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shane's Site http://shanemagee.multiply.com/ Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:45:13 -0000 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000 shane's Site http://images.shanemagee.multiply.com/logo http://shanemagee.multiply.com 100 100 john's gospel (14) john 8 is one of my favourite chapters in this gospel. it leaves absolutely no room for thinking that jesus was simply a good teacher as many have claimed. these are emphatically not the words of a good man! <a href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/files/john_chapter_8.mp3">download john chapter 8</a>previous instalments:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/introduction-to.html">introduction to john</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel--1.html">john 1:1-18</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel-3.html">john 1 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-4.html">john 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-5.html">john 3:1-21</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-6.html">john 3:22-4:42</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-7.html">john 4 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-8.html">john 5 (part 1)</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-9.html">john 5 - 6</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-10.html">john 6</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-11.html">john 6 (part 2)</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-12.html">john 7</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-13.html">john 8:1-11</a></li> </ul> http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/225/johns_gospel_14 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000 john's gospel (13) ok so we started into chapter eight with good intentions an then the discussion began to wander. we meandered through what happens to you when you die; predestination versus free will; can you lose your salvation; what about people who have never heard of jesus and a load of other sticky issues (so hope that's cleared it all up for those of you who were there - questions? no. then i'll continue) everyone else was delighted, but the control freak in me was jittery! as the conversation was even more waffly and ramble-y than usual i've only included the actual john stuff we did - the (misplaced) account of jesus' dealings with the woman caught in adultery. <a href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/files/john_chapter_8vs111.mp3">download john chapter 8vs1-11</a>previous instalments:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/introduction-to.html">introduction to john</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel--1.html">john 1:1-18</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel-3.html">john 1 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-4.html">john 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-5.html">john 3:1-21</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-6.html">john 3:22-4:42</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-7.html">john 4 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-8.html">john 5 (part 1)</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-9.html">john 5 - 6</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-10.html">john 6</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-11.html">john 6 (part 2)</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-12.html">john 7</a></li> </ul> http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/226/johns_gospel_13 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000 john's gospel (12) john 7 continues the ominous theme begun in chapter 5. jesus refuses to back down or soften his tone in spite of increasing opposition. is it just me, or is this getting exciting?download here:<a href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/files/john_chapter_7.mp3">download john chapter 7</a>previous instalments:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/introduction-to.html">introduction to john</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel--1.html">john 1:1-18</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel-3.html">john 1 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-4.html">john 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-5.html">john 3:1-21</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-6.html">john 3:22-4:42</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-7.html">john 4 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-8.html">john 5 (part 1)</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-9.html">john 5 - 6</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-10.html">john 6</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-11.html">john 6 (part 2) </a></li> </ul> andif y'all would like to, y'all can just go right ahead and click on the link below and y'all'll be able to listen right here.feel free to comment or email if anything you hear makes your brain itch. http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/227/johns_gospel_12 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000 john's gospel (11) as we go through john 6 we notice how much jesus pushes the boundaries of what is acceptable. it is almost as if he is deliberately going out of his way to offend people, willfully treading on what they hold sacred. this is not the jesus we are normally presented with in the church! download here:<a href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/files/john_chapter_6_part_2.mp3">download john chapter 6 (part 2)</a>previous instalments:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/introduction-to.html">introduction to john</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel--1.html">john 1:1-18</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel-3.html">john 1 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-4.html">john 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-5.html">john 3:1-21</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-6.html">john 3:22-4:42</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-7.html">john 4 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-8.html">john 5 (part 1)</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-9.html">john 5 - 6</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-10.html">john 6</a></li> </ul> andok, ok, ok you don't have to download. just click on the link below. happy now?!as always please keep letting me know what you're getting out of the study. http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/228/johns_gospel_11 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000 john's gospel (10) fortunately or unfortunately for you, the batteries ran out halfway through our john study this week. hope you still get something from our discussion on the bread of life.