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- 05/09/11
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I spent a lot of time reading this weekend. Reading on the Internet, that is. And now when it comes to A La Carte I find that I’ve got about 100 articles bookmarked. Well, 20 or 30 anyway. So let me see if I can make up an interesting mix that reflects the eclectic nature of what I was reading.
Books About Heaven and Hell - Randy Alcorn has written an article on 90 Minutes in Heaven, Heaven Is Real and other books in that “been to heaven (or hell)” genre.
A Surprising Way to Love Your Wife - Here’s a must-read article for the husbands out there. Wives, if you want your husband to read it, just print it off and tell him that I said he’d enjoy it.
Shakespeare, Aesop or KJV? - A quiz that is more difficult than you might think.
My Husband’s Other Wife - I found this a moving article. “Shortly after my husband John and I were married, on a day he was at work and I was home moving my things into his house, I opened a cardboard box in the attic. It was filled with photos of his other married life, the one he’d had with his first wife, Robin Goldstein. She was 28 when they got married, and six months later she was diagnosed with breast cancer. My husband was nursing her at home when she died just after her 34th birthday. The box contained wedding photos, honeymoon photos, and random snapshots of parties and birthdays.”
7 Thoughts - Douglas Wilson offers 7 thoughts on the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. This is very good and helpful stuff.
Lessons from the Coverage - Speaking of Bin Laden, this site looks at the way the news exploded into the world and shows the kind of challenge this presents to old media.
Creepy and Cool - Z says this is the creepiest and coolest thing he’s seen in a long time. I’d tend to agree. It makes me think we’ve been wasting our kids’ kindergarten years.
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Comments (12)
Thanks for these links, Tim.Uri
So sad that the children of north Korea are exploited like this. They are selected and trained with the purpose of glorifying the Great Leader (Kim Jong Il) and are showcased as a “shining example” of his brilliant leadership. As cute and amazing as they are, I find it just completely heartbreaking.
what a sobering quote at the end.
sobering quote at the end of what?
Like Bob F said, the children in the video are from North Korea. They play guitar beautifully, and as a musician myself, I can only imagine how much hard work they had to put in to learn their instrument so well. But as Tim pointed out, there is something very very strange in that video.
I’m an American, and I grew up reading news about North Korea. Now I live in South Korea, 20 miles away from the border. I know people who defected from the North, and teach students who never knew their grandparents. There is so much more to this issue than reports of nuclear bomb tests. Kim Jong Il is a dictator and an evangelist. His father created a religion to help control the people. The battle in North Korea isn’t simply political, it is spiritual too. The situation between these two countries is so much deeper than the DMZ and Kim Jong Il being crazy.
Pyeongyang, North Korea used to have so much Christian influence that it was called the “Jerusalem of the East”. Now, nobody knows that. All we see are these strange children who look more like robots than children as they perfectly play their guitars and crazy blogs making fun of Kim Jong Il looking at things. Every time I see this video make rounds on the internet, it reminds me of just how much prayer North Korea needs. It is a real place with real people, real hurt, and real needs that go far beyond rice and democracy.
The Video is creepy, but not cool … or just sad … of course, it shows the potential of kids and humans … but they are drilled, for sure!
If trained as robots, humans will respond as robots. Machines. Whether it be guitar-playing North Korean kids, or the US Mom and Dad - heads down on their smartphones - tapping away with intenseness on their face - Focused Concentration! - while their ignored kids look on and learn. Beyond sad - this is TRAGIC.
Creepy and cool…I’m speechless….I wanna learn how to do that.
Re: Alcorn article:
Here we go:
“Heaven is For Real” the movie; produced by T. D. Jakes.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/heaven-is-for-real-headed-for-movie-adap…
That video is cool..in a way. The guitars are bigger than the children.
I loved that article about Robin. A beautiful story of non-jealousy.
I thought the shakespeare/aesop/KJV quiz was a piece of cake :)