Polycarp 55 - Resources for Creeds and Theology

Hebrews 4:1-2

2012-02-01T09:25:00.001-05:00

Least Any of you should seem to come short of it.

Let us be especially diligent to secure in our own persons, families, and whole conversation in the world, a diligent attendance unto all manner of holiness, in all faith, love, humility, patience, purity, self-denial, weanedness from the world, readiness to do good; and let these things be bright in us and shine in our lives, if we would not seem to come short. - John Owen

2012-01-18T12:54:00.000-05:00

Proverbs 26:21
As Charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
so is a quarelsome man for kindling strife.

This week's memory verse from Love and Respect 52 Week Devotional

Speak Friends and Enter

2011-11-26T12:18:00.001-05:00

Speak Friend and Enter

There are no secrets, speak of Friend and Enter.

Idea comes from the Sermon by Larry Kirk, on November 20, 2011

Justified!

Series: True Freedom: Paul's Letter to the Galatians

2011-11-01T15:17:00.001-04:00

The use of Heaven and hell in the Modern Age. The 1960's was a low period for the discussion of Heaven but it is making a comeback. So for Heaven's sake say Heavenly thoughts to your neighbor today. And pray for a revival of Reformed Christianity in your Neighborhood.

Conferences: Mocking Bird

2011-07-28T10:25:00.001-04:00

God is in the Gap
Greatest Obstacles, Disguised Gifts;
God celebrates: OOPS!

John Piper: Don't Waste Your Life.

2011-07-06T09:23:00.000-04:00

Holy Holy Holy is our LORD almighty.
Our God is not a God of OOps.

Great Sermons

2011-05-24T14:50:00.001-04:00

Check out this sermon on the LORD's prayer, a great resource worth a listen again and again. Hope it encourages all of you to pray often and in love because the LORD is our Alpha and Omega.

Joshua 1:7-9

2011-03-30T12:10:00.001-04:00

Life is a tight rope,
only one way forward, to home,
keep your eyes on Christ.

Don't be timid. God, your God, is with you every step of the way.

I am currently doing a study on Joshua by listening to Emanuel Presbyterian in New York City. I learned of this church through Tim Keller and Redeemer's connected churches. I have been wanting to study Joshua for awhile. So come journey with me and Emanuel in this study.

16th Century Prayer by Gascoigne

2011-03-23T09:20:00.001-04:00

Unto which joys for to attain
God grant us all his grace,
And send us after worldly pain
In Heaven to have a place,
Where we may still enjoy that light
Which never shall decay,
Lord, for thy mercy lend us might
To see that joyful day.

George Gascoigne

Powerful Words

2011-03-09T08:05:00.001-05:00

"The ancient masters of the Talmud permitted themselves the freedom of carrying on a dialogue with teachers long departed: The past was present; it is present still."* Yesterday my chess students replayed a chess game that was 160 years old. They were able to do this becasue of the written recording and notation of the game. The written word can survive many, many years and be a record of a people. That is one reason the bible is an incredible testament to the faith of a chosen people.

A note on this game-This Game was played in London June 21, 1851: 160 years ago.

The game was played by Adolf Anderssen vs. Lionel Kieseritzky.

	White	Rate the Moves	Black	Rate the Moves
1	e4		e5
2	f4		exf4
3	Bc4		Qh4
4	Kf1		b5
5	Bxb5		Nf6
6	Nf3		Qh6
7	d3		Nh5
8	Nh4		Qg5
9	Nf5		c6
10	g4		Nf6
11	Rg1		cxb5
12	h4		Qg6
13	h5		Qg5
14	Qf3		Ng8
15	Bxf4		Qf6
16	Nc3		Bc5
17	Nd5		Qxb2
18	Bd6		Bxg1
19	E5		Qxa1
20	Ke2		Na6
21	Nxg7		Kd8
22	Qf6		Nxf6
23	Be7++

*Trepp, Leo. A History of the Jewish Experience. New York: Behrman House, 1973.

5 Senses Reading: A response using Eat this Book

2011-03-01T08:39:00.000-05:00

Taste the Good Wine:

Facebook Note from Richard L. Pratt

2011-02-23T11:35:00.002-05:00

Richard L Pratt Jr

From the Book: Biblical authors were keenly interested in history for a very good reason. They not only believed that all of creation is the palatial temple of the divine Emperor. They also believed that history is a sacred drama within his cosmic temple. History played a vital role in the Hebrew Bible because the history of the universe is temple drama writ large.

