Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Up the road a few miles from us, the Canby School Board must vote on a student proposal.
(My question is, “Why?” But that’s not the point here.)
One of the seniors behind this said the proposal met with community resistance, “Just because mum is the word when it comes to sex.” Read it all
The obvious answer seems, “Not very.”
Surely the terms moral and Hitler have to be mutually antagonistic.
And yet…
Author Richard Weikart offers the proposition that Hitler was a moral man.
See what you make of this: Read it all
I don’t watch TV or movies. Not even on my computer via the Internet. But I could. And I could become addicted to both. I know. (I even could become addicted to blogging, Facebook, and other social media.)
Maybe you don’t watch TV or movies either.
But we read. (Well, some.)
This applies to our reading as well as our viewing:
We went to Blockbuster and rented one season’s worth of episodes.
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I overlooked it and kept watching for the laughs. […] The feeling lingered and I went to bed feeling oddly soiled. I prayed. I sought God’s perspective on the TV show. I made two lists […]
Here were the reasons in my second list for not continuing to watch the TV series:
- The dirty feeling afterward.
- We are told to “walk as Jesus walked” (1 John 2:6), and I can’t picture Jesus sitting on a couch, passively taking in the sights I took in.
- Scripture says, “Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves” (Romans 14:22). I am not at all sure that I would not judge myself someday for approving of watching that show.
- God commands us to love Him with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. I don’t believe that finding enjoyment or interest in that TV show meets that bar.
Then I fell asleep. In the middle of the night I woke up with a single word in my mind, a word that is not part of my working vocabulary: “abomination.”
What would that list do to our (you know, my and your) viewing and reading?
What would these do?
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14).
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:17).
Oh, and please read the full version of the article above: Andrée Seu’s piece at World Magazine, Abomination.
Philosopher Richard Rorty allegedly admits that the secular liberal has no answer for that.
But now I’m ahead of myself.
David Brooks titled his September 12 New York Times column thus: If It Feels Right…
And here you have the first and third sentences of his piece:
During the summer of 2008, the eminent Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith led a research team that conducted in-depth interviews with 230 young adults from across America. […] Smith and company asked about the young people’s moral lives, and the results are depressing.
OK. So it’s only 230 young folks out of million? But even that few people in the 18-23 age range ought to know better. (Surely they didn’t pull a Kinsey and survey Gutter Dwellers.) Read it all
As I do six days a week, I went to a well-known payment processing site…and pondered the new graphic:
I thought of this right away:
For at the window of my house
I looked through my lattice,
And saw among the simple,
I perceived among the youths,
A young man devoid of understanding,
Passing along the street near her corner…
In the twilight, in the evening,
In the black and dark night.
And there a woman met him…
So she caught him and kissed him…
With her enticing speech she caused him to yield,
With her flattering lips she seduced him.
Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter…
Sad, isn’t it? I don’t ask that in a judgmental way. I ask it…sadly.
I still think of that when I go to that site. Sadly.
May God have mercy…redemptive, redeeming, restoring mercy…on men who seduce women and on women who seduce men. And those allowing themselves to be seduced.
And on me. I need that mercy also.
My intent is not to impugn the character of the two individuals pictured above. I’m just telling you I thought of the other two individuals mentioned in Proverbs 7.
Disclaimer: I modified the dimensions and corners of the graphic (and blurred out the text, of course).
In it’s full version, this statement is a dumb-yet-telling (and elitist) proclamation:
And that would be what, according to a major mainstream magazine?
Were Quayle and Gore as foul-mouthed as the current and previous Vice Presidents?
What makes people use profane and vulgar words?
And why has such speech crept into the hearts and mouths of Christian men and women?
HT on the quote: World Magazine
I have (very gratefully) used your services for many years. I date back to your early days when you gave us a $5 referral fee for each new account we sent your way.
Anyway, I want you (and/or everybody else reading here, naturally) to get this message:
Do couples really do PayPal in bed like that?
If so, how many have had their computers fall off the end?
And why not have them trade places so the gal appears less immodest?
But maybe your service wouldn’t sell so well then. 😯
(I assume you think your service sells better with an inward view such as you presently offer. If so, I guess I should change my post title to PayPal Uses Revealing Marketing Tactics.)
Oh, and I freely admit to doing “corrective surgery” on the above image.
And now, for a “commercial” for a book we sell on our site for Rod and Staff Publishers:
