"...Christianity is the only deductive system with a self-consistent and self-justifying first principle revealed by an almighty omniscient being. The principle is broad enough to yield an adequate number of propositions sufficient to construct a complete worldview that entails no self-contradiction. Therefore, the biblical worldview is the precondition of intelligibility, knowledge, and truth. All other systems of thought cannot make knowledge possible and thus collapse into philosophical skepticism. But since skepticism is self-contradictory, one cannot remain in such a position, and Christianity is the only way out of the epistemological abyss."
Vincent Cheung "Ultimate Questions."
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
I don't want to go anyway! So There!
My wife is taking a "girl friend" vacation in Florida. One of her pals owns a house which is large enough to accomodate more than 8 women and their "stuff." That should tell you something about the size of it. Here are some pictures.
Three Stories, 2 Master Bedrooms
who knows how many other rooms.
Three Stories, 2 Master Bedrooms
who knows how many other rooms.
The Gulf of Mexico. I block from
house
No sharks in here.
The wife told me to quite pouting and whining about not being able to go. I think I'll go eat some dirt, that'll fix her. So there!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Ref Tagger
I just added "Ref Tagger" from Logos Bible Software to my blog. This is a test to see if it works like I hope it will, so here goes.
I love Colossians 1:17. I'm not sure I will ever understand the complete meaning of "by him all things consist." I just don't seem to be able to fully comprehend the idea that stars, bugs, and computers are kept in existence "by him and for him." (Col. 1:16). The idea is staggering to my simple mind.
I love Colossians 1:17. I'm not sure I will ever understand the complete meaning of "by him all things consist." I just don't seem to be able to fully comprehend the idea that stars, bugs, and computers are kept in existence "by him and for him." (Col. 1:16). The idea is staggering to my simple mind.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Brit Hume on Jesus Christ
There is more Christian preaching in this 3 minute video than most churches preach in a year.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
National Security and Swiss Cheese
Somewhere this morning I read an opinion column in which the author described our security against terrorist attack as Swiss Cheese. I think he had in mind a wheel of cheese, but I envisioned this:
In reality our security systems are more like chunks of cheese piled on each other with nothing connecting them and all with gaping holes in their systems. There is nothing secure about any of them and their ability to protect even their own is pitiful. How many policemen were killed recently in Washington State? How many CIA agents were killed inside one of their secure compounds in Afghanistan? How many people walked in on the President's State dinner, uninvited, shook hands with him and his wife, and got their pictures taken with him? Police can't protect themselves, the CIA invites suicide-bombers to lunch, and Our President is not protected from intruders in our White House. I'm expected to trust my life, and the lives of my family to these incompetents. I don't think so!
Recent events, the Christmas Undiebomber, or the bombing of a CIA fortress in Afghanistan, for examples, have shown that Homeland Security, Secret Service, U.S.Marshals, TSA, FBI, ATF, NSA, CIA, etc., are all constructed on the "swiss cheese" model. When we see them in action we find that all that has been accomplished is billions of dollars have been spent creating more holes in bureaucratic pieces of cheese.
When are we going to demand our elected officials actually secure our air travel and "homeland" and not just talk about it? We appear to be as stupid as Janet Napalitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who said about the Christmas Plane, "the system worked."
I have no idea where her mind is, but it obviously is disconnected from reality. Unless she thinks there is nothing really all that bad in carrying explosives onto a passenger plane. That may in fact be the attitude in Washington since they have chosen to treat a terrorist as a common criminal and not as a foreign combatant in a war on terror. That decision is not just stupid, it's insane.
Personally I will feel much more secure when my "permission" to protect myself arrives in the form of a concealed pistol license. I'm kind of like the man on the Christmas Plane who said, "I rather be happy to be alive, than lucky to be alive."
Recent events, the Christmas Undiebomber, or the bombing of a CIA fortress in Afghanistan, for examples, have shown that Homeland Security, Secret Service, U.S.Marshals, TSA, FBI, ATF, NSA, CIA, etc., are all constructed on the "swiss cheese" model. When we see them in action we find that all that has been accomplished is billions of dollars have been spent creating more holes in bureaucratic pieces of cheese.
When are we going to demand our elected officials actually secure our air travel and "homeland" and not just talk about it? We appear to be as stupid as Janet Napalitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who said about the Christmas Plane, "the system worked."
I have no idea where her mind is, but it obviously is disconnected from reality. Unless she thinks there is nothing really all that bad in carrying explosives onto a passenger plane. That may in fact be the attitude in Washington since they have chosen to treat a terrorist as a common criminal and not as a foreign combatant in a war on terror. That decision is not just stupid, it's insane.
Personally I will feel much more secure when my "permission" to protect myself arrives in the form of a concealed pistol license. I'm kind of like the man on the Christmas Plane who said, "I rather be happy to be alive, than lucky to be alive."
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