The Letter

Yesterday, I received a mysterious letter in the mail. It was in a manila envelope with no return adress. The letter is shown below.

Dear Mr. Frankenburger,

Congratulations! You have won 1 million dollars!

Sorry, wrong letter. This is the letter.

Dear Luke Frankenburger,

You have been chosen to recieve my wisdom, wisdom wiith no end. I would like you to share my wisdom with as many people as possible, who should share my wisdom with others, and so on. You shall receive further letters, which shall contain this wisdom. Share my wisdom with the world!

Signed,
The Thiinker

I am a very trusting person, so I assumed that this was true. However, I wondered how I was supposed to share this wisdom with the world. Finally, I remembered the obvious – the internet. Hopefully, this blog will meet many people, who will share this with the world. The next letters shall be posted to this blog. Please check back frequently.

Letter 10 – Popularity

I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I’ve had an extremely busy personal life recently, and The Thiinker seems to have sensed this, as I have not received any manila envelopes lately. However, today I received the following letter:

Dear Luke Frankenburger,

Do not let the trends of society sweep you up in their tidal wave of misery, for when you say and do as the crowd does and says, you lose yourself in the midst of conformity. How can you truly be yourself when all you do is follow? Instead, take the road less traveled by. Be yourself, not who others want you to be. True friends stick by you for yourself. Others stick by you for being “cool”; being up-to-date on the latest trends and making fun of those who aren’t “cool” according to society. However, these are the people who end up with the best lives. Take the stereotypical high school jock, for example. This young man plays football and wrestling, maybe baseball. They spend hours working out. They barely miss failing most of their classes, yet they are looked up to by the majority of the student body. They will probably grow up to be generally poor and unhappy, unless they end up making it in sports. Now take the geeks and freaks, so to speak. The music geek plays dozens of instruments and is an expert songwriter, yet are made fun of for not being “cool” enough. This person will probably grow up to be in an awesome band. The drama/choir freak is an awesome actor and singer, and also have great social skills. However, they are looked down upon, again, for not being “cool” enough. They will probably grow up to be in movies and/or plays, probably on Broadway. Now, the English nerd. This person is an awesome writer, and has probably written a couple stories and filled up a couple of journals. This person is very in touch with themselves emotionally. However, they are looked down upon yet again for not being “cool” enough. Now, the math geek, perhaps the most looked down upon person in the modern social scene. This person is awesome at math, and is probably good at science too. This person is looked down upon for being your stereotypical nerd. However, they will probably grow up to have large salaries by working for large businesses, universities, or banks. Remember, popularity is not all it seems. Which one would you rather be?

Signed,
The Thiinker

My Dream for the World

More thank yous and less pleases
More bless yous and less sneezes
Less enemies and more friends
More beginnings and less ends
More laughter and less tears
More water and less beers
More smiles and less frowns
Less jerks and more clowns

Letter 9-Right and Wrong

Dear Luke Frankenburger,

The difference between right and wrong
Should be very easy
But when those wrong think they are right
It makes me feel quite queasy

For if wrong were right then right is wrong
Then wrong is right again
It gets quite confusing
But even then

As long as you know what is right
And what is very wrong
It doesn’t matter what they think
They’re not right all along

Signed,
The Thiinker

The rebelution:Myth of Adolecense

Check out these sights they have great ideas and all of what they say are true!

http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2005/08/myth-of-adolescence-part-1/

http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2005/08/myth-of-adolescence-part-2/

Things to do AFTER I die

• Shake hands with every single dead person
• Find the 411 operator from my previous post and apologize
• Find the telemarketer from my previous post and laugh at him
• Kick Chuck Norris in the shins. I can’t die any more, so why not?
• Haunt the descendants of the children of whoever caused my death
• If it was a natural death, haunt the descendants of Ethan Eep
• Find out why God made the sky blue
• Get a death

Things to do Before I Die

• Learn to speak with a Canadian accent, eh?
• Eat 17 hot dogs in 17 16 9 4 minutes
• Call 411 and ask them what number 411 is
• Count to zero
• Break the world record for minutes left on hold
• Get a telemarketer to hang up on me
• Write a 900 page novel but forget to save and have my computer crash just as I’m typing “The End.”
• Meet Chuck Norris and live to tell the tale
• Get a life
• Make a Things to do Before I Die list

Faith

I’ve been reading several books and articles on faith and I would like to try my own.
Every emotion and almost everything around us is based on faith, like having faith that your job will still be there, having faith that your money is still worth something and faith in your friends and family. As it says in the bible “The faith of a mustard seed can move mountains” which is true. One word that coincides with faith is trust. you can take the word faith and replace it with trust in the examples I gave and they all would make sense an dmean almost the same exact thing. Trust and faith are powerful. If you trust or have faith in God in times of trouble he can help you through it. “Trust in the Lord with all thine hear; and lean not unto your own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths”. This is helpful and true in so many ways. When we are down, almost destroyed, confused and alone we can trust in God to change our course out of the shadow of the valley of death and pull us to him and into the light. If we lean on our own understanding we will be like a cripple with no crutch, falling becasue we have nothing to support us. If we have truse and lean on God he will pick us up and bring us on the right path. He will reveal what we needt to know at the divine time that he has chosen. Trust and faith are part of every one of our emotions. If we trust or belive something is scary, delightful or funny, then it is. Here is an example. Your on a roller coaster for the first time. Your firend next to you has been on that coaster several times. As your going up the chain hill thoughts start to swim through your hear. “Should I be doing this? Can I get off? What was I thinking?” Your friend next to you sees your worry and says to you “Its okay this is fun!” Those thoughts that swam through your head are dustrust towards the ride. You friends been on it before and she/he can trust the ride. ANother example is a little kid. We’ve all been there, afraid of the dark and monsters, but did you relize you were useing faith and trust? You had faith that there was something in the closet so you were scared. So normally we would cry for our parents because we trusted and had faith that they would save us (just as we should with God) and when they came to you they would comfort you and they would reasure you that nothing was in the room so you trusted them and were normally able to sleep just fine the rest of the night
Faith is an interesting topic please post your comments so that I can hear your opinions
Thank you
Ethan Eep

a Co-Authors Poem

Hey eveyone Luke Frankenburger now has a Co- Author to help him run things and its me! Ethan Eep I made this one day when I was bored at school.

The Light
Light makes Darkness run in fear
Light will be there for you like a loyal friend
Light is hape where hope is darkness flees
Hang to hope for it will guide you in times of need in our dark dark world.
-Ethan Eep

I Wish

I know I haven’t updated in a LONG time. I’ve been extremely busy with many different things, but at least I’m updating now. Here’s an old poem of mine. I wrote it in October (I think). Hopefully I’ll be able to put up more posts soon.

I wish that I could talk to you
I wish that we were friends
I wish that you would notice me
Loneliness never ends

I wish I had the confidence
To walk up and say hi
Instead I’m left here all alone
All I can do is sigh

I wish that I could carry some
Simple plain chitchat
However there is nothing harder
For me to do than that

I wish that I could just become
More socially inclined
I guess I have to discover
Some more friends left to find

-Luke Frankenburger

Italian Thieves make Parmesan Cheese a Target

Italians LOVE their cheese. According to The Telegraph, one tenth of all goods stolen from Italy is Parmesan cheese. Apparently, because of the lack of security around the cheese section, most shoplifters are making this cheese a prime target. Criminal organizations, like the Mafia, are suspected to be involved. This is NOT a joke, even though it sounds like one. This is actually true. More information may be coming soon.