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This blog is where I express myself to the world or at least to those who might stop by to read what I post 
. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers.
I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!
Thanks.
Carlos
PS. If you want to follow my blog such that you will get an email when I write new posts you can subscribe to my blog.
. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers. I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me
)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!Thanks.
Carlos
PS. If you want to follow my blog such that you will get an email when I write new posts you can subscribe to my blog.
Greatest TV Series I Have Ever Seen!!
I have been watching this unbelievable TV series this last week or two. The best I have ever seen.
An unbelievable series. Action, adventure, even some romance thrown in for good measure. National crisis after national crisis. Political intrigue. Unbelievable scenarios that leave you wondering what the right decision to make is.
What show is that?
24! It's called just 24. It's about a counter terrorism unit from the U.S. government trying to keep the U.S. safe.
You can watch every episode ever made on a site called TVgorge.com
Unlike hulu.com, tvgorge.com is available internationally and does not require a U.S. presence to watch the shows.
Carlos
UPDATE
Hmm...I just watched another episode last night after posting my glowing praise of this show and well...I think I better temper what I said with a little reality
This last episode (day 6 11-12 noon I think) was terrible compared to most. Completely unrealistic not to mention that the acting was mediocre at best.
In this last episode...terrorists are holding the U.S. hostage through a series of bombings. Malls, buses, you name it...bombings are going on. So what does the President do? He negotiates with who he considers to be a low level terrorist to get at the main terrorist. And what is the nature of that negotiation? He gives up the main man, the man who saved the country on numerous ocassions and gives him up to be killed by this low level terrorist in exchange for information about the whearabouts of the main terrorist.
Which is all ridiculous. I mean that it's come down (in the show) to the U.S. having to abide by all kinds of terrorists demands to stay viable as a country.
24 has been great in the past but they seem to be slipping into that never never fairy tale land of unrealistic scenarios and feel good make believe.
Real world Israel has been at "war" with terrorists since it's founding. They have shown quite clearly that it is possible for a society to be constantly attacked by terrorists and still be viable as a society. Terrorists in Israel have made things more difficult than they would be otherwise but the terrorists have not won.
Israel does not go around sacrificing innocent human lives to save it's own skin. I am talking about in line with the way exchanges are happening on the show, 24, now.
Where one life is sacrificied intentionally in order to save others. Where a person, who has done great good and who has sacrificed their life in service to their country, is forced to turn themselves over to terrorists to be killed by them to meet their demands and potentially save others from diminishing terrorist attacks. Where good people (field commanders and other officials) are ordered to effect such an exchange knowing full well that another good person is being forced to go to their death to appease the terrorists.
That's just not realistic. It doesn't work at all in real life. It makes all good people wonder when they might be next. Not to mention that the taking of one innocent life is wrong no matter how supposedly lofty or deemed neccessary the reasons are.
In real life, terrorists are terrorists and are not satisfied until the object of their terror is destroyed. You can't negotiate with real world terrorists as if they are sane individuals who want what most of us want. To live peaceably. To be happily married, raise a family, and enjoy the passing of our lives.
A country cannot talk it's way out of terrorist attacks (at least not with real terrorists who are bent of what cannot be had short of a country or it's way of life ceasing to exist).
Real world terrorists against the U.S. and Israel in particular want to destroy our way of life. A life here and there given in exchange will not give them what they want. It will only feed the fire for more.
You don't go around throwing innocents to the lions to be killed in order to save some other innocents. To do so is to turn all wrong and right on it's head. It would cause society to fall into utter moral chaos where might makes right and where each person is expendable.
In God's eyes each life is valuable and precious. And while we may indeed suffer the loss of innocents to uphold our values as a society...in the end the loss of our values and the sanctity of innocent human life is a far greater price to pay than the loss of life that might occur when not giving in to terrorist demands.
Life is not so dear that any of us should give up doing what is right by God in order to save our lives. Death is not the worst consequence of terrorist acts. It is the loss of values that are rooted in right and wrong morality and which are ultimately rooted in what God thinks that is the greatest loss that might occur if as a society we give in to terrorist demands.
TV can be greatly entertaining. A great way to unwind and even relax. But it doesn't present real world solutions to real world problems.
Unfortunately without God at the helm of one's life...many people start thinking that the "right and wrong" portrayed on TV is really what is best.
Another reason to become a Christian I think. So that one's thinking does not get all befuddled and confused into a state of moral ambivalence.
Christians don't bow down to the god of television. They are not as likely to get deceived by television and its shows into thinking that adultery is okay when done in "love", that homosexuality is just an alternative lifestyle and not sin, that men and women are inheritantly equal in all things, that a "white" lie is okay, that sexually disgusting jokes are oh so cool, that it's okay to be disrespectful of authority, and other such nonsense.
I like watching a good TV show. For sure. But I am also very thankful that there are countries in the world who are not as influenced by TV as much as U.S. audiences are.
Television is just a medium but in recent years it has helped corrupt our values and undermine the moral fiber of our country by making evil appear to be good and making righteousness and good values appear to be old fashioned and wrong and all but not worth adhering to.
