I listened to a lecture this week. I was impressed with the delivery, the thought behind it, what the guy is after. If you are interested in a sort of trailer to his books (I hope you’re not, that you’re not that type of person) here is something that the type of person who would [...]
All posts for the month July, 2010
Resulting Unscientific Postscript
Tozer began his chapter on the Immutability of God, as was his custom, with a prayer which focuses on the application of the doctrine about to be considered. O Christ our Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. As conies to their rock, so have we run to Thee for safety; as [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 29, 2010
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Why you have to have the Nestle-Aland
Here is a list of translations of Matthew 20:16. Notice the variety. Then go to your UBS 3 and check the text: shorter reading. Check the apparatus: nothing. NO INDICATION WHATEVER! It can be baffling. Probably most people have run into this before, but I can’t remember ever hearing about it. Maybe my problem is [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 28, 2010
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Speaking of C.S. Lewis
Advice on reading Beowulf: When I was reading it I tried to imagine myself as an old Saxon thane sitting in my hall of a winter’s night, with the wolves & storm outside and the old fellow singing his story. In this way you get the atmosphere of terror that runs through it—the horror of [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 28, 2010
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Episode 9: 4 The Dreams of C.S. Lewis
Do our dreams precede us? If dreams did not come somehow before the event, if they were not part of the pan-conscious realms of the human experience, those realms where perhaps the dreams of animals are dreamed and are the presentation of the meditations of something timeless and unending, would they serve to predict the [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 28, 2010
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Episode 9:3 The Facilities on Antartica Quine
“Do you have cryogenetic facilities here?” Kat asked. She’d opened the first aid kit and bound the two parts of C.S. Lewis together with the aid of an emergency realigner. “Uh?” the sage said. Then, “Right! Quick! Uh . . . Wait! I’ll get conveyance.” Then he sank onto the grass and went into a [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 27, 2010
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Episode 9: 2 What the Sage of Hinga Lum Dura Clove in Sunder
It wasn’t till they were entering the atmosphere that the Criten remembered the broken engomater control. “Oh no!” “What?” Kat said, and then realized with horror they had no control for the engomater. “We’ll be toasted in the atmosphere.” But they weren’t. Somehow the retro-emissions control mechanism that would automatically punish with correlative death anybody [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 26, 2010
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Not in the World
Forgael: . . . You have heard the voices, For that is what they say – all, all the shadows – Aengus and Edain, those passionate wanderers, And all the others; but it must be love As they have known it. Now the secret’s out; For it is love that I am seeking for, But [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 24, 2010
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Episode 9:1 Thoughts, Speculations, Alternatives
The Criten gazed at the cryostasis ad. “If I weren’t in the opposite of marketing,” he muttered, “I’d say that sounds like a serious business proposition.” And to his surprise, he was tempted to sell the idea to the inevitable Yumar Canapia. He flipped off the vid and swivelled around to face the front of [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 24, 2010
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It’s Back!!!
English Russia. See pictures of a Yugoslavian Nuclear Bunker and other things. They’ve upgraded the English it’s written in, unfortunately. on Twitter @ twitter.com/eRussia
Posted by zartman on July 23, 2010
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Trailer
Coming soon . . . I wrote it all in an hour . . .[drums] The Chronicles of Fundamentarlia My muse, I guess, is a pretty rude one . . .[theme song] Episode 9: C.S. Lewis on Cryogenesis It hits me, you know, and then it leaves. I am its slave, really. [mysterious music while [...]
Posted by zartman on July 23, 2010
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The Maradona/Chavez Show
See it here.
Posted by unknowing on July 22, 2010
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In the Beginning of Arthur
In the beginning of Arthur, after he was chosen king by adventure and by grace; for the most part of the barons knew not that he was Uther Pendragon’s son, but as Merlin made it openly known. —Thomas Mallory, Le Morte D’Arthur; III, 1 In the first clause you have Mallory’s brisk introduction, all biblical. [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 21, 2010
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20 Julio de 1810
In 1808 Napoleon made his brother Joseph the king of Spain. He had already installed monarchs in Holland and Westphalia with success. But the installation of Joseph proved to be a disaster. In the ultramarine territories, it proved to be an opportunity, led to disaster, and then to eventual independence. We celebrate today the bicentenary [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 20, 2010
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The End Draws Nigh
I may no longer be a dispensationalist, but I know the mark of the beast when it appeareth.
Posted by unknowing on July 20, 2010
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7 The Journey Back
It had to end. A Anarchy We waited under the great ceibas for a bus on Tuesday morning. Two passed—one full and one ignoring us—before we got into the third. On our way we ignored passengers signaling. I’d never seen that happen in Colombia yet. They way back was illuminated—as opposed to our nocturnal arrival. [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 19, 2010
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The Gross Clinic
Terry Teachout has a piece on this American work of art that is illuminating.
Posted by unknowing on July 19, 2010
http://unknowing.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/the-gross-clinic/
Yes
I did not join a Reformed Baptist church because I was dissatisfied with Dispensationalism, though I have had no great trouble leaving it behind. I did not greatly suffer from the various models of sanctification or the confusion resulting from the variety and mixture, though I’m glad I’m where there is more emphasis on clarity [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 19, 2010
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Rieti, Yeats
You can download Rieti’s settings of four Yeats poems here, more or less. I found them awfully fine.
Posted by unknowing on July 17, 2010
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“I Have Been Taught”
I have been taught by dreams and fantasies Learned from the friendly and the darker phantoms And got great knowledge and courtesy from the dead Kinsmen and kinswomen, ancestors and friends But from two mainly Who game me birth. Have learned and drunk from that unspending good These founts whose learned windings keep My feet [...]
Posted by unknowing on July 17, 2010
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For He willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works
Preparation of heart is the unlearning the prejudices of evil converse
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity
