Ex Nihilo

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  1. Current Mood

    in Cultural Arts Archive

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    A few months back, my wife took me to see Lenny Kravitz. I've been to a lot of concerts, worked a lot of concerts. Far and away, this was the best I've ever been to. One of the best nights of my life. And this was one the best songs of the night. He cam out into the audience and sang for about 15 minutes. It was amazing! I first heard it when I was 10 and I still love it as muchto day as ever. Elvis is king but Lenny's the MAN!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=014NVmIwEkY&feature=related

  6. My New Endeavor

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

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    Ok I am at an impasse. I have am in search of a name for my congragation. I am looking for some thing non denominational yet with a Gnostic Christian tone to it. All suggestions are welcomed maybe your ideas will spark a thought going in my mind.

    to borrow from the byzantines: The church of holy wisdom.

  12. My New Endeavor

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

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    I was sitting in prayer a few nights ago and was given a vision. I spent the most part of 2011 in the hospital fighting a fungal infection that landed me two surgeries, 3 trips to the ICU and almost took my life. It was in my darkest hour that I asked for a Priest and was baptised. The one thing I enjoyed after being moved to physical rehab was that anytime of the day or night I could ask to go to the chapel to pray, light a candle and just reflect on my life up to that point.

    In the fission I received there was a "church" that was open all hours and served the people in the very same way the hospital chapel had served me. A place to go at any hour to pray, receive communion, ask for absolution if that is what one wishes, light a candle for a sick or dying loved one. A place of worship and reflection that never closes.

    That's a very beautiful vision truthseeker. I think one of thereasons that I became an episcopalian in th efirst place was because the church down the block form my childhood home made the commitment to leave the church open 24/7 for prayer. That way, I could stop by and pray or just have a quiet place to think. Sure they were vandalized occasionally, but the church believed it was important that the church be a spiritual refuge at all times, not just for a couple of hours on sunday.

  17. Hope

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

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    I've read a number in English. I enjoyed a few but I found the inevitible end of the road of his philosophical arguments makes monsters of men and worships strength and beauty for their own sakes, which are very hollow sorts of things to worship. Beauty is only useful if it makes other things beautiful and strength is only good when used to make the weak stronger. Its the philosophy of children who admire superheros in comic books and mad tyrants who fantasize that their race is the only race worth living. It is the philosophy of weakness and ugliness. Only those who are weak and ugly take notice with jealousy and infatuation the strong and beautiful. IMHO. Nietzsche was the apostle to the impotent and homely.

  18. Hope

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

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    And your sample is better than my sample because?

    It's not and I never said it was. You however were using your limited personal experiences of casual conversations with people as the basis for some general rule that many people that have an opinion on Nietzsche's work have never actually read his books which I guess is tru efor those who support Nietzsche as it does for those who reject him. I was merely offering evidense that your experience is not universal and therefore a flawed basis for ageneral rule.

    Persanally, I don't think you have to read Nietzsche to understand or have an opinion about him or his ideas. One doesn't have to be an alcoholic to know that drinking can lead to addiction. One doesn't have to smoke to know its ill effects. So it is true with Nietzsche. It may be helpful to read him, but not secessary. You just have to get your information from credible sources.

  19. Hope

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

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    Because every time I discuss Nietzsche's works with people they produce some caricature of his philosophy and when asked for details they just do not know.

    Sounds like a poor sample, most of the people I have mentioned Nietzsche to know all too well his books. They have read a good deal of them and, like me, reject them.

  20. Hope

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

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    I was going to say that as well.

    I find it interesting that many people have an opinion on Nietzsche's work but very few have actually read his books.

    How do you know few people have read his works?

  21. Hope

    in Hobby/Leisure Archive

    Posted · Edited by Rev'd Rattlesnake

    GK Chesterton had a very high opinion of Hope and, incidentally, a very low opinion of Nietzsche. Here's a couple of things he had to say about hope, but since he thought in paragraphs and not pithy remarks, his real brilliance is lost.

    “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

    “Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”

    Hope is essential precisely because it, like love and forgiveness, is completely irrational. Rational qualities are completely unsuitable for an irrational world or irrational times, or even for irrational men.

  22. Words From The Wise...your Favorites

    in Creative Expression & Cultural Arts

    Posted

    Take an example from my vacuum cleaner: the messier life gets around it, the more it sucks it up and deals with it. - My grandmother.

    The bread needs the yeast to rise. Even the smallest creatures make things better when they do the work God put them here for. - Another from Grandmom.

    Your clothes won't care who washed them, the lawn won't care who mowed it, the furniture won't care who dusted it, and the silver won't care who polished it. If it needs doing, do it. You live in this house, you work to make it better - my parents.

    When you finish your work, help your family finish theirs. There is always something you can do to help in this house. - My parents

    There is no such thing as saying "thank you" too often - Me, after being written up by a manager for thanking my staff "too often."

    You vome from wise stock Bro.. It shows

  23. Tolerant Of The Intolerant?

    in Philosophy & Theory

    Posted

    I'm beginning to think that a person must be tolerant these days, the alternative is to lose your freaking mind :)

    I say, let the kkk clean-up freeway trash, it seems to suit them and its about time they did something constructive.

    LOL! You are a smart, smart man Dan. Great points!