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AL Sanders: Our guest today on Ambassador Express Talk is Dr. John MacArthur, the speaker, of course, on the broadcast Grace To You.
John, you've been preaching for how many years?
JOHN MacARTHUR: Well I actually started preaching, Al, when I was in my late teens and it was, I think, just growing up under my Dad's influence as a preacher and because I seemed to be able to make a conversation work pretty well somebody thought I ought to be up front giving a little talk now and then, and that started when I was in high school. The first formal sermon was when I was a college student.
AL: What was it on?
JOHN: It was really bad, do I have to say it? I mean, it was...
AL: We have a copy, we'll send it out to our listeners.
JOHN: Ay-yi-yi...I think I preached on the angel rolled the stone away and the title of the sermon was, "Rolling away stones in your life."
AL: I like it. That sounds great...
JOHN: I don't think that was really the idea of that account of the resurrection.
AL: Well now as you look back on your life and these years of ministry and preaching, suppose a young person would say, "You know, I'd really like to get in the pulpit and expound God's Word. In fact, I'd like to do it just like John MacArthur." What would you tell a person like that?
JOHN: Well, first of all, I'd say it's good to have models to follow, but, you know, you're going to be wired uniquely and you want to let the Lord develop in you a particular style of preaching. But I would say the way to develop as a preacher is to listen to great preaching, what you would believe to be great preaching. So first of all, to listen. And secondly, to read great theology. Great preaching is the marriage of great communication and great theology. You can have great communication without the great theology, and that preaching may have a moment's glow but it's not going to be the long-term. If you're going to have a long-term ministry, you've got to wed theology. So as a young man, I think I was served well because early on I began to read great theology. And so, I wanted my sermons to be...to be rich, to have some depth and some breadth.
One other thing to throw in on the communication side is the best training ground for a preacher is young people, and the younger the better because kids have the courtesy to talk if you're not interesting. And so you immediately get the feedback. And, you know, I would say junior high. If you can command the attention of junior-high kids, you have to work at it and you have to develop and hone the skill to do that.
AL: And they know when you're real.
JOHN: They know when you're real and they know when you're just pulling the wool over...and you've got to keep them moving. They're used to a very, very fast-paced kind of entertainment and if you can keep up with that as a communicator, you've got some future.
AL: Now you mentioned a moment ago listening to your Dad. As you reflect on all of these years of ministry, what's the best advice your father ever gave you?
JOHN: The best advice he ever gave me was when he gave me a Bible when I told him I wanted to be a preacher and in the flyleaf cover he wrote, "Dear Johnny, Preach the Word. Love, Dad."
AL: Wow.
JOHN: And nothing more needed to be said. If you're going to do this, preach the Word.
AL: Now as you've been preaching the Word, you're an expository preacher, tell our listeners what that really means? Is it always verse by verse?
JOHN: Exposition means simply to explain the text. It may not be verse by verse, it may be a verse. It may be a part of a verse. It may be a word in a verse. It may be a subject in the Bible, a topic, but the topic is undergirded by the verses that teach the topic rightly divided, or rightly understood. You know what I mean by that?
AL: Yeah.
JOHN: If you're going to speak on the subject of sin, then there are number of passages that you have to address. But in order to be accurate, you have to rightly interpret the passages that you're using to teach the subject. So in the end it's explaining the Bible.
AL: What's your process of doing that? What's your discipline? How do you go about to maybe give us a cutaway of what it looks like?
JOHN: Well for me the topical sermon is the oddity in my life. For the most part, it's going through book after book after book after book, verse by verse, beginning to end. And so for me it's to week after week in my life I do one book on Sunday morning, another one on Sunday night, is to take the next paragraph in that book and that week work on understanding that paragraph, interpreting that paragraph. And out of that comes...or out of a portion of that comes the sermon.
AL: Well what do you do to study that? Does it just come out of your head as things come to your mind?
JOHN: It starts...it starts when you approach the book initially. First you have to read...I read all the introductory material, that is maybe fifteen or twenty commentaries on a book, read everything that's in the introduction to those commentaries which gives me an overview of the book.
AL: That takes time.
