Vlad

Vlad

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16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - The Value of Dynasties · 0 replies · +1 points

I like it when they throw the ball and the other guy catches it and runs really fast. When they do that really well and a lot, then you know it's a great team.

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - Nothing Means What You... · 0 replies · +1 points

Plus the arbitrary spelling.

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - Loquacious Lemmings · 0 replies · +1 points

There's something to be said for mass appeal, but surely there's a limit. I can't say I know where to draw the line, or that I would always be able to draw it consistently if I did, but I loathe sensationalism. And as for going after TV, that's not CA editorial; that's just me!

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - Loquacious Lemmings · 2 replies · +1 points

Not sure I follow, Ezra. Are you saying we should take the high road or the low road?

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - Loquacious Lemmings · 1 reply · +1 points

Perhaps you should have been informed, but it took a while to figure out what was going on. Some may not have even read your actual title when they got to the article.

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - The Industrial Revolut... · 0 replies · +1 points

Ok, Jeff, but without particle board I wouldn't have any furniture! My family's hand-made stuff would have to be shipped from Romania, and includes wood-burning stoves.

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - The Industrial Revolut... · 0 replies · +1 points

That was great.

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - A Self-Indulgent Musin... · 0 replies · +1 points

Coffee and wine are good analogues. You have to develop your palate, and it actually helps to taste something really bad to appreciate the distinction of the good. On the other hand, I have a hard time not loving Cold Play, though their work is as homogeneous and predictable as it gets.

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - Bibles and Bullets: Th... · 0 replies · +1 points

I don't see why he's not entitled to a different starting point to the conversation. Why is it not admissible to say, 'Given this current state of affairs and perseption (real or imagined), where can the church go from here?' You can always argue that someone missed a step because there's always an antecedent condition, but you have to start somewhere. Get me?

16 years ago @ Concrete Academic - Remembering God's Mercy · 0 replies · +1 points

I find those most comfortable with condemning others are quite sure of their salvation, due to their own religious experience. I think this is what emboldens them to judge others who don't belong to the same sub-culture, don't use the same religious jargon, or express the same experiences of salvation.