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Avengers 4 plot possible spoilers and predictions.

Today was finally the day. The much anticipated Avengers Endgame trailer dropped, finally #endgame. From what I can gather in this trailer, I will point out obvious things I think all of us as fans knew. As well, predictions on the things that jumped out and took a left turn on us. 

Firstly the opening to the trailer made me extremely, in isolation lost in space, drifting, alone, we see Tony Stark aka Iron-Man. We see what’s left of his helmet that I am assuming is busted from his fight with Thanos. The small craft he is in, and even him giving us a timeline as to how long he has to survive inside. From inside the craft, Tony begins to record a message. It is clear that this message is intended for Peppers ears. Basically this is his farewell, assuming and rightly so that we might be seeing his last moments here. This is where I want to jump in to theory for this scene. 

From the set leak photo, or phone hack we got a photo of Gweneth Paltrow wearing armour with a green screen behind her, it was also leaked in several reddit theories, that Pepper will play a more significant role, aka, R.E.S.C.U.E; Will make her return and along with some other heroes and save Stark. With what we know about how important the quantum realm will be in the upcoming movies, seeing the trailer brought another theory to my head. My other theory for Tony will be below. 

What if the remaining avengers aren’t going back in time for just time stones, on their way to retrieve the stones each of them will break off in to the soul world to save an avenger. With their rendezvous being the battle of New York. To ensure the safety of their meet they will need someone there holding off the shitari. This is where I think Thor will come in. 

Following the sequential method the Russo brothers are taking toward this movie, and infinity war, I think Thor will take a different trip completely to secure New York, and get a stone from his brother. This is where the asgardian magic he holds fast to and the science the avengers do will come to meet a similar story. Needing an army Thor could travel to the underworld and kill Surtur again, and by way of the Bi-Frost open a gate for the army of the underworld to fight the shitari. 

The for sure take away from the trailer is that Scott Lang aka Ant-Man, is assumed to be lost in the decimation, this is not what ensues. We see a cheerful and Paul Rudd being himself show up to where the avengers are. He will explain to them the power of the quantum realm and it is here that they will devise their plain to collect the stones and those lost. 

Black Panther’s kingdom will have to be overseen. By who, we can’t be certain, if I had to guess right now, M’baku. He has shown T’challa loyalty time and again and I think the elders and the Dora, will see this as grounds to let him take the throne. If he is off the table, Shuri. She is blood, and next in line, also in the comics she becomes a panther at one point. Speaking of Shuri, I think here we get Wanda, and Vision back in Wakanda. 

Knowing the genius of Shuri, the vibranium itself and aid from the avengers. I think it is possible we will see her bring Vision back to a state of being. Vision at his peak? maybe not, but time will tell. 

So where does this leave Cap Marvel? With Tony being in space the theory everyone will probably come to is that captain marvel will save him. My only hang up is that Fury paged her from earth so we know that is probably where she is headed, but, she could find Tony who knows. 

With sequels already in devleopment for Panther and Spiderman, theorizing how they will come back is not in my arena, I know they will have to give us closure with thoe characters that being said!  Can’t wait to wait for the movie!

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Detective Comics Business.

If you are a movie fan it is beyond obvious that movie culture and the nerds have had their full revenge and comic books along with fantasy and all myriad forms of fiction. The debate will always fall back to which one is the best, D.C. or Marvel? I believe D.C. is. Why? most responses have been BRO! bvs was terrible! Justice League was cheesy too much CGI just too crazy and fast... O.K. what about the first X-Men movies? Marvel ruined the most important sect of their universe by selling out to Bryan Singer. At least D.C. hasn’t destroyed a franchise. That being said we have come full circle to see Disney buy Lucasfilms and Marvel within the same year. Why? If you do research Disney is about creating history, making the vault bigger, so in short capitalism. They want real life Thor’s at their parks I don’t blame them or Marvel. I think with Black Panther and Infinity War pressing at our backs I’m pumped to see my favorite Marvel Superhero Captain America back alongside the avengers all of the warriors of Wakanda and of Course Starlord and the Groot all kicking butt as one team. (I’m super pumped for black panther, in my opinion he is one of the smartest members of the avengers, his foundation is martial arts, and he’s a mystical king to kingdom with technology years past ours existing in real time alongside a present day earth in another dimension.) 

Business on D.C.’s end

At the end of the year D.C. quietly announced a few deals that in my opinion are going to take the franchise down a much different less competitive stance against D.C.  

War of The Planet of the Apes Director Matt Reeves 

Following outstanding success re-booting a movie franchise from the ancient times, All the facts we know at this point is that Ben Affleck was slated to direct and star in 3 solo batman films. Now we know for certain Affleck WILL NOT BE DIRECTING NOR WILL HIS SCRIPT BE USED. Matt Reeves will direct ‘The Batman’ trilogy of movies that will stand alone from the DCEU. Going from this announcement since have provided no real clarity as to Affleck’s future in the DCEU, and two conflicting reports have emerged this week that only deepen the mystery. In the latest episode of his podcast, Collider’s John Campea revealed that a Hollywood producer let him know  that Reeves is setting up “The Batman” with an entirely different lead role in mind. “I’m hesitant to say anything, but I talked to a Hollywood producer yesterday who told me who Matt Reeves wants as Batman. And, I’ll be honest with you, the name they [gave] me caught me a little bit by surprise,” Campea revealed. “I called somebody else later in the day, saying, ‘Hey, I heard this, is there any validity to this?’ And they said, ‘Well, Matt does want him.’”The actor in question is Jake Gyllenhaal. 

Guillermo Del Toro is slotted to make a movie that will include the DCEU. We do not know what movie, or any of the characters, as secrecy is Del Torro’s Forte’ regardless rumors of a Spawn Movie have been on the forefront off this one. Spawn is neither D.C. or Marvel, regardless it is a great story and if made in to a movie it will be again dark, very dark. 

D.C. also named a president over films. Meaning the people who write these comic book’s wanted someone to overlook the movies on their behalf to get the message of the franchise across the way they want it. So who did they go get? 

DC Movies Finds New President With 'It,' 'Conjuring' Executive. Walter Hamada is named president of DC-based film production. 

D.C #dark

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When I Stopped Making Noise, I Worshiped.

For the last year I have, like any human being, had my ups and downs. The main lesson I have learned in this season is that, there is no growth without pain. 

Yeah typical cheesy one liner I know. This goes a lot deeper than just surface level wording. I am a christian, in a community called a church, in a place called a city. Within our community we are growing, we are embarking on big things. That if you would have told me about 5 years ago, I would have doubted you. For the last 4 months I have taken a sabbatical, to work, to rest in the gospel, and focus on school. Which meant not drumming. 

Not drumming for me wasn’t the hard part. The hard part was separating worship, and drumming. Paul says it this way... and he uses my instrument first to get the point across; if I don’t do things with love, I’m just a clanging cymbal. I could honestly talk to angels in front of you, but if I don’t love, it won’t mean a thing. Drumming is my instrument of choice, it is the way I express my musical talent. Just like anything else, one becomes conditioned can start going through the motions. We can get in a default network where it becomes more prominent than the big picture. In this case worship. 