JOHN: It takes a lot of time. Then...that's the hard part of exposition is when you start a book because you have to understand the whole book before you've taught it or you're going to interpret something in chapter 3 that's not going to be consistent in chapter 6. You know what I'm saying?
AL: Uh-huh.
JOHN: Or you're going to have a problem. So you have to do an overview. Introductory material helps me to do that so I read pretty extensively. Once I get an overview of the book, then I sort of break the book into general thoughts in my mind and then I just start to take it a paragraph at a time. When I start, the first thing I do is go to the original language materials and I interpret the verse, or the verses. I interpret all that, I write it down on eight-and-a-half by fourteen sheets, all that work.
AL: Good night.
JOHN: Then I bring out 15...12...however many commentaries and I read those commentaries on that section because I want to take advantage of past illumination. And the commentaries give me cross references, they give me interpretation, options, they give me theology, they give me historical background, they give me a lot of things. And I just take more notes on that. So I've got notes on the text itself in the original language, and I've got notes on all of the commentaries that I've read. And by then, I have begun to frame up and form my understanding. The next step is to find the cross references because I like to explain the Bible with the Bible...so I list all the cross references at the appropriate places, now I've got a rough draft and I can shape that into a final form, throw an outline in after that and then produce a final set of notes to preach from.
AL: How long does that take, John, that process of preparing just one sermon?
JOHN: Well essentially, you know, that's basically a two-day process, for me a two full day. It's not as much as it used to be because I know more now than I used to know...so the well is deeper I can draw on what I know.
AL: Are there any passages of Scripture, any books of the Bible that you haven't taught yet?
JOHN: Well, I've basically gone through the entire New Testament verse by verse. The only book I haven't taught in the New Testament is the gospel of Mark. Much of that material, of course, is in Matthew and Luke so I've intersected with it and I hope when I finish Luke now to do Mark and then I will have exposited the entire New Testament and that will allow me to finish the New Testament commentary series on the whole New Testament.
As far as the Old Testament goes, early in my ministry I made it all the way to Psalm 73 and then...
AL: Not a hundred and nineteen...
JOHN: No, made it to Psalm 73 and I did that on Wednesday nights, taught New Testament books on Sunday morning and evening. So I've not really gone through the Old Testament, although I have gone back and taught some of the books of the Old Testament. I had to make a choice and I decided that I wanted to focus on being a minister of the New Covenant, the New Testament and teach the Old Testament sort of as illustrations, "These things are written for our instruction and example," and so I bring it into my New Testament teaching, but I have no hope of ever going through the whole Old Testament.
AL: Do you try to find illustrations to fill out some of those things you mentioned...illustrative material from the Scripture itself.
JOHN: Yeah, the first place I look is into the Old Testament or in to some other portion of the Bible because I like to illustrate with the Scripture for a number of reasons. One, it teaches while it illustrates. Two, it has authority. Only a biblical illustration carries biblical authority. And an illustration outside the Bible may have interest, and it may aid clarity, but it doesn't have authority. So the first place to look is in the scriptures and I believe that the New Testament says the Old Testament is written for our instruction and our example, that when you're looking for examples, that's the best place to go to find them. And then after I've done that, if I feel like there's some other kind of illustration from some issue of life, or some book I've read, or some secular thing I might bring that in at the end. I rarely ever use myself as an illustration.
AL: Why is that?
JOHN: Almost never.
AL: Why is that?
JOHN: Because...
AL: You don't want to get in the way?
JOHN: Yeah, because I'm not, I don't like to offer myself as the model, I don't like to...I don't have...I don't want to confuse people. It's a delicate thing, Al, I don't want people ever to think that my life is the authority. The truth of God's Word is the authority. I'm not the authority. And as a preacher because I bear authority when I proclaim the Word, I start using myself as an illustration then I think people have a hard time drawing the line. Another element of it, too, is I can't expect people to set my life as the model for them to follow because my life is so different than their's is. So I don't like to use myself as an illustration, even though in a sense, as I follow Christ they need to follow me, as Paul said. I keep that kind of at a distance, I guess.
AL: Well over these...over these many years of ministry, four or five decades, have you been misunderstood about some of the issues that you've been teaching? And if so, what are those issues that people don't really understand what John MacArthur's all about?
