Posted on 11/02/2006 12:44:03 PM PST by Alex Murphy
Oh, it sheds a great deal of light ... it just doesn't shed it in the places the author intends light to be shed.
My Dear Kolo, you've got the wrong Star Trek.
The Borg "assimilate" people.
Remember the "Original Series"? There was an episode called "Return of the Archons" ... some sort of computer controlled collective consciousness thing. Those people were "absorbed".
(Father forgive me: It has been mumblemumble months since my last confession. I have committed aggravated geekery one time ...)
LOL! We were at a United Methodist Church today (my younger daughters' Girl Scouts troops meet there), and as we were leaving, Patrick said, "The Methodists do not speak Greek! They are heretics!"
"...Named Grand Inquisitor? We are not told."
Expecting the comfy chair treatment, eh?
"...as we were leaving, Patrick said, "The Methodists do not speak Greek! They are heretics!""
Fine boy, fine boy you've got there young lady!:)
(Have you ordered the alphabet blocks yet? Sounds like its time!)
Otherwise Mr. Robbins would not have thought it necessary to give them the honor he does by writing this article.
I was just thinking that we'll have to get the Greek alphabet blocks for Christmas. Is there a Greek "LeapPad" module, I wonder?
[So do I. Oddly, I've repeatedly been asked if I am "going Catholic" because I enjoy reading and citing Augustine and Aquinas. Why is this a Catholic thing only?]
Hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but in answer to your question, I don't think anyone could really know why you're being asked "are you going Catholic" because you read Augustine and Aquinas, but a good response would be that the early Church theologians were all Catholic, many of them attaining Sainthood and that their writings are still extremely relevant to this day. That might shut them up for a nanosecond. Reading early Church theology should not be limited to "Catholics only", that's a form of intellectual censorship which people try to employ perhaps because they are insecure in their own knowledge and beliefs.
I knew that. Give me SOME credit. Still I think the pput-down remark about writing an autobiography at age 35 is gratuitous and adds nothing but venom to the conversation.
That would be a large, super-sized, shaken down, pressed together, running over 10-4.
Some fundamentalist does a hit piece on the Hahns. You might understand some of this, and if you don't, use the encyclopedia.
Remind me to order the Greek alphabet blocks after your dad gets paid again.
"I have committed aggravated geekery one time ...)"
Yes, a very, very serious sin, heresy even, of ancient heritage. It is Eastern and tied to the Monophysites. You see, the language problem those people had was not limited to descriptions of the two natures of Christ, but also in fact to the way they pronounced anything Greek, including the word "Greek". They pronounced it "geek" and were justly anathemized for it by a little known secret canon of the 3rd Ecumenical Council. And so the "geeks" entered the pantheon of heretics whose heresy arose in the East, was crushed, and spread to the modern West.
Next Saturday afternoon you know where you'll have to be!
Indulge me 'cause I'm old and the simple grandson of simple Greek peasants. What's a LeapPad module?
If you just could have worked in "shibboleth" somehow, I'd have been overwhelmed at your erudition. "M" is for "Monophysite," but we can't really get into the subject without a second set of alphabet blocks ... two "O's".
"LeapPad" is a self-contained computerized learning system marketed to the 4-8 age group. I have no idea how it works, but if the user chews throught the cable connecting the pen-thingie to the rest of the unit, it doesn't work. (You can buy a replacement thingie, in this case, and a Boy Scout can install it.)
For the LeapPad, you can buy modules that include a booklet and a computer cartridge, with different educational themes. Disney movies are common, and Dr. Seuss books. We have "One Fish, Two Fish," and I can hear Pat and James singing, "My hat is old, my teeth are gold ..." in my nightmares, thank you very much. Pat also has "The Orchestra," and his one-boy impression of the Woodwind Section is unspeakable.
(It's very clever, really. Your son might like something like this. I have to whack the older kids with skillets so they'll let Pat and James play without kibbitzing. You can buy them at Wal-mart, or from Amazon.com)
Greece is in the EU, isn't it? So it's possible we could buy the "Fox in Socks" module in Greek.
"If you just could have worked in "shibboleth" somehow,"
As in "Say ye now shibboleth"?
Of course. We read from the Old Testament every day - it has everything children enjoy :-).
His Rome Sweet Home directly influenced my conversion, too. There were so many things I recognized in my own life/ church experiences.
Great conversion story. I love those conversion stories.
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