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Nate Pilling is a blogger (who isn't?), a writer (why?), and a college student (maybe?). When he's not blogging, writing and colleging, Nate enjoys reading about and learning of new stuff (you and every other person on the face of the earth). Sometimes he tries to write snappy bios for himself and fails miserably. Sometimes his bios reference themselves.
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"It has been commonplace to interpret Jesus’ temptations as analogous to, almost a model for, the tempting of the Christian: Christ was tempted as we are, but resisted; therefore we should resist in similar ways. But this leads to a partial and negative interpretation of his experiences. His temptations constitute an epochal event. They are not merely personal, but cosmic. They constitute the tempting of the last Adam. True, there is a common bond between his temptations and ours: he is really and personally confronted by dark powers. But the significance of the event does not lie in the ways in which our temptations are like his, but in the particularity and uniqueness of his experiences. He was driven into the wilderness as an assault force. His testing was set in the context of a holy war in which he entered the enemy’s domain, absorbed his attacks and sent him into retreat (Mt. 4:11, and especially Lk. 4:13). In the power of the Spirit, Jesus advanced as the divine warrior, the God of battles who fights on behalf of his people and for their salvation (cf. Ex. 15:3; Ps. 98:1). His triumph demonstrated that ‘the kingdom of God is near’ and that the messianic conflict had begun."
Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit
"The conception of Jesus by the Spirit underlines both his identification with our frailty (he assumes our nature at its smallest and weakest) and his essential distinctiveness, not in relation to the reality of his humanity but in relation to his liability to guilt. He is ‘the last Adam’, the ‘man from heaven’ (I Cor. 15:45, 47-49). The work of the Spirit preserves both the reality of his union with us in genuine human nature, and his freedom from the guilt and curse of Adam’s fall (Rom. 5:12-21). Since his person is not of Adamic stock, he does not share in the guilt and condemnation of Adam (Rom. 5:12-14). Since he assumed human nature through the Spirit who sanctified this union from the moment of his conception, he was one of us and was capable of bearing others’ guilt as one who was not personally liable for it. Were his origin ‘from the earth’, he would share in the guilt and condemnation of ‘the earthly man’ (1 Cor. 15:48)."
Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit
So this guy is taking his girlfriend to the high school prom. And he’s got a lot of work to do.
First he has to rent a tux, so he goes to the tuxedo store. But there’s a huge tuxedo line at the store. Finally he gets out of there and realizes he has to go buy a corsage, so he goes to a florist. But there’s this big long corsage line at the florist. Finally he gets the corsage and has his tux and he’s gotta go rent a limo. But there’s this huge line when he gets to the limo place.
Finally after waiting and making all the arrangements, it’s the night of the prom. He picks her up and takes her down there to get in, but there’s this huge ticket line at the door. Finally they get in and they start dancing and having fun, and she says to him, “I’m hungry,” so he goes to get her some food, but there’s this huge buffet line. He gets her some food and they eat and they’re dancing again and she says, “Now I’m thirsty, can you get me a drink?” So he goes to get her a drink and there’s no punchline.
"Many of our greatest heroes were men and women who were willing to rock the boat. If consensus is such a high political value, then the abolitionists, suffragettes and civil rights marchers are all villains. Unity is not only overrated, it’s often undemocratic. Decrying the “polarization” may be something decent people are supposed to do, like recycling or paying more for organic breakfast cereal that tastes like kitty litter. But the alternative is no great shakes…. When you hear that rhetoric, consider this as a translation: ‘Those who disagree with me should shut up and get on board the progress train.’"
Columnist Jonah Goldberg
"To eliminate the vice of wordiness is to ensure the virtue of emphasis, which depends more on conciseness than on any other factor. Wherever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish, and by reducing the span of attention required we increase the force of the thought. To make sure our words count for as much as possible is surely the simplest as well as the hardest secret of style."
Wilson Follett
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: 1. Could I put it more shortly? 2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?"
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
“It’s amazing that I do so much better than those other candidates that are all electable. They’re all in fourth, fifth and sixth place, but they’re all electable, but I come in second or third, and all of the sudden people say, ‘Oh, he’s not electable.’ I don’t know how that adds up.”
-Ron Paul (via CBS News)
Funny how the “media” keeps trying to push this notion that Dr. Paul is “unelectable.” Frankly, I’m sick and tired of it. It’s simply not true and the votes are coming in to show that Dr. Paul is quite electable.
Seems like every time he gets interviewed he gets questioned about if he will run as a third party candidate. The underlying assumption here is that Dr. Paul can’t really win the GOP nomination. Last time I checked it is the people who vote, not the media. Dr. Paul’s campaign threatens the status quo and it seems that this is scaring big media.
Please, friends, think for yourselves and examine what each candidate is saying. Don’t just take what the media says without examining it for yourself.
PEEKSKILL - A 39-year-old city man faces felony charges upstate after apparently not heeding Greyhound’s slogan of “Leave the driving to us.” I’m just going to leave this here.
Kalle Mattson - Thick As Thieves (Official Video) (by Kevin Parry)
Address Is Approximate (by The Theory)
