We've never felt love, but, oh! We wish we could
We never fell in love, that way, we wish we would
But what is love? What makes us come
to that realization that we're in love?
This ain't love! Oh!
No, love just ain't for us, Honey!
But this ain't love!
Oh, we're not in love, no, love ain't for us
Cuz love is something we'll never be sure of
And we'll never fall in love, no, love ain't for us
Cuz, Honey, this just ain't love!
We ain't got the game for this love
The cards are all used up, honey
But I can tell you, this ain't love!
What is love? Who are you?
What are we? Who am I?
And what is love? What is pain?
What is fame? But mostly, just tell me, what is love!
And this ain't love, no, it feels like love
But this ain't love, yeah, you can make your bets!
Pile high the cash and cigarettes!
But you'll lose it all on me, honey,
This ain't love!
Love is something we've never met
I ain't got the heart for this stuff
This stuff we call love, but honey, this ain't love!
Composer: Daniel Hanson.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Compilation
The complexities of life often drown one till certain death. We try to know everything, yet are willing to learn nothing. We attend universities, yet grasp only concepts that bring us riches and learn nothing of real value. We attend philosophy lectures, we learn how NOT to learn. We will attend an evolutionary seminar and soak it up as fact, even when it is ALL [un]educated assumptions. We will listen to what simple, incompetent, stupid, foolish men, who call themselves educated to the highest degree, will say, while we ignore what our Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent God HAS said. Where do i get the authority to call these "learned men" fools? You ask. Romans 1:21-22 says, 'Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their FOOLISH heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became FOOLS" (emphasis added). That is where I get my authority to call these "great learned" evolutionists and atheists (which in reality do not exist) fools. Psalms 14:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good." And yet we soak up what they say. What does this make us? Fools of course. Any man who would say there is no God, is in fact a fool. The earth boasts of our father's Glory, and everything in it. Creation screems "Creator!" We look at a building and think, "The builder of theat building was very talented". And we look at creation and think, "Oh, yeah. This all came from an EXPLOSION (and may I add here, that explosions DESTROY, not create?) that came from nowhere and caused matter to be created that eventually broke all the laws of science thousands of times to make life and in many different forms. Yeah big deal. psh!"
I'm going to tell you all a story. Once upon a time, several BILLIONs of years ago, I think about twelve billion to be exact, somewhere out in space, there were two particles (no one knows where these two particles came from, or why they happened to come together in the perfect direction, or how they gained momentum) that sped towards each other at speeds of a greater magnitude than is known to the common man. When they collided they created an aluminum can, perfect with the tab and all. About two billion years of floating around the aluminum can went through an asteroid field and painted red in certain places, not in others. the way it was painted made a beautiful label that said Coke. About a billion years later, a nice sugary brown liquid poured into it and filled it up. That is how we got the coke can. Ridiculous? No. Not if you believe that all living things came from the big bang. Maybe you scoff at the can idea, but why? It is much more logical that something dead could form than something alive.
Are you a "Good Person"? Well let's find out. We will use the Law of God. The Ten Commandments. They are the only holy and just standard. Have you ever lied? (it doesn't matter how white or black the lie. Even answering these questions?) That makes you a liar. Have you ever stolen? (value is irrelevant) That makes you a thief. Have you ever committed adultery? (Jesus said whosoever looks upon a woman to lust, has in his heart, already committed adultery. Sex before marriage counts too) Have you ever murdered? (Jesus said that if you hate, you have already murdered in your heart) Have you ever blasphemed God's Holy name? That is taking your creators name, the one who created your very soul, and using it as a cuss word. (keep in mind this is only five, and there are five more) If you have done any of these, than on judgment day, you will be found guilty before God, and being just, God MUST send you to hell forever.
The Bible commands us to boast of God's glory to the WHOLE world. It is By God's GRACE that we are saved! And we spit in His face! We could never even begin to imagine who our God really is! Oh, when I meet Him face to face. When He says unto me, "Well done good and faithful servant." I will run to Him and wrap my arms around Him, at the same time feeling completely unworthy of being there with Him. Because I am completely unworthy. Yet He loves me! Oh! The joy that my Creator loves ME! And then, he died for ME. He could have packed up thousands of years ago and just wiped us all clean off the face of the earth, and wiped us from His mind. But no, instead He died for us.