After this I was brought to a place were I felt empty, without purpose, and worst of all, not driven. This truly pointed out that drumming was what I thought my purpose in life was. Far beyond this, throughout my career of being in worship, every good musician I met and was around for extended periods time, people who could play anywhere for practically any genre... but were called by God to do the work of the kingdom through worship. the Phillip Ellis’ Harrison Wood’s Dylan Koen’s Joel Hingstons, Tyler Dodd’s and a lot of others rarely talked about the instrument they played, or gear. They talked about kingdom, the body of believers and the bride of Christ. Drumming is an avenue of my purpose I do believe that, but it is not my one purpose. My purpose is to do what Jesus said, to go to the ends of the earth to make disciples, or at least for me, to leave my house!  I love the perceptions that God changes, having a perception change from God isn’t a cosmic acid trip, it’s really the opposite, God simplifies life to change perceptions. Put another way he re-aligns our focus, he doesn’t change our glasses all together. My glasses are to see people, others’ glasses or giftings might be teaching, might be speaking etc. The lens in this example is the particular avenue we choose to use the gift in. For me I could change my lens to make electronic music, to connect with a stranger inside my car. I’ve realized that people and connecting with them to explain the gospel through my actions is my calling. 

God has shown me in this time away from the stage; away from leadership that he exists in the intimate. God sent his son, to die for you and I so we could draw near to him. As a generation I see headphones I hear music constantly, I see social networking, becoming intimacy for some. And one question came to mind that I would pose to both my generation and anyone who gets stuck in the pace of this thing we call life. How comfortable are you with silence?  I asked myself this and challenged myself to one hour of meditation in complete silence everyday. After doing this consistently I started to remember music I had forgotten about, I cherished music. Another way to look at it... we appreciate food a lot more when we have been hungry for a long time. 

Have we forgotten the intimate? Can we love without striving to show it? I mean think of any long lasting marriage that has stood trial. Is that couple buying flowers for one another everyday? Are they penning poems to one another? No, they know that their love for one another is known it’s sealed, it can’t be shaken. We being the bride of christ, as Christians, take confidence just like this we know that we know. We are sealed unshaken. 

Paul refers a lot to the walk with Jesus, as a race. But he never refers to other runners. There is no race, just an arena, and me.. The one time it is implied he might be, he is talking about what has hindered us from our race, and most of the time that’s ourselves. The greek term for race... is agòn, at the definition it means struggle, it means quite literally agony, or pain. So Paul is saying christianity means agony. The verse could be read in this way, endure the agony set before you, because you know the reward. Are we all supposed to chase agony? No, are we supposed to race each other? NO. But if it comes he is telling us to enjoy it. because it will bring us close to our Love. Jesus. 

Overall I’m looking forward to the summer, playing again with my community and leading worship with new perspective. Knowing a silent moment is just as worshipful as a crazy song with strobe lights. For me my worship outside the 4 walls of church has become strong, gained endurance, and for this city for my community I had to stop making noise to truly realize what worship is. 

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I’m Dead Serious, I’m Spiritual

The concept of being spiritual has taken over most of self help books, intermingling buddhism with self help books aspects of christianity. It is purely seen in psychology, and even facets of biology, and science. I am happy that the two worlds are colliding. I believe that Jesus was God made flesh and he was sent to set the balance of our wrongs, and live a life we never could, so that we could be with our heavenly father whom we long for and crave. That being said, that’s about where I end in a normal conversation, if the conversation even reaches this point organically. I wanted to write this today mainly for the reason, I think with the subject of spirituality, there comes comparison. With comparison comes competitiveness, and with that, attitudes and patterns of defeat, cockiness, and in my opinion the worst of all, the dead serious spiritual guy no one wants to be around. 

When I am spiritually secure, striving ends. A lot of “self help” books and literature being published today, has hues and tones of this “go get it while it’s hot” mentality. In my opinion what this has turned into is a strong debate that I will talk about later, Entitlement vs Deserving. Teachers saying “If you’re not happy now, you need to bring in mindfulness meditation for thirty minutes a day, you need to read all day, and structure your day like a CEO to become one.” The last time I checked Steve Jobbs, Mark Cuban, Donald Trump, and other CEO’s really appear to not care, for them, and others who aren’t CEO’s they figured out the work speaks for itself and they don’t have anything to prove.  Alan Watts has one of the best outlooks on this, in his literature it’s like he’s arguing against himself. C.S. Lewis would do the same thing, but Alan looks at it like this if you’re trying your hardest to reach a place off acceptance and belonging, that in itself makes you inadequate because you have started from a place of inferiority. Start by saying I am good enough, and people are going to have perceptions of me no matter what. Social anxiety plagues my generation, because we fear the what if’s, We are searching for the worst outcome, and planning around that instead of looking at it like it’s temporary, people most of the time, are for you.  honestly the best cure for this is to laugh at yourself. Let’s say you have terrible social anxiety, like me. You go to a party, dinner with some people and you spill mustard all over your shirt. Everyone there is going to forget that happened in 5 minutes and move on. Regardless, hypothetically I take myself so seriously I will take this into the next 5 days and tell myself the reason that stranger was rude to me was because I spilled mustard on my shirt 5 days ago. I need to be perfect. I need to be... I need to be the best.... exhausted yet?

This is why I love the gospel....  no matter what progress or lack of progress I’m making, I’m still, just as saved as I was the first day. The feeling of being on fire loving the word and wanting to shout the good news from a rooftop goes away because I stop talking about it! Your behavior is a tell tale sign of what you truly believe in. And on top of that your words and what you talk about. And on top of that what the mind is being fed. You talk about what you love the most, and love is not dead serious all the time. 

It’s really hard to walk into a room full of chess players, and me having no idea of how to play chess start to talk to them about chess like I know what I’m doing. We have all been here, when you and your friends are watching some college football. Enter the person who really doesn’t know much about sports but wants to fit in, what is the first thing they do? Normally if it’s a man...  it’s talk about it the subject like they know what is going on. “Oh yeah, touch down, 7 points!” And the more serious they appear the harder it is to correct them. The guys who know about football in the room would probably give the guy insight but if he appears prideful, and arrogant, nah. You talk about what you love most, if you don’t talk... it doesn’t mean you aren’t loving be bold and courageous tell yourself gospel truths about yourself I’m more than a conqueror, I’m an heir with Christ. I don’t care what you think about Jesus stole my heart. 

Is not the same true with our walk with the Lord brothers and sisters? I truly believe the tone in society needs a shift from take me dead seriously I’m spiritual, to let’s laugh, and let’s crack jokes because we know beyond a shadow of a doubt we believe in truth. Jesus said. In john 13:35  “And they will know you are my disciples because of your love.” it’s simple we want to change the world... love, we wantt change our homes... love to every question jesus, to every problem, Jesus. That being said if we talk about Jesus and theology... and start to prove the ends before we explain the means,I.E. what he has done, what he is doing, his faithfulness, and instead jump straight to, well Jesus is ultimate truth, he was the son of God here is how I can prove it. By the word of our testimony they will come to know our father. Let those words be filled with joy, excitement and eager expectation that the best indeed is yet to come. 

If you feel like you are at where I was in this dead serious spirituality speak the word to yourself, if you’re the worst critic, be your best preacher! say it to yourself! proverbs 10:28 “The prospect of the righteous is joy” I’ve got joy today so I’m righteous, #noshamezone. Romans 15 may the God of hope fill you joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with the good news of the holy spirit. 

