Joys Study

Ok I’m about fed up with this… Blogging is completely useless if people dont COMMENT! And its VERY annoying specialy to bloggers like me who DONT have a huge number of viewers! I really dont want to do this because I like blogging but… I am going to have to stop blogging if im not getting any "business". Specialy on the posts that are most important to me like my graphic design and photography.  The last comment I got from any one I actually know was a week and 2 days ago! And it was on the stupid post about my new hair style. Dont get me wrong I want comments about the rest of my life too but i rather have a comment bout my design and photography then  my hair! There are several post on this first page here with not even ONE comment! I’m sorry but it makes me rather furious! So COMMENT PEOPLE! Even if you just say "nice…." it doesnt take that long to write a comment people even if you are busy folks!  If you cant comment on all of them then dont but at least comment once and get back to the rest later! Dont be the reason I stop Blogging people I really dont want to! And the reason I post so slow is because PEOPLE DONT COMMENT! I dont dang stinking care if its an OLD post (kasie) COMMENT ANYWAY!  GRRRRRRAAAAAAH!

Ok here are allllllll the e covers I did for Paige. Just to keep you busy till I can edit some photographs of me and Tina and me and Mel. We had some photoshoots i didnt edit yet! I like these but i need to start practicing the basic true principles of graphic design so i’m critical of this stuff…

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First I must ask… Do you believe in Pre or Post-Trib Rapture? Think about it folks its very important! If you believe in Pre-Trib Rapture sorry to say but I am strongly convinced YOU ARE WRONG! If you believe it just because you were taught it but you dont know why you believe it and you dont have any proof of it… your stupid like I was. (No offense) If you believe it because you think there is proof for it your ignorant and haven’t used your head in logical manner. (No offense) First I would like to state, any "proof" in the Old Testament either FOR or AGAIN Pre Rapture… As far as i know and am concerned does NOT apply! Now the major proof for the pre rapture is in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18. It reads…

16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Well there is one problem with that…. It is no proof at all because it leaves out one very important element. WHEN? No where in that passage or before or after it does it say WHEN this will occur. There for logically you can say it is highly possible that the "rapture" is AFTER the tribulation! Now what proof do I have that it does take place AFTER? Well another common proof for the pre rapture is 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8

6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8And then shall that Wicked be revealed,

This which no one really understand in the first place does not prove pre-trip rapture. It merely states if read in a more understandable version like NIV….

6And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed,

Or…NKJV

6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He[d] who now restrains will do so until He[e] is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed,

This mearly states that there is something or someone that restrains saten from releasing his full power. Some people believe it is the church some say its the Holy spirit. I am convinced that whatever it or he is… it is ultimately controlled by God himself. Therefore God will allow the restraints to be taken away or release the Beast. So ultimately it doesn’t matter. Those who argue that its the Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit cant be taken away without taking the church with him. I don’t believe that is a valid argument. Now what you all have been waiting for the proof and all the proof you need that the pre-trib rapture IS NOT going to happen. Those who support pre-trib rapture have failed to read a few versus earlier in 2 Thessalonians 2 and to finish reading verse 8! 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 reads…

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first , and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

"Man of sin" meaning Antichrist. All translations agree that this is what that statement means. So this explains that the 2nd coming of Jesus will NOT happen until AFTER the tribulation! "whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:" and the end of verse 8 clearly implies that the wicked is destroyed at the Lords coming. Now that contradicts with the pre-trib rapture because if the Lords coming is going to destroy evil then there would NOT be tribulation at all! In order for pre rapture to occur and tribulation after it there would NEED to be 3 comings of the Lord. The Bible says nothing about a 3rd comming! And so I rest my case!

So weather pre or post- trib rapture is right always be prepared because we do not know the day or the hour. We can only guess. But people WE MAY VERY WELL Be living through the tribulation folks! So don’t loose faith if that is the case. It doesn’t mean the Bible is wrong! It means you merely interpreted it wrong.

Now why I was inspired to write this? Well kinda one of those random passions that I got today. And in reply to this website and his arguments…

http://www.raptureready.com

Under the catagory "Reverse Logic Stuck In Reverse" he states…

Many people are against the pre-trib rapture simply because they see it as being the dominant view on the timing of Christ’s return for the Church. The anti-pretribulationists often think they are the last remaining true believers. I’m simply dumbfounded over why some people choose rebellion against the majority view as their guide for finding truth.

I say to you and I quote,
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Norman Vincent Peale

Luke 13:24 “for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”

So I have done something drastic to- myself for those of you who do not know! I cut my hair! I now have BANGS! Yes and my hair is also lightly relaxed! Its not as curly and crazy as it use to be! So you ready to see? Now it is smaller tighter little waves instead of curles! I dont think i am going to do this again though sept for maybe my bangs cause i think i personaly like my curly hair better. I got use to it lol But i have to get some stuff to put on it so its not frizzy IT ALWAYS IS frizzy no matter what i cant figure out what to put on it lol OH well any way Here is my new look…

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and for any one interesting which your proly not i have a 5 min vide of me talking about my hair lol

I finally have a GOOD idea for the TJD (total joy designs) Logo! So here are a few of the different ways not totaly sure which will me the final!

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So the other day I was doing some studying on Typography.  So I thought for a moment after looking at some amaizing graphic/ typography Designs. I decided that I wanted to do one myself. And who other then T.S. Eliot should inspire me!? lol So from the poem The Hollow Men came out this marvelous thing… lol (be sure to look at it FULL SIZE… right click on it and open in new tab or window)

Here is the poem behind it….

The Hollow Men
T. S. Eliot

Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

A penny for the Old Guy

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer—

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death’s other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

For those of you who cant understand this DEEP stuff lol dont feel bad I couldnt get it either till Tim helped me out! But after a little explanation and thinking i started to get the hang of it too. Basically it was Eliot’s view of the world and people. Everyone going around in circles trying to do something but not able to!

"Shape without form,  shade without colour, Paralysed force,  gesture without motion;"

to me is the most important phrase in the whole poem it explains everything!

Well for the most part ITS DONE! My online portfolio that is! Check it out!

http://totaljoydesigns.com

Spread the news too! Please and thank you! If you know ANY ONE who needs a graphic design, photo retoching, or if possible long distance photography job done let them know about my site! Yes its another blog I know! lol