11.10.05
you go girl.
I give Oprah flack whenever I can. It's really not Oprah- the person- I have a problem with. It's what she represents. It's all the cheap psycho-babble- believe in yourself- remember your spirit- just look inside- stuff she preaches each day and the way America undiscerningly laps up every empty self-help cliche she spews forth. She's preaching the only gospel she knows. Just so happens it's no gospel at all. Then there's Dr. Phil, Oprah's instead-man. Don't get me started. (However I will say he definiely knows how to rock the 'stache).
Yes. I give Oprah crap.
Therefor it is only fair that I also give Oprah props on her admirable and courageous behavior as well. Most recently she has announced that she intends to fight for the improvement of laws relating to the sentencing of convicted child molesters. She intends to attack this issue state by state and at her own personal expense. She believes this is the purpose for which she was created. (It's just too bad she got side tracked with that whole talk show thing for the last couple of decades).
Anyway, her passionate conviction and determination to make positive change in defense of the defenseless and at great personal expense is truly noble. You go girl.
Yes. I give Oprah crap.
Therefor it is only fair that I also give Oprah props on her admirable and courageous behavior as well. Most recently she has announced that she intends to fight for the improvement of laws relating to the sentencing of convicted child molesters. She intends to attack this issue state by state and at her own personal expense. She believes this is the purpose for which she was created. (It's just too bad she got side tracked with that whole talk show thing for the last couple of decades).
Anyway, her passionate conviction and determination to make positive change in defense of the defenseless and at great personal expense is truly noble. You go girl.
Lyrics
From The Mountain Goats album The Sunset Tree:
love love love
king saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong,
and joseph's brothers sold him down the river for a song,
and sonny liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove.
some things you do for money and some you do for love love love.
raskolnikov felt sick but he couldn't say why
when he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye.
some things you'll do for money and some you'll do for fun,
but the things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one.
love love is going to lead you by the hand
into a white and soundless place.
now we see things as in a mirror dimly.
then we shall see each other face to face.
and way out in seattle young kurt cobain
snuck out to the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain.
snakes in the grass beneath our feet, rain in the clouds above,
some moments last forever, but some flare up with love love love.
love love love
king saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong,
and joseph's brothers sold him down the river for a song,
and sonny liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove.
some things you do for money and some you do for love love love.
raskolnikov felt sick but he couldn't say why
when he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye.
some things you'll do for money and some you'll do for fun,
but the things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one.
love love is going to lead you by the hand
into a white and soundless place.
now we see things as in a mirror dimly.
then we shall see each other face to face.
and way out in seattle young kurt cobain
snuck out to the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain.
snakes in the grass beneath our feet, rain in the clouds above,
some moments last forever, but some flare up with love love love.
10.10.05
Another Sign of the Apocalypse:
This Louis Vuitton wallet sells for $570. Of course the obvious question: Once we've purchased the wallet, what the @#*%! are we suppose to put in it?
Kabbala, Madonna and the Christ
By RACHEL HOAG
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM
A song on Madonna's upcoming album dedicated to a Kabbalist rabbi is drawing criticism from other rabbis, the Israeli Maariv daily reported Sunday.
The album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," is to be released on Nov. 15 and features a track entitled "Isaac" about Yitzhak Luria, a 16th century Jewish mystic and Kabbalah scholar.
Rabbis who oversee Luria's tomb and a seminary in the northern town of Safed are unimpressed with Madonna's musical tribute and see the inclusion of the song about Luria on the album as an attempt by the pop star to profit from his name.
Rabbi Rafael Cohen, head of a seminary named after Luria, suggested Madonna's actions could lead to divine retribution.
"Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit. Her act is just simply unacceptable and I can only sympathize for her because of the punishment that she is going to receive from the heavens," Cohen told the newspaper.
Another rabbi called for Madonna to be thrown out of the community.
"Such a woman brings great sin on kabbalah," Rabbi Israel Deri told Maariv. "I hope that we will have the strength to prevent her from bringing sin upon the holiness of the rabbi (Yitzhak Luria)."
Madonna spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Sunday.
The singer and actress was raised a Roman Catholic but has become a follower of Kabbalah in recent years and adopted the Hebrew name Esther. She made a much publicized visit to Israel in 2004, when she visited many sites important to Kabbalah, but didn't travel to Luria's grave.
And this from Grace Central last night:
come ye sinners, poor and wretched,
weak and wounded, sick and sore
Jesus ready stands to save you
full of pity joined with power
he is able, he is able
he is willing, doubt no more.
Kabbala rejects "such a woman" because she brings great sin upon Kabbala. Jesus calls "such a woman" SO THAT SHE MAY bring her great sin upon him, and thus recieve mercy, grace and transformation.
The beauty of the gospel as seen in contrast is overwhelming. At least to those of us who understand we too are "such a woman". He is able. He is willing. Doubt no more.
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM
A song on Madonna's upcoming album dedicated to a Kabbalist rabbi is drawing criticism from other rabbis, the Israeli Maariv daily reported Sunday.
