2 February 2005

No, I'm not dead. My lack of activity is not a lack of life. It's pure laziness that, for the moment, is nonexistent in regards to this website. Yes, it's true, I have a major change coming. The design is changing, the colors are changing, the name is changing, the content is changing, and the attitude is changing. In response to some of your e-mails, I have come to the realization that some of my articles sound a bit harsh, so I have opted to comb through every single one—edit it, proof it, change it, and sometimes completely redo it. I want to ask the forgiveness of those I have offended in the harshness of my articles. That is why I am editing them all. This will take some work, but I bet it will pay off. I have the unveiling planned for next week some time, so stay tuned. Chao.

21 August 2004

Grr....school started again yesterday, but it's my senior year, so after nine months, I'm outta there! But anyway...I added a new article about the sinfulness of downloading music illegally, i.e. using Kazaa and those things. It's a very common occurence, this sin, even among Christians, and it needs to be stopped, so hopefully, people will read this (and their Bibles) and see the reality of this sin. Thanks for reading. Chao.

2 August 2004

I have two big milestones to tell everyone about. First of all, Animae Lupinae has exceeded a thousand hits, and is well on its way to the second thousand. I want to thank all my readers for that, and I want to encourage them to come back and visit, as I have some updates that might soon show their faces.

Secondly, last night I gave my first sermon ever. It was great—I wasn't nervous at all, and I had an interesting topic, which I am planning on breaking down into separate topics to put on Animae Lupinae, since the site is seeing a severe lack of fresh articles. Thanks for dropping by. God bless. Chao.

11 April 2004

If you have not yet seen The Passion of the Christ, I highly encourage you to see it. It has some Catholic traditions that are unscriptural and distracting, but overall, it is a great and moving movie. But as far as my site goes, I have updated my NIV page with some more omitted scriptures—16, actually. Quite a few. I also added a link to my Bible Bowl Online! section, where one can study questions for a Bible bowl at their congregation or at Leadership Training for Christ events.

16 January 2004

Yeah, so I don't update but once a season. Sorry about that. I figured that I owed my readership (of probably 2 people, lol) some more stuff so I added a new article called "What's Wrong With Cursing?" Very informative, methinks. Well, I must go to a Bible study tonight. Which reminds me: Have you been studying your Bible daily?

9 November 2003

I want to apologize for not updating lately. I have a ton of stuff going on—school, church, and lots of other stuff. I also want to thank you if you have e-mailed me lately. I welcome any and all questions, comments, and suggestions on the behalf of my readers. Feel free to e-mail me. I probably will not be able to add new articles or anything any time soon, but please check back.

29 September 2003

A long time in the making, but it's finally here—a new article titled "What is Real Christianity?". Also, I retitled the "Notes" section, naming it "What is . . . ?" instead. It works better that way, methinks. Well, that's all for now. I think I'm gonna submit my site to a couple more search engines or something. Free publicity is cool. Tell your friends about this site, peoples. Chao.

22 September 2003

Yeah, I know, it's been a while. Anyways, I added some more songs to the "Camp Songs" page. I don't know if they're really camp songs for everybody, but we always call them camp songs, because we always sang them at church camp. And that's why. Indeed.

It pains me to see the unfaithfulness of the world around me. Some of my friends claim to be Christians, but every other words that comes from their mouths is a cuss word, and sex is on their minds at all times. It really is repulsive. People, as Christians, we are representatives for Christ. If Jesus wouldn't do it, we shouldn't. We are supposed to be an example to all those around. Alleged Christians who cuss give God a really bad name. Besides that, it's a sin, and that's never good.

On another front, when I decided to become a Christian, I decided to give my life to God. I didn't actually do that until now. If you are a Christian, then you can't be doing illegal things, cussing, and rejecting God. Now I am not particularly pleased with this country (America); I am not anti-American, but I am definitely not pro-American—I don't salute the flag. But somehow, I have more respect for the laws of the country than some of my more patriotic friends. I try not to break the laws. Speeding is a sin. Illegal downloading from Kazaa is a sin. We are to respect our laws and follow them. Governments are God-ordained, so if it's a government law, it's God's law (this excludes laws that go against God's will, such as laws prohibiting worship or something). Please, people, just obey the laws.

But, in conlusion, yes, I have actually updated my site. And I wasn't completely aware of it, but I do get traffic here. I've even received a couple e-mails from people. I thank everyone for their e-mails, and I encourage it. If you have a Bible question or are curious about Christianity, don't hesitate to e-mail me. Chao.

