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Sunday, July 28, 2002 |
7. U.S. News: John Leo: Flogged by bloggers. "...Sullivan argued that the Times had "cherry-picked" data for maximum effect, measuring the 30 years from 1966, one of the century's four coldest years, through 1995, one of the hottest. "
1:32:47 PM 
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Steve makes some comments about Intelligent Design. It all sounds like someone speculating based on his own prejudices to me. He says that ID is just a ruse to get Christianity back into government schools. Seriously, who cares about government schools? Anybody who cares about teaching their kids to worship the Creator has pulled them out long ago. It's the evolutionary ideologies that have to be forced down people's throats, BTW - teachers are forced to have it in their curriculum, kids are forced to attend classes, taxpayers are forced to pay for it all, etc.
He also wants to know about stupid design, as if the fact that everything not being in the pristine state it was at the beginning is an argument against a creator. Not too well thought out.
Hint: knowing that something was intelligently designed, doesn't mean we ignore it. Take a look at forensic science, or historical science. If given two rocks, and one looks like an arrow head, we don't just toss that one because we concluded that it wasn't made by natural forces.
12:46:42 PM
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Our Pastor asked one of our more synical teenagers, "What does 'Bread of Life' mean?" Silenced reigned. It seems that bread no longer signifies what it used to. Well, let me propose a different metaphor: Jesus is the "Parking Space of Life".
In the urban environment where I live, you must have a place to park securely in mind BEFORE you leave the one you are at, or risk driving around, looking for a parking space, wasting precious time, until you run out of gas.
OK, maybe that is not strong enough. Maybe we should refer to Jesus as the "Gasoline of Life", for without Him you would have to walk under your own power.
No, even that is not strong enough: Jesus is the "Oxygen of Life", and without it, neither our legs nor our engines can go anywhere without it.
But we have to take the time to get the "bread" into us, properly digested and all. So we are back to our beginning argument. You need a parking space or risk getting your car towed. So I guess Jesus is the "Parking Space of the Soul".
12:24:34 PM
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Seeings how there will be about 3 times as many people on the Earth as when I was born, will they each be taking about a third of my "place"? Will they all take "my" job?
8:44:25 AM
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Occasionally, when people are discussing homeschooling with me, the notion of "socialization" comes up. They are unable to articulate what they mean by "socialization", but I think it has something to do with the liberal notion of education producing the New Man.
They claim they don’t mean that the homeschooler doesn’t get to play with other children, especially after I tell them that there are almost as many homeschoolers on our street as government school kids.
So let’s perform a thought experiment: imagine if we imprisoned the homeschoolers with other children. Would that help in their "socialization"? Maybe that would be too extreme - how about if we make it a minimum security day prison? Is there some minimum emprisonment that wouldn’t produce a prison mentality? Yet that is exactly what goes on every day at a government school: kids are forced to associate together, producing the same revenge killings, etc., that you see in any other prison population.
Contrast this with kids that are homeschooled. You won’t find a listless, anti-social one among them.
Why did the Puritans leave for the New World anyway? Was it to get away from religious persection? No. They were already livinq in tolerant, prosperous Holland at the time. No, the reason they took all the risks is to get away from the socialization their young people were experiencin in Holland.
8:43:48 AM
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I am struck by how thoroughly Hillary Clinton is like the biblical character of Jezebel. But more than that, the analogy extends to her husband. If Hillary is Jezebel, Bill is certainly Ahab. And if Hillary is Jezebel and Bill is Ahab, (my mind enjoys completing the picture,) then the angularity-challenged Billy Graham is Obediah and Rush Limbaugh is Elijah. "Rush Limbaugh?!?" you say. Seriously, can you think of anyone playing the role more fully than Rush?
But what about Bush? I suppose we could equate the Democrats with the Baal-worshiping northern kingdom of Israel. That would make the dynasty of Omri the dynasty of J. F. K. The Republicans would then have to be the southern kingdom of Judah. The concilitory Jehoshaphat would then have to be Bush 43.
What about you? Can you add to the picture? How far can we take this before the analogy breaks down?
8:41:19 AM
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Students are given barganing chips according to some kind of award system. These chips are used to award bids placed by themselves in a special auctioning system. Bidders in this system would be local villagers who would try to convince the student that they are qualified to do the work and would place the lowest bid.
8:39:37 AM
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