Ahh...nothing due till Monday! It really is a wonderful life!
Man, I wish I had something to post about. I do have that other unfinished post that I'll pull out at some point, but I don't have time to get it done right now. Sitting here at work, waiting through the last few minutes, soon to leave and go minister alongside my bride-to-be at Riverwalk Apartments in Fort Smith.
Heading for a relaxing weekend. The rest of the guys in my family are going on our church's men's fishing trip, but I shall stay home, for I have a previous engagement (ha, pun intended, even though I'm not yet engaged) -- taking my darling Lana to shop for shoes tomorrow afternoon.
And, hopefully, I'll get to work on some dear-to-my-heart projects this weekend; life is such a tenuous balance between what you have to do and what you want to do; and for me, the "haves" possess the upper hand. What you hope is that sometimes the two coincide; for example, I have to spend all this time with Lana, in class and outside class, and oh yeah, maybe I want to as well, just a little bit. So that's wonderful.
But yeah, I'm looking forward to some rest and recup, spending some time with my lady, and working on some fun stuff. Speaking of Lana, please pray for her, all: she's going no-carb to try to kill the ills, and not ingesting any carbohydrates isn't particularly pleasant.
And I guess that's all I've got for now. Have a great weekend, give it to Him, and I'll catch ya on the flip side. And of course, I've got to take the opportunity to say, yet again: I love you, Lana.
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Darling, I cannot tell how much I have been looking forward to going shoe shopping with you.
It is SUCH a relief to be done with the schoolweek, but next week promises to be hectic too, so I won't get a break from school this weekend, just a slow down on the deadlines. Don't wait until the last minute to write that reasonings essay, my love!
I love you too, Luke; thanks for praying for me and for bearing my burdens with me.
I thought it was more violent but of course that was probly due to my vast imagination. You are right. He is not gross with his descriptions.
Lady
We've got a couple of slots open now that have to be closed fast. It's a 25 hr per wk minimum, you set your own hours (up to 40) that you can do to save money for your futures and still have as extra income (plenty of it) when you get married.
Just a little bit, right? LOL... :P
she'll be in my prayers... and have fun shoe shopping. :D
~Emy
Emy darling, you say everything is violent but you really wouldn't know, as you have never seen anything violent! Ya know? But YES DO read the LOTR books before you watched the movie. Sir Luke is right, everything so... not descriptive, yet everything is so... clear! I've never met anything like those books. I for one WILL bug you about reading LOTR. You like Narnia (after you said you wouldn't by the way) And LOTR is the same thing except much better.
Anyway, Hi Luke:P No carb? Yuck. Be praying for you girl! And yall have fun shoe shopping! I need to go myself.
Oh Meggy, I better say it before you hear from someone more adamant about it: LOTR is not the same as narnia, not at all! As far as better, the two are in different genres, IMHO, so it's not "comparing apples to apples", as they'd say.
But shoe shopping was fun, and no carbs are not.
Well, you're right Lady Lana the Adorable! And you're right about shoe-shopping and no-carbs too;) I can't wait till I get to e-mail you again! Miss you:(
Sorry we're taking over the comment section yet again Sir Luke the Impossible! You better post again.
Meggy I do not remember saying that I would NOT like Narnia. Of course, if I did, I will not DENY it b/c it is very possible. If I did, though, I am not to be blamed too much, for I did not know what it would be like, at all. Then again, maybe I am more to be blamed B/C I judged something I knew nothing about. And again, I don't even remember for sure saying that so oh well.
As long as the LOTR books aren't greusome or too descriptive, I will think about it...
And as to not having ever seen something violent, that is a good thing. :D
~Emy
Oh and btw, Warrior, tell "Elmo" that I'm impressed at his ability to type without fingers. :P
~Emy
Miss you too, Meggy. Maybe I ought to just comment on your blog more, only you never reply to my comments when I comment on your blog...
Emy, is violence such a bad thing?
Elmo?!?! Where did that come in?
Luke, my love, I hope you don't mind horribly that we use this comment section to chat. This is what happens when your readership is teenage homeschool girls (and me).... :^P
I love you, dearest.
Violence IS a bad thing!!! It's gross! and awful! Like hanging someone from a chain to a mountain and a dude on an eagle coming and having to *cut of his wrist* to get him free!!! That's AWFUL!!! (and yes, I was looking at the pics in Hannah's book "The Simarillion"... isn't that what it was, Hannah?)
Elmo... um.... read Jazzy's blog if you really want to know. Oh wait, remember, I told you about it at presentation night...
~Emy
What about the crucifixion, Emy?
