1. Tough act to follow, Tim. If you find my copy of the Parenting manual, please send it. I've been looking for thing for years...
2. Is anyone else having a ball watching Hillary squirm? Maybe it's my sadistic side of me, but the way everything is shaking down is simply grand. It certainly seems is if the Clinton-era (or the 60-s generation hippie era?) is over.
3. Anyone want to start a primary pool? Predict the two top dem and repub candidates for big, big prizes? My guess is that Billary will come back to some extent, but that the O will win. Edwards won't be a factor. The Pub side is a bit more difficult: Huckabee and McCain will fizzle. Thompson will surge. Romney will beat out Giuliani. So I'm going with Thompson and Romney. (Note: Megally Megally is noticeably absent from Wikipedia.) Thompson vs. Romney? I gotta go with Thompson here, because people are still freaked out about the whole mormon thing.
4. One of the things I've been thinking about of late is this. The Bible, quite clearly, tells us what to believe--or what to think. The values and belief statements are there, in clear text. Believe in Christ's salvation; have faith in it; follow Biblical principles. But I often get frustrated in that it seems to fail to describe how to think. A decent example comes from this book that I'm currently trudging through--where the author is reconciling two divergent styles of thought (thereby integrating them). This kind of thing is right up my alley, because this process is what I've always done (or tried to do)--integrate idea A with B and see what happens. Now, maybe I've just misread, misinterpreted (or just not read at all) some scriptures that seem to do this...but none readily come to mind. The Bible seems to deal with the destination more than it does the process of getting there. And living is getting there. So perhaps this noticeable absence of how to think suggests that it's ultimately not important, or that I'm missing some rather large piece of the puzzle...
2. Is anyone else having a ball watching Hillary squirm? Maybe it's my sadistic side of me, but the way everything is shaking down is simply grand. It certainly seems is if the Clinton-era (or the 60-s generation hippie era?) is over.
3. Anyone want to start a primary pool? Predict the two top dem and repub candidates for big, big prizes? My guess is that Billary will come back to some extent, but that the O will win. Edwards won't be a factor. The Pub side is a bit more difficult: Huckabee and McCain will fizzle. Thompson will surge. Romney will beat out Giuliani. So I'm going with Thompson and Romney. (Note: Megally Megally is noticeably absent from Wikipedia.) Thompson vs. Romney? I gotta go with Thompson here, because people are still freaked out about the whole mormon thing.
4. One of the things I've been thinking about of late is this. The Bible, quite clearly, tells us what to believe--or what to think. The values and belief statements are there, in clear text. Believe in Christ's salvation; have faith in it; follow Biblical principles. But I often get frustrated in that it seems to fail to describe how to think. A decent example comes from this book that I'm currently trudging through--where the author is reconciling two divergent styles of thought (thereby integrating them). This kind of thing is right up my alley, because this process is what I've always done (or tried to do)--integrate idea A with B and see what happens. Now, maybe I've just misread, misinterpreted (or just not read at all) some scriptures that seem to do this...but none readily come to mind. The Bible seems to deal with the destination more than it does the process of getting there. And living is getting there. So perhaps this noticeable absence of how to think suggests that it's ultimately not important, or that I'm missing some rather large piece of the puzzle...
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