February 2012
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it's sad when somebody's photo-smile
is different than his natural smile, when her natural smile is perfectly fine.
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apparently i have a big sister now
An: sam
An: you're going to graduate soon
An: you'll leave almost everyone soon
An: the regrets you'll have in six months will be the first regrets you have for the rest of your life
An: ...
An: DON'T HAVE ANY
An: GOODNIGHT
*An signed off*
Me: uh...
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a friend with two ears
it’s always hard to know where you stand with a friend. are you friends, in the Facebook sense, or friends, where he would bail you out of jail, or friends, where she would be in there with you? like anything important, the bonds of friendship are intangible.
but there are ways to make friendship at least somewhat tangible. and our insecurities need this tangibility. we need to know. this...
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“So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand....”
– Romans 7:21-25a
not the smoothest segue, there at the end, but sometimes you don’t need one
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Jeremy Lin and the End of the PAM
ASK OUT EVERYONE — to church.
RAISE MY HAND IN CLASS — to defend faith.
TALK TO STRANGERS — to evangelize.
EXCUSE ME? NO, EXCUSE YOU. — no really, you’re excused. forgiveness yo.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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beccagain:
“God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things.
Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die.”
-quote from my landlord’s fridge
ice cream
the world we live in →
the internet, race, homosexuality, and the law
this reads like a short story, a short story to encapsulate the spirit of our times
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tempted to bold the whole thing
Growing up, Challies felt that Bible reading was an obligation. “I felt that if I was going to be a Christian kid, this is what I had to do.” Throughout the years, his perspective has changed. He now emphasizes that there is no scriptural command that believers must read and study the Bible each day—a realization that freed him to delight in his own study. “I think most Christians are eager to...
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“I have forgotten most of the meals I have eaten over the years, but the...”
– Jackgandy1959, commenting on Challies
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“The difference between dogs and people is that dogs know how to be dogs.”
– peter berger
January 2012
19 posts
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slowly but surely
my drive is approaching my ambition
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On Catcher in the Rye (eventually, and briefly)
terrifyingly true things i’ve heard in the last few weeks:
“sam, i feel like every time you look at me, you’re judging me”
“sam, you said you were on your way ten minutes ago…”
“sam, i haven’t seen you smile a real smile in a really long time, you know, not one of those smiles because you’re reacting to something, but a smile…...
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Watchmimg 6
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a funny thing about tumblr
is that you never know when someone will be scrolling through her dashboard and find your post on the Holiness of God sandwiched between two pictures of emaciated women in near-pornographic poses
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being the worst sinner you know
can be quite lonely
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sport as art, #4
understanding the greatness of the above eight seconds just might require hundreds of wasted hours watching football, but i’ll try to explain:
In the beginning, Tom Brady had the ball. For the entire duration of this play, his intended target is Benjamin Watson — who ends up catching the touchdown.
Tom first looks straight ahead, checking to see that Ben has a free release off...
the classic post-retreat mini-trial
always humbling.
as will be the always-crucial post-retreat large group:
Week 2 – Judging Others (Matthew 7:1-6) – Allen Tsai
uh oh
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friendship flings
there’s you and another. the two of you share a flurry of conversation over a short period of time.
then it stops. a mere friendship fling.
you wonder why. perhaps the conversational flurry was of a situational sort. you two shared a class together, you found yourselves in the same car on multiple occasions, something like that. but as the situation went, so did the fling.
or perhaps the...
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there are many precarious balances in the...
be concerned… but do not worry
you have a will… but God has the will (or the non-theist version: you have the capacity for choice that we can and will praise/punish you for, but that capacity is heavily influenced by factors outside of your control [genetics, environment])
nobody’s perfect… but we should be trying
rebuke… but don’t assume
be patient…...
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sometimes
you just stare at someone’s sn and think “in a different world, we’d be great friends”
then you never IM them and life goes on
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“I was never quite the same after Winter Quarter, 2012.”
– my memoirs
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December 2011
19 posts
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“The gut-punching “Chicago” cagily celebrates the innate (and deeply...”
– Amanda Petrusich, reviewing “Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens
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i can't wait until my kid partakes of the...
running away from home
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concerning friendships, ft. Jo Ana Tan
SH: how do you become friends with guys
JATan: girls and guys, or strictly guys
SH: (realizes jo ana thinks he means the rhetorical "you")
SH: you, jo ana tan, in particular
SH: so we're stuck with knowing each other, since we became friends back when we had little semblance of intentionality
SH: but now, theoretically, we're intentional about these things
SH: so how would jo ana tan go about
SH: establishing a new friendship with a guy now
JATan: i don't talk to boys
JATan: in your case
JATan: don't talk to girls
JATan: BBL.
SH: concise as ever.
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