You have to see this beautiful spot I just recently found out about in Florida:
http://www.floridastateparks.org/rainbowsprings/
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Becoming all things to save some men.
1 Corinthians 9:19–23
For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more. 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law, though not being myself under the Law, that I might win those who are under the Law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23 And I do all things for the sake of the gospel, that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
Get it?
What do Nicki Minaj and Dorian Grey have in common?
Phanatik speaks on my two favorite subjects! (Not that I love Nicki Minaj. It's just she is the MC who reigns right now in the videos and on the airwaves and she is offering nothing to contribute to these little girls.)
Monday, November 7, 2011
REVIEW: Are Woman Human?
I don't want the title to fool you into thinking that this is an actual review on the essay by Dorothy Sayers. It just helps me to keep my posts organized.
A little bit about Dorothy Sayers...
She translated Dante's Purgatory into English. She was one of the first females to attend Oxford, she was a Christian humanist, and she was close friends with C.S. Lewis. Also, this book was recommended by Ravi Zacharias!
Some things I didn't know.
Introduction:
Sir Thomas More was exceptional , though not unique, in providing a classical education for his daughters, and they, though exceptionally privileged, were not unique in receiving and using their education constructively.
To aim directly at serving the community and serve the work...If your heart is not wholly in the work, the work will not be good-and work that is not good serves neither God nor the community; it only serves Mammon. ("Why work?")
Are Woman Human? address
What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: not that every woman is, in virtue of her sex, as strong, clever, artistic, level-headed, industrious and so forth as any man that can be mentioned; but, that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. (p.24)
What is unreasonable and irritating is to assume that all one's tastes and preferences have to be conditioned by the class to which one belongs. That has been the very common error into which men have frequently fallen about women-and it is the error into which feminist women are, perhaps, a little inclined to fall about themselves. (p.25)
When the pioneers of university training for women demanded that women should be admitted to the universities, the cry went up at once: "Why should women want to know about Aristotle?" ....What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. (p. 26)
The fact remains that the home contains much less of interesting activity than it used to contain. What is more, the home has so shrunk to the size of a small flat that -even if we restrict woman's job to the bearing and rearing of families-there is no room for her to even do that. (p.32)
I am always entertained...by newsmongers who inform us, with a bright air of discovery, that they have questioned a number of female workers and been told by one and all that they are "sick of the office and would love to get out of it". In the name of God, what human being is not, from time to time, heartily sick of the office and would not love to get out of it. (p.35)
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. (p.39)
...The woman's point of view has no value at all. In fact, it does not exist. No special knowledge is involved, and a woman's opinion on literature or finance is valuable only as the judgement of an individual.
"Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a babyface, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopaedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won't accept her as is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex." (P.44)
Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross.
A little bit about Dorothy Sayers...
She translated Dante's Purgatory into English. She was one of the first females to attend Oxford, she was a Christian humanist, and she was close friends with C.S. Lewis. Also, this book was recommended by Ravi Zacharias!
Some things I didn't know.
Introduction:
Sir Thomas More was exceptional , though not unique, in providing a classical education for his daughters, and they, though exceptionally privileged, were not unique in receiving and using their education constructively.
To aim directly at serving the community and serve the work...If your heart is not wholly in the work, the work will not be good-and work that is not good serves neither God nor the community; it only serves Mammon. ("Why work?")
Are Woman Human? address
What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: not that every woman is, in virtue of her sex, as strong, clever, artistic, level-headed, industrious and so forth as any man that can be mentioned; but, that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. (p.24)
What is unreasonable and irritating is to assume that all one's tastes and preferences have to be conditioned by the class to which one belongs. That has been the very common error into which men have frequently fallen about women-and it is the error into which feminist women are, perhaps, a little inclined to fall about themselves. (p.25)
When the pioneers of university training for women demanded that women should be admitted to the universities, the cry went up at once: "Why should women want to know about Aristotle?" ....What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. (p. 26)
The fact remains that the home contains much less of interesting activity than it used to contain. What is more, the home has so shrunk to the size of a small flat that -even if we restrict woman's job to the bearing and rearing of families-there is no room for her to even do that. (p.32)
I am always entertained...by newsmongers who inform us, with a bright air of discovery, that they have questioned a number of female workers and been told by one and all that they are "sick of the office and would love to get out of it". In the name of God, what human being is not, from time to time, heartily sick of the office and would not love to get out of it. (p.35)
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. (p.39)
...The woman's point of view has no value at all. In fact, it does not exist. No special knowledge is involved, and a woman's opinion on literature or finance is valuable only as the judgement of an individual.
"Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a babyface, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopaedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won't accept her as is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex." (P.44)
Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Wicked man
Ezekiel 33:8
When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
The eye is the lamp of the body
22 The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/taste-see-articles/the-eye-is-the-lamp-of-the-body
**taken by yours truly
Friday, November 4, 2011
Some pictures
Here I am chilling in my room. I should be studying.
My Jesus bracelets!
I thought this was a nice and cozy picture. I like the way the shadows fall.
Yours truly!
-C
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
REVIEW: Schindler's List
So Schindler's List is #8 on the 1998 version of AFI's top 100 list.
From the beginning of the film, I was unaware of how ignorant I was in a lot of the history and geography behind the Holocaust. The first half of the film takes place in Poland and the second half in the Czech Republic (Schindler's home country). Many of the European countries approved of the anti-Antisemitism (which is not what I learned).
In the film, I admired his character in that even thought the world around him seemed to be going crazy, he put his foot down and refused to flow down this river knee-deep in murder and blood.
What I liked about the movie:
1.) It was very true to the real story.
It does not paint him into this perfect figure. The story is about Oskar Schindler, a womanizing, black marketeering, member of the Nazi party. He was not to be glorified as a "holy" figure but he was in heroic in that he stood up to save the lives of 1,000 Jews. It does not end with him receiving many awards. In fact, after the war, he fled the country, his marriage fell apart, and he built several unsuccessful companies that went under. It wasn't really your typical Hollywood tale. I suppose that is what makes it a classic.
2.) Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes...enough said.
These are phenomenal actors. They are still making awesome films. Liam Neeson was in Les Miserables and Taken. Ralph Fiennes played Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and starred in the film The Constant Gardener.
They played their characters very well. I never doubted that they were there characters for a minute. They truly embodied their roles. I was happy to see that they were in this film!
3.) The current political climate in the U.N. makes it a good film to watch.
They say hatred of Israel is the politically correct way of being anti-Semitic. This film illustrates the most recent extreme genocide of Jews in history. It shows you the length that hatred of Jews can go and where it currently is. Nothing is new and history tends to go into this perpetual repetition. I fear growing tensions in the Middle East due to the Palistine vote but the legislation could end in no action. (I digress.)
I loved the story, how someone who was not Jewish could have sympathy with those at a time when the world thought them to be worthless. It is not my favorite film (because I feel like I've seen it before) but it is a great story. I suppose when it first came out, it was one of the first of its kind and I've just been watching the poorly made copies of the original. Lol.
From the beginning of the film, I was unaware of how ignorant I was in a lot of the history and geography behind the Holocaust. The first half of the film takes place in Poland and the second half in the Czech Republic (Schindler's home country). Many of the European countries approved of the anti-Antisemitism (which is not what I learned).
In the film, I admired his character in that even thought the world around him seemed to be going crazy, he put his foot down and refused to flow down this river knee-deep in murder and blood.
What I liked about the movie:
1.) It was very true to the real story.
It does not paint him into this perfect figure. The story is about Oskar Schindler, a womanizing, black marketeering, member of the Nazi party. He was not to be glorified as a "holy" figure but he was in heroic in that he stood up to save the lives of 1,000 Jews. It does not end with him receiving many awards. In fact, after the war, he fled the country, his marriage fell apart, and he built several unsuccessful companies that went under. It wasn't really your typical Hollywood tale. I suppose that is what makes it a classic.
2.) Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes...enough said.
These are phenomenal actors. They are still making awesome films. Liam Neeson was in Les Miserables and Taken. Ralph Fiennes played Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and starred in the film The Constant Gardener.
They played their characters very well. I never doubted that they were there characters for a minute. They truly embodied their roles. I was happy to see that they were in this film!
3.) The current political climate in the U.N. makes it a good film to watch.
They say hatred of Israel is the politically correct way of being anti-Semitic. This film illustrates the most recent extreme genocide of Jews in history. It shows you the length that hatred of Jews can go and where it currently is. Nothing is new and history tends to go into this perpetual repetition. I fear growing tensions in the Middle East due to the Palistine vote but the legislation could end in no action. (I digress.)
I loved the story, how someone who was not Jewish could have sympathy with those at a time when the world thought them to be worthless. It is not my favorite film (because I feel like I've seen it before) but it is a great story. I suppose when it first came out, it was one of the first of its kind and I've just been watching the poorly made copies of the original. Lol.
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