Friday, June 13, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Torry Conversation
Brace yourself! Take cover! Run! Hide! :P
Everyone to the basements the bombs are about to be launched!
And I shall embrace the embers...
haha :D
I seem to have sent everyone to their bases.
Should I try to launch the great bomb, or is it too risky?
My dear launch it, it is scary but a "beautiful" bomb as well. :)
this was all online so that is why everyone has a different color. This is what happens when one brave soul tries to start a conversation about what true beauty is.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Prayer
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Myspace or Email?!?!
Me- "no"
Aaron- "what??? why not???"
Me- "I have a life, and myspace takes up to much time that I don't have."
Aaron- "but myspace is so much better than email."
Me- "no it's not, email is the best."
Aaron- "Myspace is like paper, email is like rock. Paper always wins!"
Me- "Rock can beat paper any day! Just think about it: try throwing a rock at paper the paper will break!!"
Aaron- "no it won't!!! ask your mom!!"
Me- "She's gone."
Aaron- "Ask your dog, then!!"
Me- "He's asleep"
Aaron- "then ask your self what would Jesus do?"
Me- "He would choose rock because it is His creation, and paper is man made and kills trees."
Aaron- "Exactly!!! no, wait...Ok...let me tell you what you are going to do: go onto Myspace and click sign up."
Me- "Aaron I have a life and don't want to lose it."
Aaron- "Have you seen the Office?"
Me- "It's like the best show ever!!!"
Aaron- "I have clips of the Office on my myspace. So, myspace is the best!!!"
Me- "No, the Office beats all, including myspace."
Aaron- "Ok, you're right, but myspace has got to be good if it has the Office."
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Faith In Uncertainty
Monday, April 7, 2008
Williams does it again!!!
"In Charles Williams Descent into Hell he sets forth his Doctrine of Substituted Love: carrying one another's burdens is not just a figure of speech or something meaningful only in terms of physical burdens like a trunk. Davy's burden was not death but the fear of death. I asked her to give me that burden, a real handing over, like surrendering a trunk to a porter. An act of handing over. And I took it-also act. I then entered into the fear, her fear, with all my heart and mind and imagination, felt it, carried it along with my own fear, which was also real but other. And her burden grew lighter." (A Severe Mercy, 165)
Learning Contentment
"Resignation is a bregudging existence, one based in not believing the best of God. [It] operates out of a mind-set that God has finite resources - a God of scarcity and not abundance - as though if one person gets blessed, that diminishes our chances of being similarly blessed." - Carolyn McCulley
"[Some] people, however, are always seeking God's will for their lives. They jump from one thing to another, run here and there, and consult all their friends. They have yet to realize that God's will for them is to faithfully carry out their present responsibilities, faithfully doing the job He has already given them...if He does have an alternative plan for their lives, He will show them, in a quiet, normal way, one day when they are least expecting it and when their present responsibilties are completed. God's will is often simply that we do the next thing, as it comes, as best we can and for His glory." -Gigi Tchivijan
Goodness
Contentment
Friday, April 4, 2008
Another random spanish thing
Allison-#2
#1- ¡Ay caramba! ¡Aquí hay galletas!
Oh my goodness! Here are cookies!
#2 -No me digas. ¿Dónde hay galletas?
No way. Where are the cookies?
#1- ¡Aquí! ¡En el suelo de la iglesia!
Here! on the floor in the church!
#2- ¿De veras? Aquí hay perritos también.
Really? I find puppies in there.
#1- ¡ Ay caramba! ¡ Tú eres tan afornuada!
Oh my goodness! You are so lucky!
#2- ¿ Deseas tú cambiar?
Do you want to trade?
#1- ¿ Deseas tú cambiar sus perritos por mis galletas?
You want to trade your puppies for my cookies?
#2- ¡Sí, las galletas son asombrosas!
Yes, the cookies are awesome!
#1- Deseas cambiar sus perritos por mis galletas…que encantre…en el suelo…
You want to trade your puppies for my cookies…that I found….on the floor…
#2- Sí ¿ Quieres cambiar o no?
Yes. Do you want to trade or not?
#1- ¡Sí!
Yes!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Bonding
Mike: well we've been going to sleep late and sleeping in late.
Katherine: I have been up at 8:00 every morning and just lay there and then I was like "do I hear someone going to the bathroom, o nope that wasn't us."
Monday, March 24, 2008
I couldn't agree more...
- Alfred Hitchcock
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Family gatherings
Cousin 2: Yea!!! But who are we going to TP, I mean it is Christmas day!
Cousin 1: Let's just walk down the street and find some one!
We left to go TPing at around 18:00 on Christmas day.
Me: Wow! That was random!
Cousin: Why is everything random?
Me: I don't know it just is! But you have to admit, going TPing on X-mas day is a little random.
Cousin: But everything is always random, why not orange?
Me: oh yea right: That was orange!
Cousin: You're orange!
Friday, March 21, 2008
"teacher asphyxiation day"
I personally think that that should be a real holiday!
Life is Full of Surprises
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.-- G.K. Chesterton
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Inspiration and the attaining of it
- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- --Jack London-- (1876 - 1916)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Value of a Quote
- Joseph Roux
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Sign Language
Me:I can't speak sign language!
Rachel: uh...yes you can!
