Intro.......
Gen 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Gen 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Will you be a son of God or a daughter of man. Will you walk with righteousness and live forever or will you walk in sin and live for only 120years. The choice is yours.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Intellectual Stupidity
I accept that i do not know everything, that there are so many things out there that are still not clear to me, that the pursuit of knowledge is in fact never ending and that true intellectuals accept this.
I am however meeting a group of persons who constantly display what i have come to define as intellectual stupidity. This means that the persons are smart, are learned, are able to offer arguments in a smart and concise manner, yet for whatever reasons have convinced themselves that everyone else is wrong and they are the only ones who are right. They then further confirm their stupidity by being jack of all trades and masters of none. In their conversations, they continuously quote from various forums carelessly and without comprehension, as evidence of their knowledge in the matter, yet when you probe into their statements they then jump on to the next statement as further proof of your ignorance. You just cant pin them down, they wont let you. When you do grab their attention they are after all smart, i see them process what you say and then they immediately reject not on the fact that you have presented, but based on the fact that they reject the idea of you presenting a smarter argument than them.
Jesus said let those who have ears listen. I never understood what that meant until now. I understand that many times we hear the message but do we really listen to what is being said. Moving along this train of thought, my questions then morphs to ask, why is it we are so resistant to learning new things. When we were young, all we wanted was to learn, how does the grass grow, where did babies come from, why is the ocean blue. Soo many questions with so many different possible answers, there was no wrong answer, there were only possible answers.
Let us reclaim our ability to listen, to be like children, to learn, to laugh, to grow........
Get a little painted
I am however meeting a group of persons who constantly display what i have come to define as intellectual stupidity. This means that the persons are smart, are learned, are able to offer arguments in a smart and concise manner, yet for whatever reasons have convinced themselves that everyone else is wrong and they are the only ones who are right. They then further confirm their stupidity by being jack of all trades and masters of none. In their conversations, they continuously quote from various forums carelessly and without comprehension, as evidence of their knowledge in the matter, yet when you probe into their statements they then jump on to the next statement as further proof of your ignorance. You just cant pin them down, they wont let you. When you do grab their attention they are after all smart, i see them process what you say and then they immediately reject not on the fact that you have presented, but based on the fact that they reject the idea of you presenting a smarter argument than them.
Jesus said let those who have ears listen. I never understood what that meant until now. I understand that many times we hear the message but do we really listen to what is being said. Moving along this train of thought, my questions then morphs to ask, why is it we are so resistant to learning new things. When we were young, all we wanted was to learn, how does the grass grow, where did babies come from, why is the ocean blue. Soo many questions with so many different possible answers, there was no wrong answer, there were only possible answers.
Let us reclaim our ability to listen, to be like children, to learn, to laugh, to grow........
Get a little painted
Thursday, November 5, 2009
rainbow
Wooooo, I have had a very turbulent week emotionally. What with my Friend involved in a near fatal "adventure" and the total emotional breakdown that i had, resulting from the pending gloom day commonly referred to as a birthday, I am very glad, at the moment, to say Yes I am. I am here and I am here.
I complained to a friend that this event known as my birthday is getting harder and harder to bear as it means that i am getting older and older. She then turned to me and said, would you rather it ended? would that not mean that you are no longer here and i thought &***^%$"!
So my new attitude to my birthday is I am here. Its a celebration of my life, of the milestone of each day that i grace this earth. Its an opportunity to laugh at the past and give myself the opportunity to paint a new colour for the moment. I marvel at the fact that i am human, that i have the ability to bear new colours at any time to survive, to live, to be
So here I am
Get a little painted
I complained to a friend that this event known as my birthday is getting harder and harder to bear as it means that i am getting older and older. She then turned to me and said, would you rather it ended? would that not mean that you are no longer here and i thought &***^%$"!
So my new attitude to my birthday is I am here. Its a celebration of my life, of the milestone of each day that i grace this earth. Its an opportunity to laugh at the past and give myself the opportunity to paint a new colour for the moment. I marvel at the fact that i am human, that i have the ability to bear new colours at any time to survive, to live, to be
So here I am
Get a little painted
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