better off ted, s02e03 :)

no buts. i brought this upstairs and your failure will be my failure. you can do this. i know you can. now get in there and run that meeting like a shark driving an assault vehicle through a herd of seals wearing chum pants.

http://www.racialicious.com/2009/12/10/why-is-it-so-important-to-have-productive-conversations-on-race

http://www.racialicious.com/2009/12/10/its-not-a-valuable-discussion-on-race-until-the-poc-show-up

http://www.racialicious.com/2009/12/09/the-f-word-on-feminism-being-an-ally-social-justice

http://www.racialicious.com/2009/12/07/when-allies-fail-part-1

c'mon jeremy!!!

jeremy lin / harvard

friday night lights. man

Give all of us gathered here tonight the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable. And we will all, at some point in our lives, fall. We will all fall

"entp depression"

ENTP "Suffer from a too-low sense of self-worth coupled with a too-high sense of self-capability"

“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).

keller in nymag 11/09

Whoa, these comments are pretty great. In response to a post awhile ago, I wanted to say that Redeemer's congregation is definitely not all full of wall streeters...I live in Brooklyn and eat ramen for dinner most nights and going to Redeemer is the highlight of my week, so it remains a pretty class-less place in my opinion.
Also, when this article dropped my first thought was not about whether or not it would slam Redeemer. I was most concerned that it would put too much emphasis on Tim as a leader and Redeemer as a church, whether the attention was good or bad. Somegal is right by saying that its dangerous to put too much on Tim- he is a great intellectual who has studied this stuff extensively and is an incredibly gifted orator, but he is no more human than you or I.
Lastly, if we were stranded on an island and had to make a shelter, do you think we would argue about what style house we should build or what color the walls should be? Maybe. But before we got to that we would have to first see what kind of materials were available and pick a place to build. I think the main issue is not human rights, although definitely important. The main issue is that we disagree about Jesus being who he says he is, because the answer to than question provides our answers to every other one.

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in the epic race of the tortoise and the hare, i am always the hare. sigh.


addendum:

1. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.

2. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in. I can’t believe I’m in the same place, but it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.

3. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it there. I still fall in. It’s a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately.

4. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the side walk. I walk around it.

5. I walk down a different street.

—An Autobiography in Five Short Paragraphs, by Portia Nelson

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
–Fyodor Dostoyevski


Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of the mouth, is to shut it again on somethng solid. -GK Chesterton


‘We do not need the grace of God to withstand crises—human nature and pride are sufficient for us to face the stress and strain magnificently. But it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours of every day as a saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God—but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people—and this is not learned in five minutes.’ Oswald Chambers.

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time – waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.”
— C.S. Lewis