<a href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/files/john_chapter_6.mp3">download john chapter 6</a>previous instalments:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/introduction-to.html">introduction to john</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel--1.html">john 1:1-18</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel-3.html">john 1 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-4.html">john 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-5.html">john 3:1-21</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-6.html">john 3:22-4:42</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-7.html">john 4 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-8.html">john 5 (part 1)</a></li> <li style="font-family: inherit; "><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-9.html">john 5 - 6</a></li> </ul> andas always for those of you who tap your fingers at the microwave and would rather rush down 20 flights of stairs than wait 30 seconds for an elevator, simply click on the link below to listen to this instalment instantly on the site. comments on the commentary are always welcome and appreciated. :o) http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/222/johns_gospel_10 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000 john's gospel (9) the next john fix. in this session we discuss the eucharist/the lord's supper/communion/the bread and the wine and after we've unpacked some of the rich theological tradition which has built up round this simple practice we spend some time sharing the symbols together. as you listen i'd invite you to get some bread and wine yourself and join with us in celebrating the communion of saints which transcends time and place. in lovely mp3 format.<a href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/files/john_chapter_56.mp3">download john chapter 5 - 6</a>previous instalments:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/introduction-to.html">introduction to john</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel--1.html">john 1:1-18</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel-3.html">john 1 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-4.html">john 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-5.html">john 3:1-21</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-6.html">john 3:22-4:42</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-7.html">john 4 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/06/johns-gospel-8.html">john 5 (part 1)</a></li> </ul> andfor those of you who just can't wait for all that downloading nonsense, simply click on the link below to listen to this instalment right here on the site. as always please keep letting me know what you're getting out of the study. http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/223/johns_gospel_9 Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:00:00 -0000 john's gospel (8) ok, it's been a loooooooong time since i posted any of our study on john's gospel. this is partly down to my own laziness and partly simple time management issues. it takes a long time to encode these properly and get them up on the site and there really hasn't been that much interest in them. but for the few of you who've been kind enough to email to say you've been missing your john fix, here's the first half of chapter five in which jesus has the audacity to heal a man on the sabbath!<a href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/files/john_chapter_5.mp3">download john chapter 5 (part 1) </a> in lovely mp3 format.previous instalments:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/introduction-to.html">introduction to john</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel--1.html">john 1:1-18</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/01/johns-gospel-3.html">john 1 (part 2)</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-4.html">john 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-5.html">john 3:1-21</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-6.html">john 3:22-4:42</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/02/johns-gospel-7.html">john 4 (part 2)</a></li> </ul> andfor those of you who just can't wait for all that downloading nonsense, simply click on the link below to listen to this instalment right here on the site. as always please keep letting me know what you're getting out of the study. http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/224/johns_gospel_8 Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:31:15 -0000 fake tv (3) - is a thinking christian an oxymoron? one of the things that bugs me no end is the lack of thinking (and even an overt anti-intellectualism) within the evangelical church. starting with the example of jesus himself, this episode of fake tv is a clarion call for thinkers out there to think hard and for the church to support and encourage them in this endeavour. previous episodes:<ul> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/04/fake-tv-episode.html">fake tv (episode 1) - ehud, the left-handed man</a></li> <li><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/05/fake-tv-episode.html">fake tv (epsode 2) - intelligent design</a></li> </ul> http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/221/fake_tv_3_-_is_a_thinking_christian_an_oxymoron Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:33:51 -0000 daring to hope <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d14f053ef00e552979ae88833-popup" onclick="" style="float: left; "><img alt="IMG_8753" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d14f053ef00e552979ae88833 " src="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d14f053ef00e552979ae88833-500pi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; " /=""></a> i’m sitting here bathed in summer sun feeling the wash of summer break over me. new light shines in dusty corners and i can breath this healing deeply. alli and i spent the weekend at a vineyard conference (kindly paid for by our friends in the community) and i have come away with a renewed sense that things may actually be working out. as i’ve said too many times to count now, we arrived in canada 15 months ago filled with possibilities and options, fully determined to change