Recently I’ve had an epiphany about myself: I hate people.

I’ve never been much of a people person, but lately it’s reaching the point where I don’t merely prefer just to be alone, I also want the lot of humanity to be dropped into a supersized vat of boiling vegetable oil.

Almost everyone these days (except for a select few) tend to put me in a mood where I’d like to rip their tongues out with wooden tonsils and then smack them around in the face with it. My God people, at least make some sense to me when you try to engage me in conversation. I don’t begrudge a dissenting view on topics of any flavor, but if you’re going to be more incoherent than Paula Abdul after she’s had 10 bottles of whiskey, then don’t be surprised if the next thing you see is me launching a coffee mug in your direction at 90 miles an hour just so I can get you to SHUT THE $%& UP.

I’ve been stewing over this for some time now, but it seems like the more I befriend people, the more it occurs to me that either I am some kind of magnet for the batpoopie insane, or the world really has gone stark raving, cracknuts mad. I’m betting it’s the latter.

These days I’m ready to toss in the towel, buy up a crapload of first person shooter/adventure games and immerse myself in another world completely just so I can get away from this freak show called real life. At least for say, the next 10 years.

Tags: epiphany, hermit, humanity, insane, life, nuts, people, world
Categories: Lincoln's Personal Log
 
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One of the things people enjoy about my writing is my humor, so I thought I would only update my blog with humorous anecdotes that I knew would make people smile, and that approach would largely define my theme and what my site was about.

The problem with that though is that I have to be funny ALL the time, and that’s simply impossible for me.  There are times when I can be a laugh a minute, but there are also times when I’m somber, or times when I’m reflective, and plenty of times when I’m angry.  I know some readers would expect me to always be the same way all the time, and would run for the hills the moment I blog something that isn’t sunny or cheery or funny to them, that but that’s just not who I am.  My writing should reflect the overall spectrum of my personality, not just a portion of it.  Otherwise I’d be detracting from what this blog is about, and my blog entries would be far and few between.

So what is my blog about then?  It’s about my life’s walk.  It’s about my desire to see truth shine and justice prevail for those who have been wronged.  It’s about my desire to find the love of my life, to alter the path of destruction I’m currently on and find a new path instead, (and perhaps a new career too), even in the midst of what may be one of the darkest hours in U.S. history.

It’s about finding my place in a world that doesn’t want me, and my struggle to accept the truth that I am unwanted because I don’t belong here.  It’s about understanding God’s will for my life and struggling to believe His promises, even when none of them have come true.

It’s about seeing the world through my own eyes, understanding why I am troubled by so many things, and why my spirit is continuously vexed by the things I see.

It’s about being thrust into a war that I can’t see with my physical eyes, battling evil not with guns or swords, but with my heart and mind.

And yes, it’s about cookies too.  Especially chocolate chip.  

Tags: anecdotes, blog, cookies, destruction, funny, God, humor, justice, people, personality, promises, readers, Spirit, truth, understanding, world
Categories: Lincoln's Personal Log
 
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I have decided to be a man about things by plunging my head in the sand and going in full on news blackout mode for say, the next four years at least.

Because the world my friend,  is in a drunken stupor of epic proportions, and rather than get upset it, or dwell on the fact that more than half of my fellow Americans are dumbasses with their hands held out waiting for Sugar Daddy Government to coddle them, I have decided instead to focus on more important things.  Like cupcakes and 80s music.  Mostly cupcakes though.

There’s really no sense in getting upset over things I have no influence over and can’t change.  But more importantly, this is the time to realize that whereas I am but a mere speck in the sand, God is above it all, and is more than capable of keeping me in a haven of protection from some of the awful things that’s sure to come.  I’ve seen it over and over before, and I’m sure it will continue on for as long as I have faith in Him.  And that’s all that He really requires of me really, is to have faith that He will take care of me through the good times and the bad, whether we good presidents or bad ones  (or really, REALLY, bad ones).

It’s strange that in spite of everything that’s happened in the past, after being trodden down of family members who either left me or betrayed me, that I could still believe without a second thought God’s infinite ability and desire to put a wall of fire around me, for no other reason than because He is full of grace and mercy.  And if He be for me, then what have I to fear?  Obama may be the president now, but God reigns above him and all the nations of the earth, which all together are as a drop in the bucket to the Lord of hosts.

When that knowledge becomes real to us, then we can rest in it and truly know what it means to have perfect peace in troubled times.

And cupcakes. 

Tags: 80s music, blackout, cupcakes, God, government, lord, nation, Obama, peace, president, world
Categories: Politics and Poker
 
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It’s getting to be that the only news I’m willing to read are the latest DVD releases from Netflix.  Because everytime I flip on a TV or check the Drudge Report I see exactly the kind of nightmarish things I never want to see even if it was being safely played out in some cheap pulp fiction novel.

And what’s the point really?  Am I going to somehow make the world a better place just by being cognizant of the fact that Stuart Smalley could be a U.S. senator?  And I’ll tell you something too, if Satan was gay, he’d look just like Al Franken.

And what about Israel’s counterattack on Gaza for what seems like the bazoolionth time, which is all their fault of course, because those darned Israelis just won’t let Hamas enjoy the fun of repeatedly firing rockets at them.

Then there’s the pending Obamunist Administration already mired in scandal and corruption about to take over and do God only knows what to this country for the next four years.

Meanwhile the media is preoccupied with Obama’s daughter and her first day at school, because you know, that’s the most important thing happening in the world right now.