It baffles me that the writer of Hebrews even took it to the cross, joy at the cross? what? Hebrews 12;2 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he took on the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 

 by my joy, by my hope, by my love... people will know the gospel. Not my seriousness for the church and worship and whoa is me the world is going to hell because of this and that, so we need to get serious about faith? Don’t get me wrong I realize this is a battle, but the serious tones need to be taken to the enemy, the true enemy... the father of lies. not our brothers and sisters. Remind yourself that when you found jesus if it was like me it was joy unspeakable I just wanted to worship for days and I did ;) It was like you had found the for a rare disease and needed to take to everyone who had the disease. I wanted to tell the world, but you can’t tell anyone anything, if they don’t have ears to listen. This is why I think Jesus starts of most of his parables with, “let he who have ears listen.” basically if you want to know some good news I got it if you don’t that’s fine I ain’t tripping.  People’s ears will open up to your words once they’ve seen your verbs. Your actions. 

Let JOY arise. 

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Courage

In the world we live in men especially are inclined to believe that pride, prominence, and productivity are the most important things they can do. I don’t believe in this. I believe they are things we must do but not things we should hang our hat on. 

In reading and researching shame vs guilt I came across a very wise woman named Brene’ Brown. Her studies are supremely wise and they echo the word of God in some facets. 

Her findings basically uncovered that courage can’t exist until someone exposes a vulnerability, willingly. “Show me your vulnerability, and I will show you your courage.” This made me twinge a little bit because I hate getting vulnerable and telling people yeah I did that, yes I made this mistake. A person who considers that weak, has no wisdom. It takes courage to be vulnerable, and it takes being vulnerable to show courage. Such a great insight. 

Brene’ also works with special opps, within the army so before writing this off as sissy or new age. It is techniques we teach the greatest army on the planet. She asked some the special ops soldiers, “can you think of one case in battle where someone did something brave, and didn’t become vulnerable?” The room fell quiet. 

The best insight in researching shame vs guilt vs conviction was trying to be cool Trying to be cool is the opposite of courage. It basically puts on public display you are guarded, you are rigid in boundaries, and that you care way too much what other people think. The people who are comfortable in their own skin no matter what are the one’s I would consider cool. The ones who are at ease with life no matter what admit fault, admit defeat. That is cool. 

Show me your vulnerability and I’ll show you your courage”

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Driving for Uber tips.

So lately I was blessed with the opportunity to become a driver. If you know you know my all time favorite movie is Drive (Ryan Gosling, Nicolas Winding Refn). A great movie but driving for Uber is the opposite of that. In studying Alcohol and drug abuse in school, I’ve been blessed to hear stories that tie in to my education. Overall I’ve gotten to share to my faith, and hear testimonies and stories off others who are in the faith. Jobs like Uber are the future for the milenial generation. These tips are more personal on how to handle people, situations etc. then practical. 

1. Let people lead conversations- People are social it’s in our human nature to be social and communicate. That being said if I over compensate and try to show off my intelligence, my education that will stifle what a person is opening up to me about. 

2. Share your experience after. So after someone has spilled their guts out it’s best to remember these people are intoxicated and might or might not remember what I’m saying so the drive to make it memorable is stupid. Just sharing where I’ve been, and simply being with people, can open doors and God does the rest. 

3. It has taught me that service is worship- It’s great to learn this at a church like Stonegate who instills that we aren’t volunteers, we are servants and by serving Jesus, we are leaders, wether inside the church or outside. Yesterday I had a rider who was a single mom obviously struggling our destination was a laundromat. She came out of her apartment with three large black trash bags full of clothes. I had a choice to either play it lazy, let her walk with all three bags and struggle to put them in my car, but I did the opposite I served a stranger. Loaded all three of her bags in my trunk for her and took them in to the laundromat for her. When I came back to pick her up I did the same, she took a sigh of relief and I said if you ever need help again let me know. And she said, “you are my uber forever I’m giving you five stars!” She then said, I can tell you a man of faith, just happy to be happy and I said yes ma’am! I’m praying for her today. 

4. It is proven that people who drink in excess, or become alcoholics are in the gifted category of IQ- LISTEN... I had a rider who shared his experience of being in the arts and he was visiting family for Spring Break. Being an actor, he began to share how in New York what plays he’s done etc. The guy was obviously extremely smart. So I shared that I was a drummer playing for Stonegate, he said man! you guys are awesome, you guys are changing Midland you know that right? So I asked him to you go? and he said no, but my family does and they talk about it all day sunday. But after this I might go! Then it got real. He started to drop wisdom grenades. He said if you’re any good I’ve bet you left Midland right? He was right, yea I went to Austin for a while but got caught up in some bad stuff. he said, “I did the same exact thing but in New York.” I had to realize I dictate my talent my God given gift. It doesn’t dictate me”  I’m praying for him today as well. 

5. People love trivia! For example, I was giving a younger group of people 3 girls and guy a ride to a club in Odessa. They wanted rap music so I turned it to the rap station and yes... Bad and Boujee, was playing. We caught it at the beginning in which the producer for Future Migos Big Sean everyone right now is a guy named Young Metro. So every Future song, Migo’s or any song he produces on says. “If young metro don’t trust you I will shoot you in the face.” So I posed the question who is young metro? a girl said he’s the producer! I said ok do you know who he first produced for? 2002? no who? Outkast, look it up Andre’ 3000 put future on. She didn’t believe me so I said type in future/basement. And it all came up, Andre 3000, a member of migos and other rappers all used to record in Atlanta in one of their friends (young metro’s) mom’s in the basement and Young Metro produced beats and mastered recordings. Do I like rap right now. ehhh. Do i like giving people triviayes. Another example. A Hart song came on and the guy was singing Crazy on You and it get’s to the solo and he said, “bro who is this I’ve known this song forever” I said it’s Hart, he continued to rock, and belt it out even though his air guitar skills were much better. I was rocking with him playing air drums on my steering wheel. When the song finished I asked him if he head heard of Hart before and he said yeah! So the bonds of music is what I’m getting at overall. The best bonding over music time was when I was taking 3 guys to place named after a cat in between here and Odessa, it is also a car brand... but they were completely lit. Barely talking until... bohemian Rhapsody came on and they wake up and it was pretty much Wayne's World, in my car. 

Overall this experience has brought me back to a place where loving people no matter what they believe or don’t believe is what I’m called to I let my service and my actions speak louder than my words. And God can breathe anywhere he wants. 

Travis

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Growing through temptation

First off, I want to thank everyone in my life who believes in God and is quick to encourage me. I love encouraging, and getting the gold out of people! That being said, I’m writing this because growing up in church, it has become easy to recognize the good.  It is Always easier to rest on the laurels of yesterday, than it is to pioneer a new venture today. 

Temptation is something I had a twisted understanding off, for a very long time. Until recently I didn’t know the difference between sin, and temptation. I had heard several sermons, read books but never experienced the ‘aha’ moment off actually seeing play out in my life. Here is what I learned. 4 points. 

1. Temptation is a two way street- When I was tempted in the past I would write it off and say, well it’s God’s plan for me to be tempted, and maybe even his plan for me to fall in to sin so I can have greater dependence on him. That paradigm is so twisted!! temptation is a stepping stone or a stumbling block. Satan hates those who believe the gospel truly. His main tool against those people is temptation, to pin our thoughts, desires, and natures against us. Being a two way street, God also, allows temptation to grow us and ripen us. If you are going through a season of being tempted and maybe falling in to sin, hold fast and be strong you are just ripening! So if temptation for believers means to grow more like God we have to understand the character of Jesus. 

