Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
The resolution calls for North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms program and demands that its negotiators return to the six-party talks. If not, North Korea will face an embargo on heavy weapons systems...
From Washington Times
Um... why isn't there already an embargo on heavy weapons systems? I'm assuming, now that ...
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
You know, cotton candy is not a good desert for kids who have unfettered access to their attic
This made Adam Dawson say that he thought it was hillarious (not much laughter though... I don't know if I believe him, in retrospect)
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
I always knew I didn't like this guy:
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
From Quotationspage.com
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
I saw this online somewhere:
a religion that doesn't preach tolerance for all is evil and immoral themselves...
Is it just me or does that sound kind of intolerant towards evil and immorality?
If you don't agree with me there, you have to agree that this statement is intolerant towards that "religion that ...
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Lloyd Christmas: "What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me
. . . ending up together?"
Mary Swanson: "Well, that's pretty difficult to say."
Lloyd: "Hit me with it! I've come a long way to see you, Mary. The least
you can do is level with ...
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
[Samuel] Hebich preached a simple evangelical Gospel, and, though he never forgot his primary vocation as a missionary, his most outstanding successes were with the British officers of the regiments in his area. This is especially remarkable in view of his extremely limited command of the English language. (His careful ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
This is Emperor Julian talking about the Christians (i.e. "Atheists")
Atheism [i.e. Christian Faith] has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar and ...
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Monday, August 14th, 2006
At another time, when one of those pleasant companions that are desirous to pass for wits, in mockery to Dionysius, as if he were still the tyrant, shook out the folds of his cloak, as he was entering into a room where he was, to show there were no concealed ...
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Democrats by birth and education, we ... prefer to think that all nations and individuals start level in the search for God, or even that all religions are equally true. It must be admitted at once that Christianity makes no concessions to this point of view. It does not tell ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Excellent book. I would recommend just about everyone read this.
Some quotations from chapter 5 "Confession and Communion":
"Confess your faults to one another" (Jas 5:16). He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light
--1 Peter 2:9
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
My goal is not to be able to convince you rationally that the scriptures are true, but to convince you that the difficulties you have with them are not rational, they are moral.
--paraphrased from Ravi Zacharias
(please tell me if I changed the meaning in my paraphrase)
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
I've been catching up on John Siracusa's Blog Fatbits, which is a great blog for nerdy macheads like myself. I really enjoyed this little tidbit:
Any viable solution must work within the (often inconvenient) bounds of reality.
That's something just about everyone can be reminded about all all the time.
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
... but didn't leave them as they had been.
(From Lutheran Hour)
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
Everyone seems to have this one from Bonhoeffer:
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
from Cost of Discipleship
But I was looking for this one:
Christ is still betrayed by the kiss. Wishing to be done with him means always to fall down with the mockers and say, 'Greetings ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Ambrose Bierce is a witty guy:
sacrament
n.
A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached. Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. Some of the smaller sects have no sacraments ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
You may recognize the name of the day "St. Crispin's Day" from Harry's speach in Henry V:
This day is called the Feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day and comes safe home
Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall see this ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
I'm reading Plato's Gorgias right now, and I came across a quotation that I would definately get put on a shirt if I went back to SJC.
Socrates is talking to Pollus, who is a young buck that is better at talking than answering:
But look at it the other way. If ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Therefore we correctly confess in the Creed that we believe a holy church. For it is invisible [hidden], dwelling in the Spirit, in an "unapproachable" place (1 Tim. 6:16); therefore its holiness cannot be seen. God conceals and covers it with weaknesses, sins, errors, and various offenses and forms of ...
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