But on to other things that are more pleasant of speaking of. It seems that when the rain falls, things come alive. When the sun shines out of the ground things will spring. When we walk into the dark and our eyes don't adjust, we'll fall into a pit and never stop our decent. When we find it hard to breathe and that last breath won't come, we pass from here to there. When we find the end of the road we'll keep walking and fall off the edge of the world. When we find ourselves alone, we find how alone we really have been. It sometimes feels like the world is caving in - It is. We hope for a new day, but when that day comes we become ungrateful. We long for the sunshine at night, we long for night at day. We all want to heal our broken hearts but when they're healed we want to break them. We hold on just so we can let go. We feel broken until we've broke, then we want to go back.
-we don't wanna stop walking because it hurts too much, so we don't walk at all. we don't wanna stop breathing because it hurts too much, so we never took our first breath. we don't wanna stop speaking truth, so we spend all our time telling lies. we feel so lost at night and we don't know who we are, we don't know if we've ever even lived. we don't know how to talk and laugh.
These are the dictionary definitions. I did not add or take away.
Omnipotent - almighty or infinite in power, as God.
Omniscient - having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
Omnipresent - present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
Incompetent - not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
Simple - not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious: a simple way of life.
Foolish - 1. resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech. 2. lacking forethought or caution. 3. trifling, insignificant, or paltry.
~Daniel Hanson
I'm going to tell you all a story. Once upon a time, several BILLIONs of years ago, I think about twelve billion to be exact, somewhere out in space, there were two particles (no one knows where these two particles came from, or why they happened to come together in the perfect direction, or how they gained momentum) that sped towards each other at speeds of a greater magnitude than is known to the common man. When they collided they created an aluminum can, perfect with the tab and all. About two billion years of floating around the aluminum can went through an asteroid field and painted red in certain places, not in others. the way it was painted made a beautiful label that said Coke. About a billion years later, a nice sugary brown liquid poured into it and filled it up. That is how we got the coke can. Ridiculous? No. Not if you believe that all living things came from the big bang. Maybe you scoff at the can idea, but why? It is much more logical that something dead could form than something alive.
Are you a "Good Person"? Well let's find out. We will use the Law of God. The Ten Commandments. They are the only holy and just standard. Have you ever lied? (it doesn't matter how white or black the lie. Even answering these questions?) That makes you a liar. Have you ever stolen? (value is irrelevant) That makes you a thief. Have you ever committed adultery? (Jesus said whosoever looks upon a woman to lust, has in his heart, already committed adultery. Sex before marriage counts too) Have you ever murdered? (Jesus said that if you hate, you have already murdered in your heart) Have you ever blasphemed God's Holy name? That is taking your creators name, the one who created your very soul, and using it as a cuss word. (keep in mind this is only five, and there are five more) If you have done any of these, than on judgment day, you will be found guilty before God, and being just, God MUST send you to hell forever.
The Bible commands us to boast of God's glory to the WHOLE world. It is By God's GRACE that we are saved! And we spit in His face! We could never even begin to imagine who our God really is! Oh, when I meet Him face to face. When He says unto me, "Well done good and faithful servant." I will run to Him and wrap my arms around Him, at the same time feeling completely unworthy of being there with Him. Because I am completely unworthy. Yet He loves me! Oh! The joy that my Creator loves ME! And then, he died for ME. He could have packed up thousands of years ago and just wiped us all clean off the face of the earth, and wiped us from His mind. But no, instead He died for us.
But on to other things that are more pleasant of speaking of. It seems that when the rain falls, things come alive. When the sun shines out of the ground things will spring. When we walk into the dark and our eyes don't adjust, we'll fall into a pit and never stop our decent. When we find it hard to breathe and that last breath won't come, we pass from here to there. When we find the end of the road we'll keep walking and fall off the edge of the world. When we find ourselves alone, we find how alone we really have been. It sometimes feels like the world is caving in - It is. We hope for a new day, but when that day comes we become ungrateful. We long for the sunshine at night, we long for night at day. We all want to heal our broken hearts but when they're healed we want to break them. We hold on just so we can let go. We feel broken until we've broke, then we want to go back.
-we don't wanna stop walking because it hurts too much, so we don't walk at all. we don't wanna stop breathing because it hurts too much, so we never took our first breath. we don't wanna stop speaking truth, so we spend all our time telling lies. we feel so lost at night and we don't know who we are, we don't know if we've ever even lived. we don't know how to talk and laugh.
These are the dictionary definitions. I did not add or take away.
Omnipotent - almighty or infinite in power, as God.
Omniscient - having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
Omnipresent - present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.
Incompetent - not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
Simple - not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious: a simple way of life.
Foolish - 1. resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech. 2. lacking forethought or caution. 3. trifling, insignificant, or paltry.
