Another Day to Celebrate Something Most of Us Don't Understand
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” -Bertrand Russell I suppose most of us don’t truly understand the depth of meaning in the celebrations that are generations removed from the event that is celebrated. How do you keep it relevant to the people celebrating it years from when it...
Read MoreThe Anti-vote
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. – Franklin P. Adams Oh, how true this rings of the current election cycle. The only thing I know for sure is that I am not voting for Obama but I don’t want to vote for McCain either. Both of these men are sold out to our current political structure (as is almost every...
Read MoreDuct Tape
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together…. Carl Zwanzig I never thought about it that way……. Brian
Read MoreInteresting Quote
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. –Herbert Spencer Considering the role that government wants to play these days, this is a very interesting quote. I guess fools are more easily to manipulate so if you wanted a populace to control this would be an easy way to make sure you...
Read MoreMeaningless Meanings
“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.” –Paul Johnson Words and their meanings are something I have thought about at length and written about here as well. It seems that the more a word is used the less weight it has. They become commonplace and meaningless. Why does this happen, you ask? A good place to start looking is...
Read MoreThinking Too Much
photo credit: Okko Pyykkö “Daydreaming about something in order to do it properly is right, but daydreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.” –Oswald Chambers I believe that there are three basic categories of commands that we as Christians receive. They are explicit, implicit, and situational. The first two come from scripture and the last comes from our...
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