2011-02-08T11:07:00.000-05:00

The modern age made the discussion of God a thing not discussed, however with the failure of the modern machine Heaven and Holy Spirit have been making a steady resurgence.

Going Gonzo 10 Points on the Church Today

2010-09-09T13:40:00.002-04:00

I know that I do not have a Degree from Seminary but I believe all believers should stand ready to testify about the state of the Church Today. I am glad that I am in a church where biblical truth is central, and our pastor remains humbly at service. As for the Gainesville preacher who is burning Korans out of spite; Hate only spreads a cloud over the truth, a cloud spreads over God, we no longer hear the clear voice of God; for our emotions have taken over. We are fastened to an emotional cloud that deludes the mind.

10 Points of Light for the deluded minds of today:

Align our hearts in Love to be obedient to the LORD who is there and who cares.
We need to join community groups and churches that have a backbone based in biblical truth (the word comes first).
We need to get back to reading the bible daily. So we can discern if the Church we belong to is truly biblical. (I do not mean to do reading out of obligation, but for a love of the truth). If the bible is not center in our worship than we often go astray and do our own things, thinking we are doing what God wants us to do, but in reality the Diabolical Forces are whispering chaotic thoughts into our minds.
We need to get to the basics, back to the reformers like Johnathan Edwards and his signs of true Christianity.
We need not tolerate antics from amateur pastors who are leading their fifty to millions of members astray.(Read # 3). If our church has made our Pastor the God then we need to first confront our Pastor, then if this does not work ask to join another church that is more biblically centered. We should not join a church until we know that the biblical leaders are centered in the truth of the word.
We need to get back to prayer. (Corporate and Individual).
As well as imprinting the word through memorization of true biblical passages. God's word found in the bible should be grafted on the front of our minds as we go out into the world.
We need to budget our time and our expenses really be stewards of God's gifts, this includes tithing.
We need to grow in love with others who may not see how Christ is the savior. We must be firm in our understanding, but loving in our approach to others.
We must ask god to forgive our mannishnes the need to put man first in worship and god last in our worship.
Avoid all Fascists tendencies including making a pointed list. And when we do make Fascist agenda centered remarks make sure they are rooted in God's word. Not out of straight opinion of the times.

Social Blending

2010-09-01T10:16:00.000-04:00

We live in an age averse to distinctions. We don't like admitting how different A, B, and C are from each other—and then how very different X, Y, and Z are not only from each other, but even more distantly from A, B, and C. We prefer instead a more politically correct order where all the letters of the alphabet have equal standing—where X gets just as many opportunities to be used as E does.
(Social Blender) World Mag

What makes the Ideal History?

2010-08-31T10:36:00.002-04:00

In 1925, the American Legion declared that the ideal history textbook "must inspire the children with patriotism...must be careful to tell the truth optimistically...must speak chiefly of success."

God The Genius

2010-08-17T10:42:00.000-04:00

"A power able to bring about such a number of important results is to my mind wholly divine. For what is memory of things and words? What further is invention? Assuredly nothing can be found even in God of greater value than memory." Cicero

On these Rocks I will build my Church

2010-07-11T13:52:00.000-04:00

On these Rocks I will build my church,

On rough stones

Christ built a church.

Broken down, raw, unpolished stones

not perfect stones, but broken down, raw

stones to build God's temple.

Pure Grace and Nothing But Grace

2010-07-06T10:37:00.001-04:00

The message does a good job of restating Ephesians 6 in common terms. One can feel the warmth Paul attempts to send even though he is writing this from a prison cell.

"Goodbye, friends. Love mixed with faith be yours from God the father and from the Master, Jesus Christ. Pure grace and noting but grace be with all who love our Master, Jesus Christ."

First Peter 1:16 "The Message"

2010-06-24T07:54:00.002-04:00

A Future in God

^13-16So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that's coming when Jesus arrives. Don't lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn't know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God's life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, "I am holy; you be holy."

