My favorite Classic video game

I have played many video games on many different consoles, but I would have to say that one of my favorite old-time classic video games has to be... Mario Kart for the Nintendo 64 (N-64). This is probably because, for its day, Mario Kart had pretty stunning graphics, and it has awesome game play. Many of the older games that were made were just really boring for me, and I didn't get into them much. Mario Kart, though, is a pretty exciting game, and it also has an exciting four player mode. Not many games of the time had a four player mode, and the ones that did were not all that great. I have three brothers, and we used to play this all the time and it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed this game and I encourage those who haven't ever played it to try it out some time, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Response of "The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome"

Response: I thought that The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome by Mike Adams was a well written essay that cleverly used humor and satire to make this come alive.  I thought it was very clever the way that he used graphs to prove his points, selling the idea that what he was saying was actually very true, and that we need to do something about it before the danger becomes much bigger than what it already has.  At every turn, he stressed the danger of this problem, that relatives were really dying because of their child's exams.  The fact that he made it sound so serious made it all that much more funny to me reading it.  For example, when he gives the statistics that the FDR (family death rate) jumps from .054 with no exam to .574 with a midterm and to 1.042 for a final exam, he makes it sound like this is a real thing (176).  I think that this was a great essay that sounded very believable, and at the same time very ridiculous, so as to kind of keep the reader guessing and to give him a good laugh when he is finished reading it.

Man stuff ministries

The church where I attend, Christ Community Church, has a ministry called Man Stuff Ministries.  This ministry is just a group of men that got together so that they could do events and other things for the church.  One thing they made, called the Iron shop, is just many different things that they put on the second floor of our church.  It includes a ping-pong, carpet-ball, air hockey, corn-hole, and a b-b gun range.  They also made a putt-putt golf course which they set up on the main floor when they open the Iron shop on weekends.  They also have an over-night event once a year.  I personally love this ministry, so I thought I'd post it to tell you all about it.

Summary/Response of Einsteins "An Ideal of Service to our Fellow Man"

Summary: Einstein is saying that the Being that created everything is mysterious and that people that are trying to be like Him try to live ethically.  Many people try to live ethically, and he says that an ethical person shows the values of love, compassion, and moral goodness.  He also says that if one wants to live rightly and justly, they need to hold firm to these things and practice them, and someone who does realizes what a bad circumstance the world is in.

Response: My response to this is that I agree with it completely.  The person who realizes that the Creator is a mysterious person can truly grasp how powerful He must be.  This will also help in being able to live justly.  I completely agree that a person needs to be full of love, compassion, and goodness, because it gives someone an honest look on the world.  That translates into someone realizing what bad shape the world is in.  That further translates into thinking about how he can change the world by doing what he can to help it out.