~Daniel Hanson
Monday, December 15, 2008
Glass in the Eyes
Though I be framed in a portrait, I still see you looking. As the glass is over my eyes, so you stand over me. I lay here trapped forever, behind my glass cage. It's a thick layer of ice, that fogs my vision. As long as I'm here I'll watch. My eyes are glazed over, but I'm not dead. There's a truth that can't be found in our modern world unless we first become something else.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
As I walk through the snow as it falls in my face, and as I listen to the wind, it seems as if the wind is Jehovah's breath breathing on me. Yet it seems as if I walk through a lost country with no purpose anymore. The feeling inside us is that of contempt and hatred and contempt against our brothers. We listen to our brothers with our ears shut tight and only believe what we want to believe. We will take lies and eat them as if they were cake, but when we are offered truth we literally spit in it's face. Although it's so very blatantly put in front of us as truth and we can easily see that it is truth we will not believe it because it's not in our favor. Or maybe we've become so blind that all we can see are lies.
I get so frustrated sometimes at how stupid Americans have become. I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I believe I have done that for long enough. It's time to stand and stand strong. We can not let ourselves be swept away. We must stand against this strong current, this swing to liberalism and Marxism in our country. Oh, I thought I would never see the day when our country would become a communist nation, yet it seems to be just years if not months away. How could we the people let this happen. And yes I hold the people of this country fully responsible, because they are the stupid people who elected our present president elect. I pray in earnest for our country that it will not fail in this time of what seems to be it's greatest trial.
O how I feel I have failed and how my brothers and sisters have failed. Is there never to be a government in the history of the earth that does not grow so powerful that it be becomes corrupt and enslaves it's people? I am only 17 and yet it seems as if our country has decayed into what is just above the level of communism. Our very freedoms are being pried out of our hands, while we sit and watch and and smile. I have never felt so distraught about this. I have never before believed that it would actually come to this. But it has.
Pray with me for our country. Please pray with me for our country. I wouldn't care if I paid twice as much in taxes, but let them not take away our freedoms! Pray my brothers and sisters, for the day in which we live is a very dark day indeed. We must ALL pray as one nations or we will fall divided.
~Daniel
I get so frustrated sometimes at how stupid Americans have become. I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I believe I have done that for long enough. It's time to stand and stand strong. We can not let ourselves be swept away. We must stand against this strong current, this swing to liberalism and Marxism in our country. Oh, I thought I would never see the day when our country would become a communist nation, yet it seems to be just years if not months away. How could we the people let this happen. And yes I hold the people of this country fully responsible, because they are the stupid people who elected our present president elect. I pray in earnest for our country that it will not fail in this time of what seems to be it's greatest trial.
O how I feel I have failed and how my brothers and sisters have failed. Is there never to be a government in the history of the earth that does not grow so powerful that it be becomes corrupt and enslaves it's people? I am only 17 and yet it seems as if our country has decayed into what is just above the level of communism. Our very freedoms are being pried out of our hands, while we sit and watch and and smile. I have never felt so distraught about this. I have never before believed that it would actually come to this. But it has.
Pray with me for our country. Please pray with me for our country. I wouldn't care if I paid twice as much in taxes, but let them not take away our freedoms! Pray my brothers and sisters, for the day in which we live is a very dark day indeed. We must ALL pray as one nations or we will fall divided.
~Daniel
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Underneath the Water of Frozen Lakes.
There are many things in this life i don't understand. One thing is why we must endure ourselves. Well I guess it would be unfair to say I don't know why I have to, although I wish I didn't. I've heard it said, "I've fought and killed on the battlefield of war. But the worst battle I have ever endured is the battle of the mind." Why is this? Why is it that amongst all the clashes we see on a day to day basis the hardest and most brutal go unseen. Why is it that we can stand up against a thug in the street, yet when it comes to our minds, we will do whatever we can to escape the pain? Do we all go through our daily pain or is this sometihng only some of us endure? It has been proven that if you have a positive attitude, you won't die from a disease or any cancer. If you just simply don't believe you have it, it simply goes away? What is our mind?!
This could be the biggest mystery in the world. Bigger than, yes, even Al Gore being an alien (inside joke). This thing we call a brain seems to have mysteries that cannot be unlocked. Think about it (so cliche'), it is estimated that we use only 3% of our minds. That's not much. What could we do with our minds if we could unlock the rest of our minds? I'm not sure I want to know. It seems that (excuse my blatentness but I don't believe in being politically correct) retarted people are so happy. Is is that the more brain we put to use, the more chaos is unleashed in havoc? Or could we come to peace with ourselves? I really don't know and probably never will. But I think I'm getting a little bit off subject. I'm talking about things I don't understand.
