iPhone 4s in my pocket

David — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:57:10 +0000

Still in its cute little box, fresh from China.

Its about that time, in fact its well past the time to replace my iPhone 3gs which Ive been carrying around for over two years now. The battle warn device has been sporting a cracked screen for a couple months, no longer works with headphones, and its vibration mechanism responds sporadically with a jarring rattle reminiscent of a handful of marbles shaken inside a metal container. Yes, wear and tear has taken its toll on my old faithful iPhone. A large part because I refuse to put it in a case. That’s just part of my personality. I wouldn’t be wearing pants right now if not for the guarantee of imprisonment.

A week ago I was finally able to order the iPhone 4gs, and within a couple hours of my order they were all sold out. After a week of waiting the UPS delivery person arrived at my door at 10am in a frantically good mood to see me. The driver was under a lot of pressure to deliver the small boxes which were highly restricted. She needed a signature and was very happy to get one. In fact, in my experience the only other objects I have seen people that relieved to hand off, were highly explosive, and highly classified materials. She pointed out a small red pickup truck that had been following her, presumably waiting for her to leave an unattended iPhone at someone’s door. It’s probably a good thing I slept through my class this morning.

I learned my lesson a while back: do not go to the Apple store to pick up your phone. I enjoy apple products just as I enjoy the poetry found in the book of Psalm. And lets face it, the Apple stores are like little Mosques of technolusting fanatics. Each of these Apple iPhone release dates are akin to Christmas, falling once a year, drawing large crowds of ecstatic followers to their place of worship. Apple, (insert heavy singing southern accent)’Steve Jobs Forbid‘, is well on its way to becoming the next Catholic Church. Needless to say, I keep away from the droves and replace my phone with the next, I’m not a fanatic. I may be a slave, or an addict, but certainly not a fanatic.

That’s one part of the story, I’ll go into more detail later…

Religion Vs Spirituality

David — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:26:57 +0000

I often find myself subject to answer a common question “Are you religious?” I don’t like questions like this; you might as well ask “Could you please describe your personal beliefs on God; in two or three letters?” Lets face it, know one understands God, it is simply beyond our sensory threshold and cognitive ability to comprehend something we can best describe as ‘infiniate,’ and ‘omniscient’ to name a few. We can understand god as much as your dog understands the global economic situation, it is unfathomable. Yet just as your dog can pick up on your stress level, with out understanding the cause; we can perceive the idea of God.
So what does religion have to do with it? Nothing. Religion in its vastness is much like government. Each establishment has its hierarchy and its institutions, rituals, rights, ceremonies, laws, bylaws, ext. They all have a common ground, and that is God. Spirituality is the personal tie to God, that we have as individuals, which in my eyes is much more important than religion.
So the answer is: ‘No.’
Im not religions, and to often people assume that I am an athiest, or worse; a diest. Yet my beliefs are strongly tied with specific religious text. I am not religious because I choose not to regularly meet with large groups of people who share the same beliefs as me. That practice can become a dangerous cyclone of like minded thought that often turns to fanaticism, destroying the purpose of the group in the first place as they seek to delve into countless minutiae on irrelevant subjects.
I try to live a moral and spiritual life, I want little to do with religion.

-David

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iPhone 4s in my pocket

Religion Vs Spirituality