The album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," is to be released on Nov. 15 and features a track entitled "Isaac" about Yitzhak Luria, a 16th century Jewish mystic and Kabbalah scholar.
Rabbis who oversee Luria's tomb and a seminary in the northern town of Safed are unimpressed with Madonna's musical tribute and see the inclusion of the song about Luria on the album as an attempt by the pop star to profit from his name.
Rabbi Rafael Cohen, head of a seminary named after Luria, suggested Madonna's actions could lead to divine retribution.
"Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit. Her act is just simply unacceptable and I can only sympathize for her because of the punishment that she is going to receive from the heavens," Cohen told the newspaper.
Another rabbi called for Madonna to be thrown out of the community.
"Such a woman brings great sin on kabbalah," Rabbi Israel Deri told Maariv. "I hope that we will have the strength to prevent her from bringing sin upon the holiness of the rabbi (Yitzhak Luria)."
Madonna spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Sunday.
The singer and actress was raised a Roman Catholic but has become a follower of Kabbalah in recent years and adopted the Hebrew name Esther. She made a much publicized visit to Israel in 2004, when she visited many sites important to Kabbalah, but didn't travel to Luria's grave.
And this from Grace Central last night:
come ye sinners, poor and wretched,
weak and wounded, sick and sore
Jesus ready stands to save you
full of pity joined with power
he is able, he is able
he is willing, doubt no more.
Kabbala rejects "such a woman" because she brings great sin upon Kabbala. Jesus calls "such a woman" SO THAT SHE MAY bring her great sin upon him, and thus recieve mercy, grace and transformation.
The beauty of the gospel as seen in contrast is overwhelming. At least to those of us who understand we too are "such a woman". He is able. He is willing. Doubt no more.
Reading...
"But in all fairness, there is another side to this story, justifiably provoking the contempt of the skeptic. Much of what has passed for the Chrisitian message has been nothing more than frothy God-talk - mindless, thoughtless and in it's exploitation of people, heartless. This too, will not do. Just as so much of antitheistic thinking when scrutinized is sensically impoversished, so also much religious verbiage, seeped in emotional drivel and bereft of reason, can be tossed at unsuspecting audiences in the name of orthodoxy. The ruinous end of the latter, in it's destruction of lives plundered materially and spiritually, may be greater than the ideas perpetrated by the openly cynical. Is there an answer to all this? I sincerely trust there is. And it is to find that common ground of interaction that this material is presented."
- page xvi, Can Man Live Without God
Ravi Zacharias
- page xvi, Can Man Live Without God
Ravi Zacharias
7.10.05
Josh Ritter's Thin Blue Flame
A new track by Josh Ritter. You've got to check him out. This guy's got the goods. I'd love to read your review of this track here. Who likes it? Who doesn't & why?
6.10.05
Second Greatest Band Of All time Releases Oral History Today
It is now time for the celebratory rocking out...
I had me a vision
There wasn't any television
From looking into the sun
Looking into the sun
We got to think quick
Says blind St. Nick hey
From looking into the sun
Looking into the sun
We got to get some beer
We got no atmosphere
From looking into the sun
Looking into the sun
I had me a vision
There wasn't any television
From looking into the sun.
I had me a vision
There wasn't any television
From looking into the sun
Looking into the sun
We got to think quick
Says blind St. Nick hey
From looking into the sun
Looking into the sun
We got to get some beer
We got no atmosphere
From looking into the sun
Looking into the sun
I had me a vision
There wasn't any television
From looking into the sun.
Depression and Liturgy: Insights from the funky study
Have you ever been to a church service in which the order and content of the service was prescribed from start to finish? These are called liturgical services. They consist of prayers and readings that have been prepared in advance.
If you are depressed, you are going to have to learn to be a liturgical worshipper.
If you wait until you feel motivated to worship, you might be waiting a long time. If you are remotely inclined to communicate with God, you might find that words fail and you have nothing to say. When you drag yourself to worship, the service had better be mapped out ahead of time.
- from "Depression: A Stubborn Darkness" by Edward T. Welch (MDiv, PhD)
If you are depressed, you are going to have to learn to be a liturgical worshipper.
If you wait until you feel motivated to worship, you might be waiting a long time. If you are remotely inclined to communicate with God, you might find that words fail and you have nothing to say. When you drag yourself to worship, the service had better be mapped out ahead of time.
- from "Depression: A Stubborn Darkness" by Edward T. Welch (MDiv, PhD)
5.10.05
Jose Gonzalez
He's Swedish! He's Argentinian! He's a singer! He's a songwriter! He's a super-hyphenated, multi-instrumental, musical-up-and-comer. If you like Elliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Redhouse Painters, Alexi Murdoch, or Chumbawumba if there was only one of them and he wrote good songs, didn't suck, played an acoustic guitar, and never had a snowball's chance of making it on Mtv, then click the link above to hear a sample and see a video.
If you wipe boogers under your school desk then do not click the link above.
If you wipe boogers under your school desk then do not click the link above.
Jacksonville City Nights - Ryan Adams
I am currently practicing the art of delayed gratification by NOT purchasing this album. But above is a link to a well written review.
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