11/4/10

For this post, please read the following question carefully. Copy and paste the question into your reponse and fully answer the question :)

If you were required to distribute one million dollars any way you wanted, how would you do it? Why? Be specific in your answer and fully explain your choices.

* Please note: the question says distribute...yes, this means that you can't choose to keep the money!

If I were to give away one million dollars I would give it away to one of my main causes that has had me upset for some time now. There’s a program called “The Cove” which I would really like to donate to this cause. Most people don’t know about this cause and people don’t think it’s important.

“The Cove” is a documentary that was shown on Animal Planet and it is about an entire industry that is just about killing dolphins and selling dolphins to dolphin trainers. People think that this is just a small thing but they don’t know the entire story. In a town in Japan they wait for the dolphins to migrate to this area and when they do they stick long poles into the water in a line and the vibrations in the water scare the dolphins and that’s when they catch them. Once they catch them; dolphin trainers across the world choose which one they wanted to train. For the ones they didn’t choose they would pull them over around the bend into a cove where nobody could see and then they would brutally slaughter them all. They used to cut the throats of the dolphins but now they kill them by stabbing them in the spine.

For the ones who are in captivity they most of the time commit suicide. Dolphins actually have to dedicate part of their brains to breathing so if they become too stressed they would just decide to stop breathing. The reason they get stressed is because their main sense is hearing with their sonar and when there is so many people in the audience cheering and clapping they can get stressed or get ulcers. So if I was to choose any cause I would choose this one.

11/4/10

Hey everyone,

For this post, please review your netvibes account - yes, I know, it's been awhile! That's ok. Netvibes keeps updating your content even if you haven't checked it. After you have reviewed some of the most recent content, summarize and review what you have read. For clarification sake: a summary explains what the content said and a review explains what you think about it.

Remember to proof read your post before you submit!

Well I decided to change my netvibes account’s topic to discovery news because it doesn’t just include NASA findings, but other findings too. I found the NASA feed neat and all but I wanted to also include animals, history, and technology. So now I think I’ll find a lot more interesting topics.

            The only thing is that Discovery News believes in evolution which I don’t necessarily agree with. Some of you know that I am not a Christian and if your just reading this now you’re finding out. Even though I’m not a Christian I don’t fully believe the theory of evolution. Like there’s topics about an aggressive predatory bird that was alive millions of years ago that was bigger than a human and had a large crushing beak.

            There were also a lot of other topics that I was able to learn from. For instance I didn’t know that we had discovered hundreds of new species in the Amazon. Also I didn’t know that we had found a new carnivorous mammal in Madagascar. The website has a lot of information and some stuff that we need to know. But there is also random stuff that doesn’t really apply to daily life such as tadpoles scream underwater when in distress.

9/4/10

A few of you know that I’ve gotten two guinea pigs recently so I guess for this blog post I’ll tell about how it’s been going. Well the guinea pigs aren’t as much trouble as my other pets (cat, dog, goats…) but they really do poop a lot . Plus, I have to hand feed them fruit and vegetables because otherwise Princess will eat ALL of the food. My other guinea pig, Nicki, is more timid and doesn’t eat as much. So far Nicki likes me better but Princess is kind of energetic.


I named the guinea pigs after some of my good friends. I named Princess after Georgia Jakes and I named Nicki after Nicki Rodriguez. Well I didn’t really think of it on my own they asked me to name them that way. It wasn’t really much of a choice it was kind of a ‘I’m telling you what to name them and that’s what you’re going to name them’ kind of thing. I’ve had the guinea pigs for about a month now.

It’s a lot of trouble to take care of them. Every day I have to feed them and take them out and pet them. Also, if I don’t let them out of the cage and run around the room they’ll wake me up in the middle of the night with their squeaking. Then, every week on Sunday I have to completely clean out their cage. Otherwise, I love my guinea pigs.

8/31/10

For today's post, simply share thoughts, reactions, questions about yesterday's chapel. That's it - that's today's post.

Well yesterdays chapel was kind of a surprise to me because we got journals. Also, this time we had a singer that we've had from a while back. I think his name was Yancey or something. Anyway, I think that the journals were a good idea so that at the end of the year we could see how we've grown in our walk. If we keep writing down in our journals it would really help us.

The journals are an idea that we had at our old school and I actually found mine. When I read through it I saw that all I had done in 4th grade was draw and write stories in it. Hopefully I won't do that this year. I'm pretty sure that at the end of the year a handful of people might not have anything in their journals. But I pray that people might learn from this.

