Month: May 2007

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T-13, 1.27: Thirteen Lines

Thirteen memorable lines. Some from poems, some from dramatic works and some from the greatest story ever told. In no particular order:

  1. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers and fading seen—
    Duty, faith, love, are roots and ever green . . . .
  2. The queen, my lord, is dead… & etc.
  3. He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
  4. WE ARE very slightly changed
    From the semi-apes who ranged
    India’s prehistoric clay;
    He that drew the longest bow
    Ran his brother down, you know,
    As we run men down to-day…
    …As it was in the beginning
    Is to-day official sinning,
    And shall be for evermore!
  5. Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
    the courage to change the things I can and
    the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they really pissed me off.
  6. …And may there be no sadness of farewell,
    When I embark;
    For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
    The flood may bear me far,
    I hope to see my Pilot face to face
    When I have crossed the bar.
  7. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. (A lil quote I reserve primarily for politicians *spit* and Mass Media Podpeople nowadays)
  8. …don’t call me Shirley.
  9. …I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
    Loved I not Honour more.
  10. …We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition:
    And gentlemen in England now a-bed
    Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
  11. “…who is my neighbour?”
    Jesus answering said, “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves… “
  12. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
    I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
  13. It is finished.

Noted at the Thursday Thirteen Hub

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Dell Takes the Plunge

Quick hit: see Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ opinion piece on the newly announced Dell plan to offer desktops/laptops with Ubuntu Linux pre0installed. He’s perhaps a little overly enthusiastic, but the point he makes has some merit:

Just as the arrival of Firefox forced Microsoft to improve Internet Explorer, the arrival of Linux on a mainstream desktop will force Microsoft to make significant, rather than cosmetic, improvements to its own operating systems.

Hmmmm… could be… If so, lucky we.

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Mending Walls: Faith, Part 3

While time is a tad tight here at twc central, here’s a reprint (with minor redactions) from June of ’06, and yes, just like the original post, this is a linkfest also (see below the post body).

In part 1 of “Mending Walls: Faith” I very, very briefly discussed the faith (fides) covenant meme so lacking in today’s society. In part 2, I even more briefly outlined how this lack has affected the three realms of legitimate governance in society, civil government, marriage & family and, for Christians at least, the church.

In this last installment, I’ll once again very briefly mention some examples that illustrate how the current culture of faithlessness affects everyday life and how the moribund state of the faith covenant at work, in civil government, marriage & family, and in churches affects everyday life.

Keep in mind: I will NOT explore this topic in depth, although this will still be a tad long as compared to most blogposts. It’d take a full length book for each of these three parts to cover the topic seriously. That being said, and knowing it’ll be a tad longer than the majority of blogposts you may read today, either page on off or CLICk to read more at the link.

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