Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Jul 20 2006
Hello, Cupcake
Personalize this Mini Cooper S ad and have some fun with your male friends.
posted at: 15:17 | category: /Playing | link to this entry
Personalize this Mini Cooper S ad and have some fun with your male friends.
posted at: 15:17 | category: /Playing | link to this entry
Should the rapture produce such rapture?
Boing Boing links to Harper's mention of the Rapture Ready/End Times Chat topic, in which people react to recent events involving Israel and Hezbollah. It's more than a little creepy to read, and I thought at first that Harper's had grabbed a handful of wild messages from the middle of a thoughtful discussion.
For desperate people wanting an end to the way things have been for a long time, a sudden rapture is the big ticket out of town.
The trend of our earth home has been a downward spiral, and while I understand the notion that we would probably manage to destroy our planet at some point unless God steps in, I have a lot of alarms going off when Western-thinking Christians think they can begin to understand the complexities of the Middle-East issues, or dare to attempt to explain those issues to the rest of us in such brief, sweeping terms.
I suppose the other thing that is difficult for me is that people who believe in this sort of escapist rapture sometimes believe that there may be a type of second chance for those who are left behind. While I don't share their particular belief, I can see how comforting that sort of thing could be if one was sick of this world and longed for Heaven. The problem is that this kind of thinking could be a slippery slope—at least for me. I'm fairly certain I would be much less likely to focus on helping people others in the immediate here and now. I would tend to place my feet and my heart on my own escape route and would figure that someone else would take care of those who didn't get to make the journey with me.
For my own part, I rather like the way the Bible stories depict Abraham. When Abraham found out that Sodom and Gomorrah would be destroyed, we're told that Abraham pleaded with God Himself to spare the region for the sake of the righteous, reasoning with God in a faithful, bold approach. I suppose that appeals to me because he was willing to put his convictions on the line with God and he wasn't going to concede to the idea of destruction so easily. I like that. I'm the stubborn type myself.
posted at: 14:14 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
Boing Boing links to Harper's mention of the Rapture Ready/End Times Chat topic, in which people react to recent events involving Israel and Hezbollah. It's more than a little creepy to read, and I thought at first that Harper's had grabbed a handful of wild messages from the middle of a thoughtful discussion.
For desperate people wanting an end to the way things have been for a long time, a sudden rapture is the big ticket out of town.
The trend of our earth home has been a downward spiral, and while I understand the notion that we would probably manage to destroy our planet at some point unless God steps in, I have a lot of alarms going off when Western-thinking Christians think they can begin to understand the complexities of the Middle-East issues, or dare to attempt to explain those issues to the rest of us in such brief, sweeping terms.
I suppose the other thing that is difficult for me is that people who believe in this sort of escapist rapture sometimes believe that there may be a type of second chance for those who are left behind. While I don't share their particular belief, I can see how comforting that sort of thing could be if one was sick of this world and longed for Heaven. The problem is that this kind of thinking could be a slippery slope—at least for me. I'm fairly certain I would be much less likely to focus on helping people others in the immediate here and now. I would tend to place my feet and my heart on my own escape route and would figure that someone else would take care of those who didn't get to make the journey with me.
For my own part, I rather like the way the Bible stories depict Abraham. When Abraham found out that Sodom and Gomorrah would be destroyed, we're told that Abraham pleaded with God Himself to spare the region for the sake of the righteous, reasoning with God in a faithful, bold approach. I suppose that appeals to me because he was willing to put his convictions on the line with God and he wasn't going to concede to the idea of destruction so easily. I like that. I'm the stubborn type myself.
posted at: 14:14 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
