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Myspace Dies Tonight
2007-03-13 20:24:45
I haven’t used myspace since Murdoch purchased it, not just because FOX owns it now and Murdoch is evil, but also because it is ugly and addy. Recently I have just been using Facebook because it is neater. But now there is a third option. Thanks to Josh I am trying out Virb it is pretty clean, streamlined, and links to a Flickr account. Check out my new virb site and give me your thoughts. [Ht. Josh]
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A New Blogger is Born
2007-03-15 18:36:05
A good friend of mine, John Page, has started blogging and I am excited to read what comes out of it. John and I worked at a church together for a few years in Georgia and his pastoral leadership, open mindedness, and fresh look at the ministry inspired me in a rather uninspiring time. At the church we worked at he created a service called ‘Community’ which birthed a hope in me that church could once again become a family full of love and discussion, where it is okay to belong before you are required to believe. Give him a read and welcome him to the blog world.
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As a man writes in his blog, So is He; or The Grand Blog-o-sphere Experiment
2007-03-16 17:58:49
It was about 3 years ago that I started blogging. At first it was an experiment in world notification of my goings on as a wanna-be musician. My first post’s followed the journey of making an album. Then my blog flowed into a journal of daily activities, pictures of friends and family, and links to web sites of interest. (These are the first two steps for most bloggers, first to announce something, then when that something is running low on announcements to give biographical info.) It wasn’t long before I had a small community in the blog-o-sphere. People would comment, some I knew some I didn’t, and we would discuss life. I would read their blogs and it was a nice cyber-community (prefect for an introvert). Soon I felt the blog would be a perfect tool to work through my thoughts. To talk about what I was learning and discovering. To mull over ideas with the help of others in my cyber-community. The problem with the blog medium is it is a bad platform to have a disc
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The Lost Tomb of Jesus: A Review
2007-03-19 19:51:26
I took Friday evening to watch the shock-umentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus with a bottle of cough syrup, it was a long strange trip, but interesting. I ordered the book from Amazon and I believe the book goes more in depth about some of the discoveries in the tomb, but I will do a formal book review when I finish it, for now here are my thoughts on the movie. I initially thought the movie would be some sort of liberal crazy talk that was cramming bogus facts down our throats telling us that Jesus was never came back to life. It wasn’t. The directors contention was that he had found the tomb of Jesus and his family. The idea that Jesus never physically came back isn’t new. Since his death people have been saying that. There are even small groups of Christians that believe he only came back spiritually. That’s partly what the gnostics taught, and some more ‘liberal’ branches of today even speak to that. The documentary was informative. For example, I had no i


Foot Nipple
2007-03-21 16:26:29
Leslie came home yesterday telling me that she heard about a lady that had a nipple grow on her foot. Then I said “Yeah right. . a nipple on a foot how could it breathe”. She told me it was true and we ‘took it to the net’ as my co-workers say. This is what we found. It is medically called a Psuedomamma. Apparently this thing lactates too. Rumor has it Doug Pagitt has a third nipple.


New News
2007-03-20 22:44:02
I don’t watch any news pertaining to Anna Nicole. I think it is worthless, I think our media should spend it’s time holding our governing officials accountable for lies and inconsistencies and revealing injustice in the world. That having been said I think it’s fitting that Anna Nicole’s judge is a pot-head.


Worship/Music/Mentor/Reading
2007-03-22 18:05:14
Last Sunday Leslie and I drove up to Huntsville to have a lunch with her family and I drove to Decatur to play music for Ken and his Sunday evening gathering. Ken is the pastor at 6th Ave. Church of God up in Decatur, AL. He was also a mentor for about 5 years of my life. He worked as an Associate Pastor and Youth Minister at Riverchase Community Church where I got to be on the committee that hired him to come on to our staff. He was my High School Youth Minister and created an internship at the church to train me in ministry. During that time he gave me free reign to create a worship service which led me to take guitar lessons and learn songs to lead the service. He also encouraged continual reading, supplying myself and other interns with reading material each month telling us that ‘Leaders are readers’. Moreover he let the interns screw up. I made my fair share of mistakes and each time he used them as a teaching lesson. The majority of the time he took the blame for my
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My wife has seen the gates of Oblivion
2007-03-23 16:32:09
I play my Xbox 360 when my wife is at work or if she is doing something around the apartment. My hope is that it won’t take away time that we could spend together. I usually get about 25 minutes while she takes her shower at night then by the time she is ready to get in bed I finish up. Last night when she got out of the shower she sat down next to me and asked me to show her Oblivion (my favorite game). I gave her a walkthrough and explained the aspects of the game. I showed her the complex battle system and environments. She was genuinely interested and perhaps even impressed by it. Those 15 minutes combined with the 35 minutes of reading together in bed, combined with the 10 minutes of her lavishing me with compliments = one in the top one hundred hours of my life. It’s a wonderful life.


