They're Germans.....Don't Mention the War

When in work this week I caught myself giggling thinking about this hilarious scene from Fawlty Towers. I think that the people that i work with must think I'm slightly insane. Hope this makes your day a little funnier.

"I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it"

Up on the Hills

Me and Aaron went for a walk on Saturday, what a beautiful day. I'm really going to miss the hills on the island, this last year I've really got into walking a lot since doing the BELA course with Steve'O. We started at the Claddaghs and went up to Sartfell and got picked up on the mountain road by Dawn. We had a great time even if Aaron was a tad sore at the end of it! Aaron really enjoyed the high quality catering service we had for lunch Hopefully I'll be able to get out a few more times before we leave. Heres a couple of pics, more are available on our flickr.

Cursed Tapes

Ever seen cassette tape wrapped around a lamppost or spread along a bush and wondered what it is? It seems even more strange these days seeing that cassettes are hardly used anymore.

I've heard it from quite a few Family Members that one thing that satanists will do to try and put a curse on a location is to record chants on to cassette tapes and then spool the tapes around lampposts and fences nearby. I remember one year at firestarter there was some spread along a bush at the entrance. I'm still not 100% sure whether or not this is true and if it is then what kind of effect it is having. Just last week one of my friends said that he saw some on the mountain road, within a week there was a fatal crash and another very serious one not far from where the tape was. If these tapes are infact having a spiritual effect what can we do about it? Well if you see some at the side of the road just pick it up and break it in His name and then bin it. On the Isle of Man there is quite a strong occult influence even though its quite well hidden. If you speak to someone involved in the occult they will confirm this. But our prayers can make a big difference. Last year before the TT the CMA rode around the TT course praying for safety during the races, during the ride out they were not able to ride through one short stretch of road because it was closed at the time so they went around it and joined back on the course later. During the whole festival there was only one fatality on both open and closed roads (usually its between 10 and 20), and it was on the stretch of road that the CMA didn't pray on before hand. This year was one of the safest years ever. This just shows how powerful our prayers are!!

Anyone else had any experience of this?

Fight Club Part 1

Yesterday I watched the start of the film “Fight Club” and although it's not for the faint hearted surprisingly I got a couple of really profound lessons from it. I recorded it off BBC3 the other night and didn't even get to the actual fight club starting because the recording was interrupted halfway through....doh. Anyway here's what I got.

Ed Norton's character is a guy with a well paid job and totally obsessed with materialism and getting items that define him as a person (mostly IKEA furniture). Yet although he has loads of nice stuff it doesn't satisfy him, as a result he suffers from insomnia. It's amazing how easy it is for us to get caught up in the same traps, even believers. So often in western culture we get so obsessed with the vain things in life, and think that the smallest things are so important. I'm as guilty as anyone, having to take time to think about which colour paper clips I am going to use when I pass my work over to the next guy at work. The same attitude stretches to us wanting more luxury accessories to make our life better. I remember hearing about these things called eye-trek glasses, they were basically a virtual reality headset which you could play PS2 games on. As soon as I heard about them I had to get them, I was longing after them for months and then when Jenna and I sold something we split the money and I got the glasses straight off. When they arrived I was so excited and played them for ages, soon I realised that they weren't as great as I thought they would be and after a while I didn't bother to use them any more, now I'm trying to sell them to another sucker. We can often act as though these material things matter so much, that they will in some way bring a new level of satisfaction. Maybe it's a new house, a new car, a new HD 42” LCD TV with surrondsound, a new hairstyle or a holiday somewhere exotic. The truth is that it all turns to ash in our mouths, while it might be nice for the moment it always leaves us wanting something better. What happens when we live the materialistic life is we get similar to Ed Norton's character in the movie, he had insomnia which he describes as being “never really awake, but never really asleep”. When you live totally for material possessions you are “ never really alive, but never really dead”. There is only one way which we can be satisfied: by giving everything to the Lord. It seems crazy to our modern greedy way of thinking but He is the only one who can make us happy and satisfy the deepest hunger. Maybe we should try doing what we often sing in the famous hymn:

“All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood”

Otherwise in the words of Tyler Durden "The things you own end up owning you"

Anyway Tabitha has woken up and needs a nappy change and some milk, more later....