Dennis Peng
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As people who want to reach out and help the youth and understand them. How much understanding do we want to learn? Is there a limit? Counselors and youth pastors read books that tells us that we need to understand their continuing changing culture. But because it is changing how involved should we get in becoming one with them and will we lose focus of what we wanted to do in the beginning. The pop-culture that they follow may not be correct morally but do we go down to their level to understand their situations and be able to sympathizes with them or should we stick to our morals and try feel what they feel from a different position they are in. In youth one day your tactic in connecting with them would work but next day it may fail and a new plan will be needed to gain the connection that was there before. … Read More
March 24, 2009 | In Belief
As Christians we would want to connect with people on a more personal level to develop a friendship and a connection with that person. But we must ask ourselves how much should we connect with them on their basis and how much is too much when it comes to contextualize with unsaved people. Should we learn and become their culture or should they learn about the Christian way of life and try to live life as we try to do on a daily basis. Where do we draw the line of when to stop? Obviously both sides can not be that extreme and both sides should give in some and meet at a middle ground but where is the middle ground and is it a stable middle or can it be shafted based on where you are and the people you are trying to reach. … Read More
March 24, 2009 | In Belief
Attacks on Chrisitanity in this era.
In the era that we are in now with post-modernism, we are told to question everything that is around us. Society especially Hollywood are making movies such as Da Vinci Code is made to discredit Christ of what he is and what he did. Hollywood would do anything to make a buck and have the next hit movie out there for people to come and see. We always have to go without hearts instead of our minds now and with that what we did not see or feel we can not count them as real. We can't see the air we breathe in or radio and sound waves that is the air but we assume and believe that it is there. We have to look back at the research that has been done beforehand by the people who concluded that Christ was in fact real and look at that evidence instead of our mere opinions. … Read More
March 23, 2009 | In Belief
Dennis Peng commented on Craig Newmark’s Drawbacks To Transparency on March 23, 2009, 12:14 PM
I agree with Craig Newmark on his comments on the drawbacks to transparency. Like everything that is great or good there are always some drawbacks to those things. TVs, computers, the internet are all great tools that are invented to benefit the people that uses these inventions but there are drawbacks to these inventions that many people would point out. I agree with Craig that transparency should be allow but limit some of the stuff that you put that could be personal or offensive to the viewers of what is put up. It is a form of democracy now that we are in and trying for with transparency. Like he said, democracy is a great idea but it too have drawbacks for example too much democracy could lead a nation into anarchy but the strengths outweigh the drawbacks as do the strengths and drawbacks of transparency. Transparency is a great idea with small negatives that can easily be fixed or overlooked.
Dennis Peng commented on Can music change politics? on March 23, 2009, 12:41 PM
I agree with Moby in that the music does not have direct effect to the politics. I think that a lot of music that is out there is out there as a propaganda of what they feel should be done. For example around the time of the presidential election, many hip/hop artists had put out songs to tell people to go out and vote. They have a choice of mind of who they want their audience to out and vote for. Another example of propaganda would be during to 2004 time when President Bush was up for reelection Eminem put out a song about the war and about bush speaking from his perspective what the bush administration had done and those who had heard the song began to have a negative image of the bush administration.