Sunday Morning Bible Stories
2007-03-25 15:47:12
I thought about a new feature for nicholasfiedler.com/blog. On Sunday ’s I will recount a Bible Story of yester-year. So here is the first of the series. I will paraphrase them in ways I think they may have been told when they were first crafted and passed through the generations of Hebrews by word of mouth. There once was a great man by the name of Moses. He was working to free his people from the hands of the Pharaoh. You see Moses was a Hebrew, but all the male Hebrew kids were being killed when he was young, so his mother made him a raft and set him down the river to land at the palace of the Pharaoh to be taken in by a nice woman and grow up in royalty. But at one point in his life he realized he was a Hebrew but being royalty meant mistreating Hebrews. . this was hard for him so he decided to speak up one time, which resulted in him killing someone important. He ran away and became a shephard and married Zipp. Zipp and him had some kids and one day a burning bush started ta
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Traveling Makes me Smile
2007-03-24 14:21:05
Leslie and I have our flight booked to go to Gevena next month. We are going to visit our friends The Case’s and experience the Shema Community they have created. What a great way to celebrate one year of marriage!
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Qara: Every start has a finish.
2007-03-26 20:20:17
Last night Leslie and I took a quick trip to Buford, GA to attend the last service of Qara. Qara was a youth led worship service at Sugar Hill UMC that I had the honor of being part of for 3 years while I was working at Sugar Hill UMC, or SHUMC. When I went to SHUMC the service already existed and I worked with a band already in place. For 3 years I got to work with a group of talented musicians that would become my closest friends in Georgia. They grew in maturity and talent and we got to watch them last night do what they do best, lead a group of people in music and worship. Most of the people I got to see lead the service last night are listed on the blog roll: Dresdow, Brian White, Blair. Some aren’t: Matt Cabe, Brianna, Beth, Andy, Todd, and Nick. I was impressed as they did an awesome job in the service and it was nice to see how they have formed a new strong sound. I am excited to see as Qara’s time came and went what will happen in the next phase of SHUMC.


24. . . Come on!
2007-03-27 17:37:09
I admit I am on the 24 bandwagon. I like bandwagons. I have been a bandwagon before and I am often a bandwagoneer. I ride on lots of anti-bandwagon bandwagons. I have been on 24’s for the past 5 seasons. This season though. . . I am starting to fall off the wagon (or am I back on the wagon). 24 in concept is still awesome. The fast-paced, real time, anti-linear style is cool. Chloe rocks. Jack is still kicking arse and taking names. But the plotlines are getting formulaic. We know there will be a mole in CTU and in the presidents cabinet. There will be romantic involvement between CTU members and White House staff. The presidents authority and decision making will be challanged. A nuclear suitcase bomb will be released. Last night though. . . I mentally handicapped hacker that Jack uses as bait. Milo getting gay and kissing Nadia. . . Jack almost kissing his sister-in-law. . . come on it is becoming a soap opera.


TV Worth/Not Worth Watching
2007-03-29 15:17:01
The quick run down: 24 - Not worth watching, it is becoming boring over the top and slightly retarded but with great hacking skills (or at least some of the characters). South Park - The episode emulating 24 was hilarious. Lost - Still running strong. This weeks murder mystery was just what we needed to get rid of Nikki and Paulo (the Brazilian Tom Cruise). I was disappointed that the writers are so racist as to make Paulo a cliff diver just because he was Brazilian. Rome - Clint recommended this series and I was watching The Sopranos at the time so it took a while to make it to the top of the list but I am half way through the first season and it is excellent. As always HBO does great on production, acting, and epic narrative. They also pack in the sex as expected. The show highlights what life may very well have been like in ancient Rome which is interesting.
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My Problem with Apologetics
2007-03-28 17:50:59
I was listening to a recent podcast on The Infidel Guy, where Reggie (the host) was interviewing an ex-missionary who has since converted to Atheism. It was weird to listen to an ex-christian speak of converting to atheism. It’s just odd. We never hear stories about people being converted out of ‘our faith’, we only hear the sensational stories of how people convert to become like us. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a pro-atheistic agenda. I don’t like the idea of having a purely rational belief system. I desire mystery. I believe that mystery is out there. I believe G-d is out there. I do however believe in critical thinking and using rational thought and sciences to help us learn more about G-d, religion, and the bible. At any rate, during this podcast the ex-missionary was talking about how he had trained to become a trainer of other missionaried. At one point in his work he taught apologetics. The type of apologetics that he taught to young mis
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Stimulation: Part II
2007-03-30 15:53:09
I started a very loose blog series here about my idea to discontinue aspirations to be a “Worship Leader” and how that converted to a desire to be a ’stimulator’. Jason Curlee, whom I have never met but he is cool because he linked to my blog, says it may be a little sexual. I for one have never been turned off by things that may sound a little too edgy. . . but that may be a shortcomming, and maybe I would have better job retention in the religious sector if I sedated my desire for the edgy. . . Let me play with that idea for a second though. I have heard it said that during the conversation that Jesus had with the woman at the well, there were notable sexual overtones. They may have occured in the retelling of the story or they may have been in the actual words exchanged. But this idea of a talk about water and thirst could play into some language at the time that was considered sexual. Even Jesus asking “Where is your husband.” To someone hearin