Reading Ezekial with a Nod to the rules of Satire

2010-06-23T10:40:00.000-04:00

We will be reading Ezekiel in our CBR study. My ESV mentioned that one must follow the rules of Satire. When I looked up the term satire in my Dictionary of Literary Terms by J.A. Cuddon this is what was stated:

"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it." Swift

The satirist is thus a kind of self appointed guardian of standards, ideals, and truth; of moral as well as aesthetic values. Satire is a kind of protest.

Ronald Knox likened the satirist to a small boy who goes about with a water pistol charged with vitriol. He also suggest that the satirist is a kind of spiritual therapist whose function is to destroy the root causes of the major diseases of the spirit, like hypocrisy, pride, and greed.

2010-04-29T10:53:00.002-04:00

Andre Comte Spoonville states, "Religion requires a re-reading, to contemplate, we are bound together because we re-read."

2010-04-22T08:43:00.000-04:00

Check out Bethel Evangelical Free Church of Hanley, Stoke on Trent. He really knows his stuff for someone in his early thirties. Enjoy Gregorio.

Devil's Maelstrom

2010-04-08T08:21:00.000-04:00

My mom always said, "Don't go to the back end of the circle. OR something like that!"

John and Stasi Eldredge show what this means in their book, Love and War. I have created an illustration of this idea.

First their is an itch, something not quit right. We than say something as a quip, like "She always does this thing you know!" Then we resign ourselves to this being the TRUTH. We then have taken the bate and become the devils possessed minions.

The maelstrom has a circular stormy effect and can tear communion between others up. Lets attempt to live in truth with one another and understand that in Darkness the devil has a foothold. But also remember that light will always win in the battle of dark forces.

Hope it helps someone. Gregorio

DH Lawrence on Silent Apologetics

2010-03-22T10:10:00.000-04:00

We were to contain the enemy by silent threat of a vast unknown desert, not disclosing ourselves till we attacked. D.H. Lawrence

2010-02-16T09:22:00.000-05:00

The less there was to see,

the harder he looked,

the more he saw.

Dan Dellilo

Life Can Begin Again Quote:

2010-02-12T09:50:00.000-05:00

Wise people like you always have a touch of persecution mania. You are always seeing the world full of trees all wanting to ram into your radiator. - Helmet Thielicke

2010-02-03T09:31:00.000-05:00

These are my principals if you don't
like them I have others.

Groucho Marx

Weeds are Emerging II

2010-01-26T09:47:00.000-05:00

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

- R C Sproul

Weeds are Emerging

2010-01-25T11:10:00.001-05:00

Doug Pagett seems to describe the weed metaphor taught by Jesus in Matthew 13:25-30! We need to stay grounded in the truth of the bible and not read between the lines or go for something that might feel good. Feelings do not point NORTH, they only give us an abyss that never ends!

'"The word "emergent" -- the part of it that I liked most was its use in forestry, where the emergent growth, or in agriculture it's pre-emergent growth, it's the growth that's just down right at the surface, and it's just broken through, and it's small. So we said, what we are is this small, little thing that's broken through, but down the road.....this growth will grow up and will become the treetops. So in the forestry world, you determine the health of a forest both by what you see at the treetops from a flyover but also by the level of emergent growth and pre-emergent growth. So we said, hey that's kind of our metaphor, we're not trying to eliminate anything else that exists - in fact, we're gonna grow up inside of the shadows of all the rest of this. So "emergent," it kind of captures us pretty well, that's what we think this is, it's not competition, it's not anything like that, it's just that which is now growing up inside of the context that the rest of this has already existed.

As heard on Christian Pirate Radio's interview of Doug Pagett on Fighting for the Faith aired Friday January 21, 2010. Listen to interview!

What does it mean to abide in him?

2010-01-15T08:49:00.001-05:00

As God's first born children left Egypt, the Egyptians were moved by the spirit of God to give them Gold, and Jewels, and precious things. The Chosen's hearts became inflamed. So instead of worshiping God, they turned towards a New God: the Golden Calf. Working with their newly acquired Gold they attempted to supplant God with a God they could see and worship in their newly formed. They deemed the Golden Calf more worthy than a God they could not envision.

Jesus received a blessing of anointment from his father when John baptized him in the Jordan. Jesus was tempted right afterwards for forty days in the desert by the Devil. But instead of creating food from stone, or throwing himself off of the top of the temple, or claiming what was already his; he abide in the LORD.
Jesus walked under the shadow of God to illustrate God's enduring Love: love that does not change, lasts forever, and provides enough to eat when times are tough.