JOHN: I think, Al, in all honesty there are two reasons I'm misunderstood. One is people are told something about me that misrepresents what I teach.
AL: Does that hurt you?
JOHN: Well if it's ignorance it doesn't. I can't...I can't get to that all the time, but there are people who for whatever reason will misrepresent what I teach. The truth of the matter is, no one needs to do that because I'm over-published and over-preached on tape, so anybody who wants to know anything about what I believe could certainly find out. But there are people who are just ignorant and they assume things that they've heard, or they assume things because of some part of what I said they heard and didn't hear the whole thing.
I think the harder thing is that I am...I am misunderstood because there are people who have an agenda who want to make sure that people think I teach heresy.
AL: Why would they do that?
JOHN: I don't know. There are just people who want to discredit me. And that's probably true of anybody as a Bible teacher, for whatever reasons people have they set out an agenda to be destructive. And in an effort to be destructive, they misrepresent what you say purposely.
An interesting illustration of that, I was at Founders Week at Moody a few years ago, and the great Moody church was packed with four thousand plus people at evening at Founders Week and I was...I was speaking that night. I had been ill for two days, been hold up in the hotel trying to get well enough from a flu bug to preach. I came down there ready to give my message and as I approached the building, all these people were flowing in, there were people ringing the building passing out leaflets, eight and a half by eleven leaflets, which essentially attacked me so that...
AL: Why?
JOHN: Well everybody going into the building got one of these things and it was a...both sides of an eight-and-a-half by eleven page folded, you know how people sometimes run to the top and the back and the sides, full of all of the heresies of John MacArthur.
AL: Were there some specific heresy?
JOHN: Well it was all...all half truths, innuendos, isolated quotes taken out of context, all lined up. You know, in the end I denied the trinity and denied the deity of Christ and denied the gospel and denied all these things.
AL: Why would they be after you?
JOHN: Well I guess the strange part of it was everybody coming in had one of these in their hands. And so they were pretty excited to hear what I was going to say. But the strange part of it was, this was a guy...I found out later...the guy who had set all this up was the father of a young man who in a weak moment, I guess, his son had come to me and asked if he could come to the Master's College, said he didn't have any money. I have him a scholarship, just...I don't know...out of the kindness of the moment, and he came to our college and we provided an education for him. And his father was the one doing that. So, I mean, I don't know what kind of person does that but you just have to...just have to sort of say I'm in good company over the long haul, you know, Saul persecuted the prophets.
AL: So you don't specifically try to get an issue and say, "Boy, this is going to get people upset?"
JOHN: The last thing I want to do is upset the people who love the truth. The first thing I want to do is upset the people who don't. I mean, I'm about the truth, I think you know that. I...it's the truth, it's...I don't want to pick a fight, I just understand the truth brings conflict.
AL: So as you look back across these four or five decades, John, has there been anything that has come into your life that...well, has broken your heart?
JOHN: You know, I think...people have said to me, "You're not as funny as you used to be when you preached." They've been saying that to me for the last fifteen years. I was pretty funny when I first started out.
AL: Does Patricia think that?
JOHN: Yeah, yeah, she does think that. And I...I'm not as much fun as I used to be. And I think what that is, Al, is the answer to your question, is that I don't...there aren't things that break my heart, there is just a dull ache that stays there all the time. And it...
AL: Because...
JOHN: It mounts through the years because you just accumulate the pains of...as a shepherd, you know, I mean...I just live with the pain of your people. You live with the disappointments. You live with the, you know, as I was saying on our broadcast today, you know, how long do we have to fight the battle for the purity of the gospel? How long to we have to fight to fight to prop the church up as it weakens itself by a failure to be faithful to sound doctrine. You know, it's the weariness of fighting the battle, the battle...and then how long do you have to be disappointed by people who sit in your church and hear the truth and then behave in a way that demonstrates that they don't seem to be able to apply any of it? And there's just this...it's not the one or two things that shatter you, it's this accumulated sadness of...you can understand why Paul would come to the end of his life and say, "I'm ready to be offered. You know, I'd like to go if I could, Lord, because of the care of all the churches." I mean, after all the beatings and the whippings and the real pain in ministry doesn't come from the persecution, it comes from the disappointment. That's why people talk about burn out, burn out doesn't have to do with hard work, it has to do with unfulfilled expectations. And so you get weary of the effort, you have to be careful of that kind of thing. It's just the weariness of wanting the truth to take hold and to flourish. I mean, it's the same weariness that Jesus must have felt when He said to the disciples, "O you of little faith," or we looked at Judas, it's those kinds of things.