Indiana Jones: More Quizes
2007-03-31 15:18:57
You scored as Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones is an archaeologist/adventurer with an unquenchable love for danger and excitement. He travels the globe in search of historical relics. He loves travel, excitement, and a good archaeological discovery. He hates Nazis and snakes, perhaps to the same degree. He always brings along his trusty whip and fedora. He’s tough, cool, and dedicated. He relies on both brains and brawn to get him out of trouble and into it. Indiana Jones 88% Lara Croft 83% Captain Jack Sparrow 79% El Zorro 75% William Wallace 71% Neo, the "One" 67% Maximus 63% James Bond, Agent 007 54% Batman, the Dark Knight 50% The Terminator 42% The Amazing Spider-Man 42% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0created with QuizFarm.com


Sunday Morning Bible Stories: Story 2
2007-04-01 15:00:41
So our cool cat Moses has this group of Hebrews crossing the desert until he gets to a large mountain. He tells his people he is going to leave them, climb the mountain, commune with G-d, and bring back news. In these days the people believed that just above the earth was a place called heaven. If one were to get close enough to heaven they would actually be in the area that G-d lived. Mountains, by there own closeness to G-d, became a place associated with the Divine and Divine Communion. So Moses hikes up and communes with G-d. The only problem is he is out for a long time. The Hebrews didn’t know what to do. . I mean it had been a long time. There were storms on the mountain and who knows even if this Moses character was alive. So one of them spoke up and said. . “Look I don’t know what G-d looks like, but I have an idea. What if we throw all of our gold into the fire and whatever form it takes when it comes out, we will designate that the visage of G-d and worshi
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24, Fumbles and Recoveries
2007-04-03 15:12:37
So I figured out what is wrong with 24 this season. The writing. It is possibly the worst written season yet. Example. . Doyle: [Makes obscure Koran reference] Nadia: You’ve read the Koran. (Looking confused and astonished) Doyle (who up until now has been an ass to everyone and quick tempered): Yes. . . and the bible, the upanishads. . . whatever I can get my hands on. This is the worse exchange of phrases I have ever heard in 24. On the flip side Gredenko getting his arm chopped off and Palmer turning so quickly were good parts to the episode that reminded me of the good old days.
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Winter 1947-48
2007-04-04 14:43:07
I remember the days we would carry On The Road in our back pockets. It was our manifesto. We wanted to be Jack. We wanted to be writers, we wanted to load into my station wagon and ride across the country. Then we saw movies like Naked Lunch and we realized that heading for the frisco bay wasn’t the dream we thought when we placed the flowers in our hair. Still I’d like to be Jack. Without all the man sex of course. This thought and picture comes from a blog I just discovered called Strange Maps check it out.


Thoughts on Crucifixion
2007-04-06 19:13:44
As today is designated a rememberance of the day Jesus was crucified I thought I would offer up some thoughts on the subject. There is an old Hebrew saying that says “Cursed is the man who is hung on a tree”, I’m not really sure what it means, but Paul later denied the saying, because of his understanding what what happened to Jesus. What happened with Jesus was so big that it even overturned old Hebrew sayings. Cruicifixion made it’s way through the Roman Empire as a form of execution, though it was used in other cultures previously and afterward. At one time there were as many as 6,000 people crucified in one instance (around 72 BCE) when Spartacus and his men were defeated, their bodies lined the road between Capua and Rome. There is only one case of Crucifixion found in archeaology: Despite the fact that the ancient Jewish historian Josephus, as well as other sources, refer to the crucifixion of thousands of people by the Romans, there is only a single ar


