Dam*it, we need more community

Myself, 58yr old man Len, 34 yr old Tim, 26 yr old Ben, and fellow 23 yr old Tommy gathered together for an evening of beer tasting, story telling, encouragement, and toilet plunging. I think that maybe, just maybe, that was a glimpse of heaven.


(not us or anyone we know)

I want compromise, not war

One thing (yeah probably the only thing) I've never understood about women is the demand for the toilet seat to be put down. I could understand women preferring to not have to put the seat down themselves when they do their thing. And I would gladly serve and honor their request by keeping the seat down. However, the fact that this request makes their big top 10 complaints list, doesn't make sense. And here's my main reason why this is an unneccessary, counter-productive, you-don't-really-have-a-good-point complaint:

It would make more sense to demand the lid be up so you don't get splattered sprinklings of male urine on the toilet seat. If the toilet seat gets kept in the upright position, you'll at least have a clean one when it comes time to sit on it. If you demand they put it down, you run a great risk of getting a dirty one. And most guys unfortunately, will not clean up after themselves if the lid remains down. So basically by you demanding we put the toilet seat down you're saying "I'd rather have the seat down and possibly have to wipe your urine off of it than have the seat up and have to touch it to pull it down."

In light of this, I would recommend a more accurate complaint. Instead of writing notes, making signs, getting tattoos that say "Please Put the Seat Down", I think a wiser, more effective message would be "Please lift the seat up, then urinate, then put it back down for us. Thank you guys for being so awesome and manly."

Don't Waste Your Life

"Maybe you don’t care very much whether you make a lasting difference for the sake of something great. You just want people to like you. If people would just like being around you, you’d be satisfied. Or if you could just have a good job w/ a good wife, and a couple of good kids and a few good friends, a fun retirement, and a quick easy death, and no hell, --if you could have all that (even w/o God)--you’d be satisfied. That is a tragedy in the making. A wasted life. " - John Piper

According to this, most of the people in evangelical churches (dare I say Redeemer Pres, Christ Community Church, Carriage Lane Pres.) are wasting their life, myself included.