This weekend saw me getting back to the youthwork conference without food poisioning distractions or traffic issues...
It was a welcome (yet still busy) break from the norm and has given me much to think about...
Was good be remindered of Psalm 1 once again and the Jewish custom and value of not only thinking things over and over but recognize that there isn't always one answer to the question.
I'm still blasted from the words of Jim Wallis : FAITH > HOPE > ACTION > CHANGE ... And just how this works out in my life, faith and practice. I have no idea what this looks like yet... But to be sure will be ringing out from a long time to come...
But the negative package I brought back was my reaction to a certain very famous Christian speaker. The words he used, the absense of any real link to the weekends theme and the exclusivity of his practice all led myself and the other youth work leaders in my party to be not only fustrated but a feeling of annoyance and very wound up...
The question to myself into the big wide world of the blog is what now... I am able to construct ways and means of using all I learnt in my life and world. But about the rubbish bits that I seem to have ringing in my ears, the poor example set as 'good'... So many lap up the words of such influencal people without questioning- something I always ask others to do, never just settle for being spoon fed!
How do I let go of things that annoy and be constructive?...
I don't pretend to know it all... But when you think something isn't right it's your reaction that counts for what is in front of you... Say or do nothing and it can only be assumed as ok no matter how wrong or right...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
X Factor isn't so new...
Ok so while I still ponder many lyrics etc etc (blah blah blah!)...
I realised something on my way home this evening that as much as i can't not stand X Factor or any other show of the same breeding it is just a public version if used to/still happening to find the lastest pop culture taste...
Look at Take That, Blue and most other boy bands (and girl groups) and you find 4-5 people all auditoned from different parts of the uk to come together and form what could be the next big thing...
In my musical taste just allow a few of these made up groups into my iTunes collection... Then why can I object to the 'reality' shows just making a process I'm ok with open to more public opinon than it would have gotten in the 90s?
I'm not excusing these shows, I still think they are rubbish and a waste of money for a result I am rarely happy with... But if the same created 'bands' are to be churned out tv program or not, maybe it is a good thing it's done in the watchers' view?
I roll my eyes that I've said 'ok' to the x factor- a show I never watch but find myself asking for key weekly phases to keep in vouge with conversations....
Noise to express my annoiance... GAH!
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I realised something on my way home this evening that as much as i can't not stand X Factor or any other show of the same breeding it is just a public version if used to/still happening to find the lastest pop culture taste...
Look at Take That, Blue and most other boy bands (and girl groups) and you find 4-5 people all auditoned from different parts of the uk to come together and form what could be the next big thing...
In my musical taste just allow a few of these made up groups into my iTunes collection... Then why can I object to the 'reality' shows just making a process I'm ok with open to more public opinon than it would have gotten in the 90s?
I'm not excusing these shows, I still think they are rubbish and a waste of money for a result I am rarely happy with... But if the same created 'bands' are to be churned out tv program or not, maybe it is a good thing it's done in the watchers' view?
I roll my eyes that I've said 'ok' to the x factor- a show I never watch but find myself asking for key weekly phases to keep in vouge with conversations....
Noise to express my annoiance... GAH!
X
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