Name:Jordan Country:United States State:California Metro:San Diego Birthday:7/10/1982 Gender:Male
Interests:Fighting the good fight. Reading great literature. Bible study. A little paintball, a little disc golf. Hiking, camping. Any card game you have the patience to teach me. Darts. Tossing a hardball or frisbee. Watching my baseball team. Rock shows (at small venues). A good action, drama, or comedy. Music. Yogurt Mill. Laughs with my friends. ~ I like having fun and enjoying life and friendships. I like a good cigar and good music and good books and long interesting conversations, whether important or unimportant. I like when exciting things happen and I make memories. Those are the things I like. Expertise:I'm a decent grammarian and a writer of poetry.
You are calm. You do not rush your disisions. You are wise and usaly looked up to. And you have great stealth. You are slick and untrusted yet greatly needed by the world. You have your own special place were you belong and thrive. You can do great things, your path will be one of joy to those you help. yet nothing is writen in stone.
This dollar bill looks like a sarcastic image made by a McCain supporter, but I kid you not, this is the nauseating work of a real live Obama worshiper. Notice the website in the bottom right corner. Look, I don't know who's going to win this election, and I know we're all tired of President Bush, but no weariness or displeasure, no hope for change (which is itself just fine) justifies this kind of adoration of any politician. People, come to your senses!
Halloween approaches quickly, so why not a little
editorializing about ghost stories?I,
for one, enjoy a good ghost story, and I also think that ghost hunts and
allegations of haunted houses are intriguing.Many people do, actually.There
is a certain effect a ghost tale has to deliver small thrills and to capture
the imagination.As a Christian,
however, I don’t believe in ghosts (as such), so why should I find any kind of
simple pleasure in fables about the returning or lingering spirits of the
dead?It is in C. S. Lewis that I not
only found my answer, but learned why it is, perhaps, that human beings are
captivated or unnerved by ghost stories as a whole.
In his outstanding book Miracles, Lewis makes the following
observations, acute if you ask me, that:
Almost the whole of Christian
theology could perhaps be deduced from the two facts (a) That men make course
jokes, and (b) That they feel the dead to be uncanny.The course joke proclaims that we have here
an animal which finds its own animality either objectionable or funny.Unless there had been a quarrel between the
spirit and the organism I do not see how this could be: it is the very mark of
the two not being ‘at home’ together.But it is very difficult to imagine such a state of affairs as original—to
suppose a creature which from the very first was half shocked and half tickled
to death at the mere fact of being the creature it is.I do not perceive that dogs see anything
funny about being dogs: I suspect that angels see nothing funny about being
angels.Our feeling about the dead is
equally odd. It is idle to say that we
dislike corpses because we are afraid of ghosts. You might say with equal truth that we fear
ghosts because we dislike corpses—for the ghost owes much of its horror to the
associated ideas of pallor, decay, coffins, shrouds, and worms. In reality we hate the division which makes
possible the conception of either corpse or ghost. Because the thing ought not to be divided,
each of the halves into which it falls by division is detestable.The explanations which Naturalism gives both
of bodily shame and of our feeling about the dead are not satisfactory.It refers us to primitive taboos and superstitions—as
if these themselves were not obviously results of the thing to be
explained.But once accept the Christian
doctrine that man was originally a unity and that the present division is
unnatural, and all the phenomena fall into place. (Emphasis added)
The above, I think, sheds much light on the subject
indeed.But as a Christian I know that
ghosts as such do not exist.And in
fact, I must say that any real haunts,
should they spring up, are demonic in nature and intended to deceive. And
indeed I do say this.Does it therefore
follow that I should not find enjoyment in a ghost story told around the
campfire?I don’t think that is a
necessary implication at all.Lewis goes
on to say the following, which I find helpful:
You may hold both [course jokes
and ghost stories] are bad.[Or] you may hold
that both, though they result (like clothes) from the Fall, are (like clothes)
the proper way to deal with the Fall once it has occurred: that while perfected
and recreated Man will no longer experience that kind of laughter or that kind
of shudder, yet here and now not to feel the horror and not to see the joke is
to be less than human.
