tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post7355669183008700060..comments2023-06-06T04:11:58.204-07:00Comments on Samuel Scoville: Good Friday I, II, IIISamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-59017200215147648722014-04-23T06:40:48.866-07:002014-04-23T06:40:48.866-07:00Symbolic literally means "to throw together.&...Symbolic literally means "to throw together." Diabolic - "to throw across" Parabolic (parable) "to throw beyond" All three and the greatest of these is .....Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-53099923294446935092014-04-23T06:31:43.416-07:002014-04-23T06:31:43.416-07:00Thankfully I am off to go teach very young childre...Thankfully I am off to go teach very young children. They eat up everything I say looking with bright shining faces. Not all, though. One is not taking well to structured activities and has begun throwing books. Sometimes I imagine you were like that at that age.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-54644796334405632292014-04-23T02:37:07.922-07:002014-04-23T02:37:07.922-07:00My response to "free speech articles in Natio...My response to "free speech articles in National Post today" Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-82956313555350927982014-04-22T22:17:29.742-07:002014-04-22T22:17:29.742-07:00I don't know what to say to that. That's ...I don't know what to say to that. That's about as broad and meaningless as what the lady says in Quaker meeting.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-8011412840564104652014-04-22T09:54:49.677-07:002014-04-22T09:54:49.677-07:00Fear. Hate. Threat. Belief & Bias. Prejudice &...Fear. Hate. Threat. Belief & Bias. Prejudice & Conviction. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-66870304773104298032014-04-22T09:41:26.731-07:002014-04-22T09:41:26.731-07:00Free speech articles in National Post, today.
htt...Free speech articles in National Post, today.<br /><br />http://thoughts-brigitte.blogspot.ca/2014/04/two-commentaries-on-free-speech.htmlBrigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-37336933571631377282014-04-22T09:38:51.992-07:002014-04-22T09:38:51.992-07:00Some of them have Bible studies discussing the mer...Some of them have Bible studies discussing the merits of one text vs. another. Some of them discuss current issues, and some of them listen carefully to well-crafted sermons. Some of them love to sing and enjoy the art of that and the drug-free lifting of the spirit therein. Some of them need to hear as often as they can that God is on their side and forgives them and strengthens them, also drug-free, aside from a little alcohol. Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-1124375170418436092014-04-22T09:32:21.750-07:002014-04-22T09:32:21.750-07:00Yeah--a lot of well-meaning spiritual amen and pra...Yeah--a lot of well-meaning spiritual amen and praise the lord all over on a Sunday morning. Ann and I drive past the churches and are astounded at all the cars, people gathering on the steps in conversation, children running around Baptists, and Lutherans, and Presbyterians, and Methodists, Church of God, and Church of Christ, and Pentecostals, Congregationalists, Unitarians, some still handling snakes--loving God the best they know how. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-36687421225391241602014-04-22T08:20:00.965-07:002014-04-22T08:20:00.965-07:00Well, it is my recollection against your statement...Well, it is my recollection against your statement of fact, in which case, you should be the one who knows better. <br /><br />In terms of the Quakers, nonetheless, I watched this video below. And while it is nice to have silence, and people go to houses of worship all over the world in all religions to find some of that silence, the statement at the end is just so vague as to be meaningless. I don't make my way to church to hear things like that. Does not seem that much thinking, freely or rightly, or both, inovolved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODMsn75-SIBrigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-77368694546483581522014-04-22T07:41:57.844-07:002014-04-22T07:41:57.844-07:00???
