I’m starting to, as I think about this, pull out some of the photos that I took while in Fiordland. The photo at the top is taken with a zoom, and slightly misfocused, but it is of a couple of Takahe, a very rare and hare sized bird that lives in burrows.
When stoats and rats were introduced to this nation, then the Takahe, which are very dumb birds, were decimated. Part of the haziness in this photo is that I was shooting through a chain link fence: these animals need to be protected.
But this one does not. It’s a kea, or mountain parrot, drinking from a running tap in it’s cage.
I want to start with the principle that led to the scientific movement, and that leads to prediction: it is that our God is a god of law, a god of order, he does not work in chaos. This is different from the model of the Islamics, who consider that every action in this world is made by the completely free hand of God, nor the Evolutionists, who see this world as formed by random chance. Both are, in effect, forms of Chaos, and both lead to a lack of certainty on the natural laws and rules.
14Thus says the LORD The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, tall of stature, shall come over to you and be yours, they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying, “God is with you alone, and there is no other; there is no god besides him.”
15 Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
16All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.
17 But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens< (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the LORD, and there is no other.
19 I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, “Seek me in chaos.” I the LORD speak the truth, I declare what is right.
Now, if God is a God of order, then the ways of God are the ways of truth, and the ways of the world are the ways of Chaos. So, at this point, brevity is the soul of wit…
#feministautocorrect
Changes HUSBAND/WIFE to PARTNER
(I really hate this "partner" B.S. It's so unsexy. Partner is for business, not sex).
— Sunshine Mary (@SunshineMarySSM) January 7, 2014
In Biblical Marriage, the husband is the head of the family, as Elders control the congregation (made of families) they submit to Christ. In Christ, we are all equal in our need for salvation, but there is a structure to this.
I can be better than my husband in any number of things, but it doesn’t change two things: 1) in the matter of authority, he is my superior, and 2) all our excellences aggregated, I look up to him.
Note part of why I look up to him is that he doesn’t talk down to me. A man would be a fool to marry a woman he thinks is a moron. And I couldn’t respect a fool.
I don’t think women want to be treated as equals. I think we want to be treated collegiality. That is, as collaborators, not minions. In college, we all adored our department head. (My husband and I both nannies in Theater.) What made him awesome was that even while he was the Director and had absolute authority about how the play would go, he treated us a colleagues. Our opinions and talents had value. He trusted that if my husband (the matter electrician and lighting designer) said a certain lighting effect just couldn’t be created, it couldn’t. If we said we were treated as equals, it would have been incorrect. But we weren’t treated as underlings. We would have done anything for that man.
Given that, can anyone doubt that the same dynamic works in marriage. I look up to him, even as he acknowledges ask the ways in which I complement his strengths and shore up his weaknesses. Equal? Why on earth would I want that.
What we have done, over and over again, is subvert the natural dynamic of marriage. We have intruded the law into the bedroom, where any action can been seen as abusive and assault. We have removed any sense of solidarity and collegiality from the relationship, instead replacing it with some legalese which describes the territory coldly but loses any passion.
We have assumed we are robots, slaves or the new Soviet man (if there is a difference between any of these) instead of humans.
And then we wonder why men walk away . Marriage has been reduced by these progressive fools into but a mutual admiration club and another form of sexual gratification: and then the passion has been removed.
It’s a bit like the native birds. There were no mammals in NZ. When they were introduced, there was a mass extinction, and it has taken a very long time to get controls in place, at some cost (NZ is the biggest user of 1080 poison in the world: and we use it in the forests to control mice and rats). We have to preserve man-free islands to keep birds alive. We fiddled with the natural order, and there were consequences. If we do that in our society, we can expect, like the Takahe, to be in a museum, or behind cages.
Update.
Or worse, we could be bred.
This is not case nightmare green. This is (erk) queer cat theory. http://t.co/NFT3jB18v6 pic.twitter.com/tVDijed85e
— Chris Gale (@pukeko60) January 9, 2014