AL: Wondered how much love would it take. So you have over the years had a great compassion for fellow pastors and as a result you have what is called the Shepherds Conference. Why are we as individuals in the congregation, why are we so tough on pastors? Why do we...
JOHN: You know, Al, I'm glad you brought that up. I really hurt for pastors. I mean, these dear men are beleaguered, to put it mildly. I mean...
AL: Are they depressed?
JOHN: Oh, I think they are. Paul was depressed as he said in 1 Corinthians...2 Corinthians chapter 7, he was depressed. He was depressed that the failure of his church in Corinth, he said, "I was depressed." And it was the Corinthian mess that depressed him. I don't think it was quote/unquote clinical, I just think it was...it was just a heavy, heavy, heavy oppressed sadness that the church was so hard to keep on track. And here you've got pastors who take the best gifts that God's given them, make the best effort they can and they're very much beaten up by people in their churches, misunderstood, misrepresented, under-appreciated, under-paid. You know, we bring them out here and it's grown, I mean, I think it was two years ago...three years ago we would have five or six hundred pastors, you know, we could have three thousand this year. In just the last couple of years this thing has just exploded.
AL: Plus it's going to be extended via the Internet.
JOHN: Yeah, in fact I just heard the other day that not only in English but people who speak Spanish can pick up the entire Shepherds Conference in Spanish anywhere in the world live on the Net. So we want to encourage pastors that...I was talking to a guy the other day and I said, "You know, Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4," this is where you have to go eventually, "It's a small thing what men say of me." He said, "Even if I know nothing about myself, herein am I not justified?" In other words, it has to matter little what men say and it has to matter little what I think, but "I have to wait for the day when the Lord reveals the secret things of the heart, then shall every man have praise from God." I have to let the Lord in the end be my defender. I can't look to men, there's too much disappointment there. I can't look to myself, there's too much ego there. I just have to wait and let God put the value on.
So for me it's just a question of faithfulness to the truth and to be the shepherd God wants me to be. But it's really hard for pastors. We hope that by building a sort of unofficial camaraderie and support base and friendship and fellowship and association that has developed through the Shepherds Conference we can bring some of that encouragement to these men.
AL: And oh how they need it. I bet they hate to go back, some of them, when they realize what they have to go back to.
Again I'd like to talk some more about your legacy, not only of the Shepherds Conference and the Grace To You radio broadcast, and the church, and also the Master's College and Master's Seminary, but maybe we could come back another time and do a little bit more of this, John, because I want to turn the corner and conclude our time together by asking you some personal questions, if I may?
JOHN: Sure.
AL: Questions, first of all, about that happy lady who is known as Patricia MacArthur. Where did you meet Patricia?
JOHN: Well actually her family was in to my Dad's church. When I was a young guy in college, her family joined our church...wonderful, wonderful family. And I first got to know her because she became a friend of my sister. And so she started hanging around the house, and that's when I got to know her. You know, from the very start, kind of had my eye on her.
AL: Yeah. But wasn't she interested in someone else?
JOHN: Oh, more than interested, she was engaged. So by the time...I was a college student, she was engaged to a guy who in the providence of God went away to medical school, which was good.
AL: Do you remember that first date?
JOHN: Oh yeah, very well.
AL: What was it?
JOHN: Oh, very well. I...
AL: Did you preach to her?
JOHN: No, no, I didn't preach to her, but I was her Bible study teacher. At the time I was in college, I was playing football, I was involved in a lot of things, but on Sunday I was the teacher of the college Sunday-school class in the church and she was in the class. So, you know, being her Bible teacher gained me some ground because the Lord used the Word. So eventually one time we were...we did a college class function and I was taking some kids home after that and I determined that I would take her home last.
