mike978
But yes, we have been devaluing human life and dignity, or if you prefer the Image of God, across all of society. The conditions of these prisons should not exist even if this is purely punitive, which I do not believe it should be. Victims deserve justice, but criminals deserve the right to pay the price and come out "clean". We should want to make society whole, to bring them back into the fold as full members, but too often we don't want to pay the cost.
or a more manual version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2O7Z7cJB-w
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae
https://web.archive.org/web/20240226032906/http://ishkur.com...
"It's a fundamental rule found everywhere - there is a softer voice within that will speak to of it but you have to ask it to tell you and then have ears to hear it." But without experience and until you learn to discern the softer voice you must test it against scripture, to know whose it is.
"...what kind of God could outstrip the attractions of all other things? Could any unitary, single-person god do so? Hardly, or at least not for long. Single-person gods must, by definition, have spent eternity in absolute solitude. Before creation, having no other persons with whom they could commune, they must have been entirely alone.
Love for others, then, cannot go very deep in them if they can go for eternity without it. And so, not being essentially loving, such gods are inevitably less than lovely. They may demand our worship, but they cannot win our hearts. They must be served with gritted teeth.
How wonderfully different it is with the triune God. In John 17:24, Jesus speaks of how the Father loved Him even before the creation of the world. That is the triune, living God: a Father, whose very being has eternally been about loving His Son, pouring out the Spirit of love and life on Him. Here is a God who is love, who is so full of life and blessing that for eternity He has been overflowing with it..."
[1] https://www.unionpublishing.org/resource/delighting-in-the-t...
Basically they prefer nonviolence, but leave the door open to other options when confronting abusive governments in extreme situations where nonviolence has failed to produce change. They say the choice to use violence should not be easy. It should be done only for the public good not for one group of people and its use should be scaled to the nature of the evil being resisted.
Also even though I enjoy reading a lot, I find more isn't always better, but I've been trying to survey some topics - fascism, Christian Nationalism, etc. If I really want to get something out of what I'm reading or if it is a complex topic I have to slow down.
Fiction:
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
- Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- A Man with One of Those Faces by Caimh Mcdonnell
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton
- Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips
Nonfiction:
- Exiles by Preston Sprinkle
- Jesus and the Powers by N. T. Wright & Michael F. Bird
- With All Its Teeth by Joshua S. Porter
- In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
- A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Copenhagen(play) by Michael Frayn done by BBC Radio, not really a book, but it's great. https://archive.org/details/michael-frayn-copenhagen
If anyone says our other cat's name he gets a look of oh no they noticed me and runs away.
Now if only they would do as well as hear more often...