What I wouldn’t give for a day in Hobbiton. :)
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Just finished this book — Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul Johnson. Great book. Some quotes from reviewers:
In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson balances the philosophy of the so-called “intellectual” with a profile of their actual lifestyle. What ensues is a quite an extraordinary entertaining and hilarious book.The revolutionary thinkers whose ideas have shaped intellectual history over the past 250 years were, for the most part, lousy human beings. These were not the common or garden variety jerks but personalities whose flaws were so manifest that they must call into question the value of the theories they generated.Excellent critiques of Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Tolstoy, Russell, Sartre, Hemingway, and others. Johnson brilliantly documents the tragic consequences of these intellectual pied pipers who placed ideas (whether utopian, hedonistic, positivistic, etc.) above people or the truth. The chapter on Karl Marx, dead-beat dad and deliberate falsifier of facts, will be totally devastating to anyone dedicated to maintaining the myth of “scientific” Marxism.Just look at their lives and ask yourself: are these people competent to run my life after they’ve so thoroughly ruined their own? This is Johnson’s thesis, especially as it applies to the credibility of their ideas in making legislative and social justice decisions.Highly recommended reading.
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The Moses Bridge
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Rainy day calls for some good coffee
"Within this Christian vision for marriage, here’s what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, “I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne. And when we get there, I will look at your magnificence and say, ‘I always knew you could be like this. I got glimpses of it on earth, but now look at you!’"
— Tim Keller (via abideinhislove)
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Looking over the edge of Flydalsjuvet, Geirangerfjord, Norway (by Budding PowderHound).
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April 23, 2012
Beautiful stuff.
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Growth
I want to grow into truth like a vine grows toward the sun. Not by hard work but by time in the light and adequate nutrition and holding on to things that are good. A branch of a deeply-rooted vine, nourished by life-giving water, growing in fertile soil, freely winding it’s way ever upward, heavenward. Vulnerably wrapping its tiny, fragile tendrils around support, turning it’s leaves to soak up the sun because it knows that light is good….yet growing not of its own accord, but because it was planted by a master gardener Who put it in the right spot, Who purposed it to thrive and to produce beauty and fruit and fragrance delightful to the eye of it’s Planter. It grows because that’s what it was made to do.
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