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Tuesday, April 14 2009 @ 12:37 AM EDT
Contributed by: Moderator
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 An old stewardship story is that a pig and a chicken got lost in the woods. After days of wandering with nothing to eat, they came upon a town where the window sign in the local restaurant was advertising bacon and eggs. The chicken started running toward the door. The pig took a step back. The chicken asked, “Aren’t you hungry?” “Sure,” came the reply, “but for you it is only a donation. For me it is a total commitment.”
Wednesday, April 01 2009 @ 03:52 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 235
As the waters in North Dakota’s Red River rose to and past flood state, a minister in Fargo, North Dakota, assured his parishioners that “God’s presence was at hand.” It wasn’t clear to me whether he was blaming God for the rising waters or promising his flock that they weren’t going to be washed away like lambs to the slaughter. As it was, the waters receded and Fargo was spared.
Sunday, March 22 2009 @ 09:48 AM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 240
What if you knew that everything you believe is a lie…. One of the strange things about beliefs—and we all have them—is that they aren’t really “true.” For most of the things you believe, it is not really a matter of their being “lies.” It is more a matter of their being “not true.” That’s an important distinction. For the most part, we haven’t been deceived into believing falsehoods, but we have simply accepted what others have believed as the truth.
Saturday, February 28 2009 @ 07:41 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 222
If you’re old enough to remember—or if you are music fan—you can doubtless remember a song made famous twice, once by Etta James and once by Dinah Washington, “What a Difference a Day Makes.” Although the song is about the ways in which meeting the right person changes everything, a day can make a difference in a wide variety of ways.
Wednesday, February 18 2009 @ 09:44 AM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 260
When I was young, I believed that my parents knew everything. I could ask them any question, and they would respond with absolute certainty. As I have gotten older, I have recognized that the certainty with which they responded wasn’t always justified. When I asked my mother what it meant to “rub a cat the wrong way,” she replied without hesitation and with complete assurance that it meant to rub the cat in the direction contrary to the natural lie of the fur. I didn’t know much about cats at the time, so what my mother said made sense.
Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 07:34 AM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 215
Have you ever heard someone say that they wanted to do something “in the worst way?” I’ve often wondered about that. If what a person wanted, for example, was to “go to Chicago in the worst way,” what might that be? The first thing that occurred to me was going to Chicago strapped to the back of a stampeding buffalo.
Think about the possibilities:
Saturday, January 31 2009 @ 06:19 PM EST
Contributed by: Moderator
Views: 294
Regular readers of this Blog know that Joel is quite often fascinated (and some other emotions as well) with the way language is used and abused in the media. Recently I was surprised and delighted by way advertisers had used what we in SCS/NLP call advanced language patterns.
Thursday, January 29 2009 @ 05:01 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 285
Those of you who have read Dickens may well remember the Department of Redundancy Department, which was located near the Office of Circumlocution. At the risk of repeating myself or beating around the bush, I intend to write about some of the strange things I’ve recently seen and heard in advertising lately.
I am especially fond of “Completely Free!” It leads me to wonder how much “Almost Free” or “Virtually Free” would cost. When something is “Totally Finished,” is it more finished than “Completely Finished”?
Thursday, January 15 2009 @ 01:28 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 238
According to New York Times columnist David Brooks, “Everything becomes a shorter version of itself. Essays become op-eds. Op-eds become blog posts. Blog posts become Twitter tweets” (1 January 2009). That expresses some of my own observations about the ways in which communication technology has been influencing how we communicate—and perhaps even how we think. Do we think in “essays” or “tweets”?
Thursday, January 01 2009 @ 03:53 AM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 203
Just in case you were wondering, 2008 was longer than 2007 was or 2009 will be. For good or for ill, the Earth doesn’t rotate according to human calendars, and at midnight on 31 December, “they” decided to hold that moment to let the planet catch up with the calendar. And you were thinking that “spin” was all about politics….
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