We are chosen to be stewards of a kingdom that is not yet complete but has already been redeemed. We must turn to the LORD and repent for a Heavenly Kingdom is near.

You can Knock Forever on a Deaf Man's Door

2009-12-17T10:58:00.000-05:00

You can knock forever on a deaf man's door!
Kazantzakis.
What are you not listening to that you probably should listen to. Not all words are profitable, but the words moved by the holy spirit are profitable to preserving our lives.

The Tao of the Jump Shot by John Fitzsimmons Mahoney:

2009-12-02T08:54:00.006-05:00

For anything that's ultimately important in life-love, joy, creativity - effort is a thief disguised as a philanthropist. Quote from Chapter 5

2009-12-01T08:51:00.001-05:00

So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theaters of our the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play. Ann Rice- Angel Time.

X-2= Y

2009-11-30T09:21:00.003-05:00

X= Unknown
Y= New Understanding

A linkster's clubs are to him what a wand is to a magician. They had leather grips and extra stiff shafts, and they felt even in my clumsy grip, like a product of science and philosophy: balanced, elegant, simple as love itself.

X-Lee K. Abbot

C.S. Lewis on the importance of Old Books:

2009-11-29T08:21:00.001-05:00

The only safety is to have a standard of plain, central Christianity ("mere Christianity" as Baxter called it) which puts the controversies of the moment in their proper perspective. Such a standard can be acquired only from the old books. It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.

2009-11-25T09:43:00.002-05:00

Why Greed is Good?

2009-11-23T09:37:00.002-05:00

"Wall Street Runs on the fumes of covetous flames."

I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

Requesting to be a God (Rock Me Amadeus)

2009-11-21T03:21:00.002-05:00

"I would offer up secretley the proudest prayer a boy could think of. "Lord, make me a great composer! Let me celebrate your glory through your music and be celebrated myself! Make me famous through the world, dear God! Make me immortal! After I die let people speak my name forever with love for what I wrote! In return I vow I will give you my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility, every hour of my life. And I will help my fellow man all I can. Amen and Amen!" Peter Shaffer's Play Amadeus.

Editor Notes: Week of November 15, 2009

2009-11-17T10:56:00.004-05:00

A worn out army will be like a car on blocks revving to go a 1,000 miles; it wont get there no matter how many miles role by on the odometer.

True Christian Affections Are:
1. Are a result of the Holy Spirit living in the Person
2. Come from a love for God.
3. Love the holiness of God and holiness every where.
4. Are a result of knowledge about God from the bible.
5. Come with a conviction that Christianity is true.
6. Come with realization of himself/herself in light of who God is.
7. Result in a radical change of the person in regard to God and holiness.
8. Give the person the character and attitude of Christ Jesus.
9. Give the person a tenderness of heart.
10. Are constant and consistent.
11. Leave the person with a desire to excel in sanctification rather than a personal satisfaction that he/she has completed or accomplished something on his/her own.
12. Result clearly in Good Works.

Worth the Read: Should Couples Cohabitate

Flowery Beds of Ease: Isaac Watts

2009-11-14T08:52:00.002-05:00

Am I a soldier of the cross,
A follower of the Lamb,
And shall I fear to own His cause,
Or blush to speak His Name?

Verse 2
Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?

Verse 3
Are there no foes for me to face?
Must I not stem the flood?
Is this vile world a friend to grace,
To help me on to God?

Verse 4
Sure I must fight, if I would reign;
Increase my courage, Lord.
I’ll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by Thy Word.

Verse 5
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die;
They see the triumph from afar,
By faith they bring it nigh.

Verse 6
When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all Thy armies shine
In robes of victory through skies,
The glory shall be Thine.

2009-11-11T09:01:00.004-05:00

Longfellow Wrote:
The tide rises
the day returns
but nevermore, returns
the traveler to the
shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

I think of the outdoors when I read these lines from Longfellow's poem today.

I hope the tides eddy and collect into a pleasant oxbow lake.

A lake full of restless trout.

And all of the trout, restless and ready to bite on a bit of worm,

hanging on a hook,

dangling from a string,

connected to our white and spotted aspen twigs.

