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Comment on Which ancient language are you? by Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:13:59 +0000

Akkadian too!

Comment on Dever on discipline and the purpose of the church by joel w

joel w — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:52:28 +0000

Still alive?

Comment on Which ancient language are you? by Beth

Beth — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:41:23 +0000

I’m older futhark, an ancient Norse language. (No wonder I married Thor!)

Comment on Which ancient language are you? by Julia

Julia — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:56:26 +0000

I got Egyptian Hieroglyphics. That’s super-cool!

Comment on Which ancient language are you? by BradH

BradH — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:44:07 +0000

I got Akkadian too. In fact the results said:
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Ideogramatic
You scored higher than 99% on Syllablic
You scored higher than 99% on Logogramic
You scored higher than 99% on Alphabetic

At least I’m consistent.

Comment on I missed my chance to buy an Enigma machine. by Jon

Jon — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:35:45 +0000

It’s not too late. It was relisted — http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270146164488

Comment on Three on Theology #4 by dwright

dwright — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:24:00 +0000

Thanks, Brad.

I see that I should have been more careful in expressing what I was trying to get at.

I think I was trying to preserve the theological significance of death in the face of what we have come to think of as a normal human life span, a concept which can help gloss over the fact that death at any age is one of the ultimate signs that something is very wrong with the world.

In that sense, we all may “accept” the notion of a limited life span even if we are not reconciled to it and may be very afraid of it (a different sense of “accept”–you are right to say that we all struggle to be reconciled to death or accept it in this sense). If we think in terms of a “normal” human lifespan, death is what sets the horizon of expectation; death then is what dictates what is normal. If we view death as abnormal at any age, we are preserving more of the horribleness of death.

I would not wish to strip anyone of legitimate comforts to be had in the face of death. It does indeed seem better that someone makes it to 80 after a “good” life than to die young. But all of that does still pale in comparison to the fact of death itself, whether for old and young. And that’s where solider comforts are ultimately needed.

Paradoxically, for the Christian, the most triumphant comfort for death comes through death (even as we are afraid). Death, where is your sting? Through death I am ushered past all death to where there will be no tears or death, to fully join Christ in his victory over death.

I would hope your friend comes to see that through Christ death itself becomes the moment of complete victory over death, Christ’ death thus disarming death at our death.

Comment on Three on Theology #4 by BradH

BradH — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:29:22 +0000

On Death: My experience with older people is that length of life has no bearing on how “accepting” of death they are. Instead it is only proportional to *suffering* that an individual finds death acceptable. Since older people often have an increase in suffering as their bodies wear out and their loved ones die, they are more likely than younger people to have prepared themselves for death.
I meet weekly with a 90+ year old non-Christian women that has relatively little suffering. She thinks frequently that death will come soon, but she can’t find any acceptance of it. I wish so much for her that she had the resources of faith and a relationship with God to draw upon.
However, perhaps you were referring to one’s becoming accepting of the limited lifespan of *other* people. Therefore we tell ourselves that this person’s death is OK because they lived a good long life and another person’s is tragic because they were never able to fulfill their potential. In that case, I think it is just another one of our coping mechanisms. (The person is “asleep”, is no longer suffering, is in a better place, lived a good long life, etc. – some of which may well be true). In any case, even after this post, I’ll probably still try them out on myself when the need comes.

Comment on Back in Business by dwright

dwright — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:49:22 +0000

But you shall be first.

Comment on Back in Business by Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:21:46 +0000

always the last to find out…