One of the most descriptive verses of the character of Jesus is not about the Jesus himself, rarely in the gospels do we see Jesus described at all. We are told what he did. Not who he was or what kind of guy he was, that is why he gave us the holy spirit so we could know him today, right now! He made clear who was, In the Garden and in the temple reading the scrolls he said, I AM. When the holy spirit controls you it will produce this fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness. The fruit’s are not microwaved, they are a slow cooked thanksgiving dinner, and each of them in their own plays a part in the meal, and thanksgiving wouldn’t be the same without turkey, ham, or cranberry sauce.... (patience)..... jokes. In other words the Holy Spirit is all of these and is love so when we have the holy spirit working in us, we posses all of these. Going with the same analogy they aren’t cooked all at once, or the kitchen (us) would implode. This passage from Rick Warren blew my mind but it is SO SIMPLE! The Gospel is simple!  God develops the fruit of the spirit by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you are tempted to do, the exact opposite.  For example I know some people who have come out of seasons of sorrow, self defeat, I am one of them, to experience joy!  peace develops by allowing seasons of chaos in our lives. Patience usually comes out of a season where we blew a short gasket. Integrity is built from seasons of lying, humility grows out of seasons when we are full of pride only to have it leveled. Every single time you defeat temptation, you grow closer to being like Jesus. 

2. Satan is entirely predictable. He has used the same process since creation. Paul even says. “we are very familiar with his evil schemes” Satan tempts in four steps. Desire Doubt Deception Disobedience. 

-He identifies a desire- It may be sinful, getting revenge, plotting, manipulation. Or he may use good desires, the desire to be loved, to love, to be valued. Satan starts with a thought, that you give in to evil or that you fulfil a legit desire the wrong way. The second one is especially true for me. He will make them seem like shortcuts, Shortcuts to something like love or value is often temptation. The whispers off, “you deserve it” or “Get it now while you can!” “It’ll be exciting... you need this to comfort you, you need to feel better now”  In my imagination I think of temptation as like invisible, plates of sin surrounding me. Temptation never starts outside of us it starts within us. The book of James especially ch. 1 is a straight up gps for how this works, James says, “We are dragged away and enticed by our own desires. There's a whole of army evil desires within you.’ So rid yourself of the internal desire, and the temptation can not attract you. Christ made it pretty clear if you right eye causes you to sin cut it out! If your computer is leading you astray, take practical steps. Leave it in a backpack, leave it another room. If your phone is distracting you from God turn it off for as long as you can. If you are tempted to be lazy, challenge yourself to workout everyday, make your bed in the morning so you don’t crawl back in to it! (that’s what I do ;) 

-Doubt- Satan tries to get you to doubt what God said about the sin, “is it really wrong?... Surely he just meant that for people who aren’t like you... Doesn’t God want you to be happy? The word says straight up watch out! Don’t let evil thoughts or doubts make any of turn from the living God. 

-Deception- Satan CAN’T tell the truth. Everything he says or whispers is never true, or half true, (deception). things like, “you are special... It will make you wiser... you won’t die....you can get away with it!... ITS ONLY A LITTLE SIN”  Get behind me! That last one has led me astray many times. only a little sin. That’s like saying “I’m only a little bit pregnant” eventually it will show. 

-Disobedience- The action, you finally act on the process above. You grab the cookie out of the jar instead of just thinking about it and standing in the kitchen. (Patrick Peyton). What began as an idea, turns in to behavior. People who study the law of attraction know how satan and God work and give us insights without even claiming to be disciples! They say things like, “We are what we think... Thoughts become things” It’s true and it can all be brought back to the word. 

3. DON’T BE INTIMIDATED- A lot of Christians get frightened at temptation, avoidance becomes the operation for all of life, so you won’t get tempted by something. You will never outgrow temptation Paul refers to a thorn in his side all throughout his letters, I will be tempted, it’s never a matter of if, but when.  With this recognize patterns of your past. When were you tempted? Where were you? These situations are especially places of weakness to fall in to sin. If you don’t recognize them, satan does. Being honest I get tempted when I don’t recognize my feelings, boredom, stress, anger, breeds a ground for temptation for me, so when these feelings arise I don’t flip out... I’m learning to say oh angry thought, let’s take care of that. God help me with this anger, I am your vessel and do not want to display anger. God rid me off thoughts of loneliness, let’s have fun just me and you God. Paul said “Don’t give the devil a chance!”

4. Request God’s help!!-  Send up the S.O.S. so many times I’ve said well I’m being tempted it’s too late instead of praying, victimizing myself before anything has even occurred, I put my amor on today lucifer so good luck. The bible garuntees that our  cry for help WILL be heard. In all honesty, it is hard for us to ask for help. That’s why temptation is easily fallen in to because satan knows most of us have this pride, “he won’t ask for help... he won’t ask a brother for help or guidance..” Or we are embarrased to admit we are being tempted. NO one is perfect not a ONE! Embarrased to go to God? Approach the throne with confidence, where there is GRACE! TO HELP US JUST WHEN WE NEED IT.  “Grace is God’s unmerited supply of wisdom for the need of the moment.” patrick payton. 

Every temptation is an opportunity to please God and do good. Temptations keep us dependant on God! Roots of a tree grow stronger when wind blows against it? When you stumble and you will, it is not a death blow. Remember a reward awaits for those who pass the test. “ When people are tempted and still continue strong, they should be HAPPY. After they have proved their faith, God will reward them with life forever.” 

MY TEMPTATIONS HAVE BEEN MY MASTERS IN DIVINITY

Matin Luther. 

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Having ‘awe’

Through out the last month I have had some time. Time to rest, time to stop, slow down, and see, truly see. 

Sometimes within the routine of life I loose sight of how unique life itself is. I lose sight of how short life is. And how I need to take advantage of my time that God has blessed me with and use it to his glory. No matter what the situation as morbid as it sounds we could all be taken in an instant. 

In reflection on this a paradox of meaning came, by realizing my insignifigance I gained sight in to truly what makes my life significant. And really it is nothing I have to offer. What makes my life significant is living in what I like to call a state of awe.  We all, as believers make up the body, and yes I do believe I am chosen for great things, we all are. But what happens when those things get old? As a drummer what if my arms broke tomorrow. If you’re a dancer you broke both of your legs, if you went blind, etc. Where does one’s identity come from when all material things are stripped of him? Faith. 

Being in a state of awe is being in constant communion with my creator. Realizing things like a good meal, running water, and overall the human body itself and how it works has had me in a state of awe. 

Did you know we process sunlight and scientifically under UV we radiate? did you know that the eyes we posses are more complicated than any camera we have invented? Did you know 80% of all experiences are our expectations going in to them? 

This can be linked back to another saying childlike curiosity. So it is no wonder to me, why Jesus told us basically to have this state of awe. When we go about life #adulting, at lest for me I enter this paradigm of what I can bestow to others. rather than letting others bestow on me. Letting wiser men speak in to my life. The bishop, T.D. Jakes’ learned this lesson early in life growing up his mother told him. “LIfe is the great university, everyone is a teacher. So everyday you wake up get ready for school, to learn something new.” 

Bethel’s Amanda Cook in a moment of spontaneous worship was somewhere on this journey, “may we never loose our wonder, wide eyed and mystified may we be just like a child, staring at the beauty of our king.” Creation itself is crying out in worship. Can you hear the song?

