tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post68507752012871937..comments2023-11-02T08:27:07.028-07:00Comments on nonsense: let it goDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15746675331837392096noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-28473843746347742162008-03-22T00:24:00.000-07:002008-03-22T00:24:00.000-07:00...There we all go again, confusing the realizatio......There we all go again, confusing the realization of desires with happiness, and freedom with possibility. Tolstoy said something like that, or I did. Anyway, it was awesome talking with you tonight. Not often I get to rock out at a show like that and then discuss the Russians. So here's my email: moultonk@bc.edu. Get in touch and I'll show you all the ways I've ripped you guys off. You rock, thanks. -Katie (STL/BC/Go Flutie)Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136833554955537829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-35535542885527046042008-03-21T01:32:00.000-07:002008-03-21T01:32:00.000-07:00O.K. I took Jecca's post exactly how she clarifie...O.K. I took Jecca's post exactly how she clarified it. And I like you both, so I was feeling kinda badly about things, so I'm glad it's kinda worked it's way out. :) Communication is a good thing, and I think you are both probably better at it than I am. LOL<BR/><BR/>Hope things are going well. :)<BR/><BR/>--MelanieMelaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11554101659049962196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-2954445790762194912008-03-19T08:08:00.000-07:002008-03-19T08:08:00.000-07:00Thank you. What you've written in this post is on...Thank you. What you've written in this post is one of the clearest expressions of truth I've read in a long time and I'm glad you shared with so much transparency and passion. I appreciate you.Jeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18402191650681699030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-10493470169577264322008-03-19T06:49:00.000-07:002008-03-19T06:49:00.000-07:00i realize that my post may have come off a bit agg...i realize that my post may have come off a bit aggressive, and it wasn't directed towards you specifically, more so to the whole mentality that you implied in your post. so i don't feel the need to forgive you, simply because i dont feel you've wronged me in anyway. i guess the post you made just set a range thoughts into motion in my head. and just like you said that your post was more general, so was mine in the sense that it was directed at you specifically.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15746675331837392096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-72203241972479662262008-03-19T06:06:00.000-07:002008-03-19T06:06:00.000-07:00Zach, first let me apologize for offending you. T...Zach, first let me apologize for offending you. That was never my intent. I have a great deal of respect for you and am typically challenged by the thoughts you share with us. When I commented on the last post, I was coming from a very general perspective in the sense that I’ve observed that most of your posts have a thread of pessimism running through them…a depression of sorts, which I see as something very different than being burdened by a clear understanding of the world’s condition. While I realize this blog is not all you are as a person, it is all I (and most others) see of who you really are and I am/was just generally concerned about you as one person to another and decided to finally say something after weeks of feeling this. [Granted, I’m sure I could have said it in a better way]. So I was moreso commenting on that underlying side of things (how I was perceiving them/you) than I was on what you actually posted when I mentioned letting things go. I see nothing wrong with general cynicism…you are absolutely correct in being upset with the way things are in the world and certainly human motives and the human heart can never really be trusted. When I said to ‘let it go,’ I wasn’t implying at all that you shouldn’t be sensitive to the injustices of the world or shouldn’t feel the burden of sorrow in the face of it. And I definitely wasn’t saying belief in Jesus makes everything rosy and beautiful and easy or that He can be summed up in a couple of verses. True dedication to Christ is challenging and stretching and doesn’t look much like the Christianity we see around us. It’s rarely pretty or comfortable, but it always brings joy and peace and life to our spirits. Something very negative and damaging happens to the human spirit when there is no joy...when sorrow is all we see and we let the depravity of that take too much control of us and that was my only concern regarding you. But now you’ve addressed the issue of your “happiness” as well, so clearly I was mistaken in supposing that you lack joy and I’m sorry for that…There are few things I wouldn’t do for you, Dave, or Jacob because of your influence in my life in every way and how that has changed who I am over the last 5 years, so please understand my comment was meant in the most loving way possible and came only from genuine concern. Is there anything else that needs clarification or anything else I can do to make this right? Do you forgive me?Jeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18402191650681699030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-81202150073653556282008-03-18T20:19:00.000-07:002008-03-18T20:19:00.000-07:00"I would believe only in a God that knows how to d..."I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."-Friedrich Nietzsche. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Nietzsche, just crazy enough to make sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-32248309621575436582008-03-18T15:10:00.000-07:002008-03-18T15:10:00.000-07:00I agree. Being a Christian places a responsibility...I agree. Being a Christian places a responsibility on those who choose are to see the wrong in the world, not to ignore it and be blissful. It is a joy and a burden to be a Christian because the of the lack of love in the world, if that makes sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-22586022589055155912008-03-18T02:44:00.000-07:002008-03-18T02:44:00.000-07:00"Truth can go against what you feel is correct, or..."Truth can go against what you feel is correct, or it can be very uplifting." <BR/><BR/>The funny thing is that the truth usually cuts it both ways. It doesn't change. The truth is and always will be the truth. We always seem to see it as through a glass darkly. Personally, I'd probably just be puffed up if I thought I had a corner on it all. It certainly goes against what I feel is correct enough times. There is nothing wrong with a healthy dose of cynicism. I can relate to it more than you know. It's also easily misunderstood.<BR/><BR/>I still think what she said makes some sense, but perhaps is misapplied?<BR/><BR/>It would be interesting to all sit down and dialogue, not on a board where there is not quite so easy to see things completely. We only see your more cynical side here a lot of the time. I have also seen that you appreciate beauty where it is found. Yes, there are hopeless aspects to life. I'm feeling them pretty much big time myself right now. I feel incompetent, like I'm letting everyone, including God, down but I'd hate to give up on hope altogether. As I see it without some hope that God is there all of the trials of this life seem a little more meaningless. I think it is a truly unique perspective that one can experience joy and despair at the same time.<BR/><BR/>I'm tired, a tad depressed, and rambling. If anything makes sense, go for it. If it doesn't, my apologies. <BR/><BR/>This made a ton of sense:<BR/>"God is crying just like a sad mother of a son who has made every wrong decision, placed value in the wrong stock, and just like a mother, God has taken (surprisingly enough to me, in a true display agape love) a parental pride in the rare displays of good will and sound humility. The only reason he/she has to smile comes from infants and the elderly, those who are inexperienced and those are have seen the big picture."<BR/><BR/>Sometimes your posts make me cry. They almost always make me think.<BR/> <BR/>I hope you end up enjoying the tour, even if it isn't always where you feel like going at the time.<BR/><BR/>--MelanieMelaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11554101659049962196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29943262.post-12435374331148427242008-03-17T21:55:00.000-07:002008-03-17T21:55:00.000-07:00woot woot!woot woot!erin.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13192646001898095315noreply@blogger.com