Evil people do evil things, we can't pretend it doesn't exist.
Still I don't like viewing really graphic violence, (ask Luke, when we watch war videos in history class, I usually cry when people die and flinch when bombs explode)
But I don't think that viewing or reading or talking about violence is wrong, at times it might be necessary.
Now, I sure am not saying this to talk you into reading LOTR or anything :^P Really, I'm not. If the violence is too much for you, then you certainly ought not read it. I think that the amount of violence a person can watch isn't universal. Or to day it another way, this is one place where what's right for one person may not be okay for another.
And gratuitous violence in movies, that is, violence just because people like to violence, I think that's wrong...
Sorry, now I'm sermonizing :^P
I didn't mean to, it's just, this is something I've been thinking about for awhile, cuz I used to agree with you completely...
And all of that said, LOTR isn't really very violent, because Tolkien is not very descriptive during the violent parts.
But, read the Chronicles of Narnia first, because C.S. Lewis ROCKS!!!
Yeah, okay, I saw Elmo, LOL :^D
Following along with one of my lover's points:
The Christian faith is based on the violent death (and, of course, subsequent resurrection) of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. It is not merely good, but vital, that we remember what was done to Him so that we don't lose heart (that's a paraphrase of Hebrews 12:3, BTW). I believe that at least one of the reasons Jesus went through so much physical suffering was to give us some concept of His spiritual suffering (which was far greater).
That's why I think that, for example, a film like The Passion of the Christ is so appropriate and timely for the church. I think too many times we have this image of a haloed Jesus resting peacefully on the cross, with maybe a few scratches on Him, and a nice clean cloth around His middle. When, in reality, He was constantly pushing up against the nail in His feet to get oxygen, His skin had all been ripped away by Roman scourging, and He was stripped naked.
God looks at that gruesome and bloody image, and He calls that the supreme display of His love. The Church today would do well to look a little more closely at it; maybe then we'd actually display His love to the world.
My dear cryin'-when-He-dies Aslan lover, (:P)
I do see your point. I don't think that reading or watching violent things is *wrong*, just that I don't enjoy it. Can I *take* it? Yes. But I don't like to. I know that there are violent things in the world, and that it will and does happen, but that doesn't mean taht I want to read about it or watch it, because I think there is enough of it in the world. I also think that you could eventually become immune to it and unaffected by it. That is just my personal opinion (I have a lot of those :P lol) and I don't think it is wrong for other people to watch and read violent things, if it doesn't bother them.
And don't worry about sermonizing, I like to hear other people's opionions on different subjects and I enjoy discussing things. :D
And Warrior, I understand your point completely. I know that it *is* vital to understand what happened to Jesus at the crucifiction, and though I don't particularly enjoy it, I know it is necessary to know about it (like Chris' sermon at FTF.. it was Chris', right?). But I'm not sure what this has to do with made-up violence just for the "fun" of reading about it.
Ha, hope I don't sound like I'm offended and hope I'm not offending anyone. As I said, I really do enjoy discussing these things... hope it doesn't bother you!
~Emy
Wow...y'all are really laying it on Emy...you know there is such a thing as email.. :P (I'm just kidding, I promise)
Anyways, yeah, Emy that's what it was...
And, good grief, you make my job harder when you do things like that..:P
Luke, you're a true PK...feel proud. :P
~Hannah
PS I really was kidding...Really, I'm not mad...pleaaseeee beeelieevvvee me?
No one's saying we should make up violence just for the fun of reading about it. Merely that depictions of violence are not merely beneficial, but sometimes vital, if we seek to portray truth as storytellers.
Perhaps I should devote a blog post to this (well, Lana's already been writing an article about it, actually).
Um... "depictions of violence are not merely beneficial, but sometimes vital"... how's that? I understand that a "happily ever after" story, where nothing happens and everything is just happyhappyhappy is lame. But I don't think it has to be violent. And when someone, such as Tolkien, writes a story about biting off people's fingers and cutting off their wrists, isn't he making up violence just for the fun of reading about it? A blog post... hmm... maybe that would be interesting...
Hannah, why does it make your job harder?? :P And hopefully NONE of us are mad... right?
~Emy
I'm not mad, on the contrary, I find this rather enjoyable.
Emy, sometimes violence is necessary for the story.
The violence isn't necessarily good, but the story is. I don't usually enjoy hearing about my hero being shot, but when he overcomes his obstacles in the end, it's worth it, in my mind. That's how he got to be the hero.
As far as the biting fingers off in LOTR, it had to happen.
