A La Carte (3/7)

Yesterday at church I was asked for a recommendation for a book on guidance. So I went to my office and pulled down Decisions, Decisions by Dave Swavely—still my favorite on the subject. I cracked it open and out fell a small gold coin dated 1791. Weird.

Saving Faith - Monergism Books is offering a free download of the e-book version of A.W. Pink’s Saving Faith.

Charlie Sheen is God - This blog (done in video form) raises some interesting points as it discusses Charlie Sheen and his god complex. This guy is right—Sheen is one of the few celebrities courageous enough to just say it: “My life is so much better than yours because I’m so much richer than you’ll ever be.”

Inveitable Ruin - I’ve heard good things about this message Don Whitney gave at a recent conference. It’s called “The Inevitable Ruin of Every Minister and How to Avoid It.”

What Shapes Our Language - Here’s your infographic du jour. This one provides a look at some of the things that shape a language.

Nyiragongo Crater - The Big Picture has a great photo essay of an active volcano at Nyiragongo Crater. Understatement: “Approaching 282 million cubic feet of lava requires extensive protections.”

Sheen, Beck or Qaddafi? - Another fun game. I got 9 out of 15.

iPad 2 Notes - This is a thoughtful article for those wanting to get some big-picture thinking on the iPad 2.

The World’s Most Typical Person - National Geographic tells you who that is.

It is a dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips. —John Flavel

Comments (10)

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Anonymous's picture

The World’s Most Typical Person video is so fascinating! I wonder if the Han Chinese male would be the most typical because of how long abortions of Chinese females have been so acceptable (what The Economist has called “gendercide”…put that together with the fact that China has such a large population anyways and it would seem to make sense?!

Anyways…I really enjoyed watching! Thanks for posting!

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Anonymous's picture

You misspelled *inevitable! :)

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Anonymous's picture

Sheen is one of the few celebrities courageous enough to just say it: “My life is so much better than yours because I’m so much richer than you’ll ever be.”

Or foolish enough.

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Anonymous's picture

…small gold coin”

Weird nothing! That’s a supernatural sign from God that you should cash in your 401K and buy more gold,brother! It fell out of a “guidance” book, Tim! Come on!

lol

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Anonymous's picture

I think that it’s time to stop making a spectacle of Sheen (or letting the rest of the internet do the dirty work for us) and, instead, time to pray for him.

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Anonymous's picture

Shouldn’t you be opening ALL the books in your library right now?

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Anonymous's picture

Susanna, based on the way the video expressed it, it’s not so much that Han Chinese males in particular are most common, but because “Han Chinese” is the most common ethnicity and “males” are the most common sex, so they combined the two to get the “Typical person.”

However, I do wonder if the Chinese infanto-gynocide is responsible for men being the majority — I had always thought that women consistently slightly outnumbered men, but perhaps the elimination of Chinese female babies would be enough to tip the scales.

I also really wonder about that “100 gallons per day per person at home” thing. My mid-summer water bill (our peak usage) shows about 1/3 of that, and we’re not what you’d call stingy with water (though we generally don’t water our lawn.)

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Anonymous's picture

I hope you are going to get that gold coin appraised!

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Anonymous's picture

I also really wonder about that “100 gallons per day per person at home” thing. My mid-summer water bill (our peak usage) shows about 1/3 of that, and we’re not what you’d call stingy with water (though we generally don’t water our lawn.)”

Probably worked out as to how much water goes to produce the food US eats, wears, airconditioning etc.

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