Saturday, May 17, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Hello, I'm a Mac
So I’m pretty sure I can’t write a good blog unless It’s the middle of the night, or I stayed up all night. So here we go because I stayed up all night!
So I was up studying for finals last night, and I came back to my room and sat down at the computer for a minute before I took a shower and I found this video. It’s an old apple ad, and since you know how i love my mac, I had to watch it. And i must say it’s sweet. So before you read any more..scroll to wherever on the page it is and read it.
So now hopefully you saw the video. But if you haven’t I’m gonna list what it says.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. “
And through the whole thing they are showing old video of people ranging from einsten to mlk to frank loyd wright to john lennon to amelia aerhat to kermit the frog and jim henson to a bunch of people i couldn’t recognize real easy. It’s cool.
Ok now bringing everyone together so we all know what happens. The point of it is to say that it’s the people that are different that really make a difference. It’s the people that aren’t of the same mold that most often do those significant things. Sorta like the opposite of Hitler. Then I also think they are trying to say that Apple is thinking different from everyone else, and that means they are moving in a better direction than everyone else. But that has no meaning to this blog, so who cares.
But this whole think different thing I really like. Because in many cases it’s true. It has been the people who are not like everyone else that make a difference. Yet, the mac ad missed a whole genre of people who made a difference and weren’t like everyone else: the people from the one and only BIBLE!! Just off the top of my head Jesus, Moses, all the disciples, countless people. Paul comes to my mind now. But that’s mostly because i just took my Acts of the Apostles final. Paul was not thinking like everyone else. In the last few chapters of Acts, Paul is arrested, put in jail, stands trial 3 different times, gets transfered between jails 3 times, and is nearly killed at least 3 times. All this because he believes in that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died and rose again for the forgiveness of our sins, and he wanted to share that with the world. The people he faced didn’t always believe this and they often caused him trouble. But he was thinking differently, not the same as all the people who were opposing him, putting him in jail, and plotting against his life. He made a difference.
Kinda makes you think. With all the people in the world today...people who don’t believe in the same God as you, who don’t have morals, who don’t agree with you...how are you going to react? Are you going to conform, or are you going to make a difference? I know what I want to do.
Think Different.
So I was up studying for finals last night, and I came back to my room and sat down at the computer for a minute before I took a shower and I found this video. It’s an old apple ad, and since you know how i love my mac, I had to watch it. And i must say it’s sweet. So before you read any more..scroll to wherever on the page it is and read it.
So now hopefully you saw the video. But if you haven’t I’m gonna list what it says.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. “
And through the whole thing they are showing old video of people ranging from einsten to mlk to frank loyd wright to john lennon to amelia aerhat to kermit the frog and jim henson to a bunch of people i couldn’t recognize real easy. It’s cool.
Ok now bringing everyone together so we all know what happens. The point of it is to say that it’s the people that are different that really make a difference. It’s the people that aren’t of the same mold that most often do those significant things. Sorta like the opposite of Hitler. Then I also think they are trying to say that Apple is thinking different from everyone else, and that means they are moving in a better direction than everyone else. But that has no meaning to this blog, so who cares.
But this whole think different thing I really like. Because in many cases it’s true. It has been the people who are not like everyone else that make a difference. Yet, the mac ad missed a whole genre of people who made a difference and weren’t like everyone else: the people from the one and only BIBLE!! Just off the top of my head Jesus, Moses, all the disciples, countless people. Paul comes to my mind now. But that’s mostly because i just took my Acts of the Apostles final. Paul was not thinking like everyone else. In the last few chapters of Acts, Paul is arrested, put in jail, stands trial 3 different times, gets transfered between jails 3 times, and is nearly killed at least 3 times. All this because he believes in that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died and rose again for the forgiveness of our sins, and he wanted to share that with the world. The people he faced didn’t always believe this and they often caused him trouble. But he was thinking differently, not the same as all the people who were opposing him, putting him in jail, and plotting against his life. He made a difference.
Kinda makes you think. With all the people in the world today...people who don’t believe in the same God as you, who don’t have morals, who don’t agree with you...how are you going to react? Are you going to conform, or are you going to make a difference? I know what I want to do.
Think Different.
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