Ok so a new post! I hate school but I have to finish, why? I'm not really sure but all I know is I loved this school at one time and some how over night I lost that. So now I do ice which is a lot of fun but isn't really doing it for me like it used to. Whats next? umm time to live the dream, lets go fly planes. Any comments?

What is this picture? Well it is stanch Muslims (it means devout) during there holy month of Ramadan. These few guys sleep and stay in the mosque during this time fasting while the sun is up (they stuff there faces when the sun goes down) “Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. The Month of Ramadan is also when it is believed "the Holy Quran was sent down from heaven, a guidance unto men, a declaration of direction, and a means of Salvation". It is during this month that Muslims fast. It is called the Fast of Ramadan and lasts the entire month. Ramadan is a time when Muslims concentrate on their faith and spend less time on the concerns of their everyday lives. It is a time of worship and contemplation. During the Fast of Ramadan strict restraints are placed on the daily lives of Muslims. They are not allowed to eat or drink during the daylight hours. Smoking and sexual relations are also forbidden during fasting. At the end of the day the fast is broken with prayer and a meal called the iftar. In the evening following the iftar it is customary for Muslims to go out visiting family and friends. The fast is resumed the next morning. According to "the Holy Quran": One may eat and drink at any time during the night "until you can plainly distinguish a white thread from a black thread by the daylight: then keep the fast until night"
The good that is acquired through the fast can be destroyed by five things -
the telling of a lie
slander
denouncing someone behind his back
a false oath
greed or covetousness.
These are considered offensive at all times, but are most offensive during the Fast of Ramadan.”
I went on a field trip to a mosque and this is what we saw, people sleeping in there sanctuary. It blew me away that they were there (mainly because it was 11:30 am if that’s not lazy I don’t know what is. Jk) I had two roommates in University that were Muslims (and one Sikh guy, yes I feared from my life in that room as a Christian. Jk sort of!) and they did the fasting for Ramadan and it was an interesting practice to me mainly because they didn’t pray they just did the fasting and piled the food in at night (that there mom had sent them on the bus every two weeks all year! All they had to do was microwave it because they didn’t know how to cook at the age of 25 and 27. Yeah I know.) I have yet see one person in my Christian life to have this type of devotion to there faith. (The guys in the Mosque not my man-boy roommates.) So I ask when was the last time anyone took steps to fast all day or pray all night (which is funny to me because I have a sneaking suspicion that they were sleeping at night, kind of like the Peter, James and John in the garden of Gethsemane while Jesus prayed all night for the Fathers will the night before he liberated all from sin, if they so choose.)
So now I have had a sleeping problem off and on these last 6 months and I try to pray all night and man it’s good but it’s tough. I guess what drew me to this thought is I’ve been battling this problem am I being spiritual enough as I call my self a Christian, which I know throws up red flags and it did for me to until I found myself being pushed away from spirituality because of these red flags. I didn’t know where to draw the line, but now I do. So if anyone wants to join me in prayer or just getting together and talking about things that are more than just surface level, superficial drivel and go deeper (that’s me) let me know because that’s what I’m all about and I would love to share that time with other people wanting to act like Christians. I call it put your money where your mouth is time.
And that’s how we put the sprinkles on the cup cake of life!

There isn't a whole lot going on in life right now, but I do have some questions. When someone rejects God so they can gain an identity of there own, are they really rejecting themselves; since we are created in Gods image and there is a part of Him in all of us, (the part that gives us choice). Are they rejecting the part of themselves that would actually give them there identity and are they really taking choice away from themselves as they restrict there view of "the pursuit" of there identity. If they are doing this how do we show them that the one thing they are looking for they have just rejected? My other question is this, what are we doing in life that is allowing our “former absolute beliefs” to be blurred into obscurity that seems to lead to some sort of philosophical retardation! We create cyclical arguments that seems to confuse people to the point of not noticing that we’ve created more mental highs and lows in people than a bi polar, narcissistic, schizophrenic on ecstasy, drinking a glass of blasted church red wine with a rofie dissolving in the bottom while telling a joke about aids babies to THEMSELVES!
Just a thought.

