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Entries from January 31st, 2006

Tidbits For Today

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments · fragments

Some people love Spam,Soli Deo Gloria: Culinary Confessions tells all.
Fans of ‘Political Teen’ might want to knw about the blog change to Expose the Left. H/T Sparks From The Anvil

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Apologies?

January 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Christian

I don’t usually think of Carl @No Oil for Pacifists as a Christian apologist, although I consider him an excellent blogger with an avalanche of logic, rhetoric, and informational links -especially on political matters. However, he has a post highlighting CENTURI0N’s “… and his ministers a flame of fire”, who has a worthwhile line of [...]

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The Strange Woman, or The Seduction of America

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments · Culture

And this is why “pornification” is so threatening, it threatenes to damage the underpinnings of our view of women’s equality and personhood. Objectification often goes hand in hand with rationale to abuse and exploit.

And in the larger view of society, it isn’t just a subgroup of women who suffer that, ultimately it is the whole group.

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Parableman’s Extreme Makeover

January 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Contemporaries

Parableman
gets an image worthy of his fine and thoughtful writing. Very impressive design! Jeremy, I love it… the rest of you check it out and read up some very thought-provoking topics.

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Old Mothers

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Quotes

Old Mothers~ by Charles Sarsfield Ross
I love old mothers–mothers with white hair
And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet,
With murmured blessings over sleeping babes.
There is a something in their quiet grace
That sparks the calm of Sabbath afternoons;
A knowledge in their deep, unfaltering eyes
That far outreaches all philosophy.
Time, with caressing touch about them weaves
The silver-threaded fairy-shawl [...]

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The Dichotomy, Human Dignity Vs Human Depravity

January 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Cogitations

I was reading over @ Bookworm Room and this post applying observations on Anne Frank ( of the diary) to a commonly held worldview was interesting:

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Who Are We Really? Questioning Sexual Identity

January 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Cogitations

Background:
Reading ‘Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights,’ by Kenji Yoshino
The Conformist, Review by ANN ALTHOUSE @ the NYTimes site, and remembering back to some forum discussions…. a certain question keeps coming up in my mind,” Are we really sexually oriented in our essence…our innermost core of being?”. Because the implications in much of [...]

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Babies Sleep- and other timeworn truths

January 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Clannish -Family

Here is a picture of my grandson sleeping- which he did alot of – but that would be misconstrued if one felt he didn’t inherit a good deal of knowing right well what he wants!
I have returned from my extended time in Arizona…watched my grandson fill out, shared some of his quiet alert [...]

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Admission: Sometimes I can’t keep up

January 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Cacophony

[Occasionally I write things I don't publish for some reason or another.... who knows? But I thought since I haven't posted for most of this month I would toss some of these old things out there... this was originally written 2005-08-08 01:01:51 ]
Last week I opened my email and followed a url to someone who [...]

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Because I’m Bad Obsessed

January 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Conviviality

because so many of you are fabulous people

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