I’m done with the news.  Seriously.  Ignorance is bliss after all, and I”ll be much happier sticking my fingers in my ears and playing Nancy Drew games until the Rapture comes.

Tags: al franken, corruption, hamas, Ignorance, Israel, media, Nancy Drew, Netflix, news, Obamanation, world
Categories: News Fit To Blog
 
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I love blogging, especially when it gives me the opportunity to read some of my old posts and have a good laugh at what a stupid moron I am.  Case in point: check out my new year’s eve post from a year ago:

Still, there’s something about the coming year that makes me think I may be in for something different this time. The number 8 is said to symbolize new beginnings, and man, after this awful stretch I’ve been in since the turn of the millennium, a new beginning sounds just like what the doctor ordered.

Here’s what I hope I’ll be able to accomplish in 2008:

1. Clear up my health problems and get strong again (vith ripplin’ mosscles to impress de vooomen.)
2. Generate a stable income of at least $1250 a month via my blog.
3. Get out of my dead end job and find a new career, whether it’s with another agency or by becoming self employed.
4. Move somewhere else, either out of state, or to nowhere in particular, depending on how successful I am in earning a living off the Internet.
5. Meet the girl of my dreams.

What in crap’s name was I smoking that day.

Yeah, I think it’s pretty much safe to say now that I have accomplished absolutely none of these things.  In fact a month later my health got even worse, starting with my hands suddenly going numb, then my right foot, then my tongue.  It was like somebody had poured Novocaine on parts of my body or something.  Weirdest, most unsettling feeling ever too.  Then flecks of blood would come out every time I blew my nose, and I started having weird breathing problems as well.  Then I had a neck cramp, where if I turned my head slightly to the left, I would shriek like a 6 year old girl in pain, and man, that cramp stuck around for several months before it finally went away.  Through it all I was always fatigued and completely without energy.  It really killed whatever aspirations I had for the year, and yet for whatever reason I refused to see a doctor.  I guess going through all that made me kind of give up on life in general, not to mention all the goals I had.

And then of course, the economy blew up in our faces and the Antichrist’s little mini-me won the election.  Great year, huh? 

So yeah, I’m very much glad that this sucky-mcducky suck-a-butt crapfest of a year is finally over.  But in spite of all the major setbacks I experienced, I have the oddest feeling that 2009 is going to be the year that 2008 wasn’t.  I’m finally planning to see a doctor in January to get myself tested every which way so I can find out what’s wrong with me, and force myself to get back on the path to being strong and healthy again.  I also have something in the works to bring myself the traffic I need so I can finally earn money through this blog, and I’m also on an accelerated repayment plan to pay off my car loan and college loan, making me completely debt free by July.  Once that happens I’ll be making plans to move as well.  Maybe it won’t be out of state, but at least it will be far, far away from the awful memories of this evil town.

And then of course, there’s the event that made me truly believe that the girl of my dreams was real, and that she will be there waiting for me once I decide to stop being such a weenie.

So… 2009 will have to be the year that I man up for real.  The world is after all in grave danger, and desperately needs a hero now more than ever.  I for one am just studly enough for the job, ready to ride on my Black Stallion to save the day and get the girl, all to the tune of INXS, but of course. 

Happy New Year!

Tags: aspirations, black stallion, blog, debt, election, failure, fatigue, girl of my dreams, health problems, hero, new beginnings, new year, number 8, resolutions, world
Categories: Lincoln's Personal Log
 
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There have been various prayer movements in the United States focused on praying for change in our government, the most popular that I know of being TheCall.  I’m sure a lot of young Christians now are probably devastated by the election results, at a loss to explain why God would seemingly ignore their heartfelt prayers.

While some proponents might argue otherwise, the whole point of these movements have been largely to effect political reform.  They were overly focused on what was happening with our government, but not what was happening in the churches.  In short, we were praying for the wrong things.

Our churches are in complete disarray, deluged with religious fads and heretical teachings, with a community of believers that are more concerned about prosperity than they are about holiness.  Whatever the world does, we imitate it at every turn, whether it’s coming up with our own version of “American Idol” or turning our churches into entertainment centers complete with built-in basketball courts and coffee shops.  We’ve become so preoccupied with meaningless creature comforts, and through it all we’ve allowed an entire generation of Christians to be deceived by the rampant heresies that have overwhelmed the body of Christ.  And yet in spite of all this, we’re holding prayer vigils outside the U.S. Supreme Court building pleading for God to give us more conservative judges.  And how has that been working out so far?

Here’s the deal:  God is not concerned with our governments so much as He is concerned with His people.  And since judgment must first begin in the house of God, our focus should always be on taking care of the church first before anything else, ensuring that we walk soberly, with our minds on heaven rather than on political issues of the day.  All the nations are as a drop in the bucket to the LORD of creation anyway, and more notably, the lesson of history has shown us when a remnant of God’s people repent and seek Him with their whole hearts, things then have a way of working out for themselves without any active intervention on our part.

This will soon be an extraordinarily distressing time for Christians, yet I believe it is not intended for our destruction, but rather to encourage us to seek the LORD once again in a spirit of true repentance and broken heartedness.  Whom the LORD loves He rebukes and chastens, and He admonishes us all to “be zealous therefore, and repent.”

So for those of you have become disillusioned and even bitter about the direction our country has been heading in, don’t despair.  God has not abandoned us, and while we may experience grievous times, it is in those times that we will find true faith and revival.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. – John 16:33

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Categories: Christians Gone Wild
 
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