the world in which the lord god had placed us. but here we are, totally broke and still not doing what we came here to do. and then this weekend happens. the formal sessions held little appeal for me this time. it was the in-between times that fed me, fueled me, fired me up and excited me. i got to meet <a href="http://outword.blogspot.com/">matte</a> the irrepressible and her super-smiley husband, dean, who’d done the 10 hour trek from montreal. i already felt they were friends just from matte and i commenting on each other’s blogs over the months. it ... http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/220/daring_to_hope Mon, 2 Jun 2008 18:10:26 -0000 the 10 11 … 14 best tv shows ever <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d14f053ef00e5527ba9188833-popup" onclick="" style="float: left; "><img alt="IMG_8743" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d14f053ef00e5527ba9188833 " src="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d14f053ef00e5527ba9188833-500pi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; " /=""></a> i was just facebooking a friend about shows alli and i have enjoyed over the last couple of years and thought i'd share a few with you. (well it makes a bit of change from <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/cheap_date/index.html">the big screen reviews</a> i normally write). apart from the number one spot, the others are in no particular order. many of them bring issues of ethics and morality into the public debate better than the church has been able to do for many, many decades. hope you enjoy. <ol> <li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200276/">west wing</a> - especially the first 4 seasons - so good, i've written about it <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2007/12/the-rule-of-the.html">before</a>. i still cry at almost ever episode no matter how many times ive seen it before. it's the only show that has ever made me think i could be an american and i almost salute the stars and stripes every time the theme tune plays in some sort of pavlovian response! aaron sorkin is a legend!! there's never been anything better written than this on our tv screens. witty, intelligent, expecting and demanding something from the audience.</li> <li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348914/">deadwood</a> - lots of cussin'. lots of se... http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/219 Sun, 25 May 2008 01:26:07 -0000 Yamaha wearable motorcycle concept <a title="Yamaha wearable motorcycle concept will likely remain just that - Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/23/yamaha-wearable-motorcycle-concept-will-likely-remain-just-that/">Yamaha wearable motorcycle concept will likely remain just that - Engadget</a>. ok if this ever comes to fruition i neeeeeeeeed one (are you listening alli??) what better way to achieve immortality by dying young??? (i see no contradiction! whatever do you http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/218/Yamaha_wearable_motorcycle_concept Sat, 24 May 2008 18:00:49 -0000 that point <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d14f053ef00e5529129518834-popup" onclick="" style="float: left; "></a><a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d14f053ef00e5529129518834-popup" onclick="" style="float: left; "><img alt="DSC_3251" class="at-xid-6a00d8341d14f053ef00e5529129518834 " src="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d14f053ef00e5529129518834-500pi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; " /=""></img></a> so what shall i say? we're reaching that point. in fact, to be brutally honest, as i look back at the journey we've come, i can just see the last disappearing traces of "that point" in the dim distance. we came to canada filled brim-full with dreams and possibilities. we determined to make a new life for ourselves to pioneer an existence from scratch pretty much. something of an early-settler spirit consumed us. we came to "live the dream" - to own a lovely house (check), on a big (p)lot (check), with a beautiful view (check), close to wonderful friends and community (check). we even found ourselves very quickly integrated into a church which, given the very negative disposition with which we arrived, came as something of a surprise. but there are some key aspects that have been painfully slow to materialise - the practical things; the things which make all these other things sustainable. you know: a salary which would allow us to even subsist; work permits... http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/217/that_point Fri, 23 May 2008 19:50:25 -0000 BBC NEWS | Americas | US 'stuck' with Guantanamo prison <a title="BBC NEWS | Americas | US 'stuck' with Guantanamo prison" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7411862.stm">BBC NEWS | Americas | US 'stuck' with Guantanamo prison</a>. now this is just taking the piss! the summary is as follows: "we're keeping these people in torturous conditions condemned by the entire international community because after six years of confinement without trial and denial of habias corpus and even the basic rights granted them under the geneva convention, we've screwed them up so much they're likely to want to retaliate against us and turn http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/216/BBC_NEWS_Americas_US_stuck_with_Guantanamo_prison Wed, 21 May 2008 23:35:35 -0000 ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails - Times Online Link: <a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece" title="‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails - Times Online">‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails - Times Online</a>. and all you brits thought it was just the once good ol' usa that was heading for fascism! looks like your days of superior gloating are well and truly numbered!!! http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/215 Tue, 20 May 2008 08:05:05 -0000 Colombian 'hit' that set off a UK cocaine war | World news | The Observer Link: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/drugstrade.internationalcrime?