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Power in being powerless

What if I told you in order to succeed in life. You have to give up? 

Men of faith throughout western society, all thought we are in west texas it might not seem so... are looked at as weak. But In my life recently having gone through the worst year of my life last year, 90 days of complete hell, I wrote a lot in that time period and following these things have become abundantly clear. I didn’t predict the future, I merely observed the human condition for what it was. We are lost, until we find the shepherd. The true shepherd. This is what I wrote... call it memoirs from rehab. 

I no longer have to chase, I no longer have to desire to desire. My strides in life are not measured by mortal men. They are measured by the one true God. The moment everything feels like roses as a christian, that’s when I need to check myself. As a Christian, the power is found in powerlessness, in complete surrender of the will, the ego, and leveling of pride. When I get back to life and I start to progress, ironically, having overcome addiction, there will be skeptics. Some people will want to see me fail, as there are people for me, there will be people against me. I realize the truth of this battle though, that most people in the bubbles of life they create of comfort zones and lexapro and sedatives to go along with their drinks and excusable three to four glasses of wine at dinner... to go with their “shows” and to be “normal”  Jones’ Paul was called an alien, the disciples were written off as drunks, when they were filled with the holy spirit. NO MATTER what I will believe in the one true God. I will believe in the source of truth. Am I the guy who will wash the feet of the sinner of next to me? Or am I wrapped in my self so much I want the sinner to see how cool my shoes are and get saved. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. Having a true faith and a true desire to serve God even in this black hole of a dimension. I feel you. There is hell and then there is what satan has created in the mind as hell. This place is worse than both. But I will worship you. Through my silence. I haven’t heard music 75 days and I still remember the tunes of some songs, but I was told to sing my own song, to sing a new song. 

There is nothing I can do to get more sober than the next guy. In the same way, there is nothing I can do to become more saved than the next guy. My sins are ever before God first before any man. I find much comfort in that. The moment I give a man power over me, that is the moment I have lost sight of you my God, my friend, my best friend. I do believe ghosts, because, I know one. He is holy and he walks with me and speaks to me. I don’t care how weird this sounds the more weird the better. 

There are some things that I need to remind myself of everyday. There are things I can’t control and I have to be at peace with that. The things I can change I have to the courage to change them. Life is not a vacation, it’s a mission. it’s a calling because it wasn’t free. My conception of Jesus hanging from a cross has to be shattered. 

When Jesus was arrested in the garden he told his disciples, that he has the power to willingly take his life, or to give it away. Christ was not murdered he was aligned with his purpose. A purpose so great a responsibility so large, he sweat blood, and cried tears. 

All that time in some cosmic series of events. I was on his mind. 

He was thinking of all off us. When the cup looked too big. He took it anyway. 

I no longer chase the right situation. The right place. The right people. Truth is most christians I know chased a right situation. They got to a comfort zone and settled. I won’t settle for misery in christianity, and become a false martyr for my God, if I feel like I’m going in the wrong direction I probably am. If your holy spirit guides me to a path where I need to do what is right no matter what the cost, I’ll be there, my brother wrote beautiful words. “my faith will keep me breathing.” give me that faith Lord restore to me the joy off your salvation, for I did not create this gift!! you did. 

I have had enough of those people they’re soft, the truth doesn’t let lies exist. 

The truth does not compromise, there is no black and white. There is no right or wrong, there is man’s perception. I will obey the laws of the land and I will do the next right thing. Knowing I will make mistakes along the way. Any man who keeps a record of these, plays God love keeps no record of wrongs. it does not envy it does not boast it does not delight in the failings of others. 

One thing I know I find all I need in your unending love. There is no silver or gold no treasure I’m told that could draw me away from your heart. 

My ego and love of self can become that treasure. 

There are christians who have it all. Yet without love there energies are waisted. 

there will be people who want to see me fail. 

they wanna see me lose 

they wanna see me give up

what they don’t know is that I already have and there is one fighting for me who slays everything and puts scales back to where they should be. 

I gave up. And I won. 

To live as a christian for me that means leveling my ego. 

The moment it creeps back up father... make it known. 

My life is in you hands, I don’t know where I’lll be in 25 days but I know that I’ll be with you. Heaven is in me, everything in me has changed and there will never be a day where we aren’t hand in hand. I love you. with everything. 

After two years of writing this... it popped up and boy how I needed to read this. 

When I was a child I acted like a child but when I became a man I became a man, and no man is perfect. 

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The End of Inception Cobb’s Totem is Not the Top it is his Ring.

One of the most open-ended movies of all time... Inception has left countless people frustrated as to how the movie ends. I finally figured it out. After years of watching this movie it never get’s old. Also the movies hits on one of the greatest human fears off all time, what would happen if we went to sleep and never woke up? All that to say let’s start with what is known in the plot. 

Cobb (leonardo Dicaprio) is “the most skilled extractor” going into the minds of “subjects” to either steal ideas, and in this case to perform, inception, which is to plant an idea. 

Cobb, is presented, to “take a leap of faith” (a quote we see throughout the movie) and try to perform inception. Ultimately Cobb decides to go through with it to see his kids again. Whom he hasn’t seen in years. 

Cobb has only performed inception once. With his wife, and it ended in tragedy. Which brings me to my ultimate point. The totem. A totem being an object extractors like Cobb use, to know if they are in a dream or in reality, for example if your totem is a dice, in the dream it always lands on 2, in reality it might land on 5 6 3. you get the point.  Furthermore this brings me to my epiphone

In watching my favorite movie of all time for the 200th time, it dawned on me. Cobb’s totem is not his. It is his wives. With noticing this it draws the question, what is Cobb’s totem? my theory his wedding ring. In reality in the movie, his ring is not on. Cobb knows he is in a dream because he will rub his ring. We know the end is a dream, his kids have not aged if it was reality they would have aged 3-5 years and at least be in different clothes. 

The movie will not make sense and Christopher Nolan being the genius he is, a true master of creating art, to be interpreted. But eventually people noticed Davinci’s messages within his paintings. Although Nolan, is very privatized in writing. He is a true artist. He combines philosophy, faith, and the human notion that an idea is the most powerful thing on this planet, but they come from someone or something. 

Overall, the theory is simple. Cobb explains his totem, as “it used to be my wives” therefore, it cannot be his totem, this would be like taking someone else’s car and pretending that it’s yours. A totem you know the best only you. 

The top cannot be his totem because it was his wives. The totem is his ring. In dreams it is on. Levitt’s character Arthur, says simply by letting, someone else touch his loaded die it will ruin it’s purpose and he can’t use it as his totem. 

At the end of the movie, we see him ring on run to his kids, ring on. He has let dreams become his reality, In which Ariana hits on in the first 20 minutes off the movie, when she asks him, “Is that what you did let dreams become your reality?” he grabs her out of frustration he never says no and actually gets quite sad, and sorry.  

Cobb’s Totem is not the top it his wedding ring. 

