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		<title>wheel in the sky keeps on turnin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2009/02/23/wheel-in-the-sky-keeps-on-turnin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard to argue with this, really:
If, robbed of two fond old enormities,
Our being had no onward auguries,
What then were this great love of ours to say
For launching other lives to voyage again
A little farther into time and pain,
A little faster in a futile chase
For a kingdom and a power and a Race
That would have still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hard to argue with this, really:</p>
<blockquote><p>If, robbed of two fond old enormities,<br />
Our being had no onward auguries,<br />
What then were this great love of ours to say<br />
For launching other lives to voyage again<br />
A little farther into time and pain,<br />
A little faster in a futile chase<br />
For a kingdom and a power and a Race<br />
That would have still in sight<br />
A manifest end of ashes and eternal night?<br />
Is this the music of the toys we shake<br />
So loud,—as if there might be no mistake<br />
Somewhere in our indomitable will?<br />
Are we no greater than the noise we make<br />
Along one blind atomic pilgrimage<br />
Whereon by crass chance billeted we go<br />
Because our brains and bones and cartilage<br />
Will have it so?<br />
If this we say, then let us all be still<br />
About our share in it, and live and die<br />
More quietly thereby.</p></blockquote>
<p>(<a href="http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/robinson/robinson.htm">E. A. Robinson</a>, &#8220;<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/233/126.html">The Man Against the Sky</a>&#8220;)</p>
<p>&#8230;and, of course, for the title reference, take a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJt1KoXCKY">Journey</a> to the music video world.</p>
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		<title>operant conditioning</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/06/13/operant-conditioning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All knowing is adversely affected by the fall, yet people can—under the right conditions—attain reasonable beliefs on the things that matter most.
(Doug Groothuis, &#8220;The Christian Worldview in Classical Philosophical Categories&#8220;)
True enough.  But &#8220;the right conditions&#8221; remain critical, and open to interpretation in lieu of an eschatological realization:  crucial, a crux not merely of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>All knowing is adversely affected by the fall, yet people can—under the right conditions—attain reasonable beliefs on the things that matter most.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Doug Groothuis, &#8220;<a href="http://theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/06/christian-worldview-in-classical.html">The Christian Worldview in Classical Philosophical Categories</a>&#8220;)</p>
<p>True enough.  But &#8220;the right conditions&#8221; remain critical, and open to interpretation in lieu of an eschatological realization:  crucial, a <strong>crux</strong> not merely of interpretation.</p>
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		<title>worth wrestling with</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/05/09/worth-wrestling-with/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 05:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A portion of a prayer from one who influenced me deeply:
Give us that which, our heavenly Father, Wesley really understood, and Finney, the evangelist that most people know in this country and Whitefield and many of the others. A call for the individual to accept Christ as Savior and come under the shed blood of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A portion of a prayer from one who <a href="http://bigsight.org/peter_epps/books">influenced me deeply</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Give us that which, our heavenly Father, Wesley really understood, and Finney, the evangelist that most people know in this country and Whitefield and many of the others. A call for the individual to accept Christ as Savior and come under the shed blood of Christ and pass from death to life. A call for those of us who are Christians, oh God, to bow our hearts more completely and not let other things get in the way &#8212; to let the Holy Spirit have His place under the teaching of Scripture and within the circle of the teaching of Scripture, and then, Heavenly Father, to realize that everything belongs to the Lord Jesus. That He died not only to take our souls to heaven &#8212; but that our bodies will be raised one day from the dead.
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<p>(Francis Schaeffer, <a href="http://www.peopleforlife.org/francis.html">A Christian Manifesto</a>)</p>
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		<title>hearts are trumps</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/02/06/hearts-are-trumps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
Jesus, John 16:33
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>In the world <a href="http://inkan.blogspot.com/2008/02/mitt-john-mike-hillary-barack-and.html" title="dark meditations on super tuesday" target="_blank">you will have tribulation</a>. But take heart; I have overcome the world.<br />
Jesus, <a href="http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=John+16%3A33" title="reassurance from the Son of God">John 16:33</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>laissez les bon temps roullez</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/02/06/laissez-les-bon-temps-roullez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face&#8211;for ever.
(spoken by O&#8217;Brien; Orwell, 1984)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face&#8211;for ever.<br />
(spoken by O&#8217;Brien; Orwell, <a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt" title="1984 by George Orwell -- see chapter 3 for quotation" target="_blank">1984</a>)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>woman in chains</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/02/04/woman-in-chains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from an extended discussion in quotations at my Baylor blog, a tiny snippet:
from our present via media—facilitation of divorce—can only result the era when the young lady in reduced circumstances will no longer turn governess but will be open to engagement as wife at a reasonable stipend. (Francis Thompson on Shelley)
(post title refers to a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>from an extended discussion in quotations at my Baylor blog, a tiny snippet:</p>
<blockquote><p>from our present <em>via media</em>—facilitation of divorce—can only result the era when the young lady in reduced circumstances will no longer turn governess but will be open to engagement as wife at a reasonable stipend. (Francis Thompson on Shelley)</p></blockquote>
<p>(post title refers to a Tears For Fears song.  you know if you know)</p>
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		<title>there&#8217;s something happenning here</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/02/02/39/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#8230;you&#8217;d have to think, wouldn&#8217;t you?
