I Have a Comment

A lot of Americans enjoy finding out what's going on in the world by reading a newspaper or watching the news on TV. I'm not one of those people. My major source for news happening around the world in found on the yahoo main page. Those neat little squares give me a vast array of mostly useless information.

A lot of Americans have that neat little thing called DVR. They can record the shows they miss. I am not one of those people. I tap into the beautiful resource of hulu.com to watch my missed shows.

In either case, here's what I find fascinating: if you scroll down to the bottom of any given story or episode you will find a "comments" section. It doesn't matter if it was the most pointless story or TV episode in the world...I guarantee there will be comments. People will share their thoughts on the content. They will reply to the comments of the other people. They will cuss out those that disagree with them. They will accuse the writer of the article of having too much time on their hands. And madness will ensue.

I have always noticed this but yesterday it really made me think. These archeologist dug up this ancient spiral notebook thing that has something to do with Christianity. That's good for at least 200 comments. It has something to do with the Bible...1000 more comments. It could possibly be a find that supports an idea in the book of Revelation...2000 more comments. And the title of the blog is "Ancient find has Bible experts dumbstruck"....3000 automatic comments. In total thus far...there are 9562 comments.

Is it just me, or do people really want to share their opinions? I have no room to talk...I'm writing on a blog right now...and I'll be honest...I was one of those 9562 comments. I couldn't help it! My comment was so amazing...it was possibly life changing..I wanted everyone to read it. I thought about copying it and repasting it so it wouldn't be lost on the bottom.

I get Facebook. Those are our friends and comments are expected on their statuses and photos and such...that's what makes it fun. But why is it in me to shout my opinion about a 2000 year old archeological find or what happened last night on American Idol? I went back today to look at my comment...I got 5 replies...and I was ecstatic. Kinda sad. Why is that is in me...I'm not really certain...but one thing is for sure...every one wants to have a voice and be heard.

You can comment below if you agree...we won't make fun of you :)

What's with Charlie?

So unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past 2 weeks you have most likely heard Charlie Sheen's name every single day since the CBS producers cancelled Two & a Half Men. There have been 1000 interviews and 10,000 blogs written about this guy. Every radio show, every news program, even my beloved yahoo news has been talking about Charlie Sheen. It's about enough to make you want to go find a rock to hide under.

Here's my question: why are we(and the nightly news for that matter) so interested in watching this guy go crazy? It was the same deal back when Mel Gibson's recorded tapes his the media. It really does beg the question why do we as Americans get so wrapped up in stories like this? Is it entertaining to watch these guys throw their already bad reputations further into the mud?  I wonder how many legitimately good news stories were shelved because we had to hear what Charlie just did.

I don't write this to be cynical but it is frustrating to me that the media gets so much pleasure out of watching someone, who is clearly a little off, going further off the deep end. I guess Charlie has been contacting the media but it really does get blown up doesn't it? It just makes me wonder...what should my Christian attitude be toward all of this "news"? Should I ignore it? Should I pray for Charlie Sheen? What do you think?

It also makes me wonder...what if Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan had a kid.........I quiver at the thought.

The Time Machine

 I've decided that there's not very many good T.V shows on Monday nights these days. Kate and I usually end up watching Pawn Stars and House Hunters. Last night I was surfing and saw the show called the Universe and they were discussing time travel. My first thought was "why the heck is this on the Universe show". But it was rather interesting. Basically they stated that time travel is possible if you can move at the speed of light...but since that is something we can't do, it's impossible for us to time travel right now. My thought was "ummm, duh...we already knew that". 

But it does make you think about what if we could. What if you were able to do it? Would you go back and try and change something? And if you changed that one event, what would it do to the future? Or would you go back and just want to witness some historical event? It;s kind of interesting to think about. 

I'm not sure what I would do. I think I would be more of a spectator.I think though that it's interesting that humans are so intrigued with this idea. I think it has to do with how we live in general. It certainly seems that humans tend to live in the past or in the future....and we kind of miss the present. Either we dwell on mistakes or successes in the past or we tend to worry/plan for the future events. Maybe that's just human nature...or maybe we are missing what God has for us right now...

I'm trying to keep my blogs shorter so I will just leave it at that.