??? <br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-40065307971626560662014-04-22T07:30:12.987-07:002014-04-22T07:30:12.987-07:00With someone who was Catholic.With someone who was Catholic.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-37741873024299492792014-04-22T07:26:49.775-07:002014-04-22T07:26:49.775-07:00Can't imagine claiming that.Can't imagine claiming that. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-85628016844540103232014-04-22T07:24:13.037-07:002014-04-22T07:24:13.037-07:00No, currently.No, currently.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-84157266444556184982014-04-22T07:18:09.106-07:002014-04-22T07:18:09.106-07:00. Did when I was teaching--the whole school would .... Did when I was teaching--the whole school would go over to eh 200 yr old Meeting House on Monday morningsSamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-16625009375953234712014-04-22T07:15:32.504-07:002014-04-22T07:15:32.504-07:00You told me before that you attend Quaker meetings...You told me before that you attend Quaker meetings.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-1093835557176132602014-04-22T02:41:09.381-07:002014-04-22T02:41:09.381-07:00It may be that Right Thinking is achieved thru Fre...It may be that Right Thinking is achieved thru Free Thinking and not by indoctrination or instruction. Quakers meet in silence, and witness and testimony is said to be called forth by the holy spirit kindling the divine spark in each.<br />. I am not a Quaker. I taught in Quaker School in the early 60's and it influenced my entire career.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-10311177299155317472014-04-21T13:00:15.390-07:002014-04-21T13:00:15.390-07:00"I write this having just spoken at Uppsala U..."I write this having just spoken at Uppsala University in Sweden. Engraved in stone above the entrance to one of the university’s main buildings is the university motto: 'To think free is great, but to think right is greater.' Before we arrived for these open forums, our hosts conducted a survey among the students asking if they agreed with their university’s motto. Fifty-one percent disagreed with it and thirty-one percent said they hadn’t given it a thought. These are future politicians, professors, lawyers, doctors, and parents. I assume that those who preferred free thinking to right thinking believed that was the right conclusion. Or perhaps it simply did not matter, so long as it was their thought. It should be no surprise that apathy becomes the legacy of relativism and reason is crucified at the altar of our egos."<br />http://www.rzim.org/blog/worship-and-spirituality/ravis-easter-meditation/<br /><br />At Quaker meetings do you have any dialectic or philosophy? We know there is no art, but simplicity (which to me is also a kind of art; I like simple things), orthodoxy is also not favored, nor special days, I think. But is there dialectic? Or is it Amen-corner? Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-40368722207803531182014-04-21T08:41:28.358-07:002014-04-21T08:41:28.358-07:00What I thought: anti-whatever-is-anti-Lutheran.What I thought: anti-whatever-is-anti-Lutheran.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-25703783963474652592014-04-21T08:28:14.393-07:002014-04-21T08:28:14.393-07:00Whatever.Whatever.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-22346849679545360502014-04-21T02:52:36.927-07:002014-04-21T02:52:36.927-07:00Sorry: if the point is your usual anti-whatever is...Sorry: if the point is your usual anti-whatever is anti-Lutheran: I get it. Othewise: no clue. You give me to much credit for reading youir mind.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-76240773276789581542014-04-21T02:51:03.409-07:002014-04-21T02:51:03.409-07:00You get the point just fine.You get the point just fine.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-91290134058769788372014-04-21T02:44:23.823-07:002014-04-21T02:44:23.823-07:00Not sure of your point. Conceived and preconceived...Not sure of your point. Conceived and preconceived notions, raised in (I've learned: liberal, progreessive) Presbyterian houshold, studying philosophy and literature, over 50 years :teaching, Noting creedal or cathechismic and so: fodder and aiming to make a virtue of it. The more ways of talking about it, the better if not the merrier.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-55367597061045906452014-04-20T12:53:11.173-07:002014-04-20T12:53:11.173-07:00I was going to add that I love the African America...I was going to add that I love the African American stuff. Otherwise it seems like the East Coast cults seem to have their heads pretty much in their own soup. But there is a "Beecher" tune in the brass band book. Could be for your relative. In any case, I work with a Jehova's witness now: no Christmas, no Easter, no birthdays, no blood transfusions, of course; the list of sense-less no-no's is endless. When you give up creedal religion you become fodder for whatever--man made laws that man keep and decorate himself with keeping, but that indeed make a dour face and life. As in terms of me, I believe you have many pre-conceived notions coming down from your aunts and Flannery O'connors South. You, yourself like to sit in Quaker meetings, which I believe are held rigorously in the most unadorned style. Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-37505792253294643242014-04-20T11:21:18.816-07:002014-04-20T11:21:18.816-07:00Lutheran Lack-Luster: merely tit for your tactful ...<br />Lutheran Lack-Luster: merely tit for your tactful Calvinist Kill-Joy. Don't take long for you to get on defensive, Brigitte, and scold like some old church lady. You don't strike me as joyful and enriching no matter how much Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran great art you have absorbed. Head roll? Is someone going to cut it off? Beezel Bub? Mephistophales?I Better not pout. I Better not shout. I don't chose words carefully. They choose me. <br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-28969184871921797182014-04-20T10:39:43.423-07:002014-04-20T10:39:43.423-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.com