Khari > Recent Status Updates

When people live in encapsulated worlds, it becomes difficult for them, even with the best of intentions, to grasp the realities of rules with which they have little experience, but over which they also have great influence both public and private.

The future of the church, the nation, and the world depends-to an extent we scarcely conceive of-on the education of our youth. The church may be seeking to evangelize the lost, while it is giving up on its own children to secular and materialistic influences. Pray for your schools and colleges. Pray for the faculty, those who most influence the young in these halls of learning.

After Paul had preached the gospel for 20 years he still asked for prayer that he might speak as he ought to speak. Not once for all, not for time, but day-by-day and without ceasing, grace must be sought for the work.

He just said Zecharia and Elisabeth are Old testament saints....gotta be a typo....

He would have us know that in prayer all will not be so easy and smooth. We must expect difficulties which can be conquered only by persistent determined perseverance.

Nothing but persistent, believing prayer can meet the onslaught of the spirit of worldliness that is reported everywhere.

If we desire to grow from strength to strength and to experience God's power and sanctification and blessing and others, we must be more persevering in prayer.

All I want out of life is a book but I can learn something from without being like: the heck you say? Case in point: "Our King is glorified in intercession; and we too will find our highest glory in it. He continues His saving work in fact, He can do nothing without it."

God, the almighty God , the omnipotent God can do nothing without our prayer... Seems a little human centric. Just a tad.

"Faith is like love. When we hoard it, it shrivels. When we live and express it, it grows. So to deepen faith-or any attitude or conviction-we had best not sit passively, waiting for conviction to overtake us. Rather, enact what little faith we have."

...and those who see humanity in the image of God"

Woops this is on page 283

A quote from someone Jonathan Sacks
"The power of the Judaeo=Christian tradition is that it carts a moral reality larger than private inclination....It suggests that not all choices are equal; some lead on to blessing, others to lives of quiet despair........the scene is set for a genuine debate between two conflicting visions-between those who see the individual as a bundle of impulses to be gratified and those...

I can't make too hard of a judgment, because I've never read anything written during the Meiji era in Japanese, I doubt I could, but this certainly isn't true of modern literature. So at what point did the status switch?

This actually disagrees with other works in this volume that talk about how honorific endings are required in writing..so..? Is this just historical? She certainly doesn't frame it as such.

"Polite and honorific verb-ending forms, which formally indexed context-bound relationships between the author and the reader and between the author and the characters, eventually lost their status in the serious literary style."

Again. Examples? That would be nice.

I can't believe I found this article convincing in grad school.

first of all she said that by the 1910s plain verb endings such as -da had won out as the established literary style.

Maybe it had in the 1910s, but it certainly isn't now. And where is the evidence that this is true? She doesn't give a single example. No excerpts. No surveys. Just her feelings.

I just read the world's most rambling paragraph and am sitting back in astonishment at how my younger self found post structuralism to be convincing.

Just because you redefine commonly understood words to mean something completely different doesn't rescue you from inherently circular arguments.

"Religious conservatives...fear that when a politically correct educational establishment gets into the values business their parental authority will get undermined...Will education promote the homosexual agenda or an internationalism that undermines patriotism?"

Obviously not. I mean how could it? He's poopooing their concerns.

Didn't age well, now did it?

Why is right wing the only thing associated with censorship? Arguably, left wing governments have been responsible for censorship on a greater scale, for a longer period of time, than what has come from the 'right'.

I'm thinking China and the USSr as compared to Nazi

Again, didn't age well, the Cosby show as an example of being both profitable and principled........

The problem, sir, is that when companies and advertisers unite to promote 'the moral voice of the community' is that the community isn't always moral. And the movements that they espouse aren't always good or ethical, and we just might find ourselves being fed entertainment slop that, while fully in line with the moral voice of the community, is the opposite of good.

I agree that the coercive side of law can be used as a last resort to control socially unwanted behavior. I just don't agree that it should be the first resort. Which is basically what this author wants.

Pass a law curtailing tv violence and soon there will be book banning, news censorship and curfews! How idiotic.

Only that happened too. Granted, not as badly as under a communist dictatorship. But...it did happen. So the slippery slope people also have a point and can not be just summarily dismissed.

Another thing that didn't age well: "But reasonable laws-all of which restrain our freedom-seldom cascade us down a slippery slope or trip a line of dominoes."

Seldom? Seldom is a bit strong.

Also, his examples were pretty funny because they included : If we let them ban cigarettes, next they'll be controlling our food. How ridiculous...only it happened in New York.

...not know the consequences?

Power ranger imitation can be fixed pretty easily: act hurt. If the child is concerned for you...which most will be...you can show them the consequenes of their actions and direct them towards something else.

Even monkeys know this. A baby monkey bites another monkey, they get a cuff on the head. The baby monkey learns not to bite.

Is this violence a problem of not being corrected?