AL: Aha...
JOHN: I didn't want to compromise her engagement by asking for a date but I...
AL: What were you driving at that time?
JOHN: A Volkswagen...
AL: And she was going to go home last...
JOHN: So she wasn't...yeah, we had packed it and she was going home last. Anyway that's when I introduced the thought, you know, that are you really certain about this guy because...by that time...
AL: That's the voice of God.
JOHN: Oh yeah, well I had found out that she had...the wedding date was set, the invitations were addressed, they were in the trunk of her car and she couldn't mail them. She was restrained. And I don't know why...she just said, "I have no peace." And the guy was saying...Look, the wedding is coming, the families were concerned. And she finally said, "I can't mail these." And so she...she said, "We're going to have to postpone this wedding." This was pretty traumatic when the invitations are addressed.
At that point, that's what prompted me to say, "You know, there may be a reason for this. And it may be me."
AL: That's wonderful.
JOHN: As it turned out, it was.
AL: You know, as we saw recently a picture of all your grandchildren and you have how many of those?
JOHN: Eleven...
AL: Eleven...you have four children and eleven grandchildren. What is the best thing about being a grandpa?
JOHN: Well for me the best thing about being a grandpa is...is watching my kids teach these little ones to love Christ, because, you know, when we get together they...in the car...they sing songs about the Lord and they ask me questions about the Bible and...it's so funny, they all have MacArthur's Study Bibles. They can't carry them or read them, you know...
AL: Grandpa did them.
JOHN: But I've written a couple of children's books really for them in mind...
AL: And your daughter illustrated them.
JOHN: Yeah, and the little kids have been...their parents have read them through the book on Theology, A Faith to Grow On. I think that's the best. Another thing, I keep saying this all the time, is I live in a world of conditions. Everybody around me wants something out of me in some way or another, and there are certain conditions in all relationships that you have...you know, you have to fulfill certain expectations. The thing that is really fun with grandchildren is this thing we talk about a lot, unconditional love...just this blind affection. And because I'm not a parent, there's not a component in there that's in there when you're a parent, there's that sort of fear factor that doesn't exist with grandparents. And so it's...
AL: And you're not the Christian superstar...you're just Grandpa.
JOHN: Oh, anything but...anything...anything. They have no time for
AL: They see you for what you are.
JOHN: They have no...you know, their response to my superstar status is...PaPa, we come to church, we came to church last Sunday but we didn't like it because you talk too long. I mean, that's their...that's their view of my superstar status.
AL: They'll appreciate that when they get a little older...that's for sure. I do want to do this again some time.
JOHN: Please, I would love to.
AL: I know our listeners would appreciate it because there are a number of other questions I wanted to ask you. For instance, I'd like to know what gives you the most satisfaction in ministry...I'd like to know whether John MacArthur ever thinks of retiring...I'd like to know what we would like to know about you that we don't know enough even to ask the right questions. But I think I'll close by asking you this because none of us are immortal. And I appreciate the fact that we have this opportunity of talking face-to-face because normally the radio listeners get to hear you as you're preaching the Word, expounding the Word from the pulpit, and they don't see the interaction that we've enjoyed here in the studio. So when God calls you to be with Himself, I guess the question that I'd like to ask is for what does John MacArthur want to be remembered?
JOHN: Well I think that's really pretty easy for me. I would just want to be remembered as having been faithful to the truth over the long haul, faithful to proclaim it and to live it. My Dad said to me many years ago, he said, quoting from Ephesians 6, "And having done all to stand," he said, "There are men who have done all but in the end they weren't standing." And that made an indelible impression on my young heart. I want to do all to defense of the truth, proclaim the truth, but in the end I want to be standing when it's over. I don't want to be crumpled in the dust because of some, I don't know, failure, default, or some demise at the end. I just...I want to be faithful to proclaim it to the end and to live that truth as much as possible to the end. And generally speaking, Al, the best barometer on that is the people who are closest to me, who know me most intimately, who it's important to me will all believe to the end that I love the truth that I proclaim because they'll see it in my life.
