“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.
They were liberated from
their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave
rise to a new term —-the generation gap.
In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It
was a decade of protest—-church, state, and parents were all called
into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet
nothing ever replaced it.
In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image,
Self-esteem, Self-assertion….It made for a lonely world. Kids learned
everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was
to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a
difference.
In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of
innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear
nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped
believing in the future.
In the 1990s kids lost their power to
reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language,
truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern
world.
In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that
somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their
imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could
talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
BOOK CLUB: Sense & Sensuality by Ravi Zacharias
One's own spirit and body, one's kinsmen and friends and enemies, wealth and poverty, disgrace, prosperity, good reputation, health and so on- anything, in short, that endures for a shorter than the soul does is incapable of satisfying the soul...{p.70}
In seeking pleasure, you pursued the body and lost the person. You sought the sensation and sacrificed the individual. {p.71}
Pleasure took you astray, and pain brought you back. {p.77}
Wanting someone without a commitment to that someone is always one step away from hate; you exhaust the sensual and then want your potential accuser to just be gone from your life. My laws were designed out of love for each and every person so that none would be abused. {p.55}
The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place. {p.56}
Ultimately, children will be sacrificed at the altar of a wicked and perverse will. {p.57}
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.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Random listenings at my desk
Ravi Zacharias sermons:
4 Questions that has to be answered that are necessary to any worldview:
Origin
Morality
Meaning
Destiny
I am so amazed by the simple but prudent answer that Ravi Zacharias quoted in his message from the mother of John Wesley. One day, she was asked by John Wesley “Can you give me a definition for sin?” This is what she said:
“Whatever
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Sin has a crippling effect. You never sin alone.
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There are many angles you can fall but only one where you can stand straight.
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We're fishermen. Never [urinating] in the same water we're fishing in. -BMF (Bizzle)
Nicki, if they followed in your footsteps, where would those footsteps take them? -Letter to Nicki (Bizzle)
If two rappers are both dope, then who do you sign? When one will lie for the loot and the other's true to his kind. (Bizzle)
Give 'em guns, step back. Watch them kill themselves.
What you ain't smoking? I know at least you drink. Huh? What? Is you joking? I know at least you beat. Huh? No? You ain't poking?
You made your bed. This here's for your kids.
We eye money but never see people.
We forget about the Lord when the plane flying. But how fast how do we remember when the plane diving?
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Some people found it so odd when all I did was let go and let God. -True Religion
I will do whatever it takes but ultimately I rely on His grace.
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4 Questions that has to be answered that are necessary to any worldview:
Origin
Morality
Meaning
Destiny
I am so amazed by the simple but prudent answer that Ravi Zacharias quoted in his message from the mother of John Wesley. One day, she was asked by John Wesley “Can you give me a definition for sin?” This is what she said:
“Whatever
- weakens your reasoning,
- impairs the tenderness of your conscience,
- obscures your sense of God,
- or takes away your relish for spiritual things,
- in short if anything increases the authority and the power of the flesh over the spirit,
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Sin has a crippling effect. You never sin alone.
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There are many angles you can fall but only one where you can stand straight.
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Bizzle songs d[-_-]b
We're fishermen. Never [urinating] in the same water we're fishing in. -BMF (Bizzle)
Nicki, if they followed in your footsteps, where would those footsteps take them? -Letter to Nicki (Bizzle)
If two rappers are both dope, then who do you sign? When one will lie for the loot and the other's true to his kind. (Bizzle)
Give 'em guns, step back. Watch them kill themselves.
What you ain't smoking? I know at least you drink. Huh? What? Is you joking? I know at least you beat. Huh? No? You ain't poking?
You made your bed. This here's for your kids.
We eye money but never see people.
We forget about the Lord when the plane flying. But how fast how do we remember when the plane diving?
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Ayo Jin:
Some people found it so odd when all I did was let go and let God. -True Religion
I will do whatever it takes but ultimately I rely on His grace.
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