2009-11-10T09:45:00.002-05:00

Happy Birthday Martin Luther. Thank you for posting those 95 thesis on that Church Door on that Cold Cold Day in Germany, so long ago.

2009-11-07T03:01:00.000-05:00

"You don't dance to get to the other side of the floor."
Alan Watts

LegoLand an Emergent Horror Story Retold

2009-11-05T13:35:00.005-05:00

In the beginning were the Legos ... Legos were with God ... and the Legos were God... And it was decided it was good to Tabernacle Lego Sets together.

2009-11-05T03:33:00.000-05:00

Did God play dice with the Universe, Mr. Einstein?
Was earth created when he rolled snake eyes at the Golden Nugget Casino?
Was earth created when he attended the Casino's grand opening August 30, 1946?

2009-11-04T09:28:00.001-05:00

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep. (Tao te Ching no. 64)

" Mother with the bundle, let me guide your
footsteps, Let me help you onward, life is sad alone."

C. M. VERSCHOYLE
Full text of "Some adventures of the soul and The deliverer" (4 November 2009)

Boil and Boil Toil and Troubling Spell

2009-10-31T15:22:00.001-04:00

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time."
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Friday: Be Aware of the Buddy Christ

2009-10-30T14:13:00.001-04:00

2009-10-30T08:26:00.002-04:00

Their are five different tastes,
There are 10,000 different odors,
80% of taste is an odor.
Smell is connected to sight
What aroma of the Christ Centered life are you?

2009-10-29T14:04:00.002-04:00

When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day. It is still impossible for man to organize his social life without repressions, and the balance has yet to be struck between order and freedom.

Arthur Miller - the Crucible

Sign Post on Rt 666

2009-10-28T10:59:00.002-04:00

When we got to the gate, we saw a sign that said:

"We did not know you. You must be pardoned by the head Rabbi before going through the gates. Sorry for the inconvenience."

I rung the bell attached to the metal gate. The guard came. The guard said, "Sorry we did not know you, you must be pardoned by the head Rabbi, before you are allowed to this land. You can not take any shortcuts. Go back and repent of your ways or this sign will be planted on Rt 666."

"What sign!"

"This sign!"

The sign was printed in Times New Roman Bold:

Gregorio Roth built a
home on sandy soil,
woe to him, who builds
on Sandy Foundations.

Review of from Peanuts to Pressbox by Eli Gold

2009-10-27T05:35:00.000-04:00

Life's roads are sinewy slippery slopes. Eli Gold illustrates the way he navigated these twisting roads. Eli had a dream of one day being the radio voice he heard when listing to his favorite New York Teams.
Eli always knew what he wanted to do and he found his way to it by learning along the way. He shows how to turn no-where to now here, by his relentless open-heart ready for exploration.

His drive is tremendous, I can not picture myself calling in scores from a pay phone in order to have my voice on radio. Or the desire to cover anything related to sports.
I was comforted by this book, especially his honesty.
Eli's viewpoints on the southern landscape were great because he was honest in saying it took him more than ten years to be deemed worthy to cover the tide. We sit at home and think these people are so lucky to be in the booth,but rarely do we see the road they took to get there.
My one critique is I wish he would have told less stories but have each story with more depth. I was wanting to travel more and see more with Eli, but maybe he will write another book.

Thanks to Thomas Nelson Company for letting me preview this book.

FROM PEANUTS TO THE PRESSBOX

INSIDER SPORTS STORIES FROM A LIFE BEHIND THE MIC

Eli Gold, with M. B. Roberts

Forward by Vern Linquist

ISBN 978-1-4016-0436-3

Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2009

Hdbk, 255 pp.

Thanks to Thomas Nelson Company for letting me preview this book.

FROM PEANUTS TO THE PRESSBOX

INSIDER SPORTS STORIES FROM A LIFE BEHIND THE MIC

Eli Gold, with M. B. Roberts

Forward by Vern Linquist

ISBN 978-1-4016-0436-3

Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2009

Hdbk, 255 pp.

2009-10-26T11:08:00.001-04:00

Alphas go mad doing Epsilon Work.

Huxley, Brave New World

2009-10-26T10:25:00.003-04:00

Russian roulette with four of the six chambers loaded. If you can do it ten times in a row with out decorating the opposite wall; congratulations your a civilian.

(Forever War by Joe Haldemann)

2009-10-25T11:10:00.000-04:00

When the individual feels the community reels.

