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“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
My First YouTube Appearance
By Lester | September 16, 2011
Ed Healy recently did something he called a “Gamerati Tour,” driving across the US from hobby store to hobby store, to promote local shops and the game hobby in general. (Thanks, Ed!) Along the way, he shot a bunch of short videos of people involved in the hobby. Here’s my recounting of a creepy dream:
Don’t miss my friend and fellow Alliterate Matt Forbeck‘s memories of first playing D&D, and Phil Glotfelty’s wonderfully funny, touching story of being a blind store owner dealing with his first ever deaf customer.
Plus, you’ll find many more gamerati videos where those came from. Enjoy!
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Are You Proud to Be an American?
By Lester | September 15, 2011
Are you proud to be an American? Do you proudly recite the Pledge of Allegiance, the way we used to be taught in school, and don’t care who it offends nowadays?
Consider this: Jesus said, “My brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation” (James 5:12; also Mattthew 5:34).
A true patriot doesn’t need a pledge, nor the words “In God We Trust” on our money. (Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple with a whip!) Those things are mere lip service. And if we aren’t careful, they become mindless war chants.
If you’re a Bible believer, you have to admit that book takes a pretty dim view of pride. Consider Proverbs 11:12, “When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom,” or the famous Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Consider the apostle’s words in 1 John 2:16, “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” In fact, it seems impossible to find a single positive use of the word pride in those scriptures.
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Twitter Promo
By Lester | September 11, 2011
Hmm. I currently have 593 followers on Twitter.
Tell you wnat: I’ll send the 600th follower a Popcorn Press book of his or her choice.
And if you Tweet this or make a Facebook post, and send a message saying so to contact at popcornpress dot com, you’ll be entered in a drawing for a free Popcorn Press book as well.
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