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Name: Jeremy
Country: United States
State: Kansas
Metro: Shawnee
Birthday: 6/30/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Jesus Christ, my beautiful wife :), my two totally-terrific kids, Chess, Theatre, Dance, Video Games, Directing, Choreographing, Watching Musicals, Singing, Acting
Expertise: Acting, Directing, Dancing, Choreographing, Chess, Web Development stuff (XHTML, PHP, CSS, Flash, and JavaScript)
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Industry: Computers (Internet)
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  jeremykmoritz
Jabber: jmoritz@gmail.com
Member Since:
7/21/2005
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| I remember the summer before i started 8th grade i went to "Broadway at
Baker" theater camp where i was known for being a Christian. My
roommate asked what denomination i was, and i told him i didn't have
one. He wasn't a Christian but was thoroughly convinced that there was
no such thing as a non-denominational Christian. I remember him saying
"I don't care what you say. EVERY Christian church is part of some
denomination!" It raised some doubts in me about whether i really
wasn't part of a denomination.
Now,
i can clearly see that there are many non-denominational churches out
there, but isn't it interesting that so many have to put a
denominational name in front?
Digging a little deeper, i would
say that most Christians would give lip-service to the idea that we all
should be united, but when pressed, maybe they/we don't really feel
that way. Would I want to have a church where half of the congregation
believed you need to be baptized in order to be saved? Would i want
some of the pastors believing that salvation can be lost while the
others believe that once you're saved, you're always saved?
There
are some issues which are not crucial enough to divide Christians from
non-Christians, but maybe are enough to divide one church from
another. After all, everyone can go to whatever church he/she wants to
(no reason to think all the Christians in Olathe need to show up at the
same building). Why not allow people also to attend church where they
get a unified message from all of the pastors and most of the
congregation, without having to tiptoe around hundreds of individuals'
interpretations on non-essential doctrine?
Jeremy
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| Yesterday,
I had a very productive day. It was the
kind of day I could really be proud of from every respect. I worked for about 3 hours on getting the
house cleaned up with Christine, I spent lots of time playing with and lavishing
affection on my kids, I designed a cool new blogging feature for our family
website, I worked for hours on the show I’m directing Seussical (while Christine took the kiddos to the park), I spent some meaningful
time alone with Christine, and I enjoyed a positive, up-lifting
time of playing a board game (Settlers of Catan) with Christine and my parents. It was one of very few weekend days when I really
felt like every hour counted and no time was wasted.
It’s
quite invigorating to have a day like that. I hope I can make such days occur more
frequently in 2008.
I
think one of the keys to pulling it off was getting a lot of sleep the night
before (my wonderful wife let me sleep in). I
never got much sleep over my Christmas break.
While it was very fun, I admit I often felt a little melancholy, and I had
a hard time being productive during the day.
I think for my next long break like that (which may not even come until
next Christmas), I will do my best to make sleep a priority. It’s hard with all of the night activities,
but I think that getting enough sleep just brings life and energy into the entire
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| My company was just successfully sued for $3,000 because
of two unsolicited faxes that an ex-employee sent 2 and a half years ago. It’s been very
discouraging to mess with all this legal nonsense over two stupid faxes.
Such a scam. Even the legal wording for
this is ridiculous:
22.
…Defendant caused the deprivation of paper and toner of Plaintiff(s) fax
machine;
23.
Defendant deprived Plaintiff(s) of its toner and paper permanently by the
sending of the unsolicited facsimile advertisements; and
24.
The deprivation is inconsistent with defendant ownership interest in
Plaintiff(s) paper and toner.
I should be a lawyer and make $375/hour to write up nonsense like this... 
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| I'm in a very cool fight choreography show with this amazing fight choreographer named Richard Buswell. His fight choreography is definitely the best i've ever seen onstage. Come see our show at the Kansas City Fringe Festival July 26-29. You'll love it!
http://www.kcfringe.org/
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| I just tried out this new budgeting software called Mvelopes. I really like it!
It's kind of like an online envelope system, but it has some great extra functionality to it. If you are someone who wants to budget and use an "envelope system" but can't seem to stay on top of it, i would definitely recommend trying this thing out for a month (the first month is free).
Hmm... they should pay me for this kind of publicity
Jeremy
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