Tag archive: quotes
Read What Challenges You
TweetTwo very popular recent posts on Trying God’s Patience and Title Wave – two of my Facebook pages – have been these two. How important to challenge our own thinking! Not just to read outside our normal range, but to read something we even believe is wrong or disagreeable. As one reader said, I’m going…
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TweetBy way of introduction, a potted history of my own changing beliefs and views on the Universe. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t believe in God; when I was very little I often dreamed of flying around the skies with God; when I was a young teenager it was my mother’s wish in…
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TweetBlogging’s been a bit scarce lately. But I’m onto it, again. Here’s a bunch of the best posts on Trying Gods Patience for the last while. See you again soon. xoxo
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TweetWe’ve all seen Matrix, and probably Avatar, maybe Surrogates (2009, w Bruce Willis), and no doubt other films where the movie’s characters inhabit either a real or an unreal world via another self: an ‘avatar’, a surrogate, or a computer programme. Most of us today inhabit some kind of on-line world at least a part…
DetailsA Facebook page owner’s day
TweetI started my first facebook page, Trying God’s Patience, at the end of October 2011, and as at the end of 2012 it had near-on 75,000 followers. It started more-or-less as an experiment, but with every new comment from its readers, it took on its own life. – Every day, someone says “that was just what…
DetailsIf I lose what I have
TweetIf I am what I have, and I lose what I have, who then am I? Erich Fromm I saw this photo on a Facebook page, seeking to invoke sentiments of love and compassion among that page’s viewers, apparently because this obviously homeless man had a dog that he was caring for. I assumed that…
DetailsTrying God’s Patience
TweetWhat does it mean to “try God’s patience”? Since God is the perfection of all human virtue, I don’t really believe His patience is being tried. Nonetheless it is a phrase, and one reminiscent of a humbler god that rolls his eyes in exasperation every now and then at the failings, stumblings and sheer stupidity…
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