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We’ve been hearing for a while now that Disney executives are so excited about the upcoming sequel Tron: Legacy that they are planning to give it a big presence in the company’s theme…
Walt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December, the studio has been updating the location with new…
Frederick: HAHAHA I just caught myself thinking a ridiculous thought—so there’s this leonardo da vinci movie coming out. It reimagines davinci as this adventurer/leader of a secret society and I thought “you know what would be great is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie” Ryan: hahahahaha oh fred. I’m so sorry
I was feeling old and paralyzed last night as I drove home. It was my daughter’s second birthday (she has officially graduated from tiny baby to little person). It had been a typical case-of-the type…
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How awesome was the movie trailer for Tron: Legacy? I know I’ve watched it at least five times now, and that doesn’t count the two times I saw it in 3D at…
I wish they had a video like this for pants, too.
“Ironing techniques by professional craftsmen (shirt)” - プロの職人によるアイロンがけテクニック(ワイシャツ)
This short instructional film showcases unmatchably masterful ironing technique that we’d all do well to learn from, but it’s also one of the most absorbing, delicious demo videos I’ve ever seen.
via Joel Zimmer, from a series of similarly beautiful instructional videos at Garra.jp (WARNING: ALL-FLASH and Japanese)
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What it means, rather, is that your life and happiness have been
mapped out ahead of time with a suffocating specificity. There is one
job — one particular, singular job — which is God’s Will For Your
Life. And there is one potential spouse — one particular, singular
spouse — who is GWFYL. And thus every decision which might in any way
lead toward or away from either of those must be pondered with an
agonizing consideration of just what is GWFYL. Every date (or
“courtship”), your choice of college (or Bible College) and choice of
major is a fork in the road leading closer to or farther from this
narrowly appointed happiness.
This notion of GWFYL transforms the process of living into something
like the fairy-tale path through the haunted forest — the Mirkwood
trail or the Yellow Brick Road. Except that those paths in those
stories are always clearly marked, whereas the trail of GWFYL is
invisible and inscrutable and can only be intuited by some visceral
sense of spiritual leading.
The idea is a kind of spiritualized version of the romantic pipe-dream
of The One — and it tends to produce the same fearfully tentative,
second-guessing approach to living. There’s a bit of good advice in
Conor Oberst’s “First Day,” in which he sings, “I’d rather be working
for a paycheck / than waiting to win the lottery.” But the notion of
GWFYL or of waiting for The One turns that advice upside-down, viewing
such practical work as a dangerous distraction from one’s
lottery-playing duties.
One reason I don’t much care for this idea of GWFYL is that I’ve seen
its effect on young evangelicals forced to shoulder its crushing
burden. No one can live like that, governed by an ultimate-stakes
gamble based on unwritten rules, offering no assurance other than that
the potential for inadvertent-but-damning disobedience lurks in every
decision.
Just as importantly, I don’t care for the way this notion takes
something explicitly clear and invariable — the will of God — and
twists it into something mysterious, ever-changing and idiosyncratic.
What is God’s Will For Your Life? the prophet asks, and then answers
his own question, “To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly
with your God.” That’s from the Bible — a book that’s rather
repetitive and unambiguous on the question of GWFYL.
— slacktivist on the evangelical concept of God’s Will For Your Life
The way I understand it, God does have a will for your life. It is
exactly what is happening to you. There is no “perfect will” that you
can fall out of by making a bad decision. That’s the whole idea of
Christ as the redeemer. God is sovereign. Or, to quote Lost, whatever
happens, happens.