I don't want to spoil the ending, but when a certain character's finger got bit off, that led directly to the resolution of the story and the destruction of an evil something which threatened to take over Middle Earth.
So, that's one example of how violence in literature leads to a good ending, and is uplifting. (of course, lots of my "argument" loses power since you haven't read the book...)
Think of it this way, we don't enjoy reading about Lazarus dying, do we? (or, I don't think we should) But when he was resurrected, we do enjoy reading that.
Violence for pleasure, I think is wrong, but if violence is part of a story, and you enjoy the story, I don't think that is wrong.
Also, as Luke said, depicting violence is sometimes necessary "if we seek to portray truth as storytellers". We are, as a previous post of our distinguished host said, subcreators. We can't totally recreate reality. And reality has evil, which must be depicted, to show the good that will win in the end.
What say the rest of you???
P.S. I like having serious discussions like this sometimes! But I feel sorry for Emy, Luke and I are tag teaming here...
Lana,
Well this is true... of course I have absolutely no stand here b/c you and Luke (and pretty much everyone else) are on the same "side" and are much more intelligent. :D Oh well... it's not really an *argument* is it? More just a discussion. And I've enjoyed it too.
Now, I do see your point. I guess sometimes it does make stories more interesting and exciting (as long as it's not too descriptive in the violence) and I like what you said about it showing that the good will win in the end. Yes, it would make more sense and be a more beneficial argument if I'd read the LOTR books or seen the movies. :D I don't know much about the books, but I know about the movies from what Meggy's told me and clips she's shown me.
Oh, but Lazarus dying isn't violent... I see what you mean, though... I hate to read about *anyone* dying, ever!! :(
Anyway, I think you've all made good points, and I will state it now, I give in, you have changed my mind a little: Not all violence is bad. Okay? hehee... You know, I've come to the conclusion that I am a very ductile, easily influenced person. In fact just yesterday I wrote a comment on here that says "Violence IS a bad thing"... but this has been an interesting discussion and, in the end (well maybe not the end) it has changed my mind a little. See, Meggy? I may be prejudiced, but I will change!! :P
~Emy
Emy dearest, it took me longer than it did you to come to that conclusion (that all violence isn't bad), and I think that indicates that you're probably more teachable than I was...
That, and I didn't have a whole gang talking to me about the subject ;^p
You are right, the Lazarus thing wasn't a perfect comparison, but I am SO glad you were able to see my overall point; that shows excellent maturity (you could've just told me that it didn't fit perfectly...) You probably give me credit for being smarter than I am, you know ;^P
haha, God bless you girl, and don't go, like, buy a gun or anything just because you now believe violence isn't always bad :^P JK!!
More teachable (is that even a word? :P)? I doubt it. Just that I have all these wonderful friends to instruct me and guide me in the way I should go. LOL!!! :D And as I said, I'm easily influenced, so when I have "a whole gang talking to me about the subject", I'm very prone to giving in. :P
Lana, honey, you're one of the smartest ppl I know! lol...
Buy a gun??? NEVER!!! Now that WOULD be bad violence!!! lol... And I didn't say that I know LIKE violence!
~Emy
I think that teachable is a word- my dad considers it to be a valuable quality. And "more teachable" sounds better than "Teachabler" LOL!!
Emy, sweetie, you hardly know me, so how could you know if I am one of the smartest people you know? wow, that sentence was a jumble :^P
The gun thing was a joke!! However, now that you bring it up, I'd have to differ with you again: guns are not bad-violent. People are bad and violent (and sometimes stupid and careless). But there's nothing evil about owning weapons, or even using them, any more than there's something wrong with having or using your tongue, just because a lie is evil. (cuz we all know liars go to hell, huh Hannah?)
Sorry Emy, we're learning about analogies in reasonings class, so I use them any chance I get LOL!!
haha, would you freak if you knew that all I wanted for Christmas the year before last was a B.B. gun or a pellet gun? and I got both!! (BTW, Luke, where is my gun?)
Okay, better go before the liberals start coming after me for all this gun talk...
Lana,
Oh b/c you are and I've heard what you made on the ACT or whatever test it was! lol! I may not know YOU very well, but word travels... lol... JK, don't worry... :P
Well true that the guns themselves aren't violent... but they scare me! :P Freak out? Nah... but that is pretty weird!!! no offense... not weird... just... different. :P oh well. After Tara showing me her knife and saying her dad gave it to her but Trev doesn't even have one b/c he didn't ask for one... THAT'S weird! :P hehee... so yes, ya'll still baffle me sometimes... :P
luvya'll anyway,
~Emy
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