Side note; in studying psychology, this movie is based on truth, do people do this to the extravagance of machine?, sedatives?, chemist and architects? I don't think so, but is it possible to plant an idea in someone’s head to the point of it being more powerful than a disease? a virus? yes! This is the philosophy in the movie, perception, is everything. And your perception, can become someone else’s inception in life. Inception can take place. It’s called cognition, catharsis and mirroring, in psychology, and in the movie at one point Cobb even hints at Cartharsis. If I want to plant the idea in your head that God is real, I don’t start by explaining my experience or my perception I would plant a seed, for you to water. First I would plant the idea that belief is real. Then I would hint at God being the source of belief... emphasizing your choice first, then when your choice is realized I bring the facts I share that God could only create the human eye etc. Then get deeper and deeper slowly but surely on your time it’s not a debate, I plant the seed and let you water, then, the true true facts present the reality, that a creating God scientifically makes sense and can be believed in. Then even deeper I emphasize over time the stupidity of not beliveng in God paradox, then eventually from both sides the idea is planted, two ideas really, mabe even three or four. Then by your awareness, you decide. We do it everyday, but did our ideas orignally come from us or television? media? internet or gossip, most of the time an idea is planted, but we water it.  

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Millennials take themselves way too seriously

My generation is terrible at lightening up. Everything is 100 percent crucial or 100 percent party and blahh. We honestly have lost touch with the self confidence that sparked our flame. We have turned self conscious. Can we take a joke? Can we laugh with each other without sending texts about someone under the table. The true challenge I pose is simple, tolerance. Can one have their own beliefs without pressing them on to anothers? To quote the great pastor Rick Warren, “We can walk hand in hand without stepping on each others toes.” 

Today I felt depressed, nothing in my life has happened to make me feel that way. But I do know that collectively we share a conscious. Collective conscious is the belief that we all effect each others ways of thinking. For example, If I tell my best friend I’m angry with rage, they will become angry with rage. People who share same ideas and beliefs,develop a shared conscious, or collective conscious. In my generation our collective conscious is not on the same page. 

I can only speak and act for myself but at the sight of people being excused from classes today to “cope” with Trumps victory I was appalled to be a part of a generation who are a bunch of sad sacks, and honestly can’t accept... they didn’t get their way. To me a protest is organized whining, you know who whines? babies. 

This election season was the first season that I didn’t vote for my parent’s favorite candidate, my friends’ favorite candidate. I honestly watched it all play out and the campaign got kind of funny to me. Is it bad to laugh at serious things? I think it isn’t. I think going into this season and this year, we as a generation have put way too much pressure on ourselves. Lighten up. Relax. And please realize that the best is yet to come in any situation. Your perspective is your perspective, but guess what? there is something called collective conscious, thoughts and feelings commonly shared by a culture or society. So in thinking for myself I add to the collective conscious, by choosing to take a joke I add joy to it. So quit adding negative into the soup. 3/4 of life is how you respond. So I beg those of you who feel like you didn’t get your way in the election. It’s over and you can’t cry over spilt milk. You know who does... babies

Travis

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Only three episodes to Supernatural, and I know how this will end.

Being a student in theology, old testament and new testament, and biblical studies, we talked a lot about things that take place in this show. In Revelation,  the arch angel Michael, defeats Lucifer, and he is banished to a fallen earth and bound in chains. 

At the root of all evil and all lies, is Satan. At the root of every good and perfect thing, there is one true God, his son, and his spirit. 

Satan doesn’t have a trinity so, this why demons will take the form of anything on earth to invade our souls. Our only defense faith that God sent his only son to be brutally murdered for our souls.The blood of Jesus and his resurrection power was real, is real and can save us, and can exist for all who call upon the name of Jesus. Will Sam and Dean let go of pride enough to believe in this idk? Will they get to a place of having to? I believe so. Questions that have been asked to me about this show?

1)Do Sam and Dean have angelic or demonic powers? No and No, can they powerfully influenced, and opressed by either side absolutely. Can they been driven to the belief in God. 

I can tell you from personal experience you can’t do this fight without quickly realizing you can’t be neutral as they seem to portray at the beginning. 

2)Can Sam or Dean become Angels? Biblically... No. Are they already angels? In the book of Isaiah, it says be careful who you are entertaining, for you might be entertaining angels. Therefore they walk among us, it’s my theory they’ve been what they’ve been the entire series. The matter of realizing their potential through spiritual revelation is crucial. 

3)Can they become Demons? biblically? NO it goes both ways but with the demonic realm, Demons cannot take human form, they can only invade an already existing human, that doesn’t believe that Jesus Christ is alive... I.E. possession. As long as they believe in God, Sam and Dean cannot be taken by Lucifer only strongly oppressed, in catholic terms, this can involve experiencing purgatory, to test the faith of a believer. After possession takes place; then that human becomes the demons vessel. So yes and no, they will always be dean and sam but they could get highly oppressed. And we will find out if they truly believe in God, if either of them become possessed. 

So how does all of this end? The hierarchy of angelic realms and demonic realms. The angels are explained in the synoptic gospel of Enoch, especially the archangels in detail. Michael, the archangel, will destroy Lucifer, banishing him to earth, to be in chains. 

How do Sam and Dean get involved in this? Heaven doesn’t need humans, hell needs humans. So by doing good work and killing evil things as the boys put it. They are doing angelic work. An archangel wouldn’t really take notice to this but other angels lower in the hierarchy are most likely already close to the boys, watching over them. 

They will get close to an archangel. And join the fight alongside him to destroy demons, and most of all Lucifer. 

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Netflix’s Glitch Fan Theory

With the flood of new shows coming to Netflix this season, producer’s had hard acts to follow. Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black, Marco Polo, Penny Dreadful have developed significant cult followings. But what are to watch in the lag time between these series’ new seasons?

Well one show has peaked my interest as of late, and out of all places Australia? A country synonymous with bad acting, both on television and the silver screen. Regardless the Aussie’s are making a comeback, on both fronts. The Babadook, was one of the best thrillers of this year and was an Australian film. And now for the television redemption we have been blessed with a supernatural suspense/crime drama/love story/drama. 

The series basically follows the returned lives granted to six individuals who literally dig themselves out of their graves, to find themselves all in the place where they died, a fictional Australian city called Yoorana, it follows head constable James, a cop to a small town, is overwhelmed with the task of trying to figure out how these people arrived back to life, why they’re back to life, and the meaning of this... The one thing that has been baffling people is that no one can figure this show out. 

I watch a lot of TV to say the least and even shows like Mr. Robot, Penny Dreadful, fans called the seasons plot and ending by the second episode with this show no one has even released a theory, so after watching up until episode 6, I will give you MY THEORY BELOW. 

For one it is all about timelines. Kate, James’ wife remembers her timeline first because she died the closest to the current reality, the cast members who died further away in history remember their timelines last, Charlie a world war 1 vet, and John who was a train robber in the 1800′s they get the memories of who they were last. The only exception to this, is Carlo who dies first, and Maria who died second, regardless they both died. So in my opinion the closer the risen ones get to wanting to live the closer the reality of who they once were returns. 

John’s whistle... in episode five, John blows his whistle that produces a train sound, at this sound every character including Paddy, the original mayor of Yoorana, who is somewhat the rogue of the bunch, even turns at this call, this as well as the attention Dr. Eliesha, has been giving him, tells me he is the most crucial character. 

In episode four we finally figure out that Eliesha a lonely small town doctor, has been digging to figure out the truth of who John is, I mean the guy doesn’t even say a word the first three episodes. Why is he so important? What makes him stick out? 

