Moderation Questions
The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic fa
Nollaig Shona Dhaoibh
Merry Christmas 🎄 everyone
As you know I cherish all of you
I may have some time between now and the new year to come back and spread some left over joy
Ho ho ho
Happy Hanukkah everyone!
I’d probably do the same if the whole forum kept insisting that Sherlock Holmes lives on Baker Street.
He doesn't? I've been to the Sherlock Holmes museum and read the books, and that's where I thought he lived (and also where the museum is located).
It's just amusing to me, even interesting, as to the different places our minds go. I assume there's some point - either a reference to something I don't know or that the address in the books didn't exist in the real world when Holmes 'lived' there or simply that he didn't live anywhere because he isn't real or etc. That 'lack of completeness' or 'clarity' is not an issue for me at all. It will be filled in (or not) as we go.
That's not me making some effort to be awkward or annoying or. it's jut how I see things. You (and many others) seem to see something different with some required interpretation from the off - or respond as if you do.
Anyway that's me making a probably failed effort to be helpful in the spirit of xmas. Normal service will resume before I finish the second bottle of wine.
I'm resisting the temptation to stick the boot into you because it's Christmas.
Woe betide you tomorrow though.
Nice to see some acknowledgement of faulty mentality. Something to work in in the NY?
Merry Christmas, everybody!
...Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners... -1 Timothy 1:15
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. -Romans 3:23
...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved..." -Acts 16:31
Merry Christmas, everybody!
...Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners... -1 Timothy 1:15
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. -Romans 3:23
...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved..." -Acts 16:31
Christmas is a celebration of the Son who becomes the new king of the new kingdom. He is reborn in death, which is why Christmas occurs during the darkest time of the year.
What separates this new king from the rest of his siblings is his faith in the father. For the others, a fallen, unjust world must mean a loving, merciful, just God can’t exist. They are unwilling to sacrifice immediate meaning at the expense of potential miracle — the miracle that somehow a perfect, loving, benevolent God still exists despite this fallen world.
The new king sacrifices immediate meaning and is willing to endure an incomprehensible reality. In the end, his faith in the father is rewarded with, not only the resurrection of a perfect, loving, just God, but also with the fullness of meaning.
It doesn’t make sense how the father works it all out in the end, but that’s not the responsibility of the Son. His responsibility is to remember who he truly is and to follow the truths written on his heart since the beginning.
It’s this seed-sized, yet unbreakable faith we celebrate in the gloom of winter. This seed of faith births a new king, and the new king brings forth a new world.
-Craig 11:20
That's not even wrong
Sorry I can't help you with your fantasies of sticking the boot in.
