Month: November 2005

More on Pro-Life “Spam”

Peter Shinn at MarchTogether.com quickly replied to my email I sent him, and seemed apologetic enough that I thought I’d at least try to give him a fair hearing. The mistake he seems to have made was in realizing that this is a tiny little weblog, and not something a little more slick and professional: I never got around to putting our email addresses on the about page, so he assumed that posting his letter on the about page was going to send me a private little note.

Here’s his reply to me: Continue reading “More on Pro-Life “Spam””

Pro-Life Spam?

I just received a comment on our “about” page from a pro-life blogger who wanted to use my site to promote his pro-life movement. Unfortunately, instead of *asking* for me to promote him, he just went ahead and commented with a full-page advertisement. His comment has since been deleted, and I’m not going to even bother linking to him, since I don’t think he should get any positive credit for using spam techniques, no matter how good his cause.

However, I thought I’d post the email reply I sent to him:

> I received a comment from you on my site that ammounted to a complete article/advertisement for your organization. I’m deleting your comment, and I thought you might like to know why.

> While I am 100% behind anything that might help to end the scourge of abortion, it isn’t fair to me or to anyone else for you to take advantage of my space to advertise your programs without my permission. I’m sure you have an excellent agenda, but taking advantage of other people to promote it is unchristian and uncalled for.

> If you had posted a comment asking me to post something about your organization, I might have been willing to give you front page space to do so, and hopefully drawn the attention of whatever readers I might have. But as it is, your comment counts as little more than spam, and so it will be deleted.

Peace,
Kyle French

Bug Check

Do me a favor, will you: go have a look at the (/gallery/).

While I was… procrastinating… I finally figured out how to update the layout of the photo gallery. I’ve done some preliminary updating, but I haven’t gone through everything. See if you find anything that looks… weird, out of place, or uh… missing. I’d appreciate it.

Also, if you can think of any features you’d like to see in there (say navigation items from the blog side of the site), tell me and I’ll look into changing things around some more.

That is, if I ever happen to procrastinate again.

Breakfast

It has come up quite frequently in conversation that my wife does all the cooking around our house. I don’t know exactly how it keeps coming up, but I always must protest: It’s not my fault! I’m not exactly an overbearing ogre. (I mean, look at me. Is [this](http://neumatikos.org/gallery/v/Baby+Face/) intimidating?) The truth is, she won’t *let* me cook. Cooking is both a spontaneous thing for me and a highly regimented one. I cook with about 15 minutes notice, and I use a recipie. If the recipie doesn’t turn out, I either adjust or eliinate the recipie. Unfortunately, by the time I start giving 15 minutes notice, Valerie has already planned next week’s menu.

I used to take perfectly good care of myself before I was married. I have about 43 different kinds of pasta I can produce, and such manly entrées as chili, and beans, and Gold Coast Stew.

Also I fry eggs. Continue reading “Breakfast”

The Debate is On!

It seems there’s a bit of a fight brewing in the Christian Blogosphere over the gifts of the spirit, one of my favorite topics.

[Adrian Warnock](http://www.adrian.warnock.info/) and [Tim Challies](http://www.challies.com) seem to be the primary spark on this debate. Adrian has apparently been getting into it with cessationists for a while now (witness him calling [pyromaniac](http://phillipjohnson.blogspot.com/2005/11/rubber-prophecies.html) on [“charismatic-bating”](http://www.adrian.warnock.info/2005/11/rubber-prophecies-prove-nothing-except.htm)), and apparently he didn’t notice that Tim Challies was one too (a cessationist, that is). Continue reading “The Debate is On!”

New Pictures up in the Gallery

These are from the trip Kyle and I made to the Congaree National Park in South Carolina back for his birthday. I’m only a couple of months late getting them up…. Anyways, I’m working on pictures from oldest to newest, which means that the next set that I’ll get to put up will be from our honeymoon. It will be a modified set of pictures so don’t get excited. Click on the lizard for the pictures. Enjoy.

<img src="http://www.neumatikos.org/gallery/d/742-2/IMG00072.JPG" alt="leaping lizards"

More on Belief

Which is truth? Propositions or experience?

Ever have an argument with somebody that, months or even years later, you just can’t get out of you head? I do. Lots of ’em. Usually they keep surfacing until I win (at least in my head… 🙂 ).

[One of those arguments](http://www.neumatikos.org/essay/by-faith/#comment-299) happened almost a year and a half ago on this site between me and a guy named Zac on a part of a series I did on [faith](http://www.neumatikos.org/essay/by-faith/). We had some… philosophical differences.

It’s common enough to encounter the hyper-liberal suggestion that “true knowledge” excludes propositional truth and only includes experience and understanding. That is, that real truth cannot be condensed to consise statements. Continue reading “More on Belief”