Well yeah I don't understand the mind. And another thing I don't understand is girls... Yeah I know, "original" But It's true. And I'm not even gonna begin to explain for baout two hundred reasons, including that I just plain don't want to because it's... annoyingly complicated? Something like that. Anyhow, another thing I don't understandis God. Yes I believe whole-heartedly in Jehovah but I don't understand Him at all.
In all my hopes to come to know God more I seem to only find out I know less than what I first thought. Still, I can't say I'd have it any other way. I love knowing that while on earth, I will barely scratch the surface of what there is to know about my God. Such relief.
There are many other things I don't understand but the last one I will talk about is that I don't understand why I love Christmas and Thanksgiving so much when I always seem to get depressed. I don't understand What it is that makes me slap on the plastic face and keep going. No I'm not emo. I'm not suicidal in the least. But I still want something more. It seems that this is hard to explain, the thoughts aren't there. However, I'll try. In winter, when the snow flies and the lakes freeze, when the frozen trees are motionless, I want for something real. Maybe it's just that I want to get closer to God. Maybe it's that I want to spend Christmas with whoever is to be my wife (I've still gotta figure that one out) and share in the joy with her. Maybe it's that the joy I experience is so real I finally found that I'm not worthy of such a merciful God. Maybe in the end it all goes back to me not understanding God. Maybe I need Him so much that I don't realize until the time of year when His birth is celebrated, and when I finally do understand I can't take it.
I don't know for sure but that last one seems to weigh on me the heaviest. Although the one about wanting someone to spend the season with does also, haha. But the time will come for that. Right now I know I can turn to my God and He listens. Always and forever. And sometimes he punishes me too. Which by the way, to all you Christians who think God won't send anyone to hell and won't punish anyone... It is the most beautiful thing knowing I have a God who cares enough for me to take the time to punish me so I get back on track.
~Daniel
This could be the biggest mystery in the world. Bigger than, yes, even Al Gore being an alien (inside joke). This thing we call a brain seems to have mysteries that cannot be unlocked. Think about it (so cliche'), it is estimated that we use only 3% of our minds. That's not much. What could we do with our minds if we could unlock the rest of our minds? I'm not sure I want to know. It seems that (excuse my blatentness but I don't believe in being politically correct) retarted people are so happy. Is is that the more brain we put to use, the more chaos is unleashed in havoc? Or could we come to peace with ourselves? I really don't know and probably never will. But I think I'm getting a little bit off subject. I'm talking about things I don't understand.
Well yeah I don't understand the mind. And another thing I don't understand is girls... Yeah I know, "original" But It's true. And I'm not even gonna begin to explain for baout two hundred reasons, including that I just plain don't want to because it's... annoyingly complicated? Something like that. Anyhow, another thing I don't understandis God. Yes I believe whole-heartedly in Jehovah but I don't understand Him at all.
In all my hopes to come to know God more I seem to only find out I know less than what I first thought. Still, I can't say I'd have it any other way. I love knowing that while on earth, I will barely scratch the surface of what there is to know about my God. Such relief.
There are many other things I don't understand but the last one I will talk about is that I don't understand why I love Christmas and Thanksgiving so much when I always seem to get depressed. I don't understand What it is that makes me slap on the plastic face and keep going. No I'm not emo. I'm not suicidal in the least. But I still want something more. It seems that this is hard to explain, the thoughts aren't there. However, I'll try. In winter, when the snow flies and the lakes freeze, when the frozen trees are motionless, I want for something real. Maybe it's just that I want to get closer to God. Maybe it's that I want to spend Christmas with whoever is to be my wife (I've still gotta figure that one out) and share in the joy with her. Maybe it's that the joy I experience is so real I finally found that I'm not worthy of such a merciful God. Maybe in the end it all goes back to me not understanding God. Maybe I need Him so much that I don't realize until the time of year when His birth is celebrated, and when I finally do understand I can't take it.
I don't know for sure but that last one seems to weigh on me the heaviest. Although the one about wanting someone to spend the season with does also, haha. But the time will come for that. Right now I know I can turn to my God and He listens. Always and forever. And sometimes he punishes me too. Which by the way, to all you Christians who think God won't send anyone to hell and won't punish anyone... It is the most beautiful thing knowing I have a God who cares enough for me to take the time to punish me so I get back on track.
~Daniel
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