Comment on another person's comment on another person's post...

Hehe, so I couldn't think of a blander way of putting that into a title, so I am quite satisfied with this title. :-)

I was reading a blog on another person's site earlier and I read a comment that I ultimately decided to respond to, the topic of the other person's blog or the substance of the comment some one wrote on it, is really of no import to my purpose in publishing my response here.

I've decide to publish my response here on my blog as I found my response a nice concise representation of what I believe about Truth.

I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it encourages all of you to try to understand what you believe.

I appeal to you're sense of truth. And I encourage you to seek it and to speak what you believe is true, but I also encourage you to test it... from my experience Truth is freeing and converts people, changing their lives from one of doldrums and strife to one of essential peace and joy.

I'm former atheist and a philosopher/former physics student (5 yrs in college) so I know how to make arguments that other people can't refute and if they do I know how to make them look like idiots. And with my background I also know that almost ANY position is defensible if you have certain views about the universe.

So I do not wish to argue with you but to ask you to do something so much easier and equally so much harder. Look at what your beliefs about truth are, analyse them and assess if your beliefs about truth match what you see in the truth that you know. I.e., if you believe "truth" is enslaving, then does what you know to be truth enslave or set free, if you believe truth (after the initial internal conflict) ultimately brings peace, does what you know to be truth bring peace or does it bring frustration, anger and hatred about others who oppose you? If you believe truth enlightens you and that others need enlightenment, then when you spread what you believe is truth to others, do they become enlightened or do they dismiss you as an oppressor and not an enlightener? If you believe truth brings joy, then do others find joy in the truth you know or do they find malice and oppression?

For me I believe truth is freeing, joyous, peaceful and enlightening though I also believe when confronted with the truth, it clashes each time with our own egos and we reject it. But it infects us, until at some point it becomes so powerful that we can no longer decide to reject it and remain at peace with ourselves. It is at that point that we have to choose to be honest and humble and accept the truth or be prideful and arrogant and reject it.

And for me, it is hard to decide when I do one or the other. Yet in time I can look at my life and decide am I at peace and do I bless everyone I meet or do I curse every person I meet? Do I find joy with being in silence for an hour? Or can I not stand to be silent for a minute? And find every moment not distracted torturous?

I encourage you to continue seeking truth, speaking truth, and assessing what you think is truth.

I will do the same, though I must say I have met Him, and He is Glorious!

Blessings and Praise,
Sirhair

Women Priests

A couple of Anglican women "priests" have converted to catholicism...

(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/217101104/women-priests-catholics.htm)

My favourite quote...

Christina Rees of Women and the Church says: "Every woman who is ordained as a priest in the Church of England knows in one sense there is still a question mark hanging over her orders in a way which does not hang over the order of her male colleagues."

Catholics, incidentally, would disagree with this last claim. There is no question mark hanging over the orders of any Anglican priest – at least, not according to Pope Leo XIII.

That last line means, Catholics don't believe ANY Anglican (or protestant) has "(Holy) Orders" only Catholics, Orthodox, and a few other churches which are so small and unheard of in the US to really bear mention.

Here's praying and to hoping that those schismatic and excommunicated women who think they've gotten Catholic Holy Orders will repent and convert...

Best christmas wrapping ever...

Ingredients:
1 Free Friendly's sundae (in bag)
1 Serrated Knife
1 Stuffed animal
1 Present (not pictured)
Step 1: Place items on table.

Step 2: take 1 serrated knife and 1 poor hapless creature... cut seam on bottom.

Step 3: Appear maniacal

Step 4: Show enjoyment while working

Step 5: put knife down and enjoy Friendly's sundae, while holding torture victim inverted.


Step 6: resume operation

Step 7: let girlfriend help

Step 8: Let girlfriend appear maniacal...

Step 9: Relish gutting the poor hapless being.

Step 10: Show pride in workmanship.

Step 11: insert present (e.g., vermont maple cheddar cheese and a venison jerky stick) into gutted creature.

Step 12: Invert creature again, and begin restuffing guts.


Step 13: commence surgical stitching.


Step 14: Tie knot in starting end of stitching
Step 15: Spend 15 hours staring. Just staring.

Step 16: Spend 16 hours staring closer. Closer, I say!

Step 17: Tie end knot in stitching.

Step 18: Let girlfriend stuff candy in poor hapless creature's present bag.

Step 19: Return test subject to original crate.

Step 20: Make test subject look pitiful.


Now... opening best Christmas wrapping ever...

Step 1: Present 1 cuddly stuffed animal to 1 Adult male hunter/bricklayer/Biker.
Step 2: Have adult male read attached letter explaining your desire to have sent him on a hunting expedition in southern South America for penguin.
Step 3: Include in letter your unfortunate moral dilemma of sending him on a trip to South America and thus causing an increase in green house gases due to his travel, or bring a penguin to him.
Step 4: Let adult male biker/hunter know that you just couldn't in any good conscience hurt the planet and thus you can't send him to South America.
Step 5: Present a penguin for him to gut.
Step 6: Watch as adult male hunter/biker guts a poor hapless creature and hear him say "it feels like guttin' a deer"

Step 7: watch as he rips the Penguin's bottom off.

Step 8: Watch him remove presents from carcass.

Step 9: Watch adult male hunter toss carcass to nearby woodland animal to devour.