"random thoughts from the dam amster"
Thursday, September 22, 2005 Filed in: random
musings
so, i've spent the last
week in Amsterdam learning about culture, art,
history and religion. if you know me, you know that
i'm a bit ADD (not as much as Megan) and have all
kinds of random thoughts that usually have nothing to
do with what's going on around me. as i was sitting
in my "classes" this week, i decided to write some of
them down. a few are just good quotes. i'm posting
them here because i don't know what else to do with
them. here they are in no particular order...
- why is it considered rude to yawn when someone is talking? maybe i'm just tired!
- people are dumb and that's why John the Baptist has two skulls in Europe.
- hope is all about perspective.
- what makes beautiful music beautiful?
- i don't do numbers.
- "and i must be an acrobat to talk like this and act like that" -u2
- why does everyone think that they're right about everything and everyone else is wrong?
- what's wrong with the world that we can't have one plug standard? don't people know that the US plug is the best one?
- tenure has destroyed the educational system.
- "i fell off the gay monument." - stan leach
- dear Lutherans, Luther was the start... not the end. love, matt
- tap your feet to that funky Renaissance music!
- how come whenever i get distracted it's almost always by thoughts of women or food... or both?
- i hate "the music man."
- labels = division... so why label it?
- i feel like there's something i should know... somewhere i should go.
- what if they'd decided to call "Apple" (the computer company) "Banana" or "Pineapple?"
- nobody should ever wear a lime-green leisure suit.
- if this is the "next thing," what's the next one? if we could figure that out, should we just skip ahead?
- why are the candles, which are so close to the wall, not setting the wall on fire?
- time is slowly killing me.
- where is home?
- "evangelism is naturally sharing God's supernatural story." - phil graff
- that crap in your eye when you wake up... where does it come from?
- i like Christmas carols.
- why does there always seem to be such a struggle to balance the head and the heart?
- who decides which colors "go together" and which don't?
- how does Mark Beamish stay so freakin' tan all the time?
- would Jesus wear Diesel jeans if He were here today? even if they were a gift?
- i need a nap and my legs hurt.
- the sound of children crying can, at once, evoke compassion and annoyance.
- "row, row, row your boat gently down the stream..." and then someone else comes in and it starts all over again. it works... until somebody screws it up.
- "what stench in your life do you need Christ's fragrance to cover up?" - phil graff
- people who think they're smart, usually aren't. i think i'm smart.
- i'm tired of being tired.
- music is an external movement of the soul.
- contrary to popular belief, God's preeminent characteristic is not His holiness... it's His love. everything else flows from that. so, stop trying to be so freakin' holy and start loving people. everything else will flow from that.
- why is it considered rude to yawn when someone is talking? maybe i'm just tired!
- people are dumb and that's why John the Baptist has two skulls in Europe.
- hope is all about perspective.
- what makes beautiful music beautiful?
- i don't do numbers.
- "and i must be an acrobat to talk like this and act like that" -u2
- why does everyone think that they're right about everything and everyone else is wrong?
- what's wrong with the world that we can't have one plug standard? don't people know that the US plug is the best one?
- tenure has destroyed the educational system.
- "i fell off the gay monument." - stan leach
- dear Lutherans, Luther was the start... not the end. love, matt
- tap your feet to that funky Renaissance music!
- how come whenever i get distracted it's almost always by thoughts of women or food... or both?
- i hate "the music man."
- labels = division... so why label it?
- i feel like there's something i should know... somewhere i should go.
- what if they'd decided to call "Apple" (the computer company) "Banana" or "Pineapple?"
- nobody should ever wear a lime-green leisure suit.
- if this is the "next thing," what's the next one? if we could figure that out, should we just skip ahead?
- why are the candles, which are so close to the wall, not setting the wall on fire?
- time is slowly killing me.
- where is home?
- "evangelism is naturally sharing God's supernatural story." - phil graff
- that crap in your eye when you wake up... where does it come from?
- i like Christmas carols.
- why does there always seem to be such a struggle to balance the head and the heart?
- who decides which colors "go together" and which don't?
- how does Mark Beamish stay so freakin' tan all the time?
- would Jesus wear Diesel jeans if He were here today? even if they were a gift?
- i need a nap and my legs hurt.
- the sound of children crying can, at once, evoke compassion and annoyance.
- "row, row, row your boat gently down the stream..." and then someone else comes in and it starts all over again. it works... until somebody screws it up.
- "what stench in your life do you need Christ's fragrance to cover up?" - phil graff
- people who think they're smart, usually aren't. i think i'm smart.
- i'm tired of being tired.
- music is an external movement of the soul.
- contrary to popular belief, God's preeminent characteristic is not His holiness... it's His love. everything else flows from that. so, stop trying to be so freakin' holy and start loving people. everything else will flow from that.