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jollybeggar's party line: February 2005
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Monday, February 28, 2005. I was thinking this morning about the voices in my head. So what do you do about your internal environment? Course, i'm not talking about the south park 'kill cathy-lee gifford! Daily you became restless-. I watched the fire grow. By darkness you were molested. I was careful not to let you know. And quietly i encouraged you, contributed to your facade. The harder you tried to conceal the lie the easier it was for me to play God. I was reading a book by john eldredge called 'wak...
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jollybeggar's party line: July 2005
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Sunday, July 31, 2005. Awhile back i responded to the challenge that has been out there in the blogosphere to identify the five things you just don't get. i posted these five of mine (not in order of importance) on another blog. 1) why it is so difficult for people to stop doing things that they know from first-hand experience only lead to personal pain. 2) why people perceive negativity and cynicism as indicators of greater intelligence. 6) why i am better at writing these words than living them. We may...
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jollybeggar's party line: April 2005
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Saturday, April 30, 2005. Open is as open allows. My friend icarus has posted an open letter to christians. here is the link. Http:/ icarusgoodman.blogspot.com/2005/04/letter-to-christians.html. His questions are real and he has invited believers to respond. Because i'm long-winded, i am responding in sections.). Something to think about. Below is a quick copy and paste of the letter. it is far easier to read it on icarus' sight.). Why do you believe the Bible to be the word of God? Imagine that I am a n...
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jollybeggar's party line: August 2005
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Friday, August 26, 2005. Speaking of her first rock concert,. Melissa then approached the audience and offered her hand out to a few lucky fans. Rocksalot pushed her way to the stage. I was overcome with anticipation. Would she finally touch greatness; her Goddess? I screamed, "Go. Go. Go! It reminded me of something i wrote a few years back. I suppose my tangentary point within a point is this: you can experience deep spiritual and emotional connections almost anywhere if you are looking for them. a...
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jollybeggar's party line: September 2005
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005. The heart of servanthood. Long time no blog. It's a longen, so i figured to shorten it, i'd make the text smaller :D). I'm taking education classes at the u of r. One of those classes is a foundations class that explores a feminist view of the way society works (and for those of you who have your negative notions regarding feminists, shut up and listen) - this class gave me the ability to stand back after things happen and say 'hmm, what's goin on here'. So i met mike, marcel...
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jollybeggar's party line: redeeming those gift cards
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Saturday, January 08, 2011. Redeeming those gift cards. I was working on a talk which seemed to turn scripturally on the word redeemed. That's when the voices started. Southern gospel quartet voices, each carrying its own old-time harmony to new levels of sentimentality. His child, and forever, i am. I had to make the voices stop and the only way to do it was to arrange the classic Fanny Crosby song differently. Hymn #382 in the hymnal got 2 or 3 passes before i hastily hit 'record' on my laptop. You are...
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jollybeggar's party line: October 2005
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Thursday, October 27, 2005. Welcome to northVUs' 100th post! Your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams.". Well, i had one the other night which caught me off guard. i awakened with the sense that this was not simply some twilight zonesque collage of images caused by the random firing of subconsious SCUD missiles across the synapses during. Sleep this one had a purpose. It went like this:. Diligently, we worked together to get the thing turned around and basically flopped back int...
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jollybeggar's party line: June 2005
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Monday, June 27, 2005. I went snooping around this evening to see if my old blog was still online somewhere. it was, in fact, right where i left it. i skimmed this post and realized that, although much has changed for me, much has remained the same. Garbage In, Garbage Out. the computer programmer's dodge. Predictably, i am saying that the state of your heart before ingesting something intellectually will have a major influence on just how edifying the material is. in fact, it will even determine to ...
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jollybeggar's party line: inception and some things already seen
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Inception and some things already seen. Row row row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily. Life is but a dream. Ever wonder if there is any significance to the fact that this song works really well as a round? Means 'already seen' and often when we describe the phenomena that we have identified with this moniker, we dovetail the experience back to the whole experience of dreaming: "wait a minute- i dreamt this! 2010, christopher nolan) this film. There...
