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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Processing; Where’s Manasseh?; Clarity Produces Force; I Must Be a “Simpler Churchman”; Sexta
1. Zosia Zaks, Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults, page 222: Using index cards and magic markers, both partners can make flash cards to address each other’s concerns during regular conversations. The flash cards explain what is happening … Continue reading
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Good Dating Profile, Desolate, Method Writing, Origen’s God Is More Merciful Than the Mishnah’s, Theodotian
1. Zosia Zaks, Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults, page 195: On writing your profile for an Internet dating site: Try to make a favorable impression. If you do nothing in life but sit in front of the … Continue reading
Posted in Asperger's, Autism, Bible, Dating, Greco-Roman, Rabbinics, Religion
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Kevin Walker’s Journey Towards Forgiveness
I haven’t done a Brothers and Sisters write-up for some time, but last night’s two-hour episode was awesome. I’ve always liked Kevin, the gay character. He’s a cocky, intelligent, liberal lawyer with a bunch of sarcastic one-liners. But I like him because … Continue reading
Posted in Brothers and Sisters, Movies, Stephen King, Television
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Inclusive Chronicler, Metaphor and Worldview, Christian Allegory Rooted in Palestine, Symmachus Contra Anthropomorphism
1. Sara Japhet, The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought, pages 349-350: Since the purpose of [the Chronicler’s] genealogies is to portray the composition of Israel’s tribes by family, we must understand the above … Continue reading
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Expressions I Don’t Recognize, The Coming Evangelical Collapse, I Kings 22
1. Zosia Zaks, Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults, page 167: Keep a log book of common expressions and conversational patterns. For example, if you keep hearing people say, “She’s having a bad hair day!” or “He’s ill!” write … Continue reading
Posted in Asperger's, Autism, Bible, Church, Deaths, I Kings, Religion, Weekly Quiet Time
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Good Jobs for Autistic People, Gentiles Keeping the Sabbath as Israelites, a Desperate Naturalistic Defense, Aquila the Resentful Proselyte
1. Zosia Zaks, Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults, pages 152-153: Zosia discusses jobs that may be appropriate for autistic people. Here are my favorite passages: Many of us love organizing, stocking, shelving, and counting. Categorizing items is … Continue reading
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How Do You Feel?; Many of Them Stayed; Parts of a Speech; Barnabas on the Land Promise; Jewish Beefs with the Septuagint—Before the Christians Used It
1. Zosia Zaks, Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults, page 135: If you feel as though you can discuss your inner emotional states with another person and that doing so would help you see yourself in new ways, … Continue reading
Posted in Asperger's, Autism, Bible, Greco-Roman, Movies, Religion, Star Trek
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Good Doctors, Tension in Chronicles on Northern Israel, Generating Emotions, Hebrews Vs. Philo on Cult, MT and LXX for Jeremiah
1. Zosia Zaks, Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults, page 120: I always ask the doctor before he begins to examine me or use equipment. I also ask him to verbally explain each step of what he is … Continue reading
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Autism Card; All Twelve Tribes; Sanitized Vs. Non-Sanitized; Sensus Plenior or Just Plain Sensus?; LXX Families
1. Zosia Zaks, Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults, page 112: Zosia suggests handing people an explanation card if you need to answer a question and don’t feel comfortable going into a long explanation about your autism, which … Continue reading
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Intelligent Quote of the Day
There’s a good discussion about homosexuality and Christianity going on at Rachel Held Evans’ blog, under her post, Review: “Love is an Orientation” by Andrew Marin. Both the post and the discussion are worth reading. I left some comments there, … Continue reading
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James' Ramblings 