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Blog of NashThe Nashes like football and their kids
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Has cute kids.
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10:14PM | Around The Web
 inks to a couple interesting things found online:
1. How to beat a traffic ticket in court [Story]
2. A Japanese researcher develops a robot that looks and moves like the researcher himself [Story]
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11:02PM | Case Study Demonstrating How Multiple Translations Are An Aide To Studying
 pecifically, an exercise in when other translations of the Bible serve better than one alone - in my case, the King James Version.
Micah 4:5
"For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever."
Thinking from a postmillenial hermeneutic, I thought it would be interesting to look at clearer translations of this verse, and see if the distiction between "his god" and "the Lord our God" carries over accurately from the Hebrew into the English KJV translation, in the collective opinions of other translators. If it does, then this is an interesting distinguishing attribute of these two clauses. This verse is preceded by the exaltation of Zion, all men will flow to Zion to hear God's law and walk in his paths, nations will beat their sword into plowshares and spears into pruninghooks, and there will be no more war, every man being able to sit peacefully in his fruitful habitation. If some men are still walking in the name of their gods during this time of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and dominion of Christ's kingdom, then this verse can be applied by postmillenialists as evidence that the "millenial" reign of Christ will exist on this earth through His people. It points to a progressive taking of dominion in the world by the Church, because only in history can there still be men who "walk every one in the name of his god".
Looking at other translations of this verse, the contrast between "his god" and the "Lord our God" holds up, and this verse is presented by these translations more clearly as an "on the one hand/on the other hand" contrast.
"Even though the nations around us worship idols, we will follow the Lord our God forever and ever."
- New Living Translation
"All the nations may walk
in the name of their gods;
we will walk in the name of the Lord
our God for ever and ever."
- NIV
"For all the peoples walk
each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever."
- English Standard Version
"For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever."
- Revised Standard Version
The "but" conjunction really makes a difference, helping the contrast and significance of the two clauses of Micah 4:5 stand out. Regarding the postmillenialism of this verse and passage, "Zion" and "Jerusalem" do not refer to historical, political, Jewish Israel. That is another topic exhaustively touched upon by theologians who know a whole lot more than I do, so you can chase down their books to read the arguments for (and against) that important interpretive detail.
Turning to your least favorite subject, myself
I started looking at houses (i.e. for first time buyers such as myself, jargon for actually physically visiting houses for sale that I am interested in) yesterday, checking out two of them. I'll look at four more on Saturday. I intend to choose one as an abode before the month is up. We shall see what transpires.
Rather than in my life, it seems like the action is at a certain zoo, where a veterinarian's forearm was bitten off by a crocodile. Yes, there are pictures of the forearm being grasped in the crocodile's jaws.
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10:32PM | Baseball Fever
pring is here, which means that baseball is here. Baseball is one of the select few things that can keep me up at night - for excitement, not because of some kind of baseball-induced stress, even though I am a Phillies fan. I had trouble falling asleep two nights before and the night before my primary fantasy baseball draft, and was equally eager in the hours before Opening Day (April 2nd for the Phillies and most other teams). After a couple winter months engrossing myself during spare moments at work in articles on fantasy baseball, projections, and my own analyzing of my roster and draft targets, I can now turn my attention to watching the games, tracking players stats, and micromanaging my fantasy baseball team(s).
Also with spring comes the pollen, but baseball, the warmer weather, and the extended daylight hours make it worth it. This is now the second year that I have been adversely affected by the pollen in the air, though previously I had never been allergic to the airborne stuff. It coats my car in a yellow dust, and out of necessity and because it was warm (and because jury duty enabled me to have longer evenings of daylight, because I would return home earlier than if I was at work) I washed my car twice, and almost a third time over the weekend. However, trusting that it would rain later and seeking to indulge rather in running, I spent yet another weekend mostly outdoors, jolting my beer belly on the park trails.
In a return to an earlier era, I am without a television at the moment, which is ok, because I have baseball on my computer. Who cares about the NCAA championship this year anyway? Watching Florida celebrate two previous college championships (one in football and one in basketball) was enough to last a decade. With the absence of television, it is phenomenal how much easier it is to read, and to endure in straight hours of reading. Even the presence of a silent, dark television in the room kills my reading stamina. Where is my television? It is getting repaired.
Here is an oddity: I hardly have time to get everything done that I need to get done, but I do not feel like I am really accomplishing anything or working on anything big that would demand so much of my free time, and yet I do not have time even to eat dinner somedays. My work and my work hours take too much out of me, I think. As for this moment, I should assemble a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or something so that I can say that ate something tonight.
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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol (link added 06.16.08)
Crude oil is being created from genetically modified bug excretions.
Read it
Pringles can designer buried in his work (link added 06.03.08)
Designer of the Pringles can was cremated and his remains kept in a Pringles can.
Read it
P o e t r y
Contented Wi' Little, And Cantie Wi' Mair - Robert Burns
Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair,
Whene'er I forgather wi' Sorrow and Care,
I gie them a skelp, as they're creepin alang,
Wi' a cog o' guid swats and an auld Scottish sang.
I whyles claw the elbow o' troublesome Thought;
But Man is a soger, and Life is a faught.
My mirth and guid humour are coin in my pouch,
And my Freedom's my lairdship nae monarch daur touch.
A towmond o' trouble, should that be my fa',
A night o' guid fellowship sowthers it a':
When at the blythe end o' our journey at last,
Wha the Deil ever thinks o' the road he has past?
Blind Chance, let her snapper and stoyte on her way,
Be't to me, be't frae me, e'en let the jade gae!
Come Ease or come Travail, come Pleasure or Pain,
My warst word is:- ' Welcome, and welcome again!'
S t o r y
R e a d i n g / R e a d
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