"The United States, clearly, is no longer the leader of the free world. Get that. Leaders have people that follow them. Who is following the United States right now? We take a stand, the rest of the world says, we're not going to follow you. Hello, President Bush, you're not a leader if nobody's following you. America has lost its stature in the world and this concerns me."
- Tony Campolo
"During the years that I lived with the MacMurrays, I discovered that children were loud. In the mornings they rise with the sun and get into the cereal before the parents wake. Within ten minutes, one of them has stabbed the other with a fork and so you rouse each morning to the sounds of murder. If you place a pillow over your head or keep a fan running, you can ignore it for ten minutes or so, but sooner or later you have to go downstairs to lock the screaming one in the pantry."
-Don Miller
"A major revolution to be won in the immediate future is the dissipation of man's illusion that his own welfare can be seperate from that of all others. As long as man is shackled to this myth, so long will the human spirit languish. Concern for our private material well being with disregard for the well being of others is immoral... but worse, it is stupidity."
- Saul B Alinsky
"Earth's crammed with heaven
And every common bush alive with God
Only he who sees takes off his shoes
The rest sit around and pluck blackberries"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"God is the beyond in our midst"
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Happiness lies in living for others. That is evident. The desire for happiness is innate in every man; therefore it is legitimate. When trying to satisfy it selfishly - that is, by seeking for oneself riches, fame, comforts, or love - it may happen that circumstances arise which make it impossible to satisfy these desires. Therefore it follows that these desires are illegitimate, but not the need for happiness. But what desires can always be satisfied, despite external circumstances? What are they? ove and self-sacrifice. Since one wants nothing for himself, why not live for others?"
- Leo Tolstoy
"[The Irish are the] one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
- Freud
In the late afternoon, when the children tire of their games, it is then that they turn to torturing the cat.
G K Chesterton
In the Soviet Union, we are in the habit of admiring the faces of actors rather than their backsides. This is what you call freedom - freedom for the girls to show their backsides. To us its pornography. It is capitalism that makes the girls that way. What kind of sick man would ask a girl to do something like that?"
- Nikita Khrushchev (On seeing Hollywood in action during his visit to the US)
Spirituality is the lamp, morality the door, ethics the vehicle, love the altar.
- Bill Holton Leadership Lessons of Robert E Lee
It doesn't matter how much you have, so long as you fight with what you have. It doesn't matter where you fight, so long as you fight. Because where you fight, the enemy has to fight too, and even though it splits your force, it must split his force also. So fight, on whatever the scale, whenever and wherever you can. There is only one way to win victories. Attack! Attack! Attack!
- Douglas MacArthur
Music
Books
A New Year, time to start all over again. 100 books 1 year again?
January 2 - Alexander Hamilton (biography) - Dan Chernenko
January 9 - Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
January 14 - Leadership Lessons of Robert E Lee - Bill Holton
January 24 - Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians
February 3 - Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World - Carl Richard
February 10 - Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
February 11 - Khruschev: A Man And His Era - Michael Taubman
February 12 - Who Switched The Price Tags - Tony Campolo
February 16 - How The Irish Saved Civilization - Thomas Cahill
February 18 - The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna - Umberto Eco
February 22 - The Communist Manifesto [with commentary] - Karl Marx
February 25 - The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
February 26 - God's Debris - Scott Adams
February 27 - A Love Worth Giving - Max Lucado
March 11 - The Commanders of Chancelorville - Edward Longacre
March 12 - Opening Atlantis - Harry Turtledove
March 14 - Czars - James Duffy
March 16 - When God Whispers Your Name - Max Lucado
March 20 - A Chance To Die, Biogrphy of Amy Carmichael - Elizabeth Elliot
March 24 - The Future of Religious Colleges
March 30 - We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
April 6 - Reaper's Gale - Stephen Erickson
April 12 - Rifkind's Challenge - Lynn Abbey
April 25 - Flatland - Edwin Abbot
May 1 - Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie
May 8 - Shadows of Summer - Dan Abraham
May 15 - The Blade Itself - Joe Abercombie
May 20 - The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
May 22 - The Bible - God
May 24 - Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
May 27 - Rules For Radicals - Saul Alinsky
June 1 - To Own A Dragon - Don Miller
June 7 - Gardens Of The Moon - Steven Erickson
June 12 - Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erickson
June 16 - Lord, Save Us From Your Followers - Dan Merchant
June 22 - Memories of Ice - Steven Erickson
June 30 - Chain of Dogs - Steven Erickson
July 6 - Midnight Tides - Steven Erickson
July 7 - Searching For What Makes Sense - Brian McLaren
July 8 - Tempting Faith - David Kuo
July 9 - To Begin The World Anew - Bernard Bailyn
July 11 - Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
July 12 - War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy
July 13 - In The Eye Of The Storm - Max Lucado
July 14 - 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up The World - John Tirman
July 17 - White - Ted Dekkar
July 20 - The Bonehunters - Steven Erikson
July 22 - The Language of God - Francis Collins
July 27 - Cosmopolitanism: Ethics In a World of Strangers - Kwame Appiah
August 1 - Time Spike - Eric Flint
August 6 - Mage Guard of Hamor - L E Modesett
August 11 - The Westside-Valley War - Harry Turtledove
August 17 - The Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant - U S Grant
August 22 - The Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy
August 27 - Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
Born. Moved around to Greece. Got Saved. Syracuse. Started school. Rebecca Lemon, my first wife. She cut my hair. Snotty nose. Little league. Chased the girls. They ran away to Trevor Hayes. Read the Bible Second grade. Baseball cards are my life. Oakland A's. Spending summers at Camp. Pee-the-bed-Peewee. That's Me. Still chasing girls and they still run. Fourth grade was a brat. Fifth grade family grew. I withdrew. Sixth grade hated school with a passion. Hated teacher even more. Mrs Seymore shut my brain off. Took a while to turn it on. That comes later. PK reatreat. Got a bed on my head. Met God. No, for real. Changed my life. Eighth grade. Rochester. Bible Club. Bible Boy. Rap music was my passion. But God had my heart. Cross country really good. Rode my bike everywhere. Long letters long phone calls. Prom night was a bore. Nevermore. Hurt my back. No more sports. Still runing. Round the block and straight to God. Graduate. What a Breeze. ZBI then CBC. Dad died. So did I. At least a part of my heart. Brain back on. Found a passion in confusing my professors. KT set the standard. No one's met. So I'm still single. LA. Don't know Spanish. Doesn't matter. Hundreds saved. Graduate. Youth pastor. What a flop. Tried again later still a flop. In between lived in Bing. Found my home then left it. Now I'm back. Nevermore. Still reading, now writing. From all I see, that's me.
redneck country? nashville is not as redneck as one might assume. as of now i am just "living" life, so far so good. i have been back and forth to NY quite a few times, i guess i cant stay away. congrats youth pastor. last i knew you were still in the interview process. i am happy you are there now. do you have a facebook? and/or a blog other than your myspace blog? i am not often on myspace, i occasionally check it but frequent facebook....
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