Hi, guys! I was in Atlanta for 757/767 training when the Rocker thing happened. What a cesspool of political correctness. Sending Rocker for a psych eval is...
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Feb 24, 2000 6:17 pm
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I guess it's no surprise that I read voraciously -- even in my busiest days of music or grad work I've kept up with outside reading. It's food to my mind. ...
barry brake
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Feb 29, 2000 12:59 am
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Barry, Sounds interesting. I am reading two books now. The first is "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire," recommended by Dad. It is written by the pastor of the Brooklyn...
gbrakr@...
Feb 29, 2000 7:55 pm
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Hi, guys (and gals?)-- As some of you know, I usually read several books at once. I'm not sure how this started--perhaps flying for Delta has me in so manys...
Paul Brake
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Mar 1, 2000 4:15 am
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Greetings... Well, in case you didn't catch it, the correct statement of Fermat's Theorum is that for the equation x to the nth + y to the nth = z to the nth,...
Paul Brake
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Mar 1, 2000 2:36 pm
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Currently I am plowing through C.G. Jung's Archetypes and the Collective Unconcious. Interesting to say the least. Aaron...
Aaron
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Mar 4, 2000 5:41 pm
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I know we've moved on beyond the Rocker thing, but thought you might be interested in the following from NewsScan Daily: WORTH THINKING ABOUT: WHAT DOES IT...
gbrakr@...
Mar 5, 2000 9:46 pm
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This last Christmas, I was in Hannah's (9yrs., 4th grade) elementary school and noticed that the theme of all the posters and drawings about Christmas done by...
Paul Brake
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Mar 15, 2000 5:27 am
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That's very interesting, and illustrates what I think is one of the core problems in the area of religion and schools: misinterpreting an individual's right of...
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Mar 15, 2000 3:45 pm
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hey all -- (hope you don't mind, jason, but I thought this might be of interest to the gang....) Jason Young writes a response to my article in the current...
barry brake
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Apr 11, 2000 3:35 am
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Since my two children are about to change schools, moving probably from great schools to at best mediocre ones, this essay in the current Newsweek caught my...
Paul Brake
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Apr 11, 2000 10:14 pm
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hey - <<It leaves me wondering if postmodernism isn't (for most people) a lazy alternative to coming up with something new. >> True, but. We have to keep in...
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Apr 12, 2000 4:05 am
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sorry-- I sent the wrong version!! here's the complete one: <<It leaves me wondering if postmodernism isn't (for most people) a lazy alternative to coming up...
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Apr 12, 2000 6:10 am
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admitting my bias at the outset, perhaps nowhere is the effect of postmodernism felt most poignantly than on theological thinking. I would agree that...
Patrick Lafferty
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Apr 12, 2000 2:23 pm
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in the wake of even yet still more handwringing about Columbine -- most of it still missing the point... ...
barry brake
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Apr 22, 2000 5:30 am
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an amusing line from a review of Edward Norton's new movie: Director Mike Figgis is generating a lot of buzz with "Time Code," a film shot live in real time...
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Apr 24, 2000 8:00 am
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an interesting interview with Edward O Wilson, the eminence grise of environmentalism -- part a corny endorsement of "humanist religion" and part an excellent...
barry brake
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Apr 27, 2000 12:22 pm
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hey - this story appeared in George Magazine. I just copied it over to my site so it won't be in the annoying xml format. Fascinating! It tells the story of...
barry brake
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May 13, 2000 9:23 am
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here's an article by tim bissell about why literary destiny -- the idea that good literature will rise to the top no matter what critics and audiences of the...
barry brake
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May 17, 2000 1:21 pm
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hey -- There's a group called Redefining Progress, on whose website you can take the "ecological footprint" test. The idea is this: there's a certain amount...
barry brake
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Jun 7, 2000 4:01 am
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paul brake writes: << By the way, when did we collectively decide that now that we have reached this point in our evolution, that we should now intervene in ...
barry brake
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Jun 8, 2000 7:17 am
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hey -- I just got an email from one of my kids, and its substance was a high school graduation speech. She wasn't the valedictorian, but she decided to write...
barry brake
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Jun 8, 2000 7:23 am
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a nice bit of opinion from the dallas morning news about the recent supreme court decision on school prayer. considering that people usually turn their brains...
barry brake
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Jun 23, 2000 11:18 am
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hey - here's an article from southerner.net -- a great bit of investigative journalism by fetzer mills, about the flooding in north carolina. the irresponsible...
barry brake
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Jun 26, 2000 9:28 am
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B Why the silence on your "Mother Church's" decision to kick out female preachers? I would have expected hot and heavy debates on this subject. Cousin, Tim...
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Jun 26, 2000 9:52 pm
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hey, tim -- ... well, for me it isn't much of a matter of debate. Every two years the southern baptist convention meets and decides to make a big embarrassing ...
barry brake
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Jun 27, 2000 12:38 am
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Well said, Barry! I think is is *not* well understood, even for staunch Baptists, that the resolutions generated at the conventions are non-binding, and that...
gbrakr@...
Jun 28, 2000 3:40 pm
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Dear Barry and Others: If the Virgin Mary descended from heaven to attend the Southern Baptist Convention, would they tell her that she is unqualified to be a...
Wtcweaver@...
Jun 29, 2000 3:44 pm
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... probably. (although, not being catholic, there would be no vested interest in preserving the fiction that she remained a virgin -- Jesus did, after all,...
barry brake
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Jun 29, 2000 6:37 pm
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While we're all out playing golf, camping, cooking out with family, going to the swim club or lake, or whatever else we do on the holiday tomorrow, wouldn't...