6 July 2003

I just came back from church camp. I am, to say the least, inspired. Expect many updates. And besides, I just found out that people actually can find this site. I thought that it was just stuck out here in the middle of the Internet's nowhere, but it seems submitting it to search engines and all actually works.

And one of my best friends has just been baptized. Praise God. Hallelujah. I am so happy for her. God be praised forevermore.

10 May 2003

First and foremost, I must offer an apology. I have come to the realization that I do not regard the government and governmental officials with due respect, so I have set out to change that in my life, and I have become a better and happier person because of it. I referred to the president as a "loony," and that is not a very Christian thing to do, so I apologize for that.

Okay, here's the deal: The Old Testament was given to us as an example. But that's all it is to us. It's just an example of the wrong and right way of doing things. They did many things then that we do not (and should not) do now: burn incense to God, use instruments in worship, sacrifice animals to God, have a separate system of priests (as compared to how we are all priests now), and war. Instruments were okay (and even encouraged [Psalm 150]) back then, but we are forbidden from using them today. The "eye for an eye" thing was done away with by Jesus on the Sermon on the Mount, but you yourself said that that approach to punishment seemed extreme.

But war was one of the things abandoned by the transforming, if you will, of the law, from Judaism to Christianity. They did it back then because God told them to. But what if they went to war without God's permission? We read of that exact thing happening in Joshua 7, where Israel attacked Ai without God's approval. They lost. They were punished. That was a sin. Throughout the Old Testament, the Israelites had contact with God through the priests, through the Ummim and Thurim or whatever they're called. They were told by God when to go to war and when not -- and anything outside of God's commands was a sin. America has not been told to go to war. America has no way of a dialogue with God. God does not directly or indirectly say yea or nay when it comes to these things, so without a doubt, this is quite outside anything that God commanded -- and thus it is a sin.

Jesus said to love your enemy. Paul said that if you love someone, you won't harm them (Rom. 13:10). Jesus did away with "an eye for an eye." Jesus told us not to strike back when hit. Paul said of the Lord, "Vengeance is mine." Jesus said that even name-calling and oaths are sins. Attacking Iraq was not our only option. And not attacking Iraq does not mean that we lay down and let everyone roll over us and the Iraqi people. Look at what Martin Luther King, Jr., did -- he gathered masses of people together, and they marched...peacefully. And look at the profound impact that man has had on our world. We would probably be the same now as before him if he had not chosen to do what he did. He was a believer and practicer of nonviolent resistance, and he wrote an essay over it, too. He saw the power behind it. He could have gathered up those masses and told them to take up arms, and he could have been another Malcolm X -- but he didn't, and he wasn't. Martin Luther King, Jr., changed the world -- and completely without violence. You see, violence is not the only answer. In fact, it's not the best answer. Instead of ruthlessly attacking the enemy, oppressive whites, he focused his energy on counteracting them through peaceful means --and it worked. Peace works. We are not laying down and letting the Hussein regime to reign freely by avoiding war, but we are simply going about it in a different, safer, godlier, peaceful manner. Some people tell me that Jesus did not teach absolute pacifism, but ... He did. One must not ignore the command to love one's enemy. Killing is not loving. If it is, then euthanasia is okay, and capital punishment is okay, and abortion is okay if a baby is going to be born into a bad home. If killing is loving, I would not want to see what hating is.

What did Jesus mean by "love your enemy"? Exactly that. Love him. Feed him. Clothe him. Help him. Be kind to him. Care for him. Just love him. That's what Jesus taught. We are indoctrinized, sadly, by the world and the church that striking back is okay, that revenge is acceptable, that war and death and murder are necessary.

But why can't we all love each other?

It starts with us. No one else is going to love anyone unless we start. We are America. We are the strongest country on the planet. We set the example for the world. If we love, then hopefully, the world will follow. Have you ever read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? That is an excellent book. If you haven't, let me lay out a scene: Tom, a slave, is owned by a cruel master, Simon Legree. Tom is Christian, and He has immense faith in God. He is willing to work, and never wishes a bad thing on anyone. Tom is an excellent Christian example here at the end of the book. This drives Legree insane, so he whips him to death. But while Tom had lash after lash laid on his broken hide, he simply cries, "I forgive you, I forgive you with all my heart!" That is what we should do. That is a perfect example of a Christian at work. Stephen (in the Bible), did this same thing in Acts: He was being stoned, and he just said, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." That is what we should do.