Friday Fact-of-the Day From Fargo’s Employee Web Site
2007-04-06 16:36:16
A large hailstone that fell during a thunderstorm near Vicksburg, Mississippi on May 11, 1894 encased a six-by-eight-inch gopher turtle. A waterspout may have lifted the reptile into the cloud where it subsequently became coated with ice to form the nucleus for the “hailstone”.
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Sunday Morning Bible Stories: Story Three
2007-04-08 15:43:17
This week I bring you another Sunday Morning Bible Story. They are intended to bring to light stories we may have never heard or have long forgoten. They are odd instances recorded in the pages of the books that became the cannon. They sometimes confuse us or give a weird perspective of G-d and his people. They aren’t to make fun of the text, but they are to point out that there are several more conversations we could enter into when we talk about what kind of storytelling made it into the finalized text that became the bible. Now the time came after Jesus had come and gone off this small globe, that there were only 11 disciples. Judas, who had betrayed Jesus, was now dead. Either he hung himself, or he fell on his sword, the details are sketchy. The 11 remaining disciples knew there was something about the number 12, it was how it had always been. So they deliberated on how they would increase their number to reflect the popular 12 disciple formula, used in many other social net
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Freakonomics: A Review
2007-04-09 15:25:53
Freakonomics is by far one of the best non-religious books I have read of late. It was a Valentine’s Day gift from Leslie and it took me a month to get through it, but I enjoyed it. I give it a 9 out of 10 on the Mclaren Book Scale. As the book itself says: The most likely result of having read this book is a simple one: you may find yourself asking a lot of questions. Many of them will lead to nothing. But some will profuce answers that are interesting even surprising. Consider the question posed at the beginning of this book’s penultimate chapter: how much do parents really matter? That probably best sums up the way you will feel after having read the book. Steven Levitt is described as a rouge economist that looks for correlations in the most obscure places. He seems to be a kind of detective that is looking to expose correlations that need to be changed. He is a gumshoe that makes his way to solving the cases of: falling crime rates, cheating in sumo wrestling, teacher


Traveling is Emergen-tastic
2007-04-11 17:37:33
Trips I am looking forward to: Tulsa, OK - This weekend I am going to Tusla with my Dad to attend a conference and show his Online Abstract Journal. I hope to see a building built to the specifications of Noah’s Ark. Amen? Geneva, Switzerland - April 27 - May 3 Leslie and I are going to celebrate one year of marriage by going back to Europe, we try to go once a year you know, and visiting our friends The Case’s. Dominican Republic - The first week of July I am going down to the D.R. to lead worship for a group that is working to build homes for people there that have none. I am floored by the ability to help connect the idea with building homes with thoughts of G-d. I hope to stimulate that connection. I anticipate that these travels will further enforce what I learn every time I travel.
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Tuesdays with Larry David
2007-04-10 21:53:30
Larry: What’s the level of anger here? What am I dealing with? Cheryl: Well, I’d have to say at least an 8.7. Larry: 8.7? That’s not that bad. I thought it would be at least a 9. Cheryl: It was a 9. Then you broke that lamp, and the crazy woman screamed at you, and it got you some pity points. Larry: Pity points. That’s fabulous, I love pity points. But how can I get to a 7? I know a 6 is out of the question, but is there any way I can get to a 7?
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Perspective
2007-04-10 15:24:37
Leslie and I went food shopping last night to stock up for the month. This is our current pantry. I was looking at it this morning as I fixed myself a bowl of the Marshmallow Mateys and I had a small thought. . . “This is more food then some people will see in there entire lifetime”. It made me sad, and thankful.
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Darfur, Google, Feet Dragging
2007-04-12 22:40:07
You know it is cool to save Darfur . “Darfur is the new Tibet“. I don’t know much about Darfur except that it is a killing ground and the US isn’t doing anything to help it. Now there are lots of people that aren’t helping, so let’s not get into a Sean Penn rant, even though it would be cool and I could use a picture of myself looking like a conductor of the Boston Pops. I digress, I was listening to NPR on my way home and found out that Google had incorporated an interesting feature into Google Earth in order to drawl attention to Darfur and the suffering there. This could be an awesome addition for Google Earth. Maybe it could join with groups and work to pinpoint injustice in the world. It could be the first superhero application. I wish we really cared about where terror is being inflicted in the world. Not pseudo-cold war crap, but really where millions will die. Africa is a continent of ravaged by terror and yet. . .
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I hate sports. . .
2007-04-13 15:31:22
I hate sports. I like a nice two hand touch now and again on Thanksgiving Day in the front lawn, but watching professional sports or getting into them. . . . BLAH. . . I like books, I like movies, I like music. . . sports. . . they just don’t get me going. . . maybe they would though if I knew things like this were happening during said sports.


Tuesday is Tulsa-Tastic and a great day for a Vlog.
2007-04-17 15:59:58
A video blog from Tulsa . The trip was lovely, it was a long trek to get to the state and a short stay, but a nice time. Pictures to come shortly. On the way out of Tulsa, we made a stop by ORU, the conservative centerpiece of OK. Here are a couple pictures of huge praying hands, a building that looks like Noah’s Ark, and a prayer tower.
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Monday Morning YouTube
2007-04-16 19:33:34
So I am far behind the times, but for those of you at work on Monday that are also behind the times and need a mid morning laught. Watch a baby panda sneeze and scare the crap out of it’s mother. Following the lead of Tank I will now try to only post links to YouTube content as to not gunk up the load time of my blog.
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