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STORM. intense sermon re judging. one thing in particular that got me: there are essentially two ways of judgment. judgment based on justice, and judgment based on mercy. we have no right to judge anyone based on justice. because true justice, which comes from the living God, is terrifying. as we receive mercy from God, so should we see others in mercy.
had a christmas party + gift snatching game. i also recieved some additional presents and cards. they were all wonderful. i will not describe them in detail here.
i will say this: i'm touched by the thoughtfulness that went into these gifts. you know, i used to say that i cared more about the thought and love than the gifts, and that would pretty much be a lie.
but now, i think i am being honest when i say that as much as i love getting presents, i'm so much more thankful for love. it's staggering, sometimes.
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jeehye is back!!! a bunch of us went out to eat dinner at moonstruck. we got the top floor to ourselves, which was cool. it's strange how much i missed her. and she's leaving again pretty soon...
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ballin' : it had to be short, for 40 minutes or so. i played pretty well, but it was probably because i had guys much slower than me guarding me.
one memorable thing: t**** is dribbling the ball, i'm guarding him. i stick my hand in and poke the ball away. t**** reaches for the ball, and knocks it out of bounds. let me just say that the sequence of events were very obvious. it's not like we both hit the ball. i CLEARLY poked the ball, and he CLEARLY reached for it, and knocked it out of bounds (the ball's direction was also radically redirected after my poke, thus even if i HADN'T seen with my own two eyes like i had, i would still have known that he had hit it. it didn't even happen that fast. it was a relativley slow play, that he, i and s*** had clearly seen.
and yet there t**** was, denying that he had hit it out of bounds. we were winning, i didn't care about getting possession THAT much. what was really bothering me was how he was so BLANTANLY lying. this was not a subtle, hope-they-didn't-see-it kinda lie. it was a i'm-gonna-take-this-$100 bill-out-of-your-wallet-while-you-are-staring-at-me-incredulously-and-then-deny-it kinda of lie.
i have never, EVER encountered anything like this. let's just say i was extremely apalled. i gave him the ball, cause i wasn't going to stop the game and belabor the point. BUT, i said something to the effect of: "t***, i will never be able to trust anything you say again."
dave, my younger bro, was laughing. he didn't see what happened, but he believed me. i mean, they ALL believed me, including t***'s teammates. it was just a weird, weird, situation. dave was laughing because of how i reacted. he was laughing because i wasn't demanding the ball and instead just letting t**** know that t**** had blantantly lied to me. in essence, i was just calling him a LIAR. (dave found that hilarious...)
in retrospect, i think i would have laughed at what i had said, too, but i can't laugh too much, because i'm still apalled that he gave SUCH a blatant lie. i guess i shouldn't be any more or less tolerant than of stubtle, sneaky lies. but this was just CRAZY.
the irony of this situation after the sermon earlier today is not lost on me. God has a wonderful sense of humor, i think. i'm compelled to laugh at myself...
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rushed back to watch two towers with koko, acc, glo, and dave. first, i want to thank koko, acc, and glo for saving such awesome seats; they were seriously prime, PRIME seats. special thanks to acc for planning and ordering waaay beforehand for this. thanks to koko for waiting in the lobby for us. :)
i'm not going to talk about what's IN the movie; you should all watch it yourselves. i just want to say that that was a beautiful movie. all aspects of it. i had read the series multiple times, and wasn't expecting too much out of this movie, because, as all tolkien readers know, the two towers is the slowest and most boring of the trilogy.
the pace of this movie was great, though. and the two elements of this movie that i thought would be trouble, the ENTS and the character development of gollum, they pulled off admirably. in fact, i think this movie gave me a better appreciation of gollum and his influence on Frodo's development and relationship to the ring.
there were numerous occasions for blurry vision, not all of them obvious. these two movies are perhaps the best movie representations of books that i have ever seen. they are not entirely faithful, but the closest i have ever seen.
yakob at 3:44 AM
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had a christmas party + gift snatching game. i also recieved some additional presents and cards. they were all wonderful. i will not describe them in detail here.
i will say this: i'm touched by the thoughtfulness that went into these gifts. you know, i used to say that i cared more about the thought and love than the gifts, and that would pretty much be a lie.
but now, i think i am being honest when i say that as much as i love getting presents, i'm so much more thankful for love. it's staggering, sometimes.
****
jeehye is back!!! a bunch of us went out to eat dinner at moonstruck. we got the top floor to ourselves, which was cool. it's strange how much i missed her. and she's leaving again pretty soon...
****
ballin' : it had to be short, for 40 minutes or so. i played pretty well, but it was probably because i had guys much slower than me guarding me.
one memorable thing: t**** is dribbling the ball, i'm guarding him. i stick my hand in and poke the ball away. t**** reaches for the ball, and knocks it out of bounds. let me just say that the sequence of events were very obvious. it's not like we both hit the ball. i CLEARLY poked the ball, and he CLEARLY reached for it, and knocked it out of bounds (the ball's direction was also radically redirected after my poke, thus even if i HADN'T seen with my own two eyes like i had, i would still have known that he had hit it. it didn't even happen that fast. it was a relativley slow play, that he, i and s*** had clearly seen.
and yet there t**** was, denying that he had hit it out of bounds. we were winning, i didn't care about getting possession THAT much. what was really bothering me was how he was so BLANTANLY lying. this was not a subtle, hope-they-didn't-see-it kinda lie. it was a i'm-gonna-take-this-$100 bill-out-of-your-wallet-while-you-are-staring-at-me-incredulously-and-then-deny-it kinda of lie.
i have never, EVER encountered anything like this. let's just say i was extremely apalled. i gave him the ball, cause i wasn't going to stop the game and belabor the point. BUT, i said something to the effect of: "t***, i will never be able to trust anything you say again."
dave, my younger bro, was laughing. he didn't see what happened, but he believed me. i mean, they ALL believed me, including t***'s teammates. it was just a weird, weird, situation. dave was laughing because of how i reacted. he was laughing because i wasn't demanding the ball and instead just letting t**** know that t**** had blantantly lied to me. in essence, i was just calling him a LIAR. (dave found that hilarious...)
in retrospect, i think i would have laughed at what i had said, too, but i can't laugh too much, because i'm still apalled that he gave SUCH a blatant lie. i guess i shouldn't be any more or less tolerant than of stubtle, sneaky lies. but this was just CRAZY.
the irony of this situation after the sermon earlier today is not lost on me. God has a wonderful sense of humor, i think. i'm compelled to laugh at myself...
*****
rushed back to watch two towers with koko, acc, glo, and dave. first, i want to thank koko, acc, and glo for saving such awesome seats; they were seriously prime, PRIME seats. special thanks to acc for planning and ordering waaay beforehand for this. thanks to koko for waiting in the lobby for us. :)
i'm not going to talk about what's IN the movie; you should all watch it yourselves. i just want to say that that was a beautiful movie. all aspects of it. i had read the series multiple times, and wasn't expecting too much out of this movie, because, as all tolkien readers know, the two towers is the slowest and most boring of the trilogy.
the pace of this movie was great, though. and the two elements of this movie that i thought would be trouble, the ENTS and the character development of gollum, they pulled off admirably. in fact, i think this movie gave me a better appreciation of gollum and his influence on Frodo's development and relationship to the ring.
there were numerous occasions for blurry vision, not all of them obvious. these two movies are perhaps the best movie representations of books that i have ever seen. they are not entirely faithful, but the closest i have ever seen.
yakob at 3:44 AM