I Have a Tendency to Make Myself Laugh

An Old Fashion Lindsey Parker Rant... Kickin It Old School!

Myspace makes me laugh! If you are unfamiliar with myspace let me explain what it is. It’s a place where you can basically have a free website. It’s open for blogs and pictures and whatever you want pretty much. Well I have a myspace account; I use it for chatting with friends and my shameless promotion of this blog! Anyway there’s this feature on myspace called a bulletin. What you can do is write something like a reminder/invite to a party or well pretty much any m*** mail and it will go out to all of your myspace friends. These things drive me crazy! Sometimes the things I receive are funny or fun and I enjoy them. But most of the time all you get is a butt load of chain letters. Now I can handle stupid chain letters… I could honestly care less. I’m probably the least superstitious person you will ever meet. Well the chain letters that annoy me the most are the religious ones. I was just reading one that said something like: Jesus thought of you when He died on the cross (this is true). Then it goes on to say that if you truly love Jesus you will repost it and send it to all you myspace friends. Now don’t get me wrong. I am in no way ashamed to be a Christian. And especially not on myspace where the majority of my friends on there are Christian! But why do I have to prove my love for Jesus by reposting? I don’t know. Stupid stuff like that annoy me. It’s like my public worship and my lifestyle isn’t proof enough of my dedication to Jesus… nope but posting a stupid chain letter on myspace will prove I’m saved. Please don’t misread my tone as angry or pissed off. I’m just in ranting mode today. I also received a similar bulletin that said if I reposted it in 5 minutes I would receive a miracle that night. WHAT THE HECK????!!! I think the people who start stuff like that are either freshly saved and still crazy zealous for Jesus (and slightly unaware to how He works)… or they are just totally ignorant to the things of Christ. What happened to that old school, “You’re saved because you believe and confess.” Now I’m sure that one could argue that you do confess by reposting the bulletin. But I would say in response to that, that if you can only declare your Christianity with confidence online I would question your salvation. For those of you who know me well you know that I feel that any form of serious/ important communication that you can only do online or with text messaging is cowardice. I feel that if you cant say something to someone’s face, and the only way you can communicate your feelings is with some sort of electronic barrier, that you are too scared to say whatever it is you have to say. Either that or you don’t really believe what your saying. I don’t know… I guess I should stop now. I could rant for days and days on the topic of text messaging and email relationships. But I’ll stop; I don’t have the time for this today. Please post your thoughts and feelings about this topic. And feel free to disagree… I like to argue… I mean… debate. Linz

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5:03 PM, Jul. 22, 2005 .. Posted by LindseyTaylor

Go ahead and visit me on myspace... this is the only place I blog though!http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=19172851&Mytoken=20050722170319

I feel the same way.

11:04 PM, Jul. 24, 2005 .. Posted by Ryan

I know how you feel on that one. I've been on Myspace for like 10 months and have never reposted even one of those bulletins. I can feel Hell pulling me in. How can I be saved? Oh wait, I'll go post one of those bulletins. Because when life-changing proclamations or eternal salvation come into play, I think Myspace. Those God bulletins annoy me more than any others except for the chain letter ones that say if you don't repost it then certain body parts will shrink and you will have bad sex for x amount of years. Some people! *shakes head*. Oh well, it's late and I had a draining day at Wild Waves so I'm going to bed. Peace out and God bless.

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11:41 AM, Jul. 26, 2005 .. Posted by Anonymous

I Concur mama!!

howdyyy...

4:18 AM, Jul. 28, 2005 .. Posted by fr0d0

G'day!

I was bored n searching for a good blog site n came across your blog!

Tis quite interesting! :)

Anyhoo, I would love to hear more about your views on email/txt msg based relationships... because I have a few views of my own and its a topic I'd like to discuss with some young people in my youth group. So yer, I'm sorta in the collecting information stage.

So yer, feel free to email me sometime. c0wcr0ssing@gmail.com (the 0's are zeros, not the letter O)

See ya!

Urs in Him,

fr0d0.

Ciao!