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Name: ben
Country: United States
Birthday: 5/21/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Having a pen in my hand and a piece of paper before me. Having my ears soothed with the sounds of poison the well, between the buried and me, norma jean, the appleseed caste, elliot, thrice, mewithoutyou and many others. Looking up with a smile, waiting for the day He will take me home.
Expertise: industrial design, rambling, theology, science, philosophy, and attempting to quote the simpsons
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
Message: message meEmail: email me
Member Since:
12/15/2003
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| Hey everyone,
I am not dead, I have just been incredibly busy. I was working 7 days a week, but now I am back in school. Which I am not very happy about, because it entail a different kind of busy. I also just got my new computer, for all you geeks out there here is what it is.
Dell Inspiron 1150 Notebook
2.6 ghz processor
1 gb of ram
40gb internal hd
160 gb external hd
Now I just need to get some programs, specialyy the adobe type ones.
I also0 took myfriend Josh Slye to the ministry school he is attending in Toronto. He knows how I feel about the type of stuff that goes on there, but we are still friends.
If any of you are familiar with the Toronto Blessing, let me know your opinions on it.
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| I have named my parasite Horatio Blake Updyke III
On a side note: I have finally ordered a new computer, and it should arrive by August 22, so beware because soon enough I will be back in action here at the line of on
THE FALLACY THAT POVERTY CREATES CRIME
During my brief time in China I was able to witness and be a part of some truly amazing things. One such thing that I was able to be a part of was track distribution. Back here in America I am not really the biggest supporter of handing someone a track and saying "God Bless." But in CHina things are ver different. Evangelism or prosletyzing is outlawed by the government, therefore handing tracks out is a crime. This in itself was a concept totally foreign to me. The way it is done there is as follows. Myslef and a few others left the hotel at about 1am, and had a taxi take us to a place that we just picked on a map. The we split up and leave tracks in places were people wil see them. Doorsteps, phonebooths, benches, bike baskets etc. It is rather tricky because you don't want people to see what you are doing, because they may report you. I had on ym person about 500 tracks, and after about 5 miles and three hours I had gotten rid of my tracks. The Chinese people have much more respect for the written word then we have here, so most people will save them, even if they disagree with what it says. However, talking about track distribution in China is not the point I am trying to make. Throughtout the two nights that I did this, I saw much of Beijing that many visitors don't get to see. I went down streets that I would be afraid to go down in any American city. An this had more to do than just God's protection. There is very little crime there, I did not have to fear being mugged because it does not happen. There were not people being raped, doing or dealing drugs or vandalizing. However, one thing that I did witness was poverty. There were so many homeless just sleeping on the sides of the street, or living in tiny shacks. Now here there is a prevailing argument that poverty and lack of education are key factors in the cause of crime. However, over there the poverty is much worse, and the people are much more disenfranchised by their government, yet crime is so rare.
So I pose this question, why?
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| Well, got back yesterday and am still recovering from jetlag. The trip was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. If you want to know about some of it you can call me, and if you don't have my number just ask. I don't feel like typing about it right now. | | |
| I am sorry if everyone has been wondering where I have been, but I have been busy and away, I ma currently posting this from Ulanbatar, the capitol of Mongolia | | |
| I am so far pretty disappointed, I was expecting so much more out of this book. You would think he could come up with sme better arguments.
Anyway, hopefully by next week I will have a new computer so I shall not be such an endangered internet-species. | | |
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