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a well lived bland life
Those who have not yet experienced the success they covet find it impossible to believe that those who have attained it find it wanting in terms of giving meaning to life. The driving force behind our thriving marketing industry and the sovereignty of technopoly (to use Neil Postman's phrase) is to create new hungers to help us forget old ones. If the wheel of fortune does not deliver, we turn our attention toward the deception and enamorment we have with becoming the object of artistic adulation. This high-speed...
May, 22 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
I just started reading For All God's Worth by N.T. Wright. I started with the introduction, naturally, and the opening of the book was so deep and thought provoking that I thought I would blog-it. "How can you cope with the end of a world and the beginning of another one? How can you put an earthquake into a test-tube, or the sea into a bottle? How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that fire has become flesh, that life itself came to life and walked in our midst? Christianity...
April, 6 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Recently I've been reading Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias, and loving every page of it. In the book Mr. Zacharias defends the absolute claims of Christ. While reading I came upon a great quote by Napolean Bonaparte. To set the context, Napolean said this while exiled at St. Helena. He called upon Count Montholon and asked him, "Can you tell me who Jesus Christ was?" After the count declined to respond, Napolean said: "Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded...
July, 15 2006 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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