. They…
Thank you. :)
“Now I Become Myself
Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and...”
– May Sarton
(I know I’ve posted this before, a long time ago, but this poem is worth posting more than just once)
God Blow's me away sometimes...
and its hard to even fathom why.
He shows who I was and who I am, leaving me ok with the end result, but excited for what is ahead of me.
He makes absolutely no sense most of the time, until a later time when you start to see the puzzle of your life come together in one big cohesive piece, and even then its only a small portion of the puzzle, because all we are, are one piece of the puzzle in...
October 2010
19 posts
“Don’t give up. Moses was a basket case too”
– unknown
