David "DMWalking" Rosado Tackles the Tough Questions in Life

Two HUGE parts of my childhood, too!

Hard Boiled was my shit when I was a kid. Chow Yun-fat is the absolute dopest cop in film. Fuck that Dirty Harry. Rewatching this movie, this part in particular is fucking amazing. The whole clip is a continuous shot as Chow-Yun and his partner walk through a shootout in a hospital. I wonder how long it took to choreograph and shoot that thing. Continuous shot for more than two minutes? Goddamn that's good filming.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPyoJgV_YY

You already know I have an obsession with Vintage 'lo. Pretty much the same story. I had an uncle who lived in NY before moving into Vancouver with the rest of the family when we came from the Phillippines, and this guy would babysit me all the time. He'd take me everywhere, I'd listen to music (Pharcyde and Wu Tang practically taught me how to speak english) with him and chill out while eating some takeout chow mein and watching some bruce lee or Jackie Chan flicks. And he'd ALWAYS be dressed in 'lo. I never understood why he dressed so differently than the rest of us in our tattered-ass clothes, but I loved it. The colours, the big bold lettering, the patterns, the style. I learned recently that he was a D boy back in the day, which still makes me chuckle because in retrospect that might be why he drove me around making me wait in the car so much instead of just babysitting me in one place.

Dave, are you SURE we're not related? =P

I think you hit it on the dot. Those were my thoughts as well. Being raised catholic, we were taught that it was through faith AND through good works that we gained salvation. I wouldn't say it's anti-biblical, though. Good deeds done by Catholics is a practice done to emulate the good that Jesus did and by doing so is spreading the goodness of God through action. A life of service was seen as a noble thing to do. I agree with this still, even though I'm not Catholic. To do good things to benefit the less fortunate or to benefit more people than yourself is always a good thing, whether you're religious or not. I don't think many people would argue about whether helping the homeless is a good thing or not. Catholics may emphasize it, but works are not the main factor in terms of finding salvation -- BUT it is the defining factor that differentiates Protestant from Catholic in terms of practice. HOWEVER I'm not rejecting the christian pursuit and value it as well. To have faith in something is a great thing, and to base the belief that faith will lead to salvation is itself a noble pursuit aswell.

Another big difference, as you mentioned, are the texts. Both are called the Bible and are taken from the same source, or at least similar sources, but interperetation is different. As well as additional texts. Catholicism of the modern day has been defined by various theologic philosophers and thinkers throughout the ages who have shaped the religion into what it is through their views on faith and God. an example of this would be Dante's "The Divine Comedy", where the modern day concept of Hell is based. I could also discuss, the saints; Acquinas, Francis of assisi, but then I'd be going on and on and on

I could go on and on but I'm not a big fan of the concept of a Pope either. I especially have criticisms of the current one. The previous, Pope John Paul II was an intensely wise and loving man in my eyes, though. Had he not been the pope he would probably still affect global change in some way. He never let his title make his head swell, unlike Ratzinger.

I just think your convictions in your faith are strong. You had no intention of bashing catholicism, but I feel as if you misunderstand Catholics. They're good people with strong faith... I just personally don't agree with the faith which is why I'm no longer catholic, lol.

Good works should be a natural outgrowth of your faith, not an attempt to get on GOD's good side.

Pope=not deity=fallible and so his OPINION should not be put on the same level as scripture.

Dante's divine comedy is fabricated out of speculation and is not found in scripture. Some dudes were on point. The ones who were came from a time before statue worship and/or had a lot of problems with the condition of the catholic church. This is why we eventually had the reformation.

Definitely. I like this view. Good works should be residual of the faith you have placed. I like how this was articulated.



And that was the point I was trying to make as well. SO again, no argument here. How can a human man be considered infallible? Makes no sense to me.



In addition to the bible, a lot of catholic tradition is based on philosophy developped in the middle ages. Scripture alone doesn't define Catholicism, but I've also always seen that as a strange and indeed nonsensical thing. I mean, I was taught to not be tempted by pagan religions who would lead me away from God, but the traditions found in Catholiciam can be traced back to pagan religions. It all just seems hypocritical to me.




Anyways, I was never really trying to argue with you. I just wanted, as stated before, to get a christian perspective on things and as a result I thought it'd be interesting to post up some things from the Catholic perspective and see how they differed. Thanks for tolerating my playing Devil's Advocate so to speak.



And The Killer is another great movie. You really can't go wrong with early 90's John Woo X Chow-Yun joints.

De La Soul or A Tribe Called Quest?

blow job from charmander or handjob from geodude?

I hate Bacon, is that wrong?

what is your view on agnosticism?

What does this dream mean? Is it a bad omen?

your thoughts on this