{"id":306,"date":"2005-02-06T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=306"},"modified":"2005-02-06T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T20:08:00","slug":"306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2005\/02\/06\/306\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey<\/p>\n<p>I saw this on a friends (Hiarys) xanga.. so I decided to copy it here.<\/p>\n<p>A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.<br \/>As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.<br \/>They talked about so many things and various subjects.<\/p>\n<p>When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: &#8220;I<br \/>don&#8217;t believe that God exists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do you say that?&#8221; asked the customer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn&#8217;t<br \/>exist Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would<br \/>there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither<br \/>suffering nor pain. I can&#8217;t imagine a loving God who would allow all of<br \/>these things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The customer thought for a moment, but didn&#8217;t respond because he didn&#8217;t<br \/>want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer<br \/>left the shop. Just after he left the barber shop, he saw a man in the<br \/>street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked<br \/>dirty and unkempt.<\/p>\n<p>The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said<br \/>to the barber: &#8220;You know what? Barbers do not exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you say that?&#8221; asked the surprised barber. &#8220;I am here, and I am<br \/>a barber. And I just worked on you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No!&#8221; the customer exclaimed. &#8220;Barbers don&#8217;t exist because if they did,<br \/>there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like<br \/>that man outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Exactly!&#8221;- affirmed the customer. &#8220;That&#8217;s the point! God, too, DOES<br \/>exist! What happens, is, people don&#8217;t go to Him and do not look for Him.<br \/>That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s so much pain and suffering in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think its a good story.  But I can&#8217;t believe that my last post even got props.  Woohoo hahaha<\/p>\n<p>So right now.. I&#8217;m listening to Styles P &#8211; Good Times (I get High).<\/p>\n<p>Its a good song&#8230;. okay.. maybe not.  but I still like it for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend.. hmm.. its not over yet.  Today is the big superbowl day..  and I&#8217;m going for New England.<\/p>\n<p>What did I do this weekend&#8230; Friday&#8230; Blazers won, one of the best events of the evening.  I was going to go to bible study.. but didnt.  I went to talk to Ingrid &#8211; origrinally we were only going to talk until 6 or close to 7, but we talked til 9 &#8211; right through bible study.  Ah well.. good conversation is hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p>Not for me. haha<\/p>\n<p>After that I went to Andys house &#8211; hung out til maybe midnight.  At which point I met up with Tara (outside Andys house) and we talked til about 1:30.  Then I made her go home because she had work the next day&#8230; so I got home at like 2ish.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday.. woke up late.  It was my moms birthday.. so we celebrated&#8230; after getting over a dispute we almost had for the whole day. haha.. fun times.  Blazers won again.  Good times.. 3 game winning streak.  And now they are only 6 under .500, so they&#8217;re starting to turn things around.  Before I go off on a rant about them, lets finish the weekend.  Went to chruch.. heard the pastor from Epic Christian Church (a new church) speak.  It was good.<\/p>\n<p>Id fish you people out.. even if you were keys that fell in the crapper. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Went to 242, hey look at this people.. www.242online.com .. thats the thing I&#8217;m always talking about.  So.. now you can see it online.  All the links don&#8217;t work.. but they&#8217;re working on that.<\/p>\n<p>After 242 came home to give my mom her presents.. then we uh&#8230; oh.. I didn&#8217;t know what to do.  So Tara was on her way to Wal-Mart (booooo) and we decided to do something.  However no movies were playing, bowling ehh.. didn&#8217;t feel like it.  So we rented Friday Night Lights and watched it.  It was eh.. so so, it didn&#8217;t turn out like I thought, and I wonder what the big deal or the purpose for making the movie was.  Ended up going to sleep at like 3ish.<\/p>\n<p>I got to wear my Red Blazers Jersey.  Damon Stoudamire.. woohoo.  My fav player&#8230; he rocks.  Hm.. thats it for me!<\/p>\n<p>Hope everyone had a great weekend.. didn&#8217;t get too stupid and do something they&#8217;ll regret.  <\/p>\n<p>Take care&#8230;God Bless<\/p>\n<p>Pray Hard<\/p>\n<p>Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey I saw this on a friends (Hiarys) xanga.. so I decided to copy it here. A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.They talked about so many things and various subjects. 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