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King David was a jerk

Today my good friend whom I greatly respect posted a facebook update saying that 2 Samuel 6:18 "is ringing in my heart".

hmmm. can you please explain? when I read Samuel 6, I get a sense that David was demeaning to Michal, who, while maybe being a bit of a prude, brought up a good point to David, about dancing in front of slave girls "as any vulgar fellow would". She was holding David up to a higher standard.

Davids reply to her was basically "Your daddy wasn't chosen by God to be king, so up yours"

To top it off : "And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death"; as if her behaviour warranted such punishment.


To top it off again: "slave girls".

... I mean, need I say more? If these slave girls (as I do say more lol) are young enough that he shouldn't disrobe in front of them, how are they old enough to be slaves? How can David justify the notion of owning another person to begin with?

Oh, and by the way, a little detail about this chapter; God murders Uzzah for touching the ark, and acting irreverently. Apparently when the ark of the covenant is in motion God is a little high strung. David was at least pissed about this.

-mt

this week on the internet:
Water on the moon!

NLC Connector Implosion Tests

My friend Jeremy Wiese is the video editer at Northwest Lineman College. This is his second video. Watch, favorite, and 5 star it!

Dream Journal 2: wtf?

I again had one of those dreams that are really like 5 or 6 dreams all in one, and much like in real life, my brain is too ADD to stay on one topic for too long.

First dream: scaary dream
Things I remember:

- In the back of a trailer

- a mad dog had chewed up some girls

that's about it.

Second dream: wha? I really don't know
Things I remember

- I was a sports watching douche-bag

- I think I had a wife

- we were watching sitcoms and I made remarks about how it looked like one of the actors was a pedophile

- the tire on our car broke, and fell down a cliff

- I gathered random objects to create a new tire and then forgot about it and moved on.

In neither of these dreams did I have absolutely any inclination to do a "reality check". I am wearing a watch today, so I'll be doing that reality check, and I have the letter M on my left hand and A on the inside of my right hand in order to do reality checks with. We'll see if I have the ability to lucid dream tomorrow night.

Dream Journal 1: Space exploration

I must be thinking about this a lot recently because it bled into my dream the other night.

Things I remember:

- being in a space shuttle

- looking out the window and seeing an asteroid floating away
- looking out the window and seeing a different type of solid object floating away, with more colors and stuff then the asteroid.

basically, "holy crap I'm in space" is what I was thinking, and this is the most vivid part of the dream.

- looking out the window and seeing a 'vocab word i dont remember' explode and the sun's gravity captured the particles, making a bunch of little suns orbiting sol. The mass of these particles was enough to be a star so to speak. the rotation speed at the center of these stars was slow, but at the outer edge extremely fast.

- I remember landing on a planet

- I remember getting out of the ship into a city with my team of people.

- I remember that the rest of the dream was on this planet

- my space exploration was interrupted by a 'cut scene' of the ship landing or something and i didn't have control of my dream from that point on

- a bunch of inconsequential events led to my waking up, and being disappointed that we didn't return to space, as was the goal of the dream. darn.

My Compositions

I have recently added a widget with a playlist of all my recorded compositions thus far. It's on the right>>>!

Altar Calls

I am ashamed of my fellow christian church when I hear things like (in a southern accent) "are you sure you don't want to come to the altar right now? Maybe you'll get hit by a car when you walk out the door, sure'nuf,  so you better come to the altar now just to be safe!"
This kind of thinking is either babyish or senile.
Camp was a terrible place. I remember the one time I went to the altar. I got down there, kneeled down. I looked around, saw my friends some of them crying, others just praying shyly. I noticed one kid, whom I knew was a complete douche bag, praying and pouring his heart out in his supposed "conviction". ( He of course was still a douchebag thereafter.) A youth pastor kneeled down in front of me and asked me if I needed to ask God into my heart. I already had at that point, so I said "No." He asked if there was anything wrong going on in my life and did I feel like I needed to renew my commitment. I said "No". So he moved on to the next kid.  That was my first and last expirience going down to the altar for an altar call.


-Micah Turner
-Prompted by Wesleyan Holiness class session.