Moosejaw Musings

Here is a comment on left on this website: Retrocausality :: Fire and Knowledge

Arthur C. Clarke, a favorite sci-fi author of mine, used a concept like this in "Childhood's End." Spaceships hover over the earth's cities for a lengthy period of time - during which all of man's problem's are resolved. When the aliens exit from the ship - they look just like many images of Satan - leathery wings, etc. Their revelation of themselves to humanity causes a psychic shockwave that is so intense it travels back through time to the dawn of humanity and imbeds this "fear" into mankind.

And I thought it was just inventive writing. Who'd a thunk?

I would have hoped they would learn their lesson from "12 Monkeys".

I might comment on these later.


1. Read often...

2. Stop watching TV (if you do)...

3. Mark up your books...

4. Try to use the ideas from good books...

5. Reread important books...

6. Never get rid of a book you have read...

7. Read and reread old books...

8. Ask smart people what their favorite books are and why. Then read them.

9. Read in silence...

10. Always look up and learn unfamiliar words you find in your reading...

11. Spend time in books stores, new and old...

12. When in doubt, buy a book.

Go read the complete post and the comments - it is here ==> The Constructive Curmudgeon: Reading

As I ponder the idea of getting further edumacated - I came across an article in ABWE's The Message.

The piece that stuck in my head is:

One day, after a long seminar presented by a visiting young professor from the United States, a Russian pastor who had spent years in prison being persecuted for his faith pulled me aside with a twinkle in his eye.

“Michael,” he said, “don’t you respect us?”

“Brother,” I replied, “of course we respect you.”

“Then why don’t you bring us more experienced pastors who have endured years of difficulty and opposition to build the church? These young people are nice, but most of what they know they have gotten from books, and we can tell they have not suffered much. We can read books, too. What we really need is to see experienced men and women of God with scars, who can show us how God has used them.”

I realized from that point forward that my task was not merely to transmit knowledge from books, seminary lecture notes, and sermon outlines from my culture into other cultures. My task was much deeper than that. My real assignment was to live as such a faithful follower of Christ that those I was training would copy my life, not merely my notes.

I wanted to post this yesterday.

Pulpit Magazine » Blog Archive » The Lost Tomb of Jesus?

I took February off from blogging - don't know why - but just didn't post anything - even though I thought about it a lot. I was hoping to post everyday in March. I will have to post twice today.

I have seen a lot of blogging going on about James Cameron - someone even used the title "Tales from the Crypt!" - and this "new" discovery. Click on some of the links and enjoy the study.