holy heteroclite: “The Lord Be With You…Even When He’s Not”
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catherine daly writes that human events has come up with a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. The Communist ManifestoAuthors: Karl Marx and Freidrich EngelsPublication date: 1848Score: 74Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820, respectively, were the intellectual godfathers of communism. Engels was the original limousine leftist: A wealthy textile heir, he financed Marx for much of his life. nevermind the fact that in spite of whatever support he got from engels, marx and his family lived in grinding poverty all his life. Quotations from Chairman MaoAuthor: Mao ZedongPublication date: 1966Score: 38Summary: Mao, who died in 1976, was the leader of the Red Army in the fight for control of China against the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai-shek before, during and after World War II. The Kinsey ReportAuthor: Alfred KinseyPublication date: 1948Score: 37Summary: Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University who, in 1948, published a study called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as The Kinsey Report. The 1953 book also included reports of sexual activity involving girls younger than age 4, and suggested that sex between adults and children could be beneficial.”what to give a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy really means is to study an entirely natural and vital aspect of human behavior objectively and without the prudish morality that despises and represses sexual feelings and activities. Das KapitalAuthor: Karl MarxPublication date: 1867-1894Score: 31 Summary: Marx died after publishing a first volume of this massive book, after which his benefactor Engels edited and published two additional volumes that Marx had drafted. Das Kapital forces the round peg of capitalism into the square hole of Marx’s materialistic theory of history, portraying capitalism as an ugly phase in the development of human society in which capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to earn the greatest possible profits. He could not have predicted 21st Century America: a free, affluent society based on capitalism and representative government that people the world over envy and seek to emulate.again i love how engels is to blame for doing what he wants with his money. marx was a miserable failure at predicting the world’s future (who ever succeeds?) but he surely called capitalism on its bluff. The Feminine MystiqueAuthor: Betty FriedanPublication date: 1963Score: 30Summary: In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, born in 1921, disparaged traditional stay-at-home motherhood as life in “a comfortable concentration camp”–a role that degraded women and denied them true fulfillment in life. As David Horowitz wrote in a review for Salon.com of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz (no relation to David): The author documents that “Friedan was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America’s Cold War fifth column and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects in Berkeley’s radiation lab with J.
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The little nation of Lithuania might be sending troops to Afghanistan.From that publication:Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, says he would not hesitate to send servicemen of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force to a future counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan, (Baltic News Service) reported.We will without a doubt meet international commitments of our armed forces, Adamkus told journalists on April 27.
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Viswin replies - Nahi yaar not possible..got some work now…2.30 P.M - Meghana to Deepak - Calls up - Movie ? - Deepak - Yup - Meghana - Ok..I will book the tickets today evening 7.30 show6.30 P.M - Viswin to Deepak - SMS - Where are you ? Deepak to Viswin -SMS - Iam at Satyam theatre yaar.7.30 - 9.15 P.M - Deepak and Meghana watch the movie 9.30 P.M - Deepak and Meghana having dinner at Gangotri9.35 P.M - Viswin to Meghana - SMS - Kya Chal raha hai thambi ?(Now me and Meghana decide to have some fun..decide to play a prank..Poor Guy, Viswin..didnt know how much trouble he was landing himself in..Only god knows why he called up Meghana only that day ! Viswin - Iam travelling..on way to satyam Deepak - Oh good..i got tickets in the evening itself ..come soon Viswin - Meghana just called me up, i told her iam coming Deepak - So why did you tell her ? Deepak - Nahi yaar..i didnt meet her for some days now..Evening when you called me at 6.30 , i got tickets then itself..whatever you come fast Viswin - Oh…I told meghana but,,ok i will come and see10.15 P.M - Deepak and Meghana start walking back to Satyam , with the hope to see the look on viswin’s face when he doesn’t find both of them there..10.20 P.M - Viswin calls Meghana - We decide not to take the call..unsure what to tell him10.20 - 10.25 P.M- The guy keeps calling Deepak and Meghana ..none of them pick up10.25 P.M - We are close to satyam theatre now.. This time when he calls up, we were fearing that he might understand whats up and leave the place and we would not be able to see the reaction ..So we decide to pick up the call10.27 P.M - Viswin calls Deepak - Hey where are you ?10.30 P.M - Deepak - Hey Why didnt you come ..i was waiting for you..and you did not come. Only type the command into a command window - do not type Start - Run - browstat c:browstat.txt into the command window (NOTE the c:ipconfig.txt (less the ) into a command window (or a command window in Windows Vista). Only type the command into a command window - do not type Start - Run - ipconfig c:netconfig.txt (less the ) into a command window (or in Windows Vista). Only type the command into a command window - do not type Start - Run - net c:netconfig.txt (less the ) into that command window (or in Windows Vista).
