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Algunas opiniones respecto a las declaraciones de que Rob Bell es universalista

bertobox — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:21:51 +0000

Tiendo a opinar de forma más similar a Micah Escamilla quien agregó sus comentarios al video de Rob Bell, en vimeo y menos como Justin Taylor, quien después de ver un video de tres minutos —el cual no desacredita la Biblia, ni declara absolutos, el cual lanza preguntas y deja una indicación que la Biblia responde con poder y de una forma maravillosa a las preguntas que muchísimos individuos en nuestro mundo se hacen respecto a quién va al cielo y quién va al infierno— y reconociendo [Justin] que él aún no lee el libro —y por lo tanto la explicación de Rob Bell—, se anima a expresar que siente que Rob no va por buen camino.

Al igual que Micah, yo he analizado el trabajo y las reflexiones que Rob Bell hace en los videos de Nooma, en sus predicaciones con Mars Hill, en sus podcasts, y en ningún momento me ha parecido que lo que dice es de alguna forma herética o perteneciente a una doctrina falsa.

También soy de la opinión que no existe nada malo con formular preguntas. Y no sólo preguntar, sino animar a otros a cuestionar lo que creen. Hay demasiados cristianos que se rehusan a que las preguntas se eleven. Con suma frecuencia, las palabras difamatorias brotan, y por lo general no con un espíritu cristiano.

Mi postura no es defender un punto de vista liberal o conservador, simplemente procurar no dejarme llevar por lo que dice la gente. Me ha tocado ver extremismo de ambos lados. Así como las personas que se han alarmado en este caso [respecto al más reciente libro de Rob Bell], mi mente viene a lo ocurrido con Clifford Goldstein, donde los editores del blog de Power of Pride— han tomado sus comentarios a la revista Spectrum y los han interpretado de una forma tan a su conveniencia, que han cambiado su significado y lo han puesto en un aprieto a este pastor. Él mismo ha comentado sobre lo ocurrido en sermones posteriores. [Que él no se lo busque tampoco estoy en desacuerdo.]

El hecho que una opinión sea apoyada por una mayoría o minoría no la debe convertir en verdad o mentira. Cada declaración, cada pregunta sólo la podemos analizar de acuerdo a la luz que tengamos, pero siempre con un espíritu de buscar la verdad, no sólo lo que pensemos que nos conviene.

Es importante entender la manera en que piensan otros, entender sus preguntas, conocer mejor nuestras creencias, fundamentarlas y realmente sólo defender aquello en lo que estamos convencidos.

Creo que Rob Bell merece más que una desacreditación por habernos desafiado con algunas preguntas. Valdría la pena leer lo que dice y escudriñar si en realidad lo que él dice es una falacia o verdad [en vez de dejarnos llevar por comentarios especulativos].

¡Eres una en un hipermegalón!

bertobox — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:31:32 +0000

Esta noche, al intentar abrirme un caminito por la red y llegar a algún sitio productivo [buscando la traducción del término 'Googol' al español] terminé por unos minutos en la definición de Gúgol de la Wikipedia. Al seguir mi costumbre de leer el resto del wiki (en vez de solamente corroborar que en realidad fuera esa la traducción y cerrar la página) descubrí un piropo que aunque un poco silly me gustó. Se lo dedico a la amiga que admiré hoy.

La página describe el contexto así:

En la película Regreso al futuro III, Emmet Brown después de decirle a su amada Clara Clayton que debía regresar al futuro, y ésta lo tratase de mentiroso, va a la taberna, donde hablando con un hombre junto a él en la barra, le dice: “Clara es una en un millón, una en un billón, una en un googolplex” (en la versión española del doblaje esto no se aprecia, ya que dice que Clara es “una en un hipermegalón”).

Tumblelog and WordPress

bertobox — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:18:18 +0000

A couple of years ago, I was exploring other alternatives to WordPress, more for the benefit of students, should I decide to implement some sort of requirement that they ought to post something or other. That’s when I discovered Tumblr and the concept of tumblelogs. And while I loved it and even tested it out a bit, I always wanted a way to keep our school’s domain, so thus I’ve been interested in finding someway to port that simplicity into my own domain’s app.

