February 2012
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Wyoming House advances "doomsday bill" [LINK] →
via Casper-Star Tribune
“The task force would look at the feasibility of Wyoming issuing its own alternative currency, if needed. And House members approved an amendment Friday by state Rep. Kermit Brown, R-Laramie, to have the task force also examine conditions under which Wyoming would need to implement its own military draft, raise a standing army, and acquire strike aircraft and an...
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Discussions on The Message
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How DARE they care about the environment!
Wait, are you in favor of The Message?
I don’t know anything about the people who compiled this list, but I don’t think the issue is so much MSG’s translators caring about the environment, as much as it’s about putting words into Paul’s mouth that were...
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Unintentional comedy in reviewing Eugene... →
via Kjos Ministries
“Peterson’s tendency to delete the supernatural and minimize the consequences of sin reminds me of Rom. 1:18 - “The wrath of God is being revealed…against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth…”
Kjos Ministries attacks everything from “born this way” and George Harrison lyrics to Madeleine...
Jon's Dictionary 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer →
jonfoxstuff:
Featuring words that start with B!
Has my dictionary project jumped the shark yet? Decide for yourself!
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“If you yourself have sinned, are sorrowful even unto death for your sins, or for...”
– Father Zossima
Lent
is today. And the next 39 days.
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[Edit]
35 days? The Sundays don’t count? We don’t repent on those days? A new heresy is born!
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Ex nihilo opinion # 24
It’s sad that people are so lazy. “Only teach me what I need to know to succeed!” Because of this, our scientists haven’t read Kierkegaard and our philosophers (which barely exist, in any form) don’t know the Krebs Cycle. That’s how you end with arguments on the internet that don’t go anywhere but to ad hominem.
In which Franklin Graham opens his mouth and... →
I can’t tell if it’s ThinkProgress’s poorly-written article, or Franklin Graham’s mystifying double standard when it comes to people claiming to be a Christian, but this article is genuinely weird. First he says he “cannot answer [whether anyone’s a Christian] for anybody,” presumably because that is a personal religious thing, which, in many Christian...
UNUSED AUDIO COMMENTARY BY HOWARD ZINN AND NOAM... →
via Jon Fox
”Zinn: Especially considering the economic sanctions no doubt faced by Mordor. They must be dreadful. We see now that the Black Riders have been released, and they’re going after Frodo. The Black Riders. Of course they’re black. Everything evil is always black. And later Gandalf the Grey becomes Gandalf the White. Have you noticed that?”
“Chomsky: From what I...
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“A 2006 study by the Wellesley Centers for Women found that boards with a...”
– Bauman, Jeffrey D. Corporations Law and Policy, 7th ed. West (2011), pg. 623-4.
The study cited is Critical Mass on Corporate Board: Why three or more women enhance governance, Wellesley Center for Women, Oct. 25, 2006
It's amazing how many people whig about the...
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“The upshot of all of this is that theological ethics should not in any way try...”
– Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, p. 9-10. (via hargaden)
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“Section 22 of the Second Restatement provides:
(1) Where the defendant may...”
– Hazard, et al. Pleading and Procedure: State and Federal, 10th ed. Foundation Press (2009), p. 1240.
This could have been summed up by saying: “If a counterclaim is compulsory by statute or court rule, the plaintiff must assert it in court or the right is lost.”
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Constructions of Interest: The Hitler atheist... →
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Hitler saw Christianity as a sickness to the Germanic peoples, and obviously he thought the same of Judaism.
Him and Himmler, in order to replace current religions in Germany, dug into myths of the Norse/Germanic past and brought the spirituality back into the German psyche of the strong people…
Soooo, that...
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“Never take a wealthy man on a jury. He will convict, unless the defendant is...”
– Clarence Darrow, 1936.
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“If a Presbyterian enters the jury box and carefully rolls up his umbrella, and...”
– Clarence Darrow, 1936.
Hilarious!
