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This is probably weird for most of my readers, but yeah, I decided to give it a go just for the sake of trying. Two weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Nuffnang regarding the MTV Blog Squad Search. I didn’t exactly jump at the opportunity right away but being a veteran (and reject) of not-so many adventure races, TV gigs and talent shows, my competitive side got the better of me so I’m now chest-deep in the search! I wouldn’t even begin to imagine what my chances are at this stage. All I know is that I gave it a real good shot.
Blogging was quite a good field for me last year. I started a new travel blog Visit Sagada that is now the top Google search result for certain keywords pertaining to the backpacker Mecca of Sagada. My blogs was nominated as a finalist for three awards during the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards and I was able to win the Personal Blog Category – probably the most contentious category that year. While I do not claim to be the best writer, I can assure you that I will be… TENACIOUS. haha
There are four slots for the job and sometime during this process, those in the running will be asked to leave for Singapore for an interview. I’m guessing the Philippines will be lucky to get more than one blogger in.
To date, I have written four entries for the MTV Blogger Search – three of them in music and one in *haha*fashion and lifestyle. The organizers pretty much limit your themes and topics so I had to really work with the canned subjects under each category. Please do take time to read them and rate them either with a thumbs up or thumbs down. I would really appreciate it that you support me if you believe that I should go further in the competition. You may for each entry vote every 5 minutes. 
Entry: The Death Of Rockstars: On Labels And The Generation Of Haters And Posers
Topic: Do you consider indie bands who sign on to major record labels a sell-out to their beliefs and music?
Entry: Rage Against The Rules
Topic: Music and politics should never mix, what do you think?
Entry: Matters Of Size: And The Elephant That Nobody Is Talking About
Topic: What are your views on plus-sized models?
Entry: Cutting The Cliche And Looking At The Big Picture
Topic: What can be done to encourage people to purchase music instead of downloading songs illegally?
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you write awesome! Goodluck!
I am SOO MADD I just have to unload somewhere!!!!
I am an atheist and I have grown very disheartened by our self-defeatist culture. I was corresponding with one of the biggest atheist bloggers – the guy who guys by the name of ‘Sabio Lantz’ (he acknowledges that this is not his real name) over at http://triangulations.wordpress.com
I told him that he should read this new book called the Real Messiah by Stephan Huller which I had been turned on to by Robert Price. I wanted to reach out to every atheist blogger to tell them that we can finally disprove the entire rationale of Christianity at one fell swoop.
He send me back a nasty email and then proceeds to slam the book in a manner which is worse than anything ever said about the Real Messiah by religious nutbars:
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Messiah-Throne-Origins-Christianity/dp/1906787123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246919916&sr=8-1
His negative review of this book is a depressing demonstration of the selfishness and self-defeatism that often pervades individuals on our side of the debate:
“My site and many others were spammed for the sale of this book. That alone is enough to stop me purchasing it until I hear amazing reviews from those I trust.”
The point is that I actually sent him links to positive reviews for
the book in Publishers Weekly:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6640240.html&
And a list of New Testament scholars who support the book:
http://plainview.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/jesus-was-not-the-messiah/
The aforementioned site was from a CHRISTIAN BLOG for God’s sake!!!
Look at the objectivity even with these people when compared to us.
Now I am not against someone having their own opinion about a book. ‘Sabio’ or whatever his fake name is can say whatever he wants about the Real Messiah IF HE READ THE BOOK. Yet it seems entirely self-defeatist to me for we atheists to deliberately sabotage a work whose specific intention is to destroy the Christian paradigm.
Unlike our enemies in the Religious Right we are rarely united, politically naïve and basically content to sit around engaging in intellectual masturbation while our rights are systematically stripped away from us.
My intention was not to spam anyone. I was simply trying to find a way for our side to go on the offense for once. We are always on the defensive while they (the religious folks) take shots at us.
I thought the Real Messiah was special because it is centered around a physical object which the author found in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice. It is universally understood to have been taken there by Italian sailors stole from the most ancient Church of St. Mark in Alexandria in the ninth century. Huller demonstrates that the throne goes back much further than that – i.e. all the way to the beginning of Christianity in Egypt.
In any event this throne is the real deal. It has an inscription written out in Hebrew letters and symbols which prove that Jesus was not the messiah of Christianity. Here are pictures of the throne:
http://www.therealmessiahbook.blogspot.com
We have to defeat the myth of Jesus Christ with another myth – a ‘rational myth’ to coin the language of Robert Price.
I am not asking you to ‘join my cause.’ I just want to defeat the oppressive ideas of Christianity with freedom and rational discourse. Is that really too much to ask?
FYI the writer of the above comment, “Stuart”, was booted from many atheist sites with his spam about this book. This is creative. He is using his complaint as a chance to spam again. I wonder how this guy is connected to the book. Even VJack on Atheist Revolution spanked the lad.
I thought your article on haters and posers was pretty cool. Good luck! I like your blog by the way, love the way you write.
hope you win!