This year I wonder what new stuff will be brought into chapel. We've already changed almost everything about this school so I wonder what is going to happen next. I like how Jeffery Dean is our school pastor and Mr. Teller is pretty good too. I hope this year's chapel will be a good one.

Another Friday has arrived, which means Friday Blog Post time. What could be more exciting?! For today's post, I would like you to consider your Netvibes tabs. Are you pleased with what you have chosen to put in your tabs? If so, why? If not, what changes do you plan on making? Remember: these tabs should be about your interests and activities...




For the second part of today's post, please describe one of the "this is where I am with God" areas in need of attention. What specific things are you going to do? And, I don't mean this is something I'm going to do at some vague point in the future. I mean right now. Today.
 
I'm not sure if I'm pleased on what I chose for my tab. I mean I like space and all but there's not a lot of intresting stuff in my feed. I want to add on but I'm not sure what I want to put. I mean my 2 other interests is animals and drawing. I want to learn new drawing techniques but I'm pretty sure there's no feed for that.
 
As I said before a week ago; I'm not entirely sure where I am in my walk. I know I haven't accepted Christ but I don't even know how to get to that point. I mean sometimes I think I feel the Holy Spirit but then it just vanishes. I'm not even entirely sure who to talk to about it. I told my parents that I haven't accepted Christ and they kind of just shrugged it off.
 
I think today I need to seek the reason to why I can't accept him. I need to learn more about Christ so I can better understand the faith. I think I should start reading the Bible more often and some of the people I know might need to do the same. I mean the Bible is the "guide book" to understanding God, right? These are the steps I plan to take.

8/24/10

For today's post, please share your thoughts and reactions to chapel yesterday. Although Simon Says was super fun (and not one of you managed to beat Mr. Teller!), I'd like to hear about more than those few moments of chapel. Feel free to mention it, of course :) But venture beyond and consider the message of chapel. Looking forward to reading more of your posts...I've enjoyed them so far.

I've been enjoying the past few chapels this year. It has been a change moving chapel days to Mondays rather than Wednesdays. Last chapel we had a new band called "The Cody Chitwood Project", I love Cody Chitwood...with a passion. Anyway, after that we played Simon Says with Mr. Teller. It was pretty pointless because Simon can't lose. Even though we couldn't win I saw how it tied into the lesson.

Mr. Teller talked about how we need to live by faith not by sight. I realized that I have been living by sight
and not by faith. Maybe that's why I can't accept Christ as my Savior. I realize that I need to change a lot of things in my spiritual life. I realize that I need to grow closer to God.

I liked the first Chapel the best because we were able to go into small groups and talk individually. I also like how we prayed individually and learned more about God and about each other. I think that this year I'll grow stronger in my walk with Christ. I hope this year in chapel will be a good one.

8/19/2010

Description of what you learned


Explanation of what you think ot it

Description of how you will apply it

Possible reasons other people should care about what you learned

For the second part of today's post, please share where you are in relationship to God (an intentionally open-ended request - you must think!).
 
Most people wouldn't peg me as a science guy but yes I do like weird stuff. I learned from my netvibes account on my NASA feed that we've been getting pictures of supernovas and even shots from other galaxies. I never knew how much our technology has advanced in such a short period of time until I read up on NASA. For some reason I've always been fascinated by space. Just imagining the unknown parts of space that haven't been explored yet is fascinating to me and makes me realize just how small we are.
 
Now for my spiritual life. I hate to say it but I've never been very connected to God; it's always been ... iffy. I know that I can't be in the middle (half-way accept Christ) so I'm going to just go ahead and say what many people don't know. I have not excepted Christ yet so technically (even typing this gives me a bitter taste in my mouth) I'm not a Christian. I've always been questioning my faith. Even though I do believe in God I haven't excepted him, so don't say I'm an athiest. I'm not even sure when I will; but before you were saved yourself did you know? No.
 
As for questioning Christianity; It's just been really hard for me to understand that someone that we can't see, feel, or hear is everywhere and has created everything we know. I mean I go to church to see if eventually I will understand but I never do get it. Even in chapel I pay attention but I still can't understand, I feel like he's not been there for me and I've never experienced him. I even read the Bible but it hasn't connected with me yet. I hope for all my friends and even people I don't know too well will not view me differently after reading this.