We treat our deaths as if its a bad thing. We should long for death, for it is our release from the pains of this world. We are told by the world and by the church that we should defend ourselves so that we can survive. But fighting back is a sin. They say it doesn't mean that. So when do we use this law? Only when it suits us? And the "love your enemy" thing, too -- do we follow that only when we feel like it? Absolutely not. If we are to love all men, then we are not to kill them. Simple as that. That is what Jesus taught. Thus Jesus taught pacifism. And so, if one is face to face with some one, each having his gun drawn, ready to fire, then we are not to fire. We cannot love someone we kill. That is common sense. If that one is fired upon, then it will only hasten his journey to an eternity with God in Heaven -- a fitting reward for such an act of love. I am not saying that I will just say "Kill me" when I am confronted by an angry gang with guns, but rather, I would try to run away or something. And if escape is impossible in the physical realm, then God guide my escape to the spiritual one.

Jesus said love your enemy. What did he mean by that? Just love him. This point cannot be stressed enough. I now quote two famous songs, one of them by the Beatles and the other by someone else. The Beatles wisely said, "All you need is love." What'd'ya know? God said the same thing. The other song says, "What the world needs now / Is love, sweet love / It's the only thing that / There's just too little of." How true.

It starts with us. We must be the example. We, America, are supposed to be the Christian country, but then we go off and do abominable actions such as war. The war is wrong because God did not give his permission for it, and also we are not loving our enemy by killing him.

Death is a release for a Christian, but for the unChristian, it is the ultimate punishment, one man has no right to enforce on another.

Instead of war, we should have taken the peaceful route -- we concentrate all of our energy on love and coercion, to get Saddam to give in. Love drives unloving people nuts, and that's a fact. If someone is constantly mean to you at school, and you are nice to him, it will confuse the bully, and he will not know what to think. Love has a profound effect on people.

And it starts with us, I say again. At this moment, and during these past few weeks since making the decision to respect my government, I have been very happy, and very filled with love. At this moment, I cannot see why one would be so unmerciful as to wish the death of another. All I wish is the conversion of others -- but wishing the death of someone is hate. And hate is wrong.

In conclusion, I restate: Jesus taught complete and total pacificism. War is a sin. All we need is love.

And it starts with us.

22 March 2003

"We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change."

That is a quote from System of a Down. They are a band that is a strong speaker against war and brutality in general. Now, don't get me wrong, they have more than their share of faults, one of them being an odd fascination with the f-word. But S.O.A.D. has it right on here. Global domination is what we are doing.

Turn on the TV now. On most channels, here and there they are giving reports on America's war with Iraq. They are calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. You can watch it live as people die in explosions—you can watch the fireball ascend, watch the sparks fly, watch the fire blaze as people die. Many of these missiles are aimed at buildings, but also, many of these are aimed at people. The United States and Britain are over in the Middle East murdering people. And worse yet, they are doing it in the name of peace. This might be acceptable if the entire world were with us in this fight, but it is just us and a few other countries that have pledged themselves to this sinful cause.

It started with the Gulf War. George Bush senior went over there and blew the tar out of Iraq, but he didn't finish the job. Thus, his son, Dubbya, our moron of a president has to finish the job for dear old daddy. He's been gun-happy from the very beginning. Iraq claims they have no weapons, and I'm not sure I totally believe them, but the U.S. still presses on for this stupid cause and tries to take Saddam Hussein out of power. We went to the United Nations and set up a council to examine the matter, and when the results weren't to our liking, we ignored them and said we would go to war anyway. Then what the crud was United Nations created for, if not to prevent crimes like this? If any other country in the world were to do what we're doing to Iraq, we would blow the poop out of them, but, no, since big, bad America, the police force of the world doesn't like Iraq, we have to blow them up, no matter what anybody says.

I feel incredibly sorry for the people who are carrying out Bush's dirty work. Their lives were stolen as they were taken away from their families, leaving children and wives crying, and then they were forced to go to the Middle East and wait there for months, expecting the order to bomb Iraq at any day. Their lives are put in danger, and for what cause? System of a Down has a song called "Deer Dance," in which they state, "Pushing little children with their fully automatics / They like to push the weak around." If this doesn't describe America now, I don't know what does. We are just a big bully pushing around countries smaller than we are.