What&#8217;s in your mind, my dove, my coney;
Do thoughts grow like feathers, the dead end of life;
Is it making of love or counting of money,
Or raid on the jewels, the plans of a thief?
(W. H. Auden, November 1930)
(reading the rest of the poem would render the question academic.)
(of course, if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://blog.inkanblot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/pgethinking.png' title='pgepps thinking'><img src='http://blog.inkanblot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/pgethinking.png' alt='pgepps thinking' /></a>&nbsp;&#8230;you&#8217;d have to think, wouldn&#8217;t you?</p>
<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s in your mind, my dove, my coney;<br />
Do thoughts grow like feathers, the dead end of life;<br />
Is it making of love or counting of money,<br />
Or raid on the jewels, the plans of a thief?<br />
(W. H. Auden, November 1930)</p></blockquote>
<p>(reading the rest of the poem would render the question academic.)<br />
(of course, if you read the rest of the poem, you probably are.  academic.)</p>
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		<title>dude, that house has total fortitude!</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/02/02/dude-that-house-has-total-fortitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the usage below intrigued me.  So I looked it up.
&#8224;1. Physical or structural strength. Obs.
1553 EDEN Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 15 A beast..excellinge all other beastes in fortitude and strength. 1591 SHAKES. 1 Hen. VI, II. i. 17 Dispairing of his owne armes fortitude. 1604 &#8212;&#8212; Oth. I. iii. 222 The Fortitude of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the usage <a href="http://blog.inkanblot.com/2008/02/01/dwelling-on-exile/" title="look for "fortitude to" in the Milton quotation">below</a> intrigued me.  So I looked it up.</p>
<blockquote><p>&dagger;1. Physical or structural strength. Obs.<br />
1553 EDEN <i>Treat. Newe Ind</i>. (Arb.) 15 A beast..excellinge all other beastes in fortitude and strength. 1591 SHAKES. <i>1 Hen. VI</i>, II. i. 17 Dispairing of his owne armes fortitude. 1604 &mdash;&mdash; <i>Oth</i>. I. iii. 222 The Fortitude of the place is best knowne to you. 1703 T. N. <i>City &#038; C. Purchaser</i> 50 Bonding of Brick-work..conduces very much to its Fortitude.<br />
(OED online)</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently, once upon a time, &#8220;fortitude&#8221; was more concrete.  More <i>virtu</i> than virtue, so to speak.</p>
<p>We have all been betrayed by the psychologizing of life.</p>
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		<title>dwelling on exile</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/02/01/dwelling-on-exile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . that suffering for Truths sake
Is fortitude to highest victorie,
And to the faithful Death the Gate of Life;
Taught this by his example whom I now
Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest.
To whom thus also th&#8217; Angel last repli&#8217;d:
This having learnt, thou hast attained the summe
Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the Starrs
Thou knewst by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>. . . that suffering for Truths sake<br />
Is fortitude to highest victorie,<br />
And to the faithful Death the Gate of Life;<br />
Taught this by his example whom I now<br />
Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest.</p>
<p>To whom thus also th&#8217; Angel last repli&#8217;d:<br />
This having learnt, thou hast attained the summe<br />
Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the Starrs<br />
Thou knewst by name, and all th&#8217; ethereal Powers,<br />
All secrets of the deep, all Natures works,<br />
Or works of God in Heav&#8217;n, Aire, Earth, or Sea,<br />
And all the riches of this World enjoydst,<br />
And all the rule, one Empire; onely add<br />
Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add Faith,<br />
Add vertue, Patience, Temperance, add Love,<br />
By name to come call&#8217;d Charitie, the soul<br />
Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath<br />
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess<br />
A Paradise within thee, happier farr.<br />
Let us descend now therefore from this top<br />
Of Speculation;<br />
(Milton, <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_12/index.shtml"><em>PL</em> 12</a>)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>proceed with caution</title>
		<link>http://inkanblot.com/blog/2008/01/31/proceed-with-caution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pgepps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortals dwell in that they receive the sky as sky. They leave to the sun and the moon their journey, to the stars their courses, to the seasons their blessing and their inclemency; they do not turn night into day nor day into a harassed unrest.
(Heidegger, &#8220;Building Dwelling Thinking&#8220;)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Mortals dwell in that they receive the sky as sky. They leave to the sun and the moon their journey, to the stars their courses, to the seasons their blessing and their inclemency; they do not turn night into day nor day into a harassed unrest.<br />
(Heidegger, &#8220;<a href="http://pratt.edu/~arch543p/readings/Heidegger.html">Building Dwelling Thinking</a>&#8220;)</p></blockquote>
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