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Name: David
Interests: Kurds, early claymores, inner simplicity, anything undomesticated, beauty, hiddenness, stoicide, the Way, the Waco adelphoi
Expertise: dog paddling, perfecting the art of bouncing back, falling asleep anywhere, Pinnacle E. Summit Trail, embellishing a good story, things that are not
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Member Since:
10/12/2005
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| Just got this cd yesterday. One of the few that I have loved on the first take. beauty.
took this photo while in Germany last summer - Calogne Cathedral. I'd love to worship in a place like this!
hello folks.
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Our post-college Lifegroup is growing.
recent trip to Smokeys w/ JD. He's in Iraq now. I miss him.
Okay a few facts about Iraq b/c I just went to this funky propoganda thing w/ my atheist friend, Briahn, and another one of her friends and was amazed at all the ignorant head-nodding.
1. Kurds are an ethnic group. Arabs are an ethnic group. Shi'ites and Sunnis are not ethnic groups. They are sects of Islam. "Kurds, Sunnis, and Shi'ites" are not 3 ethnic groups in Iraq. An anglo can be a sunni or shi'ite. A Kurd cannot be an Arab. In Iraq typically, Sunni Arabs are related to one another - same clans - and Shi'ite Arabs are related to one another. They're both Arabs. Kurds are mostly Sunni. Some Kurds, however, are Zoroastrian and a few Christians, although those are mostly Chaldean, not Kurdish. Okay.
2. It's official, the memorial at Halabja reminding us all that Saddam did in fact kill 5000 Kurds in one day (over 300,000 in the course of his dictatorship) w/ chemical weapons is still standing - I've been to the memorial twice. The Kurds have not torn it down in a display of their alleged united front w/ the Arabs against the Americans. They have no united front w/ the Arabs and they as well as all the Arabs I spoke w/ in Iraq are not anti-American.
3. If you go to northern Iraq, you might see buildings spray-painted "Welcome USA. We like George Bush" b/c they are very happy to be rid of Saddam. In fact, they will probably refer to you as brother/sister once they find out you're an American.
4. Iraq is not one big war zone. A few neighborhoods in a few cities are still very problematic. If you cross the border into Iraq you most likely will not get your head blown off. If you walk into the wrong neighborhood in Baghdad, you might.
5. Most Iraqis are not terrorists. According to the Iraqis, most terrorists in Iraq are not Iraqis.
6. (just my opinion) After WWII we finished the job in rebuilding Germany and Japan. After WWII Great Britain bailed out on Israel-Palestine when GB realized it was in over its head (passed the whole mess off to the UN). hmmm. What will happen if the US bails out on Iraq right now? If we go home w/o cleaning up the mess we made we'll leave the people of Iraq in utter chaos, or at the very least someone else will step into the power vacuum the same as what we've just seen in Lebanon w/ Hezballah and what the Taliban is trying to re-accomplish in Afghanistan.
Okay, I'm done beefing.
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| So I was in Wal Mart last night and decided I needed some bee's wax for my hair to give it that dirty, spiky look w/o the slick, wet look. Couldn't find any so I settled on some pomade in the African-American section of hair products. Now I can't get it out.
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| "I don't like my voice."
"I love your voice! It has that feel like the way a really nice instrument sounds when it has aged enough."
"Really? I'm an aged instrument, that's a great image."
"And it's so soulful, like deep water with the current of conviction running through it." | | |
| I've been thinking about part of my church's mission statement, "a passion for Jesus" as well as what it means to be one who worships God with my life, not just my words, and have so far come to this thought (which isn't original, just synthesis):
If I am to have a passion for Jesus, then I must see and savor the truth that Jesus has a passion for Jesus. I cannot withhold from God the highest pursuit and pleasure in all the universe, namely, the worship of God. When I worship God, I'm only joining in on what He has been doing for all eternity. | | |
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