(Huxley, A. Brave New World)

2009-10-24T11:05:00.001-04:00

Mendings anti social.
Huxley, brave new World

2009-10-23T05:49:00.001-04:00

Until he opens his mouth that is: and then it is the raunchin’ phlegmy wheeze we know as Dylan’s modern voice. There is a moment of disbelief, then hilarity, then a little more hilarity, and then it settles in to a kind of hallucinogenic mash-up of old world sounds and other-worldly vocalizations. It is almost like listening to a Salvation Army band playing down the block, but right below your window is some toothless geezer singing along with them. They float up together like so many wisps of smoke to your window and then, in spite of the incongruities and just plain weirdness of it all, you find yourself transported to some sacred, private place where you are alone with your hopes and failures-all on Christmas morning. Christmas In The Heart is a strange, complicated, piece of the Dylan canon. It is hard to fully grasp what he is doing, but the feeling it leaves you with ultimately is bittersweet poignance.

Paul Epstein in his blog Spork, Review of Bob Dylan's new Christmas album.

2009-10-22T11:13:00.001-04:00

Impulse to recoil from an unpleasant object.
Huxley, Brave New World

2009-10-22T11:06:00.002-04:00

Impulse to recoil from an unpleasant object.
Huxley, Brave New World

2009-10-15T10:11:00.006-04:00

Life doesn't happen along interstates. Its against the law.

Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon

Finding the back-roads is the way to go. I love traveling in my van (Rocinante the 55th. the 55th generation of the Gallant Stead rode by Don Quixote) and getting lost; if you can't get lost you can't live.

2009-10-14T11:27:00.003-04:00

A Geometrical Symbol of Triumphant Human Purpose

(Huxley, A. Brave New World) pg. 105

2009-10-12T08:28:00.002-04:00

Platonia is not a claustrophobic vault but an echoing canyon open to the sky... its echo, heard at any point with in it is what we call the past.

Barbour, Julian The End of Time The Next Revolution in Physics (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999), 75.

Masters of Illusions

2009-10-07T10:55:00.005-04:00

We are masters at drawing conclusions from incomplete information.
We have a built in tendency to fool ourselves and others.
Our drawing conclusions from incomplete information creates factions and waring parties.

Alarmists vs Rationalists; World will Float Away vs. Its Raining:

2009-10-05T09:59:00.003-04:00

Q.Can you prove that mathematics is valid?

A. Only to another mathematician.

2009-09-29T09:45:00.004-04:00

What is the subject of the above picture?

What is the subect of the next picture?

The moon looks like a bowling ball when the Earth does not hold it into orbit.

The picture is just two sticks, perpinduclar to each other, intersecting at their middle; a means of

torture by Roman Centuriens; when Christ does not hold our hearts.

2009-09-25T11:34:00.001-04:00

"Its not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer." - Einstine

Dalai Lama a Feminist?

2009-09-24T08:09:00.002-04:00

The Dalai Lama smiled mischievously and said, "I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?" The comment was made during his International Freedom Award acceptance speech, which was presented to him by the National Civil Rights Museum.

Lets Contact E.T. to Understand String Theory

2009-09-23T09:48:00.005-04:00

Human Beings can not understand string theory, "We can't expect dogs to understand quantum mechanics, and it may be that we are reaching the limit of what humans can understand about string theory. Maybe there are advanced civilizations out there to whom we appear as dogs to us, and maybe they have figured out string theory well enough to have moved on to a better theory..." (Lee Smolin, Trouble with Physics (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), 269-270.

Ursala K. Le Guin The Left Hand Of Darkness on Fear

2009-09-14T08:25:00.004-04:00

But I do fear you, Envoy. I fear those who sent you. I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else lasts long enough. You are what you say you are, yet you're a joke, a hoax. There's nothing in between the stars but void and terror and darkness, and you come out of that all alone trying to frighten me. But I am already afraid, and I am the king. Fear is king! Now take your traps and tricks and go, there no more needs saying. I have ordered that you be given the freedom of Karhide. (Le Guin, 40)

Romans 8:18-28

2009-08-31T10:51:00.002-04:00

Groaning, Echoing, Groaning,
A Caged Bird Perched with a broken wing
Yearns with joyful abundance
for a day when he can fly back home.
Gregorio Roth