And then there's the president. Remember what happened in Korea? In Vietnam? The Pres sent troops over there to fight his own war, without Congress declaring war on the countries. And that's exactly what we're doing now. Congress has yet to declare war, but Dubbya is trigger-happy and wants to kill them all, sending out propaganda like "We'll make war with them in the name of peace." PEACE CANNOT COME FROM WAR! Conflict only produces more conflict. Killing is NEVER justified, unless its accidental. We are MURDERING the IRAQIS RIGHT NOW!!! War is never justified. Ahh, but I bet you can think of a time when war was acceptable. World War 2, right? WRONG!!!! We had absolutely NO right to go to war then! What happened since we went to war? The nation of Israel was formed, and the Middle East has never been at peace since then. You say we were justified in going to war then because of Pearl Harbor, right? WRONG!! They blew up a MILITARY base, and we dropped 2 NUKES on their cities, killing INNOCENT CIVILIANS!!!! You tell me the justification for this murder. If we had turned our cheeks in WW2, we would have many more people alive now, and we would have very few Jews, and the nation of Israel probably wouldn't have been created, and the Middle East would be far more peaceful, without the DAILY BOMBINGS Israelis suffer. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Jews except that their religion is wrong and they're going to Hell, and I want them to live as much as anybody. And I am most certainly NOT saying Hitler was doing us a favor by killing them all. I am simply saying that our presence in that war was wrong.

Our president, a Bible-belting Republican, is so bent on war that he will stop at nothing to get his way. He is a whiny child crying, "I want to push the big red button!!!" The entire world almost is against him, but he is a warmongering lunatic that wants to go to war, and he will assume the role of a DICTATOR to do this. The object is to end terrorism, NOT BE A PART IN IT!!! What we are doing to Iraq right now is terrorism. And it wasn't Congress' choice to send our soldiers over to foreign lands to die there, it was ONE MAN's -- BUSH'S. And even worse, there is talk of reinstating a draft now. Well, let me tell you something now: THE DAY I WORK FOR THE MILITARY FOR ANYTHING IS THE DAY I CUT OFF MY GENETALS AND EAT THEM!!!! I will NEVER work for the military if I am drafted, no matter what the penalty. I am 16, and I don't run much of a risk of being drafted at the moment, but I'm just saying, if I do, they won't get me. It's MY LIFE, and the government has ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME, especially for a cause I don't support, a corrupt government I don't believe in, and a president I think is a loony. And to think! They'd be drafting people IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM!!!!

And now I ask everyone out there who is reading this to fight a war against this war. We must revolt against this sin, for we will take no part in it. Show your support for the anti-war cause by participating in local peace marches in your city, by writing to the president, by expressing yourself in any noticable, non-violent manner -- after all, by using violence, we sink to their level. I thus far have written two anti-war songs. That's another good way to express yourself. The system insists that we must wage war and kill and murder. Well, I as of now wash my hands of this, and I WILL TAKE NO PART IN THIS SIN! Don't stand for the lies the government feeds us, through TV, radio, and the news. PROTEST!

I will be e-mailing this to President Bush. His e-mail addess is president@whitehouse.gov, if you care to e-mail him. Join me in fighting this war. Conflicts only lead to more conflicts, and death to more death! This is war, people. We can't sit on our collective lazy butts and watch it go on from the safety of the living room while people DIE on the screen. We must protest! END THE WAR!!!

3 March 2003

You can now find my site at http://ani-lup.cjb.net. That's all for now. Ciao.

23 February 2003

New section, y'all. "What's Wrong With 'Once Saved, Always Saved'?" It's a good one.

22 February 2003

Hah! Two updates in the same month! I am currently undergoing a campaign to publicize this site, with banners and search engines and the whole nine yards, so if you have friends whom this might interest, please advertise for me—I would greatly appreciate it. But if you are new here, please take a look around, tell me what you think in the Guestbook at the bottom of the page, e-mail me, whatever.

But, as you can see if you're a regular here, I changed the menu a bit so as to make it easier to read. My main section "What's Wrong With...?" comes first, and its contents are alphabetized, save the articles. And I also added a nonsense page and a page full of helpful Spanish phrases at the bottom of this page (click on the Fun/Fiction link). More updates coming soon. Chao.
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I just noticed that my e-mail address at the bottom of this page has bee WRONG this whole time. Blast it. Well, it's fixed now. And there's an archive page down there, too. Chao. Again. Grrr.

6 February 2003

Okay. I have just finished my gallery. Almost every picture I have ever drawn (and finished) since I started dating my artwork (which was like, a year ago) is there, reaching a grand total of a wopping ... 28 pictures. Plus I skipped two, 'cuz I'm still working them on the computer or something. Well, enjoy. Remember, the password to my gallery is my name. Have fun. God bless. And all that jazz. Chao.