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“The Lord Be With You…Even When He’s Not”Good Friday 2006Expanded version of a message preached at a Community Good Friday serviceNorth Central Pastor’s Cluster, Fresno CaliforniaQualifier: I never type out manuscripts for sermons, I go from brief scribbled cryptic notes; if anything. So I have tried to write in somewhat oral style; as if I had preached this whole thing (Right! In the seven minutes I was allotted as the third of three preachers preaching through Psalm 22 that day!)Dave Wainscott—————————————————————————————–There was a church that was not very liturgically oriented; in fact they were decidedly “low-church.” So the pastor wanted to teach his flock a bit of the richness of the liturgy tradition. He figured he’d start them out with a “win-win” that would be easy; the classic responsive that begins with the leader saying:“The Lord be with you.”You know the response:“And also with you.”And the pastor thought he’d have the congregation practice the responsive for several weeks, and then officially inaugurate it on Easter; a high attendance Sunday with lots of guests.So every week they walked through it:“Now when I say, ‘The Lord be with you,’ remember that you say And also with you.’” Let’s practice…”They practiced. They were primed. Pumped. Throughout the countdown weeks of Lent, they became quite prepared.Then came the big Sunday; Easter in all its glory. Lots of guests; an air of expectancy in the room; especially among the well-trained saints knowing they were about ready to show off what they had been practicing.So the pastor stepped up to the pulpit with a knowing smile. But he noticed that something was wrong with the microphone. So before he realized it, he said aloud just that:“There is something wrong with this microphone.”Well, the congregation was so primed and practiced that they immediately shot back, before they realized it, with one loud and clear voice:“And also with you!”There’s nothing wrong with my microphone today!But we can’t help but feel there’s something deeply wrong with us when we are forced to admit what we have been told is unthinkable, impossible, heretical and horrible:The Lord is not with us.Or so it feels if we are daring enough to be honest.I might even contend that until a Christian has said; meant; felt; prayed that unspeakable thought that must be spoken..… they may not even be a full follower of Jesus…The One who was and is God.The One who modeled for us how to live, how to pray, how to feel…The One who dared enough to be honest.The One who said, and I quote:“God, God . . . my God!Why did you dump me miles from nowhere?Doubled up with pain, I call to God all the day long.No answer.Nothing.”!Did you know that’s what the Almighty Jesus Christ said, felt, prayed on the cross?No answer.Nothing!It gets worse.Be sure you catch the condemning; the accusatory, angry, agnostic tone and tenor. The next two words must by necessity be read with all that volume and venom. If fact, the Bible specifically mentions that Jesus prayed this “in a loud cry.”He prays on:“And You!!Are You indifferent, above it all, leaning back on the cushions of Israel’s praise?We know You were there for our parents!They cried for Your help and You gave it; they trusted and lived a good life.And here I am, a nothing–an earthworm, something to step on, to squash.Everyone pokes fun at me; they make faces at me, they shake their heads:‘Let’s see how GOD handles this one; since God likes him so much, let him help him!’And to think You were midwife at my birth, setting me at my mother’s breasts!When I left the womb You cradled me; since the moment of birth You’ve been my God.Then You moved far away and trouble moved in next-door. I need a neighbor. “This graphic and earthy (and astoundingly accurate) rendering of Jesus’ prayer from The Message translation is stunning, shattering; and yet not as devastating as the original language portrayed it. Somehow the whole scene changes, and is dialed down; is in effect censored; through standard translations such as the NIV:PS 22:3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;you are the praise of Israel.PS 22:4 In you our fathers put their trust;they trusted and you delivered them.PS 22:5 They cried to you and were saved;in you they trusted and were not disappointed.PS 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man,scorned by men and despised by the people.PS 22:7 All who see me mock me;they hurl insults, shaking their heads:PS 22:8 He trusts in the LORDlink
