Jun 09 2006

Net Neutrality

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 10:31 am


To all of you wonderful people who read my blog and have no clue what my title is about, I offer this lovely post –

Independent Political Bloggers (or bloggers in general who don’t want the FBI, CIA, NSA, or similar departments snooping around in your content) MUST MUST MUST get informed on this topic. This is becoming a non-partisan issue that has brought together people from many different political stripes in an effort to keep available our right to free speech and to keep the Internet an open place to conduct such free speech. Don’t be duped into thinking about this from the economic terms that might/maybe reduce your phone/cable/internet bills. To sign onto the Cope Act and its tenets only serves to inhibit the average American’s and the average American dissenter’s right to say what they think over the Internet without fear of that content being a) screened and deleted and b) from being reported to the federal government. Do yourselves a favor and get educated as soon as possible!
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Jun 09 2006

Genesis 24

Category: Genesis All Over Again — dryvetyme @ 12:38 am


Isaac & Rebekah
Or
You’ve Gotta Love Arranged Marriages

At first glance, this is quite a long chapter – 67 verses of Abraham sending off “his servant” (Eliezer, by most accounts and commentators, and referred to in this lesson primarily as “The Servant”) to locate a wife for Isaac so that the promise of a nation being born through can continue on unabated. Yes, to our contemporary thought processes appears to be quite a quaint social convention of ancient and/or pre-modern times. And yes, as someone rather versed in monarchical political machinations throughout history, I am more than aware of the biological messiness that often arises with marriages between closely related families. However, in all reality, Abraham is engaged in a tried-and-true exercise in nation-building, all dressed up in the guise of finding his son a wife.
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Jun 04 2006

Thoughts For, About, and Because of Pentecost Sunday

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 7:27 pm


Fear was brought together this day.
Fractured, scared, bewhildered people
collected themselves because they’d just been told to and
not
because they possessed any kind of understanding.

The Twelve and their friends,
all disciples of the Risen Christ, went to the Holy City to
wait,
wait,
wait,
wait,
and wait somemore.
And they did this all because some angel spoke to them
as they watched their Saviour float away into the clouds.
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Jun 02 2006

Genesis 23

Category: Genesis All Over Again — dryvetyme @ 11:39 pm


The Death of Sarah
Or
Abraham is Either a Great Negotiator,
A Very Respected Man, Or Both

Hello there folks. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well.

If you’re not busy, I’d like to invite you to take a look through Chapter 23.

Yes, I’m talking to you, so stop reading this now and go read the chapter.

This is not a discussion. Go now.

You’re reading – Very Good.

Keep going. That’s it. You can do it.

So, since you’ve now finished perusing and soaking up the story recounted in those 20 verses, does it seem to you that the Hittites like Abraham?

It does?

I thought it would. Continue reading “Genesis 23″

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