Today I just found a WordPress adaptation of the great tumblelog format, courtesy of zeo. It’s declared to be an engine as well as a theme. It seems, however, that I’ve either discovered it too late or too early, as it doesn’t seem to work with the most recent version of WordPress, 2.8.2 at the moment.

Nevertheless, it looks interesting and I’d love to implement something like it soon. Will definitely tinker with it and see if I can’t get it to work.

Friday I’m in love

bertobox — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:24:53 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn’t even start
It’s Friday I’m in love

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate…

I don’t care if Mondays black
Tuesday, Wednesday – heart attack
Thursday, never looking back
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Monday, you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday – watch the walls instead
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate…

Dressed up to the eyes
It’s a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a sheik
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It’s such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It’s Friday, I’m in love

I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn’t even start
It’s Friday I’m in love

Lyrics courtesy of: sing365.com

Shepard Fairey creating a masterpiece

bertobox — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:11:52 +0000

Pretty cool getting to watch Mr. Fairey’s process while creating one of his masterpieces. Arkitip was so kind as to create this video and share it with us. Take a look at it here:

Click here to view the embedded video.

The voice to your imagination

bertobox — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:19:07 +0000

Beautiful experiment our brazilian brothers came up with at Dê voz à sua imaginação, a site that lets you draw with the help of your voice. Some interesting and amazing results of these creations can be witnessed on their flickr site

Here are some examples:

Post a link to you creations in the comments field!

Dreaming of Doxology remixed

bertobox — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:04:14 +0000

I was listening to our church’s Doxology last sabbath and started imagining how it might be heard if we had an electric guitar version of it, ala Hendrix’s Star Spangled Banner. Curiously, this morning my friend pacodotorg deejayed that wonderful rendition of the national anthem on blip.fm. Below you may listen in to his broadcast. Enjoy!

Morning sounds

bertobox — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:41:14 +0000

This morning, while having a bowl of cereal, I stepped out on my backporch which faces the street. I live on a second floor apartment. It’s a dark, overcast day so far, and the air is nice and crisp. I was enjoying the cool breeze and the different sounds of the morning so much that I decided to record a clip of it. Here it is, just 2 minutes long.

New Year, New Music in 2009

bertobox — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:38:52 +0000

One of my resolutions this 2009 was to listen to all new music, or at least music that i hadn’t heard yet. This was in large part due to the fact that my dear little sister gave me the coolest little Sansa Clip and being 2GB, I wanted an excuse to discover new music, instead of having to choose from my 60GB+ of music on my iTunes. So I backed up my iTunes library to an external drive, started a new one from scratch, and embarked on my search for new music. Some of my favorite frequented pit stops for these discoveries are 3hive, NPR, KEXP, The New York Times, The White House, Pure Volume, Music for robots, Scott Hansen, and Jeff Doe.

These are not the only places I look for music, but they’re some of the more frequented. Some less visited places include virb, hype machine, tranceaddict and dj doboy. It’s March and while I’ve given in to listening to a few old songs that I acquired in 2008, I’ve done pretty good overall. Some of the songs I have succumbed to bringing back from my old library are Belanova’s Fantasía Pop album, Solar Stone’s seven cities, Godskitchen’s 2004 album, and Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. Other than that I’ve been very happy with discovering new faces and sounds. Later on I’ll probably list some of my favorite new discoveries.

hooked on the Weekly Address :)

bertobox — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:53:30 +0000

I’ve been listening to President Barack Obama’s weekly address to the nation since they began in January. I usually convert them to audio so I can listen to them throughout my day. I’ve written to the WhiteHouse.gov people and they’ve added the audio version on the following weekly address after every request. Interestingly, if I don’t request it, they don’t include it in their next post. It’s no big deal for me, since I can download the video and extract the audio myself, I just find it hard to believe I’d be the only one interested in having it in this format. Oh well… anyway, all that aside, I’m really happy to be able to get a grasp from the government’s point of view, of where we stand. I’m very optimistic for this presidency and though I don’t really claim a side (rep or dem) I do believe in great leader, and so far I’m happy. If anybody wants to see these weekly addresses, they can go to WhiteHouse.gov or their channel on vimeo.

I leave with this week’s address.

2/28/09: Your Weekly Address from White House on Vimeo.