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I reread Alexander Solzhenityn's Harvard address, A World Split Apart. Still relevant, still prescient, especially today.
From the address:
I have spent all my life under a communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses.
Eucharist [thanksgiving] is the state of the perfect man. Eucharist is the life of paradise. Eucharist is the only full and real response of man to God's creation, redemption, and gift of heaven. - Alexander Schemann
I have spent all my life under a communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses.
I had little hope that anyone would actually click the link. I'm really glad to see that you did.
I've read the Address and I've read his "Gulag Archipelago".
Yes...still very much relevant.
I recommend "You Can Trust the Communists .........................
to be Communists" by Dr. Fred Schwartz.
I've read the address a number of times, but it's been many years since I read Gulag Archipelago. Thanks for the book recommendation, I've bookmarked it.
I've read the address a number of times, but it's been many years since I read Gulag Archipelago. Thanks for the book recommendation, I've bookmarked it.
Yeah..I read Gulag Archipelago about thirty years ago.
Slogan/motto:
1 Jo 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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May 2nd, 2012, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by HisServant
Working.. working.. and did I mention working?
Tuesdays and Thursdays are the day my wife doesn't work... So, I'll go home as usual, be greeted by the dog, give the wife a hug and kiss and sit down to a nice home cooked meal. We will watch the news, jeopardy and wheel of fortune.. then I will probably head down to my man cave to watch the hockey game and have a home brewed beer... with the dog on my lap.
Slogan/motto:
1 Jo 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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May 2nd, 2012, 05:37 PM
Went to eat chineese, with a couple of friends, then we went over to the hospital to visit an elderly lady that attends the church we go to. We sang some hymns, with a group of really energetic ladies and gents in the lounge, had a few good laughs, came home got on here and had a few more. Now time for dinner. God Bless ya'll.
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