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Introduction and Grips
It seems like this is the year of the gaming mouse, with new products from Logitech, Microsoft, Razer and SteelSeries. The first one to get us a sample to have a play with was Logitech with its new G9 mouse. Even from the word go people thought it looked odd and we can't disagree that we had our doubts about this new design, since the previous design has been around for a good few years now, even though it has received a few tweaks along the road.
The most unique aspect with the G9 is the fact that the shape of the mouse can be changed, something no other mouse has ever offered. The interchangeable grips are an excellent idea and the mouse ships with two different grips so hopefully Logitech will follow through and release more grips for it in the future.
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DETROIT, March 15 (UPI) -- Detroit Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr says he's confident he can turn the city around, despite criticism from the City Council and residents.
Orr, a 54-year-old lawyer based in Washington, will
begin his new position March 25, the Detroit Free Press reported.
He said Thursday he was initially apprehensive when he was approached by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder about the job, but ultimately decided to take it on.
"If we can do this, I will have participated in one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of this country, and that is something I can tell my grandkids about," Orr said. "So it's very inviting, very challenging."
Orr said he does not have any particular cuts in mind as of yet, but he plans to focus on providing better services for Detroit residents, including improvements to the police and fire departments.
City lawmakers expressed opposition.
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The jury's still out on whether Charlie Sheen's return to primetime will live up to the hype, but from the look of devilish glee on his face in Anger Management's first teaser, it's safe to say Sheen thinks it will. The short-and-sweet promo riffs on the death of Two and a Half Men's Charlie Harper and rebirth of Charlie Goodson. Could it be a slight jab at Men's decision to get one last gasp out of Charlie by hiring Oscar-winner Kathy Bates to play his ghost? Or is Charlie Sheen just a seriously weird and morbid dude? Judge for yourself below.
Anger Management premieres June 28 on FX.
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To the editor,
The new economic forecast issued by Minnesota Management & Budget indicates our bottom line is stronger than it has been since before the Great Recession.
Projections through 2017 add up to a positive balance. This is highlighted by a $295 million balance in 2012-13 and a $782 million balance in 2016-17. There is a $627 shortfall in 2014-15, but even that has been reduced by $463 million since the last forecast in November.
The bottom line is the budget decisions we made in 2011-12 continue to produce results. This is the fourth consecutive forecast to reveal more revenue than previously anticipated. We have generated $2.8 billion above projections since November of 2011. The effects are good news for Minnesota taxpayers as we work to fully recover from the recession and put ourselves on a strong course for the future.
We will put $290 million of the latest surplus toward paying off delayed K-12 funding. The entire K-12 shift was paid off with previous surplus revenue and now we have made significant repayments on K-12 debt enacted under the previous Democrat majorities and Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The other $5 million in surplus funds will be placed in state reserves, bringing that balance to $694 million.
Our positive growth is further evidence we can balance our budget without raising taxes. Revenue is growing by 3 percent and no shortfall would exist if we simply stay within those limits. The governor's $3.7 billion in proposed tax increases is largely driven by his desire to hike spending by 7.6 percent.
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Another concern is a lack of oversight. This program would be controlled by a new seven-member, politically appointed "super agency" which would have access to spend taxpayer dollars as it sees fit. There also are serious data privacy issues to consider, with patient information made available to the federal government.
We still have many questions regarding this program. Legislators ask for details and far too often the answer is, "I don't know." That is quite unsettling to have so many unknowns in such a mammoth overhaul. It feels like the proposed health insurance exchange is bound to fail and a government takeover would be our ultimate destination. This is a slippery slope.
Health insurance is crucial to our citizens and we better take our time and do things right if we are going to make changes. Minnesota probably has the nation's best health care system, including relatively low premiums and among the nation's fewest percent of uninsured citizens. We cannot lose sight of that.
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When I read a poem by William Wordsworth first comes before starting the reading the idea that he was a romantic poet. Then the whole idea of romanticism interferes with my reading starting with Rousseau. Then comes how T.S. Eliot, the whole band of modern writers creeping in. So many literary literary theories precede my reading. It may not happen to everyone. For I am the student of literature. However, it may be a matter of degrees only everyone will have a preoccupation of something prior to reading a piece of art.
