A Collection of Ins and Outs and Whathaveyous
Jan Bear, in her “A World of Speculation” posted a great link to a group involved in “amateur urban archaeology”. I suppose that is a fancy way of saying they go poking around in abandoned buildings. Pretty scary pics.
Here are some more:
Modern Ruins
Photographic Essays
Henk van Rensbergen, Abandoned Places
Also follow the links here:
http://www.deathrock.net/ariadne/ruins.html
Scary indeed!
The Yahoo group I own and moderate, Oxwoms (Orthodox Without My Spouse) is looking for a priest to invite to our list. We want someone who would just monitor the posts and intervene if discussion strays into heresy or becomes spiritually damaging.
I seriously doubt that would happen. Nonetheless, it would be nice to have someone looking over our shoulder.
With that in mind here are a few quotes:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
— Dwight Eisenhower, Speech, April 16, 1953, Washington D.C., to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. Speech, May 31, 1954, New York City
I got a new bumper sticker and am waiting for someone to bash in my rear window or flip me a finger.
And speaking of bumper stickers, I am disapointed that the winner of the bumper sticker contest at The Onion Dome is such an inside joke. I would prefered one of these:
Pews are a Western heresy
Orthodoxy: We wrote the Book! My Church wrote your Bible.
Orthodoxy — Ancestors you can’t remember are part of our Church
[icon of Theotokos, followed by:] Love Your Mother
Become like God! Ask me how.
Truth Never Changes !
The Orthodox Church: Not Only Standing for the Truth, But Never Sitting Down Either
Orthodox Christianity: Not New, Not Improved
But I didn’t get a vote. Ah, well.
Its funny how explicitly the media defines our world. Even when we think we are immune to its influence we are influenced. I’ll give you a few examples.
Anytime I hear anything about the Abortion holocaust (although they call it a debate, deadliest debate in history I’d reckon) the sides are labeled as follows:
1. Pro Choice, as in “Ms. Mankiller, a Pro Choice advocate, spoke at yesterday’s rally.” Fine. I have no problem with that. Those folks want to emphasize the positive right? They’re not anti-life or pro-murder, they’re Pro Choice. Everyone like to choose, right?
2. Anti-abortion, as in “Reverend Smith, an anti-abortion protestor, lead the group in a march across town.” Wait, what? Anti-abortion? Well, sure we are against abortion, but not for any arbitrary reason. We are Pro-Life. That is how we describe ourselves. For life. Accentuanting the positive, see? Just like the other side. Did you notice the other slur? The good Rev. is a protester, not an advocate, or even a leader. The reporter, who likely has a very low opinion of Rev. Smith and his ilk, has used the report to influence the listeners.
I say listeners because I listen to NPR and they do this all the time.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1851368
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1907667
Now I know there are those who embrace the AntiAbortion label. However, when I google Antiabortion almost every hit is a Pro-choice slanted site.
After listening to NPRs story last night about the ruling in the partial birth abortion case in California, I was right ticked off. What bugged me the most about the reporting was the phrase, “a woman’s constitutional right to choose”!
Rubbish
Show me, in the US Constitution, where it says a woman has the right to murder her unborn child.
Then this from Father John’s blog about a sad case in Arizona.
The tragic irony is almost overbearing. Lord Have Mercy.
What truly confounds me is how people can think abortion is okay. We cry when we, for reasons of pain and suffering, must euthanize our pets, but children, if unwanted can be thrown out with the trash.