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catherine daly writes that human events has come up with a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. The Communist ManifestoAuthors: Karl Marx and Freidrich EngelsPublication date: 1848Score: 74Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820, respectively, were the intellectual godfathers of communism. Engels was the original limousine leftist: A wealthy textile heir, he financed Marx for much of his life. nevermind the fact that in spite of whatever support he got from engels, marx and his family lived in grinding poverty all his life. Quotations from Chairman MaoAuthor: Mao ZedongPublication date: 1966Score: 38Summary: Mao, who died in 1976, was the leader of the Red Army in the fight for control of China against the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai-shek before, during and after World War II. The Kinsey ReportAuthor: Alfred KinseyPublication date: 1948Score: 37Summary: Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University who, in 1948, published a study called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as The Kinsey Report. The 1953 book also included reports of sexual activity involving girls younger than age 4, and suggested that sex between adults and children could be beneficial.”what to give a scientific gloss to the normalization of promiscuity and deviancy really means is to study an entirely natural and vital aspect of human behavior objectively and without the prudish morality that despises and represses sexual feelings and activities. Das KapitalAuthor: Karl MarxPublication date: 1867-1894Score: 31 Summary: Marx died after publishing a first volume of this massive book, after which his benefactor Engels edited and published two additional volumes that Marx had drafted. Das Kapital forces the round peg of capitalism into the square hole of Marx’s materialistic theory of history, portraying capitalism as an ugly phase in the development of human society in which capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to earn the greatest possible profits. He could not have predicted 21st Century America: a free, affluent society based on capitalism and representative government that people the world over envy and seek to emulate.again i love how engels is to blame for doing what he wants with his money. marx was a miserable failure at predicting the world’s future (who ever succeeds?) but he surely called capitalism on its bluff. The Feminine MystiqueAuthor: Betty FriedanPublication date: 1963Score: 30Summary: In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, born in 1921, disparaged traditional stay-at-home motherhood as life in “a comfortable concentration camp”–a role that degraded women and denied them true fulfillment in life. As David Horowitz wrote in a review for Salon.com of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz (no relation to David): The author documents that “Friedan was from her college days, and until her mid-30s, a Stalinist Marxist, the political intimate of the leaders of America’s Cold War fifth column and for a time even the lover of a young Communist physicist working on atomic bomb projects in Berkeley’s radiation lab with J.
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The little nation of Lithuania might be sending troops to Afghanistan.From that publication:Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, says he would not hesitate to send servicemen of the Lithuanian Special Operations Force to a future counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan, (Baltic News Service) reported.We will without a doubt meet international commitments of our armed forces, Adamkus told journalists on April 27.
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Viswin replies - Nahi yaar not possible..got some work now…2.30 P.M - Meghana to Deepak - Calls up - Movie ? - Deepak - Yup - Meghana - Ok..I will book the tickets today evening 7.30 show6.30 P.M - Viswin to Deepak - SMS - Where are you ? Deepak to Viswin -SMS - Iam at Satyam theatre yaar.7.30 - 9.15 P.M - Deepak and Meghana watch the movie 9.30 P.M - Deepak and Meghana having dinner at Gangotri9.35 P.M - Viswin to Meghana - SMS - Kya Chal raha hai thambi ?(Now me and Meghana decide to have some fun..decide to play a prank..Poor Guy, Viswin..didnt know how much trouble he was landing himself in..Only god knows why he called up Meghana only that day ! Viswin - Iam travelling..on way to satyam Deepak - Oh good..i got tickets in the evening itself ..come soon Viswin - Meghana just called me up, i told her iam coming Deepak - So why did you tell her ? Deepak - Nahi yaar..i didnt meet her for some days now..Evening when you called me at 6.30 , i got tickets then itself..whatever you come fast Viswin - Oh…I told meghana but,,ok i will come and see10.15 P.M - Deepak and Meghana start walking back to Satyam , with the hope to see the look on viswin’s face when he doesn’t find both of them there..10.20 P.M - Viswin calls Meghana - We decide not to take the call..unsure what to tell him10.20 - 10.25 P.M- The guy keeps calling Deepak and Meghana ..none of them pick up10.25 P.M - We are close to satyam theatre now.. This time when he calls up, we were fearing that he might understand whats up and leave the place and we would not be able to see the reaction ..So we decide to pick up the call10.27 P.M - Viswin calls Deepak - Hey where are you ?10.30 P.M - Deepak - Hey Why didnt you come ..i was waiting for you..and you did not come. Only type the command into a command window - do not type Start - Run - browstat c:browstat.txt into the command window (NOTE the c:ipconfig.txt (less the ) into a command window (or a command window in Windows Vista). Only type the command into a command window - do not type Start - Run - ipconfig c:netconfig.txt (less the ) into a command window (or in Windows Vista). Only type the command into a command window - do not type Start - Run - net c:netconfig.txt (less the ) into that command window (or in Windows Vista).