I like the idea of living in a culture where U.S. TV shows are not predominant (what I hope to do in the future). Where it's influence is greatly diminished on the society around me.
Through tvgorge.com I can have the best of U.S. television (watching a very few shows that are worth watching) while living in a culture that is not influenced as much through that television to give up it's good values.
Carlos
An unbelievable series. Action, adventure, even some romance thrown in for good measure. National crisis after national crisis. Political intrigue. Unbelievable scenarios that leave you wondering what the right decision to make is.
What show is that?
24! It's called just 24. It's about a counter terrorism unit from the U.S. government trying to keep the U.S. safe.
You can watch every episode ever made on a site called TVgorge.com
Unlike hulu.com, tvgorge.com is available internationally and does not require a U.S. presence to watch the shows.
Carlos
UPDATE
Hmm...I just watched another episode last night after posting my glowing praise of this show and well...I think I better temper what I said with a little reality
This last episode (day 6 11-12 noon I think) was terrible compared to most. Completely unrealistic not to mention that the acting was mediocre at best.
In this last episode...terrorists are holding the U.S. hostage through a series of bombings. Malls, buses, you name it...bombings are going on. So what does the President do? He negotiates with who he considers to be a low level terrorist to get at the main terrorist. And what is the nature of that negotiation? He gives up the main man, the man who saved the country on numerous ocassions and gives him up to be killed by this low level terrorist in exchange for information about the whearabouts of the main terrorist.
Which is all ridiculous. I mean that it's come down (in the show) to the U.S. having to abide by all kinds of terrorists demands to stay viable as a country.
24 has been great in the past but they seem to be slipping into that never never fairy tale land of unrealistic scenarios and feel good make believe.
Real world Israel has been at "war" with terrorists since it's founding. They have shown quite clearly that it is possible for a society to be constantly attacked by terrorists and still be viable as a society. Terrorists in Israel have made things more difficult than they would be otherwise but the terrorists have not won.
Israel does not go around sacrificing innocent human lives to save it's own skin. I am talking about in line with the way exchanges are happening on the show, 24, now.
Where one life is sacrificied intentionally in order to save others. Where a person, who has done great good and who has sacrificed their life in service to their country, is forced to turn themselves over to terrorists to be killed by them to meet their demands and potentially save others from diminishing terrorist attacks. Where good people (field commanders and other officials) are ordered to effect such an exchange knowing full well that another good person is being forced to go to their death to appease the terrorists.
That's just not realistic. It doesn't work at all in real life. It makes all good people wonder when they might be next. Not to mention that the taking of one innocent life is wrong no matter how supposedly lofty or deemed neccessary the reasons are.
In real life, terrorists are terrorists and are not satisfied until the object of their terror is destroyed. You can't negotiate with real world terrorists as if they are sane individuals who want what most of us want. To live peaceably. To be happily married, raise a family, and enjoy the passing of our lives.
A country cannot talk it's way out of terrorist attacks (at least not with real terrorists who are bent of what cannot be had short of a country or it's way of life ceasing to exist).
Real world terrorists against the U.S. and Israel in particular want to destroy our way of life. A life here and there given in exchange will not give them what they want. It will only feed the fire for more.
You don't go around throwing innocents to the lions to be killed in order to save some other innocents. To do so is to turn all wrong and right on it's head. It would cause society to fall into utter moral chaos where might makes right and where each person is expendable.
In God's eyes each life is valuable and precious. And while we may indeed suffer the loss of innocents to uphold our values as a society...in the end the loss of our values and the sanctity of innocent human life is a far greater price to pay than the loss of life that might occur when not giving in to terrorist demands.
Life is not so dear that any of us should give up doing what is right by God in order to save our lives. Death is not the worst consequence of terrorist acts. It is the loss of values that are rooted in right and wrong morality and which are ultimately rooted in what God thinks that is the greatest loss that might occur if as a society we give in to terrorist demands.
TV can be greatly entertaining. A great way to unwind and even relax. But it doesn't present real world solutions to real world problems.
Unfortunately without God at the helm of one's life...many people start thinking that the "right and wrong" portrayed on TV is really what is best.
Another reason to become a Christian I think. So that one's thinking does not get all befuddled and confused into a state of moral ambivalence.
Christians don't bow down to the god of television. They are not as likely to get deceived by television and its shows into thinking that adultery is okay when done in "love", that homosexuality is just an alternative lifestyle and not sin, that men and women are inheritantly equal in all things, that a "white" lie is okay, that sexually disgusting jokes are oh so cool, that it's okay to be disrespectful of authority, and other such nonsense.
I like watching a good TV show. For sure. But I am also very thankful that there are countries in the world who are not as influenced by TV as much as U.S. audiences are.
Television is just a medium but in recent years it has helped corrupt our values and undermine the moral fiber of our country by making evil appear to be good and making righteousness and good values appear to be old fashioned and wrong and all but not worth adhering to.
I like the idea of living in a culture where U.S. TV shows are not predominant (what I hope to do in the future). Where it's influence is greatly diminished on the society around me.
Through tvgorge.com I can have the best of U.S. television (watching a very few shows that are worth watching) while living in a culture that is not influenced as much through that television to give up it's good values.
Carlos
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