User Profile
Add Friend
Add Note
Track User
Send Message
Send V-Gift
The Prodigal Panda
Created on 2006-09-16 00:20:02 (#11155871), last updated 2009-07-22
394 comments received, 562 comments posted
Plus Account [Gift]
94 Journal Entries, 0 Tags, 0 Memories, 100+ ScrapBook Files, 0 Virtual Gifts, 3 Userpics
Basic Info| Name: | prodigalpanda |
|---|---|
| Location: | Maryland, United States |
BioNothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete
sense in any immediate context of history;
therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a
lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;
therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr - Theologian
****************************************************************8
Evening
By Rainer Marie Rilke
Slowly now the evening changes his garments
held for him by a rim of ancient trees;
you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you,
one sinking and one rising toward the sky.
And you are left, to none belonging wholly,
not so dark as a silent house, nor quite
so surely pledged unto eternity
as that which grows to star and climbs the night.
To you is left (unspeakably confused)
your life, gigantic, ripening, full of fears,
so it, now hemmed in, now grasping all,
is changed in you by turns to stone and stars.
************************************************
"You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity."
- Homer Simpson
*************************************************
Charlie Brown: Nine home runs in a row! Good grief! What can I do. We're getting slaughtered again, Schroeder. . . I don't know what to do. Why do we have to suffer like this?
Schroeder: "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward."
Charlie Brown: What?
Linus: He's quoting from the Book of Job, Charlie Brown, seventh verse, fifth chapter. Actually, the problem of suffering is a very profound one, and . . .
Lucy: If a person has had bad luck, it's because he's doing something wrong, that's what I always say!
Schroeder: That's what Job's friends told him. But I doubt it. . .
Lucy: What about Job's wife? I don't think she gets enough credit!
Schroeder: I think a person who never suffers, never matures. Suffering is actually very important.
Lucy: Who wants to suffer? Don't be ridiculous!
Schroeder: But pain is a part of life, and. .
Linus: A person who speaks only of the "patience" of Job reveals that he knows very little of the book! Now, the way I see it. . .
Charlie Brown: Good grief! I don't have a ball team. I have a theological seminary!
sense in any immediate context of history;
therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a
lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;
therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr - Theologian
****************************************************************8
Evening
By Rainer Marie Rilke
Slowly now the evening changes his garments
held for him by a rim of ancient trees;
you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you,
one sinking and one rising toward the sky.
And you are left, to none belonging wholly,
not so dark as a silent house, nor quite
so surely pledged unto eternity
as that which grows to star and climbs the night.
To you is left (unspeakably confused)
your life, gigantic, ripening, full of fears,
so it, now hemmed in, now grasping all,
is changed in you by turns to stone and stars.
************************************************
"You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity."
- Homer Simpson
*************************************************
Charlie Brown: Nine home runs in a row! Good grief! What can I do. We're getting slaughtered again, Schroeder. . . I don't know what to do. Why do we have to suffer like this?
Schroeder: "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward."
Charlie Brown: What?
Linus: He's quoting from the Book of Job, Charlie Brown, seventh verse, fifth chapter. Actually, the problem of suffering is a very profound one, and . . .
Lucy: If a person has had bad luck, it's because he's doing something wrong, that's what I always say!
Schroeder: That's what Job's friends told him. But I doubt it. . .
Lucy: What about Job's wife? I don't think she gets enough credit!
Schroeder: I think a person who never suffers, never matures. Suffering is actually very important.
Lucy: Who wants to suffer? Don't be ridiculous!
Schroeder: But pain is a part of life, and. .
Linus: A person who speaks only of the "patience" of Job reveals that he knows very little of the book! Now, the way I see it. . .
Charlie Brown: Good grief! I don't have a ball team. I have a theological seminary!
Connect
Friends [View Entries] Friends (25):
captain_chris00, cubby42, filgate, lilac_laurel, notaladydr, prodigalpanda, psychick, purrgirl, roninpanda, rosered2318, sabine42, sealpup_otter, senior_otter, slackerfish, steelbeard, striker326, thevalveswithin, urriell, v2da2dl, vadrice, veins_of_ink, vickska241, vivian_shaw, watergirlwater, widdershawns
Mutual Friends (18):
captain_chris00, cubby42, filgate, lilac_laurel, notaladydr, prodigalpanda, psychick, purrgirl, rosered2318, sabine42, sealpup_otter, steelbeard, thevalveswithin, vadrice, veins_of_ink, vickska241, vivian_shaw, watergirlwater
Also Friend of (3):
Communities [View Entries] Watching (4):
Member of (3):
Feeds [View Entries] Watching (0)