All of the characters in the show in some fashion had their lives TAKEN from them in what we would call an unjust fashion, tho most of the lost were murdered, John on the other was executed for the murder of dozens of people on a train robbery. WHAT’S THE CONNECTION in my theory everyone’s ancestor was on that train! They can’t leave Yoorana because It’s the will of their ancestors, to stay, With John being in the murderer seat of dozens of people, MY THOERY is simple, The Doctor, knows how everyone got back somehow and something about her bothers me as well she’s not owning up to all her knowledge... I believe she may have been one of the first to rise it just didn’t show her rising up out of the dirt. 

All in all the series’ is great, and that’s all I can assimilate as far as theory at this point. It keeps you guessing, because with every episode a new question is awoken from the recesses of these people’s lives. THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED...

1. Who will James love?

2. What’s keeping them from leaving Yoorana (the doctor?.... just sayin)

3. Is there a curse on death now in Yoorana because everyone who dies or has a near death experience, doesn’t come back the same. 

4. Why did this happen to only these certain people, why not everyone in the entire cemetery (thriller video cue)

PREDICTONS

The doctor has everything figured out, and as soon as she was brought the risen people, injected them with some sort of serum, that doesn’t allow them to leave a certain radius maybe a tracking device. James or one of the risen will figure this out and she will tell them and they will have a choice. Stay or leave, and try to explain to random strangers that you were born the 1800′s good luck. You’re only friends at this point as a risen person are the other risen

Sarah will get jealous, and kill Kate. #women

Paddy will end up killing some of his own family. 

Kirstie will find her true killer and kill him. 

Charlie will figure out who killed him and kill him. 

And thus we see the tables turn, and the murdered take their lives given as a second chance for granted to get back at what went wrong to try to set the scales right. 

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Songs Becoming Anthems

Lately I have had the blessing of serving my church, within teaching groups, doing youth on Wednesday nights, and serving at all three of our campus’ every Sunday morning. My perspective on serving, being totally a gift, not a birthright, and has completely shifted from a, “I deserve” to “I get to play a part of a vast whole” was and has been huge lately. As well as becoming part of our body fully. Being immersed in youth with sixth graders to being immersed in our vastly growing body in Odessa, and Midland. Seeing the whole being reality one part truly cannot function without the other, as Paul said. 

This past Sunday I had the privilege of getting to serve at our Odessa campus. It was somewhat a last second thing, my pastor texted me and said can you serve in Odessa, selfishly I was looking forward to the possibility of doing nothing one Sunday. But a very wise Australian man once told me “It’s never about my ability it’s about availability.”  So with this stance I’m always available. So in humility I said sure! Not realizing I was going in to our two year anniversary of having that campus! Odessa inside a Junior High is truly becoming a home to people of all ages races and walks of life. It’s beautiful. 

During Service I became immersed in a sea of voices.  An overbearing sound of a people shouting amen, singing loud! And this congregation was not that big, in comparison to our main campus, but something struck me and God and I kind of had a special moment I hope to not forget, he kind of lowered me and said, you know you aren’t leading this service right? they are! Sure I’ve looked at churches like Hillsong where this happens and it’s normal, but for our church this is beginning to become a normal thing. The congregation completely taking over the service, and worship time and making it theirs. If they want to sing “This is amazing grace this is unfailing love, that you would take my place, that you would bear my cross.” for 10 minutes, that no longer becomes a song, it becomes an anthem of our people. If our congregation wants to sing, “your life your death your blood was shed for every moment, every moment.” for 15 min I am down to play the beat or not play and just listen, and again, this becomes more than a song, or a statement, or even a personal truth, it becomes a collective truth for our people, that they believe this to be true! It becomes an anthem. I’m blessed to get to experience this shed a tear, in remembering it feels like just yesterday we were talking about this campus and now we’ve been here two years and these people of God are shouting anthems to the king. Fight the good fight. This life is a marathon, as I pace myself, I 

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Mr. Robot theory #2

If it isn’t obvious already, I love Mr. Robot it is by far the greatest show on cable TV. This season in particular has had me at the edge of my seat pretty much every episode. But taking classes and doing homework and keeping a consistent GPA has left non time for my binging  to formulate theories. But this time I didn’t have to... this one just clicked. There really AREN’T spoilers ahead unless if you haven’t seen season one. So here it is. I have two really, so here they are in order of most sensible or outrageous. 

Elliot’s snow globe theory. 

This theory suggests that as crazy as it sounds that everything is in Elliot’s head. Everyone and everything is a projection of his dark mind. No reality, not even New York is as dark is the reality portrayed in this show. On reddit they’re calling this the Tommy Westphall theory, in a show called St. Elsewhere an autistic boy named Tommy creates his own world in inside of a glass ball, the show continuously hints at Elliot’s preferences Back to the Future 2, American Psycho, and makes odes to these with dialogue and character play, the dark army, Fsociety, in this theory are all characters or projections, in either a lucid dream or an alternate reality.  It’s not that crazy if you consider the first 4 episodes of season 2 when we thought Elliot was at his mom’s house and was in a cell. It clicked for me when I recognized Angela Moss’ (Portia Doubleday) contact number in his phone as Claudia Kincaid, Claudia Kincaid is a character is a character Angela refers to a book, I knew I had heard the name before but on the show there have been several characters throughout TV named this but the most relatable, is from a book and a movie called, “From the Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankenweiler. In that book and movie Claudia is a 12 year old girl who is distressed and wants to run away, this mirrors what the dialogue in episode 10 While Darlene, is talking about getting kidnapped or running away, Elliot get’s the call from Angela, contact name Claudia Kincaid. Every twist has had one common thread especially the finale’ of season one it’s all in Elliot’s head. 

White Horse is the CEO of EvilCorp and is Controlling Phillip Price who we assume is the CEO

The head of the dark army transgendered Whitehorse played by (BD Wong) is an interesting character, either he is in control of everything through time, as in he controls time, or a more valid theory that is validated by his closeness with Price is that HE is the true CEO of EvilCorp unknown to everyone in the company but Price. If you remember at the end of season one. The main twist was of course figuring out the infamous #whoismrrobot and that Christian Slater isn’t even real, Elliot’s been seeing and talking to his dead dad the entire the show. But the twist on top of that, is that White Horse and Phillip Price are seen at a dinner a celebration dinner of the hack, in cahoots with one another. If you remember in season one Whitehorse works for the Chinese government, who at the stage of the fallout is much more powerful than the United States. But it wouldn’t be in Whitehorse’s M.O. just to buyout America for China, in my opinion he already owns Evilcorp and is destroying it so he can rebuild it and profit from the rebuild, destroying the main one percent man Price. The conversation he had at the end of season almost had me typing this then but I wanted to see season two play out and it has, all supporting this theory. Right before the credits roll on the finale’ of season one in his conversation with price, he compares himself to Nero, who infamously burnt rome to the ground to rid it of christians, and build it back up, the way he wanted. Could it be possible Whitehorse is burning america to the ground all to get it to a place to where he can build it up the way he wants to, and essentially with the support of Fsociety and his own dark army rule the world, Elliot wanted to change the world. Whitehorse wants to rule it. This for sure will be the conflict we see play out at the end of season two, and the following seasons. I’ll end with questions that have to be answered for season 2 make sense. 

1. Where is Tyrell? (he has to be alive or someone is posing as him)

2. Will the connection between Mr. Robot and Elliot be settled?

3. Who is Angela about to meet?

4. What will Elliot have to do, and who will he have to meet to fix this all?

5. Is FBI agent Dom on FScocieties side? (she hasn’t followed any leads on Elliot who has already been in jail) is she provoking Angela to get to Elliot?

