Monday, October 11, 2010

Things to Click

Jason Hood has some diabolical fun with 666.

Matt Montonin has an interview with J. Ramsay Michaels about his new John commentary.

Ben Myers has 13 Theses on Writing.


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Nazaroo said...

Room for Improvement:

Following your own advice in Thesis #2:


Thesis #1: "God killed an animal and clothed them" - missing the obvious Hebrew
euphemistic children's explanation for pubic hair was fatal. As disturbing as
the discovery and growth of such hair might temporarily be to preteens, we
hardly need perpetuate erroneous fundamentalism as adults. There is no "animal"
or "fur" in the Hebrew text.

Thesis #2: In order to bring your writing up to speed from mediocre to good, we
might amend with the following: "The difference between good writing and great
writing is content (subject matter)."

Thesis #3: could be shortened to "prewrite, write, rewrite."

Thesis #4: Something could be added about putting out a fire after use. It
would save a lot of forests on many levels.

Thesis #5: Proper interrogation techniques would improve the performance of more
than just lawyers. Truth-searching takes a scientific methodology.

Thesis #6: I stand back to draw on the observation here that good writing is
being evaluated on success (piercing), while other orthogonal scales of
measurement are ignored.

Thesis #7: More succinctly, self-check for bias.

Thesis #8: The author lives in an ivory tower. Over 500 newspaper reporters
have been murdered next door in Mexico over the last 5 years.

Thesis #9: Writing is one activity among many. All done, and more accurately.

Thesis #10: Suicide can be traced rather in children and teens to emotional
over-reaction, abuse and neglect. In adults it arises from alcoholism and
recreational drug use. In the aged, from recognition that productive life is
over and pain/imprisonment is no longer tolerable. In short, sin.

Thesis #11: Writing and thought are a wholistic inseparable pair. But not
always. Some writing is thoughtless.

Thesis #12: Hebrew prophets groped blindly in the dark. But the Medieval
Kabbalah's idea of creamy oneness rules. I read it in Playboy. And don't bogart
that joint. Others want a toke.

Thesis #13: Steal this book. Thanks Abbie Hoffman.


peace
Nazaroo

2:55 AM
Unknown said...

Evangelical Protestantism tends to emphasize salvation as an event and many aspects of our salvation are viewed as past events.

In Catholic thought there is a much greater emphasis on salvation as a process, as working out your salvation.

The pursuit of holiness and ultimately salvation is a journey, begun at our baptism and completed in the consummation of all things.

In the mystery of God's sovereign will, he has chosen to extend to us the dignity of choice, and so attaining salvation is portrayed in the Scriptures as is in some sense contingent on our final perseverance:

"And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach_if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard." (Colossians 1:21-23) (1)

All of salvation is gained for us by the infinite merits of Jesus Christ in his atoning death on the cross:

Christ's death is both the Pascal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world," and the sacrifice of the New Covenant, which restores men to communion with God by reconciling him to God through the "blood of the covenant, which was poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." (Catechism of the Catholic Church 613)

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4:55 AM
Nazaroo said...

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