Posted on 06/10/2007 3:02:20 PM PDT by NYer
I thought it was a bit of an overreach. MAGICSTERIUM would have been droll, and MAGISTERICAL would have been witty, but going for the two-for-one and saying MAGICSTERICAL is just sophmoric.
Your kind words are a treasure to my heart and soul. Thanks precious saint.
I’m usually available at least some in the evenings. But have not bothered with a lot of things because they just didn’t seem very important to comment on. And, there are some things that have been round and round the same mountain for the several 100th thousandth time . . . seemingly . . . Wheee.
Trying to increasingly make my time count more for The Kingdom vs just venting my spleen! LOL.
LUB,
LUB,
:)
Masterfully put, as usual.
Thx, Thx.
You are welcome to consider my PhD to be in . . .
sophmoric, if you wish.
BTW, I did use
magisterical several times initially . . . felt it lacked some element of the reality.
It's the same me, not earing no fancy duds, and my friend Christine was WAITING ON ME!! I finally brought it to her attention and we laughed and that took care of that. But I can see how seductive that is. If everyone listens when you talk, after a while you start thinking you must have something cool to say. My second boss, in Mississippi, told me,"Don't take yourself too seriously. They're just being polite." ('IC'? Wuzza? Why am I so confused? always? Jeesh?)
I've lived long enough to realize that not all explanations are even reasonable approximations of "objective reality" . . . sometimes . . . even my own explanations.
I do hope, however, that brittleness, sacred shoulder chips and thin skins do not become sacraments in any group.
So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. - Eze 33:7-9
And not just them, but you and I and every other Christian have a duty to the Word of God (albeit to a lesser extent than they): keeping the lamp in plain view, loving one another, forgiving, being merciful, seeking His will, being and doing and speaking as He leads us to proclaim the Gospel.
So when the Great White Throne judgment comes, I will be held to account not only for myself but for everyone I have “touched” in this life. But my prayer is that, because I have eschewed all the doctrines and traditions of men across the board, then no one else will be held to account for me. And conversely, whenever I testify to another, I encourage them to look to God, not me.
To God be the glory, God alone.
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INDEED, INDEED, INDEED!
It’s the same me, not earing no fancy duds, and my friend Christine was WAITING ON ME!! I finally brought it to her attention and we laughed and that took care of that. But I can see how seductive that is. If everyone listens when you talk, after a while you start thinking you must have something cool to say. My second boss, in Mississippi, told me,”Don’t take yourself too seriously. They’re just being polite.” (’IC’? Wuzza? Why am I so confused? always? Jeesh?)
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I very strongly agree, Dear Bro.
My current pastor is reasonably humble for a 30 something year old. But even he seems to enjoy hearing himself talk.
On the other hand, he’s been persistently sharing a good exhortation and challenge recently—that we out honor one another—especially in our families.
It just pulls me in difference directions. I don't know whether to pay attention to the "magic" part or the "hysterical" part. Nothing in a Ph.D. says you can't still be sophomoric. Take Mark Levin and all the little names he calls the politicians. I love the guy but it's sophomoric as all get out.
Thank you so much for your encouragements!
I meant it quite plainly.
You are welcome to consider my PhD to be in sophomoric.
Someone has to stand up for the sophomores.
difference directions.
. . . perhaps the difference between sophomores and freshmen?
They refuse to recognize that He was there all along but they didn’t acknowledge Him and then they want to blame someone.”
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Actually, I’ve met a fair number who had no blame whatsoever . . . they just felt the RC edifice had taken them as far as it was able or going to . . . and that mercifully, Holy Spirit took them further outside the RC edifice than they were able to go within it.
I’d think authentic believers of every stripe could rejoice in that.
Either the goal is for people to get as close as possible to . . .
GOD
. . .
OR
. . .
to a human edifice, organization.
I’ll always choose God over a human anything.
You’d be wise, to, too.
You earlier wrote:
I thought you knew I wasn’t talking about IC oversight groups only
I also wrote a lengthy, thoughtful, profound revelatory, deep, insightful, able to solve all the problems of the world and then some, response -- and then lightning came and, praise God all I got was a parity error.
I think it all amounted to we all need to try a little harder.
If you know better then let me know.
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