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The Voice of God and self-deception. Are you... →
via Out of Bounds
“The “holiness” criterion is open to self-deception on both the personal and the corporate level. History has shown that one can be right about the Scriptures and yet not be commonly perceived as holy according to wrongly perceived or disproportionately weighted moral standards. With it, the “Scripture principle” criterion is called into question as well: “Feuerbach, Marx...
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Ten years after making all drugs legal, Portugal's... →
via Forbes
“Many of these innovative treatment procedures would not have emerged if addicts had continued to be arrested and locked up rather than treated by medical experts and psychologists. Currently 40,000 people in Portugal are being treated for drug abuse. This is a far cheaper, far more humane way to tackle the problem. Rather than locking up 100,000 criminals, the Portuguese are...
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“Overlapping jurisdiction of state and federal courts has been a characteristic...”
– Hazard, et al., Pleading and Procedure: State and Federal, 10th ed. Foudation Press (2009), p. 880
How did everyone all of the sudden become experts...
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“SIR – Your coverage of Greece (“An economy crumbles”, January 28th) failed...”
– Letter to editor’s inbox; Economist, Letters on State Capitalism and China, Greece, cluster-munitions, the Super Rich, Facebook…, Feb. 9th, 2012
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#LINSANITY; a story of stereotypes and being... →
via New York Times
“Some coaches have wondered whether Lin, who is of Taiwanese descent, did not receive a closer look by recruiters because of his ethnicity. Coaches have said recruiters, in the age of who-does-he-remind-you-of evaluations, simply lacked a frame of reference for such an Asian-American talent.”
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This is what foreign policy success looks like... →
via The Economist
“The other day I noted that nothing had made me as pessimistic about development aid as the endgame of our failed intervention in Afghanistan. Today let me paint a stroke in the other direction: nothing has made me as optimistic recently about the prospects for a broadly international, pro-human-rights, anti-authoritarian foreign policy that brings together America, the...
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I cannot believe the birthers are still birthing... →
via The Economist
“Mr Malihi’s ruling weighs in at a compact but decisive ten pages. The plaintiffs charged that Mr Obama carries a fraudulent social-security number, a forged birth certificate and Indonesian citizenship, and that his real name is either Barry Soetoro or Barack Obama Soebarkah. In support of these claims, Mr Malihi found “the testimony of the witnesses, as well...
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“The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the...”
– Karl Barth, quoted in Robert McAfee Brown’s Portrait of Karl Barth, p. 3 (via hargaden)
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“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me drags (ἑλκύση) him.”
– John 6:44
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“The creature in the sky got sucked in a hole, now there’s a hole in the...”
– Black Francis, 1989
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“Christologies usually offered an image of Christ as a sublime abstraction....”
– Jon Sobrino - Jesus The Liberator: A Historical-Theological View (via jomcarlson)
WORD!
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A bible "free of all liberal untruths" [LINK] →
via EvangelicalTextualCriticism
“The founder of Conservapedia, Andy Schafly, says that “translations like the New International Version have added socialist ideals to the Good Book.” Schlafly thinks a conservative Bible should be masculine, and not use inclusive language. It should also avoids terms like laborer or comrade, and it should put a free market spin on the sayings of...
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“Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen,
erwarten wir getrost, was kommen mag....”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, December 1944, just months before his execution by the Nazis in Berlin at Flossenburg
From where this blog derives its name.
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Ex nihilo opinion # 23
It bothers me when people find something in life, however small or large, and decide that, because of the way that something is, their political opinions are validated because of it. For instance, Buzzfeed did this video where some guy went into the cafeteria where I went to high school (in Olympia, WA) and asked the students basic questions like “who’s the vice president?” and...
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On "the peace that passes understanding"
A notion has infected the Church. It is something I’m going to refer to as “the peace that passes healthiness,” because, in my opinion, that is exactly what it is. I have noticed that in the Christian community, in circumstances where a person is confronted with an awful event, they often feel pressure to immediately attempt to shed light on it, to find the silver lining. There...
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