Therefore, I think that critics detract our attentions or interests from enjoying a piece of literature. There are really great poems, spiritually uplifting and loftily subtler. Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats, Blake are really immortal writers. They dedicated their entire lives to composing beautiful poems. They are really matchless and yet we try to understand them through the borrowed eyes of critics.
Critics, not all, make a fuss over, or ruin our reading tendencies. Despite all this I never give up reading classics. I think, save a few ones, great books were written in the past. Nowadasy too some books are really greatly written and they are philosophically rich too, yet in the past there were more people dedicated to writing. Therefore some classics written in the past are never outshone in terms of their depth and philosophy.
Can we find the interminable dedications in anyone in the degree there was in Voltaire now? War and Peace is something magnum opus, Crime and Punishment and the like. Sartre is no doubt a great writer but he follwoed in the steps of Dostoevsky. Existential quotients and even ideas of magic realism were aplenty in the works of Dostoevsky. Read the dream of a ridiculous man. The depth of imagination wherein the writer creates a character who sails across bounds of time and space in dreams link supernatural elements with realistic ones.
All I mean to say is that pieces of art never become obsolete and unbound by any particular theory.
For example the Pilgrim's Progress by John Buniayn is a book that inspires me timelessly and the beauty of expression and the depth of philosophy in that book sways me out of boundedness.
Therefore I appeal: read books irregardless of their roots in a particular literary theory and never subscribe to the idea of critics, and they are hypocrites and vainglorious save a few ones.
Great works of art transcned language, time, and theory. The Bible is always appealing and moving. Can we find a book that can be compared with the profundity of the Mahabharata for the loftiness of its philosophy, linguistic grandeur. Its ideas are so elevated spiritually, philosophically that they are matchless.
We are indeed fortunate enough to have so many classics.
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Poo friends?
Thanks to all of you who cared about my poo last week after this article. Turns out a LOT of you are obsessed with poo too. There's even a poo blog. But do NOT google "poo blog" because that one is actually a little too much, even for me. I mean... I don't need to see pictures. This Poo Site however aims to help with poo issues without the use of audio visuals. Much better.
Anyway, did you know Alicia Silverstone is really into poo too? She wrote a book about eating well and, as a benefit, pooing well. Click here for a refresher. Last night Alicia and Alanis Morissette hooked up for dinner. That got me to wondering whether or not Alicia is Alanis's go-to Poo Friend. I force all my friends to listen to me about my poo but my best friend Fiona is probably my go-to poo person because she's a biologist and a dietician and knows all about poo and sh-t. In other words, she's an active participant in my poo discussion.
Alicia seems like she'd be the same. And Alanis, all earthy and spiritual, definitely probably I'm assuming talks about her poo. I don't even want to think about what happens to poo when a woman is pregnant. STOP RIGHT THERE. I have already heard from several of you who have shared about it, before AND after the baby comes. This has only reaffirmed my decision to never have children. My poo is f-cked up enough already, I am too weak/pathetic/small/incapable/whatever-adjective-you-want-to-label-me to compound my existing poo problems with the ones you inherit when you have a child.
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Oberon needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
I manufacture high quality, original men's dress socks. I need a fairly simple logo that has a classic feel to it - nothing to modern or digital looking. It is going to go on the comapny's web site as well as on the hang tags for the socks themselves.
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I'm looking for a logo and emblem for my company. The socks are kind of fun, so if there is some whimsy in the logo, that's fine, but totally serious is fine too.
The logo can include our slogan - "Authentic, Original, Socks" - if you want. Totally optional.
The 'Ltd.' aspect of the company name can be de-emphasized (so you can focus mostly on Oberon, with a small 'ltd') if you want, but the ltd has to be present.