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“The Lord Be With You…Even When He’s Not”Good Friday 2006Expanded version of a message preached at a Community Good Friday serviceNorth Central Pastor’s Cluster, Fresno CaliforniaQualifier: I never type out manuscripts for sermons, I go from brief scribbled cryptic notes; if anything. So I have tried to write in somewhat oral style; as if I had preached this whole thing (Right! In the seven minutes I was allotted as the third of three preachers preaching through Psalm 22 that day!)Dave Wainscott—————————————————————————————–There was a church that was not very liturgically oriented; in fact they were decidedly “low-church.” So the pastor wanted to teach his flock a bit of the richness of the liturgy tradition. He figured he’d start them out with a “win-win” that would be easy; the classic responsive that begins with the leader saying:“The Lord be with you.”You know the response:“And also with you.”And the pastor thought he’d have the congregation practice the responsive for several weeks, and then officially inaugurate it on Easter; a high attendance Sunday with lots of guests.So every week they walked through it:“Now when I say, ‘The Lord be with you,’ remember that you say And also with you.’” Let’s practice…”They practiced. They were primed. Pumped. Throughout the countdown weeks of Lent, they became quite prepared.Then came the big Sunday; Easter in all its glory. Lots of guests; an air of expectancy in the room; especially among the well-trained saints knowing they were about ready to show off what they had been practicing.So the pastor stepped up to the pulpit with a knowing smile. But he noticed that something was wrong with the microphone. So before he realized it, he said aloud just that:“There is something wrong with this microphone.”Well, the congregation was so primed and practiced that they immediately shot back, before they realized it, with one loud and clear voice:“And also with you!”There’s nothing wrong with my microphone today!But we can’t help but feel there’s something deeply wrong with us when we are forced to admit what we have been told is unthinkable, impossible, heretical and horrible:The Lord is not with us.Or so it feels if we are daring enough to be honest.I might even contend that until a Christian has said; meant; felt; prayed that unspeakable thought that must be spoken..… they may not even be a full follower of Jesus…The One who was and is God.The One who modeled for us how to live, how to pray, how to feel…The One who dared enough to be honest.The One who said, and I quote:“God, God . . . my God!Why did you dump me miles from nowhere?Doubled up with pain, I call to God all the day long.No answer.Nothing.”!Did you know that’s what the Almighty Jesus Christ said, felt, prayed on the cross?No answer.Nothing!It gets worse.Be sure you catch the condemning; the accusatory, angry, agnostic tone and tenor. The next two words must by necessity be read with all that volume and venom. If fact, the Bible specifically mentions that Jesus prayed this “in a loud cry.”He prays on:“And You!!Are You indifferent, above it all, leaning back on the cushions of Israel’s praise?We know You were there for our parents!They cried for Your help and You gave it; they trusted and lived a good life.And here I am, a nothing–an earthworm, something to step on, to squash.Everyone pokes fun at me; they make faces at me, they shake their heads:‘Let’s see how GOD handles this one; since God likes him so much, let him help him!’And to think You were midwife at my birth, setting me at my mother’s breasts!When I left the womb You cradled me; since the moment of birth You’ve been my God.Then You moved far away and trouble moved in next-door. I need a neighbor. “This graphic and earthy (and astoundingly accurate) rendering of Jesus’ prayer from The Message translation is stunning, shattering; and yet not as devastating as the original language portrayed it. Somehow the whole scene changes, and is dialed down; is in effect censored; through standard translations such as the NIV:PS 22:3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;you are the praise of Israel.PS 22:4 In you our fathers put their trust;they trusted and you delivered them.PS 22:5 They cried to you and were saved;in you they trusted and were not disappointed.PS 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man,scorned by men and despised by the people.PS 22:7 All who see me mock me;they hurl insults, shaking their heads:PS 22:8 He trusts in the LORDlink