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Dear Jan: (Gertjan?)
Thank you for your prompt response to my brief "Comment". I guess this deserves an expanded discourse. (fancy talk for some more casual BS.) Will that translate into Dutch? Didn't realize you are so far away. TT
I'm not an academic -far from it! Here's a clue: ( a wee granddaughter would say "a bru cru" from some TV show.) I'm sitting here waiting for the dishwasher repairman to arrive and fix our DW
that conked out on my wife yesterday while I was away. As I told you, I believe, I was intrigued by your Blogs so wanted you to know that someone was reading them. I have little formal education, mostly forgotten, but ample curiosity. It has been my practice to
favor friends who are much smarter than I. I'll skip the details. I took a few minutes to look you up and found Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 2002. Wow! I knew I was onto something good. Nice to visit with you Jan. Best wishes, Ted
by TerribleTed (PM , CC ) on Wednesday September 28, 2005 @ 2:06 PM
Hello Jan:
I apologize for snooping. Clearly, I should have double-checked or
better yet had no right to do it at all. However, I still hold to my observation that you have handled a complex body of thought in a skillful and enlightened manner. Hope to visit again. Ted
by Dazey (PM , CC ) on Friday October 28, 2005 @ 1:26 PM
Dear Dazey: Thanks for your kind words. It is a challenge at times to keep the believers and non-believers talking with each other in a way that we can all understand and, at the same time, be agreeable.
by J-me (PM , CC ) on Tuesday November 1, 2005 @ 8:09 PM
Dear J-Me: Thanks for your nice words. Ah, the death penalty. That's a "hot" issue for Christians. There are some denominations that oppose the death penalty (Friends, Mennonites) and even the Catholic Church has moved away from it. Their reasoning goes something like this: Jesus taught that we are to love our enemies and human life is sacred, therefore, we should not take a human life even from a convicted killer. Others hold that the Bible specifies capital punishment as a form of justice and that St. Paul recognizes human government as an agency of God's wrath against wrongdoers (Romans 13:1-5), including the use of the “sword” to punish those who take human life. Additionally, the sacrificial death of Christ upon the cross would lose its meaning if he was not an innocent victim. Therefore, if capital punishment was wrong per se, then even those who were crucified with Christ would have been innocent, yet, the Bible clearly teaches that those crucified with Christ recognized they were guilty but Jesus was innocent. Luke 23:41 says: (NIV) “We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” In other words, if capital punishment was wrong out of hand, Christ’s sacrifice as the innocent victim would be in jeopardy. I tend to side with the position that a government is required by God to protect human life by instituting capital punishment. However, it must be carefully instituted with lots of safeguards.
by Thomisticguy (PM , CC ) on Tuesday November 1, 2005 @ 8:37 PM
HEY! I can't believe your using that "Broken Window" therory !! I used it for years in many differnt pieces' Great quick concept story! Easy to build on.
I think it might have actually started back with the man who put together the first actually real police force ( "Bobbie's") Roberts in London after the last policing proceedures by "Local lords pay magistrates deals, ended."
It seems to me/Dock
by meljaina (PM , CC ) on Sunday December 18, 2005 @ 1:56 AM
My Inaugural Address at the Great White Throne Judgment of the Dead, after I have raptured out billions!
At: http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman/
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End of days,Day of the Lord,Endtime,Judgment Day
by bigdadgib (PM , CC ) on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @ 5:35 PM
Wow! What a terrific blog you have here. I am a Christian and a theology buff as well. I have touched briefly on Christian theology in my new blog but I look forward to reading yours. Your writing is good and the content is quite interesting.
by ilove (PM , CC ) on Saturday October 21, 2006 @ 11:41 AM
Hi! It's so refreshing to hear from another Christian. I'm starting a blog myself, and may have a lot to put up there. Keep up the good work; and remember : EVEN GOD LAUGHS! find or create beauty, its own reward, Find your own funny, seek your silly. Laughter is its own reason. The reason I say these things, is because I had to go back into chemo, in Nov. 06, and I was upset! So, on Dec. 2 I woke up, and everything was funny! So I can't speak (a tracheostomy does that to you) I'll use someone elses voice to praise the Lord! So I'm not in the pink of health! (others have died from this!) And on and on it went! If there is anyone that needs prayer for cancer, or a burn, I'm more than willing. At 63 I've experienced a lot I would not wish on anyone! So, keep up the good fight till the Lord comes!
by AngelForge (PM , CC ) on Friday January 5, 2007 @ 9:41 PM
Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican friar, wrote many beautiful books, full of wisdom, full of knowledge and information about God. But, once he experienced God he stopped writing. When his secretary, Father Reginald, asked him why he has stopped writing, this Doctor of the Church said pensively,
"The moment I tasted God I realized that all that I had written was just straw..."
Many Blogstream members are there
already! Quotes from members: "It's like blog lite!" -- "I like the instant
gratification!" -- "Stop spectating, get in the game!"
If you have not joined in, you are really missing out!
Keep up the good work!
Scott (Randy420)
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"The moment I tasted God I realized that all that I had written was just straw..."