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New pageEdit
I've moved the original version of this page to Star Trek Online (Perpetual Entertainment). Since the new version of the game by Cryptic appears to be a completely different animal to what Perpetual had announced, all of the information on that page was essentially redundant. Rather than gut it and start again, I felt that having an additional article on the defunct version would allow us to preserve that information, whilst not getting this page confused with what was and what will be. -- Michael Warren | Talk 22:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- OK, but the old version now located in the different location needs to be sanitized of changes made since Cryptic took over. It had been getting updated for weeks now. --OuroborosCobra talk 22:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Actually, not a huge amount changed between the revelation of Cryptic's involvement and now - it was mostly still dealing with the Perpetual version's gameplay and design (here's a diff comparing just before the Cryptic announcement with my latest version), I've simply removed most of the intro which discusses the change in developer, and changed the tenses. -- Michael Warren | Talk 22:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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Atari bought Cryptic - That's all I know but there are possibly changes in the outcome related to this game - someone who knows might need to get some updated info. [1] [2] — Morder 05:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
- The developers assert that they retain full control over the game and are still on the same track they were before the buyout.R2data 11:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- It should be noted that the parent company which owns Atari, Infogrames, purchased both Atari and Cryptic Studios. Atari in itself has little to no control over Cryptic Studios and the Star Trek Online game's development.Jlandeen 05:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Is the storyline of this game canonical? (Star Trek Online: Path To 2409) Relinquo 03:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
- In a word: No. -- Renegade54 03:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
- Why on earth not? So far it doesn't conflict with anything. It's set in a time so far unexplored. Vulcazoid 15:22, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- Because no games are canon. Neither are novels, tech manuals, or anything not from the TV series and movies. That is how Paramount and Roddenberry himself decided to do things. TV shows and moves are canon, everything else is licensed, but non-canon. --OuroborosCobra talk 15:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- I find your baseless "because no games are canon" argument to be both pithy and arrogant.
- "Star Trek Online is shaping up as an impressive addition to the ever-expanding selection of massively multiplayer games, and a worthy installment to the Star Trek canon."—GamePro Preview, 11/10/2009
- Yes, in the past Roddenberry and Paramount deemed non-film and non-TV as non-canon. However, Roddenberry is dead, everyone involved in TNG, DSP, Voyager and Enterprise has been fired or retired from Star Trek, and the only canon Paramount is interested in putting on screen is the J.J.-verse Star Trek: 90210. The impression I got was that, with STO being the ONLY media product taking place in the socalled "Prime" trek universe, this game is now the Prime canon. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen a release from Paramount going either way on this. - Khaaaaan! 03:37, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- I find your baseless "because no games are canon" argument to be both pithy and arrogant.
- Because no games are canon. Neither are novels, tech manuals, or anything not from the TV series and movies. That is how Paramount and Roddenberry himself decided to do things. TV shows and moves are canon, everything else is licensed, but non-canon. --OuroborosCobra talk 15:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- Why on earth not? So far it doesn't conflict with anything. It's set in a time so far unexplored. Vulcazoid 15:22, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
From a MTV Multiplayer interview with Cryptic Studios' Craig Zinkievich at the 2009 New York Comic Con:I ask, where else is CBS/Paramount continuing the series? Will they ever? Is STO the closest we'll ever have to a canonical continuation of the "Prime" Trek universe? - Khaaaaan! 04:15, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
MTV Multiplayer: Is the story in "Star Trek Online" part of the official canon?
Zinkievich: What is the official canon is really an argument that anyone can have. For us all the shows and movies are canon. But you can get in an argument with any of the fans about how even some of the shows may have small contradictions in them. We want to make sure that we follow that timeline, and we're true to that timeline. We see the shows and movies as canon. We're reading the novels now; the novels are considered soft canon with a lot of more conflicts in there. You can never call yourself "canon," but we can't take a 90-degree angle and go it's all totally different.
MTV Multiplayer: Has there been any involvement with people working on the movie, like J.J. Abrams?
Zinkievich: We've talked to [J.J. Abrams' production company] Bad Robot a little bit. We worked with CBS to make sure anything they've been doing matches up with what we're doing, but there aren't massive tie-ins. "Star Trek Online" isn't going to come out with everybody looking exactly like in the movie. It's not a movie game; it's really continuing the franchise.
- It may be as close as we'll get to a canonical continuation in the main timeline, but that doesn't make it canon anymore than the novels are. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:28, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- As an aside, they're continuing the franchise in the "prime" timeline in comics and novels. *shrug* -- sulfur