Reflections about life, Scripture, culture, and the mission of God. I hope to always keep the mentality of a growing minister; like a perpetual Timothy (I Timothy 4:11-16).
We keep the blinds slightly up in one of our bedrooms so that in the morning, Nacho can lay on the carpet on the spot that the sun has heated up.
You might notice her collar and name tag. Our friends were over a couple of weeks ago with a 3-year-old son. He saw Nacho's gold medal name tag and excitedly told his mother that Nacho had gotten a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics, which had been going on. I guess she's a world champion cat.
I found this article pretty shocking. If this stuff has been on the news, I just haven't seen it yet. Apparently, in the opening ceremonies, this little girl's flawless performance that everyone has been raving about was actually sung by a more portly young woman. Some Communist official thought that even though the girl's voice is perfect, nobody wants to have to look at a fat kid in the Olympics opening ceremony. So she was recorded, and the cute girl lip synced it in front of 91,000 people. Reminds me of C&C Music Factory when they had the slim attractive lady in their video singing, "Everybody Dance Now!" which was in fact a much larger black woman's voice whom they didn't want to put in their video.
Also, some of the televised fireworks where they appeared to be making foot-print explosions approaching the arena was previously created using CGI to make sure that everything appeared completely flawless.
The Chinese guys in charge find it puzzling why this bothers anyone, and see no problem with anything they did. I think this highlights some of the intrinsic differing worldviews that the Chinese have compared to the West. We really do not share the same basic moral assumptions about a number of things.
I'm curious what direction this will all go from here.
We keep the blinds slightly up in one of our bedrooms so that in the morning, Nacho can lay on the carpet on the spot that the sun has heated up.
