Fighting for a Lost Cause.net

Ian — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:09:31 +0000

"i did some reading, and talked to a bunch of women about how — for some of them — male pronoun use for god, no matter how much we might try to admit that god doesn’t have a human gender like we do, is a struggle for them. i understand that, no matter now much we try, it’s impossible for us to fully separate our understanding of god from our experience in life, and that metaphors and history both speak loudly into our psyches, worship, theology and practice." (>>)

Ian — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:01:32 +0000

"Ultimately, loving people conditionally is an attempt to control them. We are wrongly thinking that if we can make people 'pay' for their faults, or their opinions that don’t match ours, they will have a negative association with their faults or their supposedly wrong opinions. But that’s not the way it works." (>>)

Ian — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:19:52 +0000

"...but didn’t know of a thing I could do about it. So I didn’t do anything. I didn’t suppress it. I didn’t deny it. I didn’t revel in it. I just let it be there." (>>)

Ian — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:22:41 +0000

"64% of jobs in King County do not pay a wage that will provide for the basic necessities for a family consisting of two adults and two children with one wage earner." (>>)

Ian — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:23:35 +0000

"Our plans were shared with friends, but few understood. 'Going off to find yourself,' was the standard interpretation. I don't think that is really our point. We are shaped by our experiences. Our perception of joy, fear, pain, and beauty are sharpened or dulled by the way we rub against time. My senses have become dull and this trip is an effort to sharpen them." (>>)

Ian — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:19:27 +0000

"And you know what? When I say this stuff people scream at me and they say, 'What do you care? Let people do what they want to do, it makes them feel good.' And you know what? You're wrong.

"Because, I don't care if it's the secretary of HHS saying, 'hmmm, I'm not gonna take the evidence of my experts on mammograms' or some cancer-quack who wants to treat his patient with coffee-enemas... when you start down the road where belief in magic replace evidence and science you end up in a place you don't wanna be.

"You end up Thabo Mbeki's South Africa; he killed four hundred thousand of his people by insisting that beetroot, garlic and lemon oil were much more effective than the antiretroviral drugs we know can slow the course of AIDS. Hundreds of thousands of needless deaths in a country that has been plauged, worse than any other, by this disease. Please, don't tell me there are no consequences to these things; there are, there always are." (>>)

Ian — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:29:52 +0000

"Whenever my husband and I have a fight, I just moon him and he starts giggling and then the fight is over. I don't know if this would work for every couple, though." (>>)

Ian — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:17:35 +0000

"Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny." (>>)

Ian — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:25:11 +0000

"In my own life, this comes in moments when I find myself angry or selfish and I simply say to myself 'Hey, you’re doing that thing where you get jealous.' In other times, I will feel like people don’t like me, I won’t want to go to a party or something and I’ll say to myself 'Hey, you’re doing that thing where you identify as a marginalized person because it makes you feel special.' " (>>)

Ian — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:23:25 +0000

"Personally, I have never understood the fear Christians have when it comes to the findings of science. And it strikes me how ignorant most Christians are of earlier battles from which we should have learned." (>>)