The Science Channel

In case local Indianians and cable tv watchers are unaware, the Science Channel has been recently added to our glut of selections. At my home, the Science Channel is on channel 66 and it has quickly become one of my favorites.

Check it out!

Jay Fuller's Blog

Will the real Jay Fuller please stand up?

Sorry, I'm just writing this entry to assert that I am the REAL Jay Fuller, born and bred!

...except for the fact that my name is actually James Joseph Fuller Jr, or as my Boston friends sometimes teased, "Jimmy-Jo"



Anyway, the real reason I'm writing this entry is to, hopefully, disrupt google searches that might lead to that "other guy."

As a reward for reading this terrible entry, I present:

Jay Fuller is . . .

. . . the lead pastor of JourneyPointe Church in Locust Grove, GA. I’ve been married to Tracey (my first and only wife) for 18 years. I have two kids (Megan, 13 and Trey, 8). I was born in New Jersey, but I’ve lived in Georgia for the past 36 years. My interests include golf (although I don’t get to play nearly enough), college football (wish they played year ’round-Go Dawgs!), and playing the drums (which explains the word “rudiment” in the blog heading). I love classic rock and just about anything from the 70’s and 80’s with the exception of Wham! and Culture Club. I own a record player and I’m not afraid to use it.

Don't believe me? Just check out my blog: Jay Fuller's Blog

Man, this dorkous malorkus is beating me on google! Do a search of "Jay Fuller + Blog" and you get my eerie doppelganger!

Strange, his blog even has something of a space theme...

WHO ARE YOU, YOU IMPOSTOR?!?

Response to Ryan's Post

I can't seem to leave a comment on Ryan's blog, so I'll post my response here and move it over there once everything is in working order. This comment is in response to Ryan's entry, "Sokushinbutsu."

Wow. The naked will to power is nothing next to the naked will to live, and to live forever. It seems people will say, do, and believe anything just for a chance at immortality.

Although I'd like to claim the following idea as my own, Dr. Myers expressed it today more eloquently than I could ever hope.

"...eternal life. There can be no such thing. People change all the time, and the I that is here now will not be the same I that could exist in 20 years; my mortality is a part of my being, and removing that would be an event so traumatic and so life-changing that it would produce an identity even more substantially different than the vast revolution I went through 51 years ago, when I gastrulated. Immortality is meaningless and achieving it is impossible.

That's not to say we don't want a long life and will fight off death as long as we can. It's just that life itself represents a kind of incremental dynamism that can't be frozen without destroying it."

emphasis mine

Vote or Cry

I just got back from voting. Don't forget to vote! Indiana is an important primary state this year. I don't want to reveal my vote and influence anyone, so I'll just include these pictures of the presidential candidates.

Barack Obama



Hilary Clinton



John Bush --er, McCain

RIP Mildred Loving

From Pharyngula:

"Loving was the woman who, with her husband, was tried in the 1960s for the crime of interracial marriage; their victory before the Supreme Court led to the striking down of laws banning racially mixed marriages across the country. Here's part of her account:

Not long after our wedding, we were awakened in the middle of the night in our own bedroom by deputy sheriffs and actually arrested for the "crime" of marrying the wrong kind of person. Our marriage certificate was hanging on the wall above the bed. The state prosecuted Richard and me, and after we were found guilty, the judge declared: "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." He sentenced us to a year in prison, but offered to suspend the sentence if we left our home in Virginia for 25 years exile."

You know, I had started to buy into the whole argument that gay marriage is a state issue, but if history, human rights, and common decency mean anything, then this issue should have already been resolved by the Supreme Court.