Google : the noun that became the verb
A great video on Google the company. Being an avid consumer of Google products, it makes me wonder... What do you think?
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Mar 13
Mar 1
Understanding Jesus...
This passage in McLaren's book Everything Must Change really stuck out to me... thought I'd share it with you...
Quoting Jesus' words from Matthew 26:11 to defend a complacency to the poor becomes manifestly ridiculous when one looks at the passage of the Old Testament Jesus is himself quoting: Deuteronomy 15. After saying, 'There will always be poor people in the land,' the text says, 'Therefore I command you to be open-handed toward...the poor and needy in your land.' (v. 11). And earlier in the chapter (v. 4) we read, 'However, there should be no poor among you,' because the land can produce an abundance for all if that abundance is fairly distributed through a just legal system...It's risky business to superficially quote Jesus!
So we must carefully seek to determine not just what Jesus said, but what he meant, and how he would have been heard by his original hearers. Only then can we venture to explore what his original meaning would mean for us today, and even then, we must do so with great humility and awareness of our amazing human capacity to be wrong. This process is far more complex than simply marshaling quotes, and it is also more fruitful. It requires more than an ability to lift quotations out of context and fire them at an opponent like a missile. It requires the ability to get a sense for the shape, feel, and direction of Jesus' life and words, in the swirl and spin of his times, and find patterns of resonance with our own...
p.121-122, "Peace Through Domination", Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren
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Jan 27
This made me angry...
This is an analysis of the craziness of Glenn Beck... There are parts of the American Conservative movement that are downright scary. Glenn Beck is on the top of my list of people I don't like. Here he talks about India, and does it in the most racist, bigoted way.Comments [1]
Oct 22
Losing somehow isn't all that bad
living in a broken world
Deconstructing mind, will and emotionsLosing somehow isn't all that bad
There are too many questions to ask
As one soul loses patience
The world suffers with the weight of our fallenness
A nation plunders, manipulates, and steals
All in the name of freedom, rights, liberty
A nation plunders, manipulates, and steals
All in the name of freedom, rights, liberty
But really for riches, prosperity, using greed
Yet we enlightened ones close our eyes
We are caught in the glitter and romance
Caught in the name of freedom, rights, liberty
But really seeking riches, prosperity, using greed
We are caught in the glitter and romance
Caught in the name of freedom, rights, liberty
But really seeking riches, prosperity, using greed
Within padded walls, walking warm floors
Eating pre-cooked meals, driving air-conditioned cars
Eating pre-cooked meals, driving air-conditioned cars
We seek a future that is built on lies and evil
Within broken walls, walking dirty floors
Eating simple meals, walking or riding a bike
Some ask for nothing more than their today
I cannot mourn my comfortable reality
Though it was built on abuse, manipulation, injustice
My world is living proof that those who walk on others have it good
It is for us the illustration of bigotry, hatred, racism
My world is living proof that those who walk on others have it good
It is for us the illustration of bigotry, hatred, racism
I live in something altogether evil, broken, flawed
I can finally mourn this reality
And look further to Christ...
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