Confession
What I just cooked (and ate) would make Paula Deen blush.
Friendship
CS Lewis…
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
“Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?”
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
I don’t totally agree, but mostly.
If I could write a book, if I had the words and the mental organization, if I had the wisdom, I would write a book for my daughter. I would tell her everything I have learned about God and life, and how temporary this life is. I would have the words to tell her what really matters and what just doesn’t. What to spend time and emotions on an what to ignore. We are spiritual beings temporarily living in a physical world. The things you hold in your arms don’t matter, only the things you hold in your heart do. The thing is, those lessons can’t be taught, only learned. #indolencetalk#
I got warned. Tonight someone overheard someone else asking me how our thanksgiving with my Muslim friends went. It went very well. They came to our house, ate the food we had to offer, and fun was had by all. The lady recalled that my family had eaten at my Muslim friend’s home in the past, then she said,”You know we lived in Turkey for a while. We ate with the Muslim people there sometimes. When _______ was here, I had to pray with him and renounce that. We were participating in idol worship without even knowing it. Know what I mean?”
Nosy? Yes. Unsolicited advice? Certainly. Something to think about? I’ll think about that.
You can’t have it both ways.
I get SO annoyed at those people every holiday season. You know the ones. The people who say “Halloween is evil! It’s a celebration of the devil! It’s a satanic holiday!”. Ok, fine, whatever you say boss. But those same people are whining again at Christmas! “Christmas isn’t a Christian holiday anymore! We’ve taken Christ out of Christmas! It’s all commercial without any real meaning left!”. Really? Which is it? Either Halloween, like Christmas is intrinsically meaningful, or Christmas, like Halloween, is what you make of it. Is it just me?
Ever had that conversation where someone is talking to you while you read tumblr, then you realize they just asked you a question that you were ignoring. Of course you ask them to repeat that, but then you forget to listen again. What is the right response, and am I a horrible person?
My big plate. Painted by 4 of my favorite artists. I feel SO blessed and excited to have this in my home.
Say someone is lying, and they know that they are lying. The words coming out of their mouth are purposed non-truth. Lets just say that the lie is “Diamonds are the most fragile thing on earth.” Ok, lie right? What if they were the most fragile thing on earth and no one knew. But the words were…
This is assuming the statements can’t be both true simultaneously. i.e. diamonds are physically hard, but in an economic sense they are fragile or something of that nature. This reminds me a lot of something Rob Bell talks about. He asks the question, what would we have to remove from our religion or faith for it to still be there. For instance, would there still be christianity if there wasn’t a virgin conception? I would like to say yes, but I really don’t know.
Same thing with this. What makes something true? Does it obey the laws of physics? Does it behave the way things previously observed behave? If I relied that heavily on science I think that would define truth for the most part. But there are way too many miracles for that to define truth.
The next definition of truth would be “prove it.” We know diamonds are hard because we use them to cut things and polish things and do all kind of crazy stuff. <- did you catch it? The lie (our un based statement?). We haven’t used every diamond. We haven’t taken every single diamond out of the ground, hit it with a hammer, and seen what happens. To assume that every single diamond is the exact same or similar is a fallacy. What if the diamonds we have discovered are only 3% of all the diamonds? Wouldn’t that change what we thought of them?
I really don’t know how to define truth other than biblically. (and I know I’ll sound like a religious nut when I say this) Anything that isn’t in the bible is play by ear. I’ve seen and experienced a lot less than some, but much more than I ever thought I would in my lifetime. Experience has taught me that to assume is to make a fool out of yourself.
I’d like to say that certain things are true for me or true for you, but then you get into moral relativism, and you eventually have to ask “what is true for everyone?” or “what is universal truth?” or even “what is the standard we are supposed to live by?” I’d like to go back to scripture here. Truth comes from god. Plain and simple. I know its a sunday school answer, but I think that whatever he says is. If god said diamonds were soft, would diamonds become soft? would we discover something that was so hard it made diamonds look like powdered sugar? Lol thats what she said? Idk guys. I know that god speaks truth no matter what. Everything else, its pretty hard to prove, 99.9% it may be true, but you’ll never have that last 0.1%.
That being said, fuck mondays. 99.9% of the time they suck. Today is no exception.
Hmm. I don’t think I understand the question. Are you asking if a person’s intent or knowledge rather than actual fact or truth dictate a lie? I think that if a person presents something as if it were true, while they believe it is false, they are a liar. I agree with Wiley though, God is truth. He is the only sure truth. Everything else is relative.
