Artifacts of a Life Once Lived

On the wiseness of living wisely: What is more probable? Death or Riches? Isn't there some statistic that says something like 20% of the world owns 80% of the worlds wealth? I know, 85% of statistics are made up anyway, so who can trust that? Well, this statistic is not made up. 100% of men and women die ... (however a literal reading of the Old Testament suggests two people did not actually die [Enoch and Elijah], so given this testimony, actually the number is like 99.99999999999999999999999999999999%) Unfortunately I do not know the ratio of the rich to the non-rich. I suppose first you would have to define what is meant by "rich". Let's just say for the sake of the argument that 10% of the world strikes it rich. However, 5% of the rich sooner or later loose their riches. Ok... so 100% of the world dies and only 10% of the world becomes rich and only 5% stay rich. Why do not 100% of the world prepare for death? Wisdom teaches that riches make themselves wings and f...

God cannot lie, can he? Inspiration necessarily leads to a conceptualization or identification of doctrine of inerrancy. Truthfulness motivates the teaching of inspiration and thus inerrancy. Said differently, inspiration serves to maintain the truthfulness of Scripture. Truth, then, reflects the actuality of a reality. Scripture keeps what really is real. The events of Scripture witness to a true reality, though possibly from different perspectives. Scripture stands against error, that is, Scripture cannot, because of its truthfulness, be found with error. Error and Truth cannot exist in the mind of God with regards to reality. What is is in the mind of God. What is not is not presented as real in the mind of God and thus the Scriptures. So Scripture directly reflects truthful reality to the same degree that the reality of the image reflects itself in the mirror. Scripture stands in conjunction with the truthfulness of God. If God is errant, then Scripture can err. But if God cannot...

tonight is kind of a crappy night. thats because today was a particularly crappy day. I guess i will just sulk in the crappiness. sometimes we have crappy days. sometimes crappy things happen to us even though we dont even want them. sometimes we have crappy days because of things out of our control. sometimes i wish i was a stoic and then maybe some of the crappy stuff wouldnt be so crappy. i suppose it could be crappier. sometimes i ask myself, where is god when all this crappy stuff happens. i suppose he would answer, "i'm right here, right in the middle of the crappy stuff," but sometimes its really hard to see when your eyes are covered with crappy.

Ancient words of the reflective soul: I confess, Lord, with thanksgiving, that you have made me in your image, so that I can remember you, think of you, and love you But that image is so worn and blotted out by faults, so darkened by the smoke of sin, that it cannot do that for which it was made, unless you renew and refashion it. Lord, I am not trying to make my way to your height, for my understanding is in no way equal to that, but I do desire to understand a little of your truth which my heart already believes and loves. I do not seek to understand so that I may believe, but I believe so that I may understand; and what is more, I believe that unless I do believe I shall not understand. Anselm, Proslogion in The Prayers and Meditations of Saint Anselm with the Proslogion , ed. B. Ward.