Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
by C.S. Lewis
The greatness of Plato's Symposium is to the greatness of this book as the sphere of the Earth is to the sphere of the fixed stars.
The four loves are: Affection, Friendship, Eros, and Charity (Storge, Philos, Eros, and Agape).
I especially connected with Lewis' redemption of Eros.
The sternest feminist ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Great Song, Great Lyrics:
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I have a feeling that 1 Samuel 19:20-21 and 2 Kings 1:9-12 looked very similar in the spiritual realm.
Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,
But it is swept away by injustice.
(NASB)
This is basically the entirety of the book I read a little bit back: The Mystery of Capital.
The author adds in a few accounts of history,empirical evidence, and practical answers to this problem, but ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
In essentials: unity, in non-essentials: diversity, in all things: charity.
St. Augustine
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Look at this stuff, isn't it neat?
Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the girl
The girl who has everything?
Look at this trove, treasures untold
How many wonders can one cavern hold?
Looking around here, you'd think
Sure, she's got everything
I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty
I've got who's-its and what's-its galore
You want ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
In January 1957, as his diary from the Sierra Maestra indicates, Guevara shot Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information: “I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain.... His belongings were now mine.”
or for the lighter side of ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
What I found was that economic inequality doesn’t frustrate Americans at all. It is, rather, the perceived lack of economic opportunity that makes us unhappy. To focus our policies on inequality, instead of opportunity, is to make a grave error—one that will worsen the very problem we seek to solve ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Lovingly Opposed to Sin and Evil
We may not end evil this year, but with your help we will work hard to get a government grant to study doing so. Our very ineffectiveness will be a sign of our servant-leadership that dares not limit the Other by making the attainable an ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
The God Delusion is full of bluster and bombast, but it really doesn't give even the slightest reason for thinking belief in God mistaken, let alone a "delusion."
The naturalism that Dawkins embraces, furthermore, in addition to its intrinsic unloveliness and its dispiriting conclusions about human beings and their place in ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
We can continue the endless cycle of need and dependency, or you can create jobs, develop indigenous capacity, and build a sustainable future.
Aid not only crowds out local entrepreneurship, it makes governments lazy and deprives countries of the incentive to build effective institutions. Public revenue derived from taxes makes governments ...
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
I happen to agree that abortion is a form of murder. I think the quarrel about when life begins is disrespectful to the fetus. I know I murdered the life within me. I could have loved that life but chose not to. I did what men ...
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
The Episcopal "Church" is suing to regain it's property from the 11 churches in Virginia that broke away from the larger body in order to remain with orthodox Anglican beliefs.
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
The only thing worse than bombing Iran is allowing Iran to get the bomb.
Compelling case for bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, soon.
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
The ONE Campaign is an effort by Americans to rally Americans – one by one – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE is students and ministers, punk rockers and NASCAR moms, Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life, united to help make poverty ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Myself unholy, from myself unholy
To the sweet living of my friends I look---
Eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook,
Fresh brooks to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:---
And they are purer, but alas! not solely
The unquestion'd readings of a blotless book.
And so my trust, confusèd, struck, and shook
Yields to the sultry siege of melancholy.
He ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me;
Fight against those who fight against me.
Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my help.
Also draw out the spear,
And stop those who pursue me.
Say to my soul,
"I am your salvation."
Reading through the Psalms, this section jumped out, which ...
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
I watched that movie (it was a year ago, but I just wanted to post this clip)... I actually think the world would be a better place without Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
I saw a bumper sticker (i.e. "take its accuracy with a grain of salt") quotation today:
Peace cannot come about by means of force, only understanding -- Albert Einstein
I would like to respond to this.
Peace cannot come about by understanding. That belief denies the intrinsic wretchedness of man which cannot be ...
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