I suppose you have to speak sign language to get it but for saying can she did the opposite of can't. She doesn't speak sign language!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Lewis
It's Good to Be Human
One of the great benefits of having a dog is the increased awareness that I am not one. I look at our dog, Sable, and think for a moment that she is kind and forgiving and humble and patient and loving and warm and gentle and happy and peaceful. Then I realize she's a dog! She does not know or reason or feel or judge like I do. She does not prize anything because of its true worth—its relation to God. She doesn't know where she came from. She doesn't reflect on her identity and wonder who she is or what it means ultimately in God's scheme of things to be a dog. She doesn't think about why she's here and doesn't know where she's going.
She is a wonder, and can call forth amazing affection. But she is not a human created in the image of God. And as I think about her, I am amazed at my own humanity. And at the incredible wonders of the humans I live with.--John Piper
C.S. Lewis Quote #2
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Cynthe and Judy Quotes (more to come)
"To each their own dorkiness." -Judy
Quote 2B
"I'm not ticklish, so it's not fun. It's just pokey." - Cynthe
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Cell Phones are Everywhere
"Solomon had it all... wives, concubines, gold... cell phones, well if they had cell phones then, Solomon would have had cell phones..." --Nate Warne
...mind you, as he was listing Solomon's assets, a cell phone went off =D
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
George MacDonald-Phantastes
Thursday, February 28, 2008
My Bumper Sticker Collection
"Common sense is not common anymore." (anonymous)
Anyone have any to add...?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
The Office
Andy: What's going on?
Jim: What are you talking about?
Andy: Where is my FREAKING phone?!
Jim: You know what? Maybe it's in the ceiling.
Andy: Maybe you're in the ceiling!
Jim: Okay.
Andy: [trying to look in Phyllis's desk, she slams the drawer shut] I don't trust you, Phyllis!
earlier Jim and Pam hid Andy's anoying phone in the ceiling above Andy's head...Poor Andy...
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Airplane
Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur: What?
Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Over.
Captain Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over!
Roger Murdock: What?
Captain Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?
The movie Airplane it just about the best movie ever!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
From my friend Sam
Tonight he told me, "Sometimes I say words."
Maybe you had to have been there. But I laughed hysterically.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
keep things goin'...
- "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
- --John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)--
Monday, February 18, 2008
Greatest Conversation in Spanish Class
Person 2: Porque.
Person 1: ¿Por qué?
Person 2: Porque.
Person 1: ¿Por qué?
Person 2: Porque.
Person 1: ¿Por qué?
Person 2: Porque.
Translation:
Person 1: Why?
Person 2: Because.
Person 1: Why?
Person 2: Because.
Person 1: Why?
Person 2: Because.
Person 1: Why?
Person 2: Because.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Rabbi
Rabbi
A great rabbi stands teaching in the marketplace. It so happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. The rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out of respect for him the mob forbears, and waits with the stones heavy in their hands. "Is there anyone here," he says to them, " who has not desired another man's wife, or another woman's husband?"
They murmur and say, " We all know the desire. But, Rabbi, none of us has acted on it."
The rabbi says, "Then kneel down and give thanks that God made you strong." He takes the woman by the hand and leads her out of the market. Just before he lets her go, he whispers to her, "Tell the lord magistrate who saved his mistress. Then he'll know that I am his loyal servant."
So the woman lives, because the community is too corrupt to protect itself from disorder.
Another rabbi, another city. He goes to her, and stops the mob, as in the other story and says, "Which of you is without sin? Let him cast the first stone."
The people are abashed, and forget their unity of purpose in the memory of their own individual sins. Someday, they think, I may be like this woman, and I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance. I should treat her the way I wish to be treated.
As they open their hands and let the stones fall to the ground, the rabbi picks up one of the stones, lifts it high over the woman's head, and throws it straight down with all his might. It crushes her skull, and dashes her brains onto the cobblestones.
"Nor am I without sin," he says to the people. "But if we allow only perfect people to enforce the law, the law will soon be dead, and our city with it."
So the woman died because her community was too rigid to endure her deviance.
So of course, we killed him.
Orson Scott Card
Thursday, February 14, 2008
C.S. Lewis for the 21st Century Western World
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Oh, Chesterton
"He who thinks he is made of glass, thinks to the destruction of thought; for glass cannot think."
He is a great man, a great man.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Le vin à la fin
“There is good wine poured in the inn at the end of the world”
- GK Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill
From Jessy
Welcome!
It's purpose: to share funny, meaningful, quotable things with all your friends! From C.S. Lewis to your next-door neighbor, feel free to contribute but only if its quotable.
To spare this from getting ridiculously long and hard to keep up with, let me define that for you.
The definition of quotable: (from Dictionary.com) "suitable or appropriate for quotation; easily quoted, as by reason of effectiveness, succinctness, or the like." (Ooooh! The first quote!)
Please use your best judgment. This is not a place to mouth off your prejudices. It's a place to preserve that which otherwise might not have been preserved (see my 2nd quote...yet to come if you're reading this blog properly). And/or to encourage one another with things that stimulate your mind towards good, positive, godly thinking. Please source your quote (as appropriate - in other words, if you're quoting your roommate, please ask before posting!). Any quotes that do not meet these requirements will be subject to swift annihilation and/or endurance of Medieval torture methods.
Now that the rules are set in place...start quoting!