6. Finally WHAT IS PHASE 2???

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It Follows film review

So one of the best horror movies of this year in my opinon was It Follows.

Plot. A girl meets a guy who thinks she really could love, or have a relationship with. They have sex. After their date they do the dirty, and he pulls some shady stuff, and kidnaps her. After doing so, he tells her the key words. “It will follow you no matter where you go, the only thing you can do is spread it to someone else.” hmm here come the STD jokes. The ‘it’ is herpes! it’s AIDS! Here is my theory and review of the film. pros and cons what have you. 

The it is an incubus/succubus. (a demon transferable or that comes through sexual activity either through self pleasure or fornication). That decides to take human form to develop a realness to those whom it’s’ following. 

The director pulls a Quentin Tarantino on us #pulp fiction and plays with the timeline, dirty. When you understand this the film clicks it projects in reverse order somewhat. To clarify some scenes placed in the middle of the movie (boat scene)  had to do more with the plot some scenes at the end have more to do with the beginning, (porch scene with Greg).  

The movie focuses on overcoming through love rather than fighting with fear. Unlike most Scary movies these past years like Sinister and Conjouring, The main characters in this movie have a great chance at defeating “it” it’s just a matter of how is what keeps you at the edge of your seat. 

The movie is underestimated highly. And I can’t wait for the director to put out more work. 

The explanation is simple. if you look on twitter, and read the director’s explanation for the movie. 

It left people so confused on what “it” was they missed the meaning of art, interpretation. They were up in arms, but after he took to the  press and social media things died down because his explanation although not as spiritual as mine kind of makes sense. Reviews went up.. 

WARNING; For the Sensitive_it is extremely dark toned, nightmarish, and has some nudity other than that, it is driven by pure suspense and storyline, NO course language, or extreme violence. just pure storyline. 

Great movie I give 3.5 out of 5 stars. 

Cons 

No Character backstories unless if your from Detroit you’ll have no idea where these people are. Or the living situation, A random ensemble of 4 girls under one roof is a scary movie alone. 

No strong male lead. As is the case for most movies in 2016 besides super hero movies it’s focused around a girl lead. Not only that it makes every male in the movie either weak crazy or a creeper. 

There is no absolute answer, it is left up to viewer theory like all art should. 

Travis 

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USA’s Mr. Robot’s Weirdly Prophetic Nature.

Society today is 90% technology, and 10% human interaction. “We mistake social media with intimacy.” “We cosign ourselves to a wall of bull.” Elliot Alderson. After the recent events of ‘wiki leaks’ the Sony hack by North Korea, Justin Bieber’s leaked nudes. We’re left wondering is what I’m putting on the internet only seen be me? whose watching? Whose listening? Is anyone safe? Does a password really do anything? Does a private profile really mean anything the harsh reality in our society is, no.  

Mr. Robot has capitalized off of this paranoia. But Instead of making us feel more insecure about it, the show depicts the grey hat group of hackers F society. In hacking there are three different types of hackers essentially. White hat hackers, the guy at your office who is the ‘tech guy’ or maintenance men who control servers and monitor networks. Next Black Hat’s The polar opposite, the guys who would hack to set off a nuke. In between is where we find the hacker group from Mr. Robot Fsociety, Grey Hat’s somewhere in between the white and black; of good and bad, do they do illegal things, yes, but are there motives for good yes. Hints one of the many draws of the show. Separating bad from evil. vigilante hacker’s like the show’s lead character Elliot expose bad people and “save the world.” The show does good for our generation today who would rather look at a screen than make a human connection, it reminds us how to keep a secure network and all around practical sense when it comes to technical security. Set better passwords that aren’t your date of birth and your dog’s name. The show is a beautiful depiction of how technology has replaced reality today in society. How, “social media, replaces intimacy.”

But the reason I’m writing this article is to bring something to your awareness that even if you don’t watch the show will be compelling. What if I told you on two in two separate occasions, Mr. Robot predicted the future. They prophesied into current events and scripted headlines, before they turned into real ones on the news on two separate occasions. 

1. The Ashley Madison Hack. Ashely Madison is... well a “dating” site for online users’ I say “dating” but their slogan is “Life is Short Have an Affair.” Last year on Mr. Robot, Elliot,, uses Ashley Madison in the pilot episode to expose a man ‘Lenny’ who is dating a woman he is close to, and to steal his dog... all for his pill provider, his therapist.. typical Elliot. Also; it was in the original script for the finale to contain Elliot mentioning Ashley Madison again, but writer, executive producer, and director, Sam Esmail,. The week before the finale’ aired, Esmail, off of a gut feeling... decided to keep the websites name out again. The hack in to Ashley Madison’s main server went down. When the hack actually occurred, he was quoted, “this is too much. I’m overwhelmed” lol. The hack was performed by “Impact Group” a new vigilante group of hackers and when I say vigilante this is about as vigilante as it get’s ‘Impact group’ who embarrassed 32 million users by exposing e-mails, pictures, and “vivid profile details.” Their motive? “to stop the promotion of affairs.”  Ashley Madison has recently put out a 500,000 dollar bounty for the identification, trial, and prosecution for anyone who can locate the person or persons behind it. Several men have countersued saying the site exposed private information. Oh the irony. Another motive for ‘Impact Group’ was to expose a con the website uses to keep you hooked on the site. According to reports to delete a profile on Ashley Madison you have to pay $19, even still, your profile isn’t deleted, it’s just moved from the main website to a a different storage for keeps. Mr. Robot predicted their vulnerabilities to a tee in the show. And make it eerily similar to reality itself. They ended up delaying the finale’ a week due to this issue and due to the great sensitivity of the next issue. 

2. The shooting and killing of a news anchor on live T.V. in Virginia. This one has nothing to do with writing mal-ware, or coding a hack but still is eerily similar to real life occurrence. Last year a man was murdered on the set of a live news brief in Virginia. Months in advance. Esmail wrote in the script that at the climax of the finale’ a business executive would commit suicide on national TV, due to the overwhelming sense of guilt he feels when ‘FSociety’ the show’s vigilante group, erases the nations debt to all citizens. The scene is one of the most graphic in the show. And viewer discretion advised, not just for this scene but the whole show. 

It is scientifically proven there is no such thing as a coincidence. The show depicts my generations obsession with technology. Our stupidity with private information, and our need for a change in that. Half the battle is lost by not the hackers, but the hacked for not being secure. So in this equation it brings to light great moral compass questions... is it right to expose a man in infidelity to the masses? What’s bad and What’s good, What’s bad and what’s evil? What does good look like in society? Well in the show it comes in the form of Elliot a kid who is honestly crazy, strung out, has horrible social anxiety problems, lives alone in Brooklyn, but at his core, he knows what’s good that’s all that matters . I love one of the show’s opening scene's dialogue. A man says to Elliot, “that’s all you want is money, I can get you the money,” you can hear the desperation in his voice, In paper Elliot has his torent browser history of child pornography, a terabytes of it on paper in a file face to face. Elliot approaches the business owner, with this information, Ron’s response, “i didn’t hurt anyone, this is my personal life! he’s desperate to show that he’s not evil, but he is, After some debate, he replies, “That’s all you guys want is money, that’s all this is about.”  Elliot’s response, “nah man I’m different, I don’t give a bleep about money.”  

T-rav