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront" title="Colombian 'hit' that set off a UK cocaine war | World news | The Observer">Colombian 'hit' that set off a UK cocaine war | World news | The Observer</a>. this incredible tale of multi-million dollar drug deals, cartels and mob-violence sounds like a plot straight out of hollywood - yet it is being played out on the streets of liverpool! http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/214/Colombian_hit_that_set_off_a_UK_cocaine_war_World_news_The_Observer Mon, 19 May 2008 17:42:07 -0000 intelligent decision against intelligent design <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1210,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/09/dsc_3239.jpg"><img width="350" height="529" border="0" src="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/images/2008/05/09/dsc_3239.jpg" title="Dsc_3239" alt="Dsc_3239" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" /></a> thanks to all for the comments on the site, on youtube and by email following the <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/05/fake-tv-episode.html">latest episode</a> of <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/fake_tv/index.html">fake tv</a>. it's pretty interesting stuff isn't it? i think people frequently conflate i.d. and creationism (which may well be their position, it's certainly what dawkins et al hold to). i see a distinction. young earth creationism: utter unscientific nonsense; i.d. much more considered and much more worthy of consideration. i think that naturalists often tend to argue that atheism is somehow "proved" by evolutionary science. i don't see this at all. indeed when it does happen we need voices in schools, universities and the general scientific community to speak up and point out that these voices are going very far beyond what science can ever possibly conclude (and therefore should ever make comment on). they have ventured into the realm of philosophy. however, it must be recognised that even in making this counter-argument the debate has become a philosophical one - the philos... http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/213/intelligent_decision_against_intelligent_design Fri, 9 May 2008 18:29:12 -0000 the phobias of a chronic amnesiac! <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=528,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/06/dsc_3071_2.jpg"><img width="500" height="330" border="0" src="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/images/2008/05/06/dsc_3071_2.jpg" title="Dsc_3071_2" alt="Dsc_3071_2" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" /></a>i'm a melancholy kinda guy sometimes. i do reflect on my life a lot and tend to over-think myself into a stupor of inactivity. as well as my frequent, healthy contemplation of <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/05/something-im-dy.html">my inevitable demise</a>, i've been thinking about the future in general recently. this is often a less healthy pursuit. i'm not even thinking in terms of taking risks at the moment, but more fundamentally about how welcoming i am of the future; do i dare to live in the freedom christ has brought? <a href="http://fakerepublic.typepad.com/fake/2008/05/something-im-dy.html">past failures and sin</a> tend to cloud my future-view often. i become obsessed with the potential damage i could cause to the people i love. too frequently i see myself as a ticking time bomb of devastating failure, rather than eagerly anticipating the opportunities there will be to bless others - and possibly even change the world (i am that optimistic idealist some days!) i need reminded of the truth. constantly. even as i hear the good news, it is already dissipating into a cloud of confusion. so i open my bible a... http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/212/the_phobias_of_a_chronic_amnesiac Tue, 6 May 2008 17:25:12 -0000 fake tv (episode 2) in this second installment i talk about the intelligent design movement. although i'm very sympathetic to the general worldview espoused by the movement, i ultimately agree with the detractors who say it's simply not science. watch the waffle and tell me what you think. http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/211/fake_tv_episode_2 Tue, 6 May 2008 00:00:00 -0000 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Blaine sets breathtaking record Link: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7376101.stm" title="BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Blaine sets breathtaking record">BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Blaine sets breathtaking record</a>. ok so he's a bit weird and creepy but his feats of endurance are pretty incredible - 17 minutes underwater - i'm breathless! http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/210/BBC_NEWS_Entertainment_Blaine_sets_breathtaking_record Sat, 3 May 2008 01:16:09 -0000 the gym, floods and funerals <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/01/img_8760.jpg"></a><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=873,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://www.fakerepublic.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/01/img_8760_2.jpg"><img width="350" height="381" border="0" src="http://www.fakerepublic.com/fake/images/2008/05/01/img_8760_2.jpg" title="Img_8760_2" alt="Img_8760_2" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" /></a>look at the lines on that face. i'm old. there's no more denying it. now, even when my smile is abscent, the remembrance of it is etched indelibly on my face (more disturbingly, the same truth applies for my frown). i'll be 37 in a matter of days, half way to 74 - i am in the middle of my life - middle-aged. don't get me wrong, i'm quite happy about my age. the only traumatic birthday i've ever had was my twentieth. i remember watching a crowd dancing at a party and getting so depressed because they were all teenagers - an epithet which would never again apply to me. since then, however, i've been happy being the age i am with no real desire to reverse the clock. nevertheless i have been having something of a midlife crisis since about the age of 14 - certainly from the age of 16 when i began reading sartre, camus, gide and the rest of the existentialists. (i actually pretentioussly called myself an existentialist for about six months back then). there are some unavoidable truths i... http://shanemagee.multiply.com/journal/item/208/the_gym_floods_and_funerals Fri, 2 May 2008 19:07:29 -0000 alli and gretchen at mud lake a wee photo shoot for fakefoto's nascent stock photography http://shanemagee.multiply.com/photos/album/5/alli_and_gretchen_at_mud_lake Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:51:42 -0000 random arty shananigans. http://shanemagee.multiply.com/photos/album/3/random_arty_shananigans. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:38:24 -0000 la http://shanemagee.multiply.com/photos/album/2/la Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:25:36 -0000