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Name: Jonathan
Birthday: 6/12/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: "Frustrating" people, reading, thinking, goofing off, reading CS Lewis, seeing spiritual themes in the most mundane of things (check out King Kong...some great spiritual imagery there)
Expertise: "Frustrating" people, caring too much, thinking too much, reading books for pleasure that most people don't associate with pleasure, spending lots of my dad's money on books
Occupation: Student
Industry: Furman University
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AIM:  suitjo
Member Since:
9/20/2005
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| Done with College. Feels good, but I'm a little bored right (okay maybe a lot) because everyone else is studying, doing something else.
It's kinda weird to think I will never see many of my closest friends...ever. Sad times. | | |
| A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist."
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
vs.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that
thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast
ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his
feet:
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
I like what James W. Sire in the UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR says:
"There is a world of difference between the worldviews of these two poems. Indeed, they propose alternative universes. Yet both poems reverberate in the minds and souls of people today. Many who stand with Stephen Crane have more than a memory of the psalmist's great and glorious assurance of God's hands in the cosmos and God's love for his people. They long for what they no longer can truly accept. The gap left by the loss of a center of life is like the chasm in the heart of a child whose father has died. How those who no longer believe in God wish something could fill this void.
"And many who yet stand with the psalmist and whose faith in the Lord God Jehovah is vital and brimming still feel the tug of Crane's poem. Yes, that is exactly how it is to lose God. Yes, that is just what those who do not have faith in the infinite-personal Lord of the Universe must feel--alienation, loneliness, even despair.
"We recall the struggles of faith in our nineteenth-century forebears and know that for many faith was the loser. As Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote in response to the death of his close friend,
Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last--far off--at last, to all
And every winter change to spring.
So runs my dream; but what am I?
An infant crying in the night;
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but a cry.
And then Sire goes on to explain the purpose of his book. But it's all just something to chew on. | | |
| TRANSLATING THE FEMALE LANGUAGE...here's some help to the poor, innocent guys out there
when a women says this she means = this. Got it! now read on.
Yes = No
No = Yes
Maybe = No
I'm sorry. = You'll be sorry.
We need... = I want
It's your decision = The correct decision should be obvious by now.
Do what you want... = You'll pay for this later.
We need to talk... = I need to complain.
Sure...go ahead = I don't want you to.
I'm not upset = Of course I'm upset, you moron!
You're so manly = You need a shave and you sweat a lot.
You're certainly attentive tonight = Is sex all you ever think about?
Be romantic, turn out the lights = I have flabby thighs.
This kitchen is so inconvenient = I want a new house.
I want new curtains = ...and carpeting, and furniture, and wallpaper.....
Hang the picture there = NO, I mean hang it there!
I heard a noise = I noticed you were almost asleep.
Do you love me? = I'm going to ask for something expensive.
How much do you love me? = I did something today you're really not going to like.
I'll be ready in a minute = Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV.
Am I fat? = Tell me I'm beautiful.
You have to learn to communicate. = Just agree with me.
Are you listening to me!? = Too late, you're dead.
Was that the baby? = Why don't you get out of bed and walk him until he goes to sleep.
I'm not yelling! = Yes I am yelling because I think this is important. But DON'T YOU EVER yell. Jerk.
In response to What's wrong?: The same old thing = Nothing
Nothing = Everything
Nothing, really = It's just that you're such an idiot | | |
| This is going to be short. I am just giving a warning. On my mind: famous CS Lewis quote on God not being safe but Good, and Heidegger. Only I could be thinking about two brilliant thinkers who are on complete different sides on just about everything. As an added bonus I've been thinking about Proverbs and adultery. | | |
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There are so many good talks on this website. Willard and JP Moreland are on here! Wow.
click below. It's amazing!!!
Veritas Forum....lots of amazing speeches. | | |
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