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Name: John Gnotek

Age and Gender: 48, male

City: Highland

State:: MI

Country:: United States

My VOXTROPOLIS blog: gnotek.voxtropolis.com/

My Website:: www.CyberAlley.com

Mac or PC: What's a PC?

Religious Preferences:: Catholic > then prodical > then Catholic > then non-denominational > now straighforwardly, a Follower of Christ

Your astrological sign: say what? Is this like the 70s or something?

Political Tendencies:: A constitutionalist.

What is your "cover" (occupation)?: Interactive Storyteller, Web Designer, Video enthusiast, Graphic Designer, Janitor

What is your vocation (passion)?: com-passion

What are you working on now (mission)?: firefighting for souls

If you could live anywhere in the world, what city would be your "Gotham"?: NY, NY

Favorite Movies: The Passion of course, but also Pulp Fiction-not for the violence, but for the screenwriting and filmmaking brilliance and for the story of redemption.

If you pressed play on your iPod, what song would come up?: The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles, Let It Grow - Eric Clapton

Favorite Music:: Boy Howdy approved classic to alternate rock.

Favorite Artists: Carvaggio, Veronese, Titian, Rembrandt, Dali, Max among many, many others.

What book(s) are you reading right now?: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (after Atlas Shrugged)

Favorite Authors: CS Lewis, Erwin McManus, Tom Clancey, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Favorite Books: The Screwtape Letters (Lewis), The Barbarian Way (McManus), Notes From Underground (Dostoevsky), Tom Clancey books up until the Cold War ended.

Favorite TV Shows:: Desperate Housewives, Sleeper Cell,

My Strengths Finder (Gallup) Top 5:: Creativity, vision, obstinance and

Relationship Status:: Married

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The Car Nut

Added Oct 20 2007 by John Gnotek.

What Do You Believe?

Added Oct 3 2007 by John Gnotek.

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Can someone be a member of more than one church? Why Not?

Added a post Mar 10

To be serious though, I don't get the membership concept at all. Are talking like a country club, or like free masons? The church. Isn't the church the entire body? So do we take up membership with... Read More »

Tagged: church, membership

Can someone be a member of more than one church? Why Not?

Added a post Mar 10

Before I got married, I used to have a lot of girlfriends. Read More »

Tagged: church, membership

Age of the Clones

Started this discussion Jan 17

Yesterday it was announced that the FDA would allow cloned products—beef, milk, pork, etc—into the market, allowed without identification. Today, it was announced a California company has been clon... Read More »

Tagged: biotechnology, cloning, ethics

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The Kingdom

This is an interactive devotional I did for a church service-planning team I was on. It was in response to the notion that The Kingdom is a place confided to the physical world we know.

How big is The Kingdom--find out.

It's a streaming Flash movie and may take a minute to begin:
http://www.CyberAlley.com/FractalModel.swf

It also serves as a good model to show how the Big Guy may interact with Creation.

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A Philosophical Examination: The Existence of God & Man’s Relationship to God? - Part 1

(Originally written 1999 for an academic audience)

Most of the philosophical questions that mankind ponders could be answered or refocused with the answer to this title. As with such a question there presently is no empirical evidence to provide concrete proof one way, or another. But, there is more than sufficient evidence to form concrete theories.

My own personal views are probably most closely held to the teleological persuasion, as being a graphic designer and new media developer…

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Posted by John Gnotek on October 29th, 2007 at 9:28am — No Comments (Add)

A Philosophical Examination: Man’s Relationship to God - Part 2

(Originally written in 1999 for an academic audience)
Why would God go through all the trouble to create a universe billions of years old just to create a planet that will gestate for millions of more years, to bear just the right conditions to bring forth life? Why life and why man?

To recap from the last blog entry, a fractal metaphorical view was established to understand infinite dimensions with intimate ones and to perceive a glimpse of how God may operate. Fractals, which are math…

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Posted by John Gnotek on October 29th, 2007 at 9:25am — No Comments (Add)

The Garden of Eden

I was watching a show on the History Channel last night about the Garden of Eden It was interesting and thought-provoking, as well as cartoonish in some respects. As with shows like this where "religious" experts are interviewed as well as scientists and historians you do get a wide range of perspectives. And you get some very valid, non-fundamental questions.

For example, fundamentalism aside, historians point out that Adam and Eve arrived on the scene at about the same time that mankind wen…

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Posted by John Gnotek on October 4th, 2007 at 12:15am — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 1:09am on November 13th, 2007, Jaymes Lombardi said…: actually.

i was one of the guitar players for the music team...and for about 2 years was the Sr. High worship leader.

have you been there?

At 9:09pm on November 12th, 2007, Jaymes Lombardi said…: John...

Bro...you're from Michigan???

I just moved from Grand Rapids about 4 months ago!!!!

At 11:09pm on November 6th, 2007, NIZA said…: hi john... thanks for the add. check out my band site at www.myimn.com/profile/dosulmusic

hugs,
niza

At 9:22am on October 15th, 2007, Dean Sharp said…: welcome

At 5:48pm on September 26th, 2007, Beth Harris said…: John,

enjoyed meeting you the other day - there were alpacas there???? :-)

We enjoyed the conversation.

At 5:42am on September 24th, 2007, Ron Gelaude said…: John, good to see you and the tribe yesterday. I miss our wild conversations and off the charts dreaming. Peace...