Faerie | 83% | ||
Angel | 75% | ||
Mermaid | 75% | ||
Dragon | 50% | ||
WereWolf | 42% | ||
Demon | 8% |
What Mythological Creature are you? (Cool Pics!)
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One of IJM's artist-partners, Derek Webb, has a new album out titled "Mockingbird," which caught my eye in a store b/c of some of the issues he deals with, and b/c I enjoyed music from his album "She Must And Shall Go Free." And speaking of free, he'll be offering this album for free download as of September 1st.
Upheaval in the Middle East as Israel confronts Palestine and Lebanon. Check out CNN's coverage, Al Jazeera's coverage and keep listening.
Fun Quiz: What Mythological Creature are you?
| You scored as Faerie. Faerie: Aren't you a cute little flying person? Faeries are earth spirits. They live among each element completely hidden. They have cousins called Pixies. Pixies however, are very mischievous. They enjoy tormenting other creatures for fun. Little pranksters.. I hope you never meet one. Pixies have a bad reputation for finding a creature and clinging to them until death. Faeries can be somewhat close to a Pixie, but mostly they are loving, playful, and carry with them a child-like enthusiasm for life. Hide among the pedals of a Daisy, you are a Faerie.
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Save the Wheel!
Paul Rusesabagina was interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation on April 10, 2006, as he's just published an autobiography titled An Ordinary Man. Recently he has been touring with Don Cheadle (who played him in Hotel Rwanda) and the International Crisis Group to bring attention to the genocide and upheaval in Sudan. The Save Darfur Coalition has up-to-date information on the situation and is pushing for further action by the U.S. and other world powers (e.g. the UN) to bring an end to this crisis - we said "Never again!" after Rwanda, and yet!!!!! Take a look and lift up your voice!
A writer and historian, Victor Davis Hanson, was just featured on C-SPAN. I like the way he talks about politics, history, and also current events in historical perspective. I haven't yet read a lot of his writings, but enjoy what I perceive to be an attempt at true intellectual honesty, not beginning from a chosen side and framing everything in support of it, but trying to look at events and people honestly, to the point that his conclusions don't always support an American party line, etc.
Came across an interesting essay: George Orwell on "Politics & the English Language," from someone who was also on C-SPAN tonight: Joshua Wolf Shenk who wrote a book titled Lincoln's Melancholy.
(TVR 12/11/2005)
, Chapter VIII: "The Romance of Orthodoxy" (pp144-145)Lastly, this truth is yet again true in the case of the common modern attempts to diminish or to explain away the divinity of Christ. The thing may be true or not; that I shall deal with before I end. But if the divinity is true it is certainly terribly revolutionary. That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already; but that God could have his back to the wall is a boast for all insurgents for ever. Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king. Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point---and does not break. In this indeed I approach a matter more dark and awful than it is easy to discuss; and I apologise in advance if any of my phrases fall wrong or seem irreverent touching a matter which the greatest saints and thinkers have justly feared to approach. But in that terrific tale of the Passion there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony, but through doubt. It is written, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." No; but the Lord thy God may tempt Himself; and it seems as if this was what happened in Gethsemane. In a garden Satan tempted man: and in a garden God tempted God. He passed in some superhuman manner through our human horror of pessimism. When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God. And now let the revolutionists choose a creed from all the creeds and a god from all the gods of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterable power. They will not find another god who has himself been in revolt. Nay (the matter grows too difficult for human speech), but let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist.
(pp144-145)
