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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:26 pm
In case anyone's interested; I found a quite interesting song/poem. Catherine Faber (www.echoschildren.org/CDlyrics/WORDGOD.HTML) From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design, Strike-slip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline. . . We gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known, And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone. Odd, long-vanished creatures and their tracks & shells are found; Where truth has left its sketches on the slate below the ground. The patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the rocks. There are those who name the stars, who watch the sky by night, Seeking out the darkest place, to better see the light. Long ago, when torture broke the remnant of his will, Galileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still. High above the mountaintops, where only distance bars, The truth has left its footprints in the dust between the stars. We may watch and study or may shudder and deny, Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the sky. By stem and root and branch we trace, by feather, fang and fur, How the living things that are descend from things that were. The moss, the kelp, the zebrafish, the very mice and flies, These tiny, humble, wordless things---how shall they tell us lies? We are kin to beasts; no other answer can we bring. The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing. Remember, should you have to choose between them in the strife, Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote life. And we who listen to the stars, or walk the dusty grade, Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made, Or study cells, or living things, seek truth with open hand. The profoundest act of worship is to try to understand. Deep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed, The truth has left its living word for anyone to read. So turn and look where best you think the story is unfurled. Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the world. I think it's quite true, except for the assumption that 'God' created the world, but since this is a Christian guild, I won't challenge that now.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:39 pm
Gar. I'm babysitting and the kid FINALLY went to sleep! *sighs in relief* Peace.
So, how's the gang (that would be everyone who is on at the moment)?
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:42 pm
Well, I'm finally almost caught up in history, just need to read an 8 page packet.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:48 pm
Wow, Shadroth. That's pretty neat. I don't really have faith in everything it says, but the rhyming is good (I know, that response was kind of stupid). Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps God told man what to write down. I mean, Moses wrote the first 5 books of the Bible with help from God (when he went on the mountain and such). Obviously, the four gospels were written for the purpse of telling of Jesus' life. People who lived through Jesus' experiences wrote them down, so those are likely to be accurate (why else would God make sure that they were put in the Bible?). The rest are mainly letters from disciples to others. Some were even written by the apostlesn (Peter, for example). Revelation was written by a prophet. God (obviously) told him what to write down. Hm, I think I've covered most of it...
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:49 pm
chaoticpuppet Well, I'm finally almost caught up in history, just need to read an 8 page packet. Have fun. wink
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:56 pm
Glorified Soul chaoticpuppet Well, I'm finally almost caught up in history, just need to read an 8 page packet. Have fun. wink The packet shouldn't be that bad, its on Nietzsche, Treitszcke, and Frued.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:00 pm
chaoticpuppet Glorified Soul chaoticpuppet Well, I'm finally almost caught up in history, just need to read an 8 page packet. Have fun. wink The packet shouldn't be that bad, its on Nietzsche, Treitszcke, and Frued. Three people/places/events that I have not yet had the pleasure of learning about. 8th grade history is all based on the Civil War, Reconstruction, Industrial Revolution, and The Great Depression (at least at my school). *sigh* Next year I want to take world history. Well, yup...
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:04 pm
Glorified Soul chaoticpuppet Glorified Soul chaoticpuppet Well, I'm finally almost caught up in history, just need to read an 8 page packet. Have fun. wink The packet shouldn't be that bad, its on Nietzsche, Treitszcke, and Frued. Three people/places/events that I have not yet had the pleasure of learning about. 8th grade history is all based on the Civil War, Reconstruction, Industrial Revolution, and The Great Depression (at least at my school). *sigh* Next year I want to take world history. Well, yup... Well, you probably won't get much into them in highschool either, I never did, not even in my A.P. European history class. Have fun with American History, I had so many American History courses, that I became sick of American History, though in eighth grade I had Ancient History, that was awesome, I love ancient history.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:14 am
Glorified Soul Wow, Shadroth. That's pretty neat. I don't really have faith in everything it says, but the rhyming is good (I know, that response was kind of stupid). Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps God told man what to write down. I mean, Moses wrote the first 5 books of the Bible with help from God (when he went on the mountain and such). Obviously, the four gospels were written for the purpse of telling of Jesus' life. People who lived through Jesus' experiences wrote them down, so those are likely to be accurate (why else would God make sure that they were put in the Bible?). The rest are mainly letters from disciples to others. Some were even written by the apostlesn (Peter, for example). Revelation was written by a prophet. God (obviously) told him what to write down. Hm, I think I've covered most of it... There are many reasons why I... just find it hard to believe that the Bible is the word of God. Y'see, I find it interesting that God apparently made no clue to these prophets about things that are happening in other places of the world, about things that are happening in other places of the universe, and about -well, basically, physical laws which have been observed since those bygone days. It almost seems like it contains no explanation for why things are the way they say things are. It seems very biased- that Israel should be God's favoured land. (correct me if I'm wrong on that.)
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:53 am
chaoticpuppet Glorified Soul chaoticpuppet Glorified Soul chaoticpuppet Well, I'm finally almost caught up in history, just need to read an 8 page packet. Have fun. wink The packet shouldn't be that bad, its on Nietzsche, Treitszcke, and Frued. Three people/places/events that I have not yet had the pleasure of learning about. 8th grade history is all based on the Civil War, Reconstruction, Industrial Revolution, and The Great Depression (at least at my school). *sigh* Next year I want to take world history. Well, yup... Well, you probably won't get much into them in highschool either, I never did, not even in my A.P. European history class. Have fun with American History, I had so many American History courses, that I became sick of American History, though in eighth grade I had Ancient History, that was awesome, I love ancient history. Heh. All I ever did in Primary/Elementary school was damned Australian history. Which is more boring than American history, I'd say. "The British came here, they thought, "let's colonize!", and then, they did. It's a shame that school is starting up again- I have a feeling that I might learn more if I didn't go to school. Yes, a lot of people say that, but indeed-- today I went to the Western Australian state library and they have so many books... I could read there all day. But, I guess, I have more of an optimistic view towards school than I did before, and had a good holiday.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:02 am
I like the poem, Shadroth.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:02 am
stressed sad heart i'm failing american government
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:32 am
Tre Kitasudesu stressed sad heart i'm failing american government I hated american government, that class was so boring. How are you failing it? It's so very easy to understand, it's nowhere near as hard as trying to understand the E.U. *shudders*
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:44 am
chaoticpuppet easy mac is teh awesomeness! mmm...easy mac...I haven't had that in at least a year if not more, hmm...I wonder if we have any
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:37 pm
so it feels like -7 outside and they turned off the heat in our dorm!!! Does anyone else think that's a little strange?
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