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Shayne — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:03:08 +0000

I don’t mind what sort of comments people send – as long as it’s not spam.

A suggestion some may like to consider. Please save your time and don’t send anti-Christian material – I’ll just delete it

Before my conversion I looked at most other frameworks of structured human thought/philosophy (inc. zen & humanism). At one time, I was a leading exponent of Sartrean existentialism, coming from the ranks of Nietzsche’s would-be supermen, having left behind the ruins of nihilism. I see all these other attempts to explain the meaning of life, as meaningless mazes that have no exit points. A chasing after the wind. (Please pardon the puns and poor wordplay )

Yes, that’s correct – I have a closed mind about the issue – check out my history on tofollowJesus.org and you will understand why!

A new year

Shayne — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:29:10 +0000

A conservative group of anglican archbishops, bishops and others, are organising a Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) to be held in the Holy Land in June 2008. I guess the main outcome would be a road-map for conservative Anglicans, post the pending split in the Anglican Communion. [Perhaps, regarding the schism - it's more accurate to say while we wait for official recognition of the existing de facto parting of the ways.]

A pro-gay website contains this wonderful quote: “GAFCON is an event for the like-minded. A gathering of the like-minded is very specifically not a Christian ideal nor part of the teaching of Jesus Christ.”

Depending on the subject of the ‘like-mindedness’ – it could be a core teaching of Jesus – such is the problem of these catchy generalisations – they are usually exceptionally wrong.