Thoughts and views

‘But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. Thus he writes one book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of women, and then he writes another book in which he insults it himself. He curses the Sultan because Christian girls lose their virginity, and then curses Mrs. Grundy because they keep it. As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. A man denounces marr...

“Ours is an age where ethics has become obsolete. It is superceded by science, deleted by philosophy and dismissed as emotive by psychology. It is drowned in compassion, evaporates into aesthetics and retreats before relativism. The usual moral distinctions between good and bad are simply drowned in a maudlin emotion in which we feel more sympathy for the murderer than for the murdered, for the adulterer than for the betrayed, and in which we have actually begun to believe that the real guilty party, the one who somehow caused it all, is the victim, and not the perpetrator of the crime.” - Robert Fitch, Christianity and Crisis: A Journal of Opinion, 1959

It suddenly closed in on me Gaius, the impact of how trapped I was. The proud arm of Rome with all its boast of justice was to be but a dirty dagger in the pudgy hands of the priests. I was waiting in the room, Gaius, the one I use for court, officially enthroned with cloak and guard when they let this Jesus in. Well Gaius, don’t smile at this, as you value your jaw, but I have had no peace since the day he walked into my judgment hall. It’s been years but these scenes I read from the back of my eyelids every night. You have seen Caesar haven’t you? When he was young inspecting the legion. His arrogant manner was child-like compared to that of the Nazarene. He didn’t have to strut, you see. He walked toward my throne; arms bound but with a strident mastery and control that by its very audacity silenced the room for an instant and left me trembling with an insane desire to stand up and salute. The clock began reading the absurd list of charges. The priestly delegations punctuating these...

What started off for me, was the challenge – “can I do it” and for me that has been for a lot of things, both good and bad... and this, a perfect example - both good and bad… The good – I got around to doing this and the bad, once I knew all works, I don’t have the enthusiasm anymore to finish it. To put this info along with the pictures and all this info is a drag; let me be honest about it. But, if I can help someone else or give them the nudge to start doing something like this, guess, all this effort makes some sense in a way. This is how it all started: Was doing a whole bunch of home recordings and was browsing the web to see if I can find a DIY kinda stuff for a drum kit, (got tired of using the drum loops that came along with my recording software). I found this Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeI3fNIsOk&feature=related) and I thought to myself, man this is cool and there the million dollar question for me – “can I do it?” Looking though the comments on the ...

Well, I thought I was done with my pedal board and boy, was I wrong... I redid the pedal board but now with some major changes along with a fantastic mounting option by Johnny from Johnny Shredfreak (http://www.johnnyshredfreak.com/) [trust me they are worth it]. Added in a power supply designed "exclusively" for me by my dear friend Santosh from Fides Electronics.... Added in some NEEEEW pedals - Reverb - Digitech, Compressor - Marshall and a sweet sweet sounding Chorus - Rocktron Tsunami. After a lot of measuring, measuring and measuring, followed by a lot of drilling and mounting.. Then came the tiding up and viola .. lo and behold, the Pedal board....

I embarked on this great mission of creating a great pedal board for my guitar units just for the fun of it and it has been more than a year and I think I am done. But I am sure I am not, cause every guitarist will tell you this, there are twaeks that you will do to your rig, and there will be more and there will be more... I did not want to make one out of wood or MS (mild steel), they are (according to me) a pain to work with / bulky or plain and simple not my taste and so I chose to work with Aluminium. Here are the plans and the pics of my pedal board. If you need more info, please feel free to send me a mail and I will try to assist in anyway possible (reach me at lawrenceadossatyahoo.com)

In 2 Chronicles chapter 20 we read about Jehoshaphat. I have gathered some insights (if you can say that) Three Rhetorical questions of Jehoshaphat 1. Are you not (Verse 6: "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.) Praising God is one of the most integral part of Praying and this is what Jehoshaphat is doing here. Note: These sentences focus on God in the present tense in other words God encompasses all the tenses, past, present and future. 2. Did you not (Verse 7: O our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?) Praying using the promises that God has given is considered a very effective way of praying by many saints. Recollecting what God has done shows Faith and that you have not forgotten what the Lord has done. Note: This sentence talks abo...

The Da Vinci Code… I am sure that the title has prompted you to read this article or at least tingled your curiosity as to what is this article all about. Let me get started… This book that bears the title “Da Vinci Code” has sold more than 40 million copies since its release in 2003 and has been translated to more than 30 languages. I am sure you know someone who has read the book and some of you might have read it yourself or watched programs about this book on TV or might have been asked by a friend or colleague about it. So what’s the fuss all about? What is so worth our time to examine this “32 weeks New York Times best seller”? Let me list just a few of the claims made by this book. (1) Jesus is not God; he was only a man. (2)Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and she is to be worshiped as a goddess. (3) Jesus got her pregnant, and the two had a daughter. (4) That daughter gave rise to a prominent family line that is still present in Europe today. (5) The Bible was put together ...

Scripture: 1 John 3: 15 – 17 (15)Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (17)And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Early this week, I was asked by a young man in a news group discussion and he sounded pretty earnest. He asked, “What is lust” For a moment I thought I could answer that and then I tried and to my surprise I was at a loss for words. And so I began rummaging all the resources that were available to answer that question. At the end of the study I was surprised at the things that the Lord had revealed to me and I am sure that the insights that the Lord has revealed to me would be of great help to you also. I first began by looking at the dictionary, hoping that I could get a ...