2006 August

Quick To Judge

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
by Tony

There’s a saying with fanboys; “No one in comics stays dead except for Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben“. Well they did bring back Bucky and Jason, so if MJ dies I can guarantee she ain’t staying dead.

Relationships & Religion

Monday, August 28th, 2006
by Tony

So for the past few days I’ve been hanging out with this really cool individual (Don’t read too much into it, just friends… for now). And like with most new friendships/relationships/acquintances hopefully there are a sreies a conversations about each other, your pasts, your futures and various other topics. While communication is always a good start to meeting someone new, when the topic of religion comes about I tend to avoid it.

This past weekend was no exception, for I had invited my new friend to accompany me to my Frat brother’s book release/signing party. Over the sounds of some neo soul/ new-bohemian cd played we talked about various plans for this upcoming Sunday and he asked (paraphrasing of course) ‘What church do you go to?’ ‘I don’t’ I replied and from there I could have predicted the next words out his mouth. As a non-Christian, I’ve been in this scenerio plenty of times where it seems that I have to defend my faith as to why I don’t attend church. Oddly enough since I’ve live in Chicago the question frequently asked isn’t “What is you faith?” but “Where to you church?”

I guess I should stop with the misnomers in my post titles since this isn’t a post about ‘Relationships & Religion’ but rather ‘Relationships with Religion.’ As a child, religion wasn’t never pushed onto me, being that my mother was Muslim and my father was Born Again (don’t ask me how that happened). My dad didn’t want to step on anything that my mom was teach me but he wanted to make sure that I did get a Christmas. And as I grew older my mom became less strict on following the Islamic faith and bought me gold chains and feed me bacon. I never really felt tied to either extreme and in the end my parents told that I should follow my own path and see what faith speaks to me.

So from that point, I’ve never felt the need to justify or defend what I chose to believe in… I do believe in God and I put my faith in Him. I accept that we may not agree on the same beliefs, but I’ve learned that tolerance can go a long way.

I Give Up

Monday, August 28th, 2006
by Tony

My indecisiveness has gotten the best of me and I couldn’t figure out what to do with my sidebar so I just decided to drop it completely. Luckily the one column look is starting to grow on me, albeit slowly.

In other development news, I re-add Google adsense on the entry pages and I if anyone had issues playing the videos from the podcast, the latest version of Quicktime should correct the problem.

Pump Up The Volume

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
by Tony

Affected by a cold and really didn’t think I could capture the same delivery if I re-recorded so the volume is kinda LOW. Anyway, I need ideas for the barren space that was my siderbar and the reason why I don’t talk about my dad.

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5 Kaptivating Years

Friday, August 18th, 2006
by Tony

Kappa Psi Kappa Fraternity Inc. founded August 17th, 2001

And so Many more to come… If you are interested in Kappa Psi Kappa Fraternity, Inc or any of its afilliates (Phi Nu Kappa Sorority, Inc. and Alpha Psi Kappa Fraternity, Inc.) drop me a line.