The only reason I bring this up is that I had it confirmed today by the Eugene Police Department. I need a Background check for England. Just got it. I've never been caught doing anything illegal!
Peace,
Chris
Friday, June 17, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Romero Article
This article touched me deeply while reading it. Maybe I'm just a sucker for Liberation Theology.
Peace,
Chris
Peace,
Chris
And my final GPA is.....
A 3.79.
This last term I had an A in creative writing and an A in Idea of Europe, an A- in Non-Biblical Scrolls, a B+ in History of Modern Japan (meaning I kicked some butt on the final, as I was looking like I'd get a B-/C+ going into the Final), and a Pass in Billiards.
Good night, Peace, etc.
Chris
This last term I had an A in creative writing and an A in Idea of Europe, an A- in Non-Biblical Scrolls, a B+ in History of Modern Japan (meaning I kicked some butt on the final, as I was looking like I'd get a B-/C+ going into the Final), and a Pass in Billiards.
Good night, Peace, etc.
Chris
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The Questions
I know school is done, but we are still meeting tonight at 8. Here are the questions:
The Questions
What qualifies a war as a just war? Is the Iraq war a "just war"?
Where should religious authority come from?
From what we know of him in scripture, if Jesus went to a psychologist today what would the prognosis be? What would his "issues" be? His quirks? Etc?
Can a Christian believe the Koran is inspired by the devil? Can one believe it is inspired by God?
Why is God so often worshiped with music? Word and sacrament are often touted as justification for having things in worship, does music fall into either of those? Both? Neither?
What does it mean that Jesus is the "Word"? What are the implications of that?
What does it mean that YHWH is a verb that means something like "He Causes to Be" (crazy guy’s translation was "He shalt Be")?
The Questions
What qualifies a war as a just war? Is the Iraq war a "just war"?
Where should religious authority come from?
From what we know of him in scripture, if Jesus went to a psychologist today what would the prognosis be? What would his "issues" be? His quirks? Etc?
Can a Christian believe the Koran is inspired by the devil? Can one believe it is inspired by God?
Why is God so often worshiped with music? Word and sacrament are often touted as justification for having things in worship, does music fall into either of those? Both? Neither?
What does it mean that Jesus is the "Word"? What are the implications of that?
What does it mean that YHWH is a verb that means something like "He Causes to Be" (crazy guy’s translation was "He shalt Be")?
CENSORSHIP!
Microsoft is censoring Chinese Blogs for the sake of the authoritarian government in China.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Poem
WALKING THROUGH(1)
Footnotes added on the occasion of Kyla’s 21st Birthday
By Chris Halverson
THE stress, of the shift, of the blue back of the black bird flashes (2)
A snap, through the twelve titans at attention, clothed in rumpled brown (3)
Their green swords are bowed low, a procession of swordsmen
Branches inviting in second
TWO old and new mirror dogs(4) kneel (5)
At the granite feet of the bridegroom’s marriage arches (6)
Three synoptic squires(7) , brothers, chatter in the afterglow
After them, one monolith, states aloud, what the three euphemized in private (8)
WHAT, even low, the groundsman has greater glories than the titans (9)
He dwells with punchy grey squirrels (10), full of faith (11)
He bows lower still, to press ahead
What is dying for a day, three, a month, ten, or even a year (12)
HE (13) continues ahead, ahead, here, and then
Where are the graves, sepulcher?
All that remains, concrete squares
Empty (14)
1. This poem was written while walking through the graveyard across the street. I saw things; they connected with biblical things extremely well.
2. The Black Bird is Christ. The three years of his known ministry is a flash compared to the time after his death. It was an ineffable flash that caught the attention of the whole world.
3. The twelve titans being the twelve disciples of Christ.
4. Upon writing this I had not noticed that the “dogs” were really lambs.
5. The Old Testament and the New, two documents that face, and mirror, one another.
6. The Bridegroom being Christ.
7. The Synoptic Gospels, Mt. Mk. Lk.
8. The Gospel of John, which is much more explicit about many things about Christ, such as his divinity etc.
9. This is Paul, who ended up, having more influence than the disciples.
10. Goyim
11. Faith not works etc.
12. His first letter is about this subject, people dying before the return of Christ.
13. This is a different he, the Church universal, the church of these present ages.
14. Oh no, I’m being weird and mysterious. Am I talking about the “rapture,” or am I talking about Churches being empty, or am I talking about the epiphany of the empty tomb?
Footnotes added on the occasion of Kyla’s 21st Birthday
By Chris Halverson
THE stress, of the shift, of the blue back of the black bird flashes (2)
A snap, through the twelve titans at attention, clothed in rumpled brown (3)
Their green swords are bowed low, a procession of swordsmen
Branches inviting in second
TWO old and new mirror dogs(4) kneel (5)
At the granite feet of the bridegroom’s marriage arches (6)
Three synoptic squires(7) , brothers, chatter in the afterglow
After them, one monolith, states aloud, what the three euphemized in private (8)
WHAT, even low, the groundsman has greater glories than the titans (9)
He dwells with punchy grey squirrels (10), full of faith (11)
He bows lower still, to press ahead
What is dying for a day, three, a month, ten, or even a year (12)
HE (13) continues ahead, ahead, here, and then
Where are the graves, sepulcher?
All that remains, concrete squares
Empty (14)
1. This poem was written while walking through the graveyard across the street. I saw things; they connected with biblical things extremely well.
2. The Black Bird is Christ. The three years of his known ministry is a flash compared to the time after his death. It was an ineffable flash that caught the attention of the whole world.
3. The twelve titans being the twelve disciples of Christ.
4. Upon writing this I had not noticed that the “dogs” were really lambs.
5. The Old Testament and the New, two documents that face, and mirror, one another.
6. The Bridegroom being Christ.
7. The Synoptic Gospels, Mt. Mk. Lk.
8. The Gospel of John, which is much more explicit about many things about Christ, such as his divinity etc.
9. This is Paul, who ended up, having more influence than the disciples.
10. Goyim
11. Faith not works etc.
12. His first letter is about this subject, people dying before the return of Christ.
13. This is a different he, the Church universal, the church of these present ages.
14. Oh no, I’m being weird and mysterious. Am I talking about the “rapture,” or am I talking about Churches being empty, or am I talking about the epiphany of the empty tomb?
I'm cleaning out my computer
and I found a set of quotes I liked. Some pretty cool stuff.
Peace,
Chris
“God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose any one of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss.”—Al-Gazalli
“All things implement.”—William Falkner
“I endeavored to lead a different type of life, to interest myself in practical work, to know and love the human material which had fallen into my hands, to feel the long-wished-for joy of no longer having to deal with words but with living men.”—Zorba the Greek
“We educated people are just empty headed birds of the air.”—ZTG
"As soon as you start expecting a politician to be the answer to all of your problems, that's when you're really in trouble."
-anon.
Parties may make policy, but people make a nation, a signal fire of democracy lit from the individual torches of the hearts of many.
--Chris Halverson
Peace,
Chris
“God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose any one of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss.”—Al-Gazalli
“All things implement.”—William Falkner
“I endeavored to lead a different type of life, to interest myself in practical work, to know and love the human material which had fallen into my hands, to feel the long-wished-for joy of no longer having to deal with words but with living men.”—Zorba the Greek
“We educated people are just empty headed birds of the air.”—ZTG
"As soon as you start expecting a politician to be the answer to all of your problems, that's when you're really in trouble."
-anon.
Parties may make policy, but people make a nation, a signal fire of democracy lit from the individual torches of the hearts of many.
--Chris Halverson
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