23 January 2003

Well, I have updated this site by adding two more articles on sinful practices and all: capital punishment and total depravity. I hope these will benefit you.

18 December 2002

I am currently undergoing setting up an extensive gallery that has most of the pictures I've drawn. And, in order to reduce theft, my gallery is now passworded. But if you know me, you'll have no trouble getting in. Also, I'm planning on putting up a short story I wrote called "The Meeting," but it'll be passworded, too. Bear with me whilst I complete these changes.
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Okay, I have put up "The Meeting." It's on my gallery. Please read it. I wrote it a while ago, intending to put it on my site, and I just now got around to doing that. I reread it yesterday, and it's really cool, so, yeah, please read it. Chao.

11 November 2002

Well, I have just completed the biggest update this sight has ever known. I have *obviously* changed the entire look of the place, but I have also added 3 pics to my gallery (previously known as "Colmillo Pics"), and I put all my old updates in an archive section. I have downloaded Netscape so as to make my site compatible for those of us who're dumb enough to use a MacIntosh and/or Netscape Navigator. I despise those two things. Oh, and if you have no life, click here. It's a page on Sageta's "The Infirmary" that is full of dancing ... well, you'll just hafta see. But, please, contact me about the new look, say yea or nay or whatever. Sign my guestbook. There are some links at the bottom of the page -- I didn't lose them.

Well, I still have a couple finishing touches to make here and there, so please, check back often. Maybe next time I'll actually put up more material. We'll see. Thx. And Chao.

1 August 2002

I just added a new article about baptism under "Notes." Please read—it's a good one. Thanks to everyone who voted on my poll. Please, more people, vote. I also added a funny page, so check that out, too. That's all for now. Chao.

25 July 2002

Hey. I wrote this poem last nite at 1:00 in the morning, 'cause I had a sudden wave of inspiration. E-mail it to your friends and all. I think it's cool.

Keep Singing

Life is a song
You strike that first note when you're born
On that day, you sing with the whole symphony
But as life, this song, continues
Bar after bar, some member disappear
Others just seem to fade out
While they're still there in reality
Eventually, you think you're alone
But it's your time to shine
The music says "Solo"
Are you gonna keep singing?

I also added a Polls page, complete with a poll on it. Please vote on it. Chao.

21 July 2002

Well, I've updated a couple things. Progress, in a way. I've fixed and updated both of my Colmillo pages, and then I added a new one. Check out my pics; they're quite cool.

10 July 2002

So many things to say, so little time. First of all (I'll save the best for last), the Wild Wolf Society has shut down!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know, horror of horrors, it's horrible!!!!! A volcanic eruption forced the inhabitants of the Salvaje Valley to flee, so my characte will be moving. As you might know, I RP Pecus on Bleeding Souls. And guess what. I hate Pecus. He's just not me. He's hard to RP, and such has made me hate his guts. (Kinda sad isn't it -- kinda like I'm hating myself? Oh, well, that's not how it is to me.) Anyway, I'm killing Pecus off. Not sure how I'm gonna do it yet—I have the opportunity to drown him or get him mauled by a bear >;-). I know, I'm evil, but he's dead. Either way I'm killing him. Colmillo will be taking his place at Bleeding Souls, Lord willing. E-mail me with what death you think would be more appropriate, hehe.

Second, church camp. Just got back from such. Awesome experience. Learned a lot. Got inspired. Hence the updates. I completely rewrote my NIV article (I'll refer to my essays as articles -- it makes it seem less intimidating), and now it actually makes a bit of sense. I proof-read my Sep. 11th article, and good gravy. I had "Philistinians" instead of "Palestinians." Der. I, last but not least, added a "What's Wrong with Homosexuality?" article. Quite good, if I don't say so myself. Well, church calleth, and my teeth need brushing, hence the bathroom calleth also. I come, O toothbrush.

17 June 2002

Well, there goes my wolf stuff. Oh, well. It's not like I had anything of any value or such—2 pics, lol. But I just put up an RPG section that, when complete, will have info on the characters I RP and all. The Chronology for Colmillo is done. It's cool, check it out. Welp, until next time, chao.

10 June 2002

My goodness, it's been a while, huh? I have fixed a couple of things here and there, and I have changed a few things here and there, but the biggest thing I have recently done is now you can get to my site at http://wolfishsouls.cjb.net. You can get there with the bookmark link on the menu. Expect more updates. Come back soon. Chao.

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