Ok let’s try this again; I’ve had a pretty gut wrenching humbling week… why? Good question! I made the stupidest mistake I think I have ever made in my life (hence the apology in the post below) this mistake was so bad it even surprised me at how stupid it really was. When I make mistakes there not usually that bad but for some reason I guess I felt I needed to set some sort of idiot record. I put something on my blog that I really, really shouldn’t have and in doing that I hurt some friends who didn’t deserve to be hurt and I’m extremely sorry for that, ( I don’t think I will ever stop apologizing for this). The other big problem with this is that I put my credibility as a friend on the line, broke trust and even worse I put my leadership in question (which is one of my biggest fears) and so in doing this I have a lot of begging for forgiveness to do and a mess that I have to clean up that could take a long time. So if you are reading this and you know what I’m talking about then I ask for your forgiveness and I don’t really know how to tell you how sorry I really am, but I just hope and pray that you believe me. But not just through this post but if you leave a comment (or email me that you know what I’m talking about) then you will probably get a visit from doing this in person. If you have no clue what this is about then please pray for me because I’m going to be eating this mistake for a long,long time!
Mandeep

Sorry!

Well today is my Sabbath, I know some might question why Sunday is not my Sabbath and am I out of Gods will because I take my God day in the middle of the week (also known as hump day). The answer is no! I usually have to do things in church on Sunday and Tuesday which makes those days out and hardly a day of rest. So after two months of 3-4 hours of sleep a night, school, exams, young adult gearing back up and people peppering me with questions about girls, marriage and a non existent love life, I finally got a day off. Thank God for day seven. I got lots of sleep last night, woke up, worked out a little bit, took a shower prayed lots (I like to do it in the shower no one bugs me there) and have been doing a whole lot of nothing and I plan to do this all freakin day long.
I used to value my alone time but think I took it for granted, so God has shown me how important it really is these last few months, and man am I grateful for this one day. It might not happen again for a while so I’m trying to enjoy it as much as I can. Thanks for reading and God bless.

Well it’s been a really long time since I wrote a legitimate post so I think I will call this one AN ODE TO ME
What does it look like to live the life of me, well for starters I’m a Christian so being Indian and a Christian (with a Jewish Star of David that looks like a giant vinyl decal on my arm) I get a massive amount of ridicules questions thrown at me constantly.
Here is a sample: Oh is your family Christian? And I say yes. How did that happen? I say well there was this whale and it was beached so my parents went out to rescue it and as my mom pushed this massive 100 foot long 17 story beast back into the water with her bare hands and rolled up pant legs to her knees, my dad climbed up on to its head to look at the blow hole and he saw a little man inside. The man asked for help and said his name was Jonah so my dad being the wise man that he is said hey have a beer man it will make all your troubles go away. Jonah was very thankful and said hey my fair skinned friend (because my dad has really white skin for an Indian guy most people think he’s Portuguese) I hope God blesses you, and my dad thought about that and said to himself I would like God to bless me. Then cracked a beer himself while sitting on the slowly reversing whale when he did he heard a voice from in the can, it was a winning talking can and it said if you follow Jesus I will give you 3 boys and no girls and that’s how we got saved. As a side note the whale was fine and my mom got the key to the city from the mayor which was made of chocolate and we ate it as a family. (quick note I love stupid questions like how did that happen?).
Next question? Is Mandeep your first and last name like Man Deep and I say why yes it is and Parihar is my nick name not my last name and my family we all share the same nick name after our first and middle names. Ok moving on, next will be (and people actually say this) I’m so glad you are here to minister to the Indian people of our community to bridge the gap for us are you excited?. I usually say I’m not really Indian I have the same disease Michael Jackson had but just in reverse my first name is actually Man not Mandeep so I can see how people get confused. (I like naive people) Sometimes I think that I should buy these people helmets so they can walk around and enjoy everyday life pain free. Well that’s my rant because its really late at night and no one actually reads this stuff so I can humor myself as much as I want and I do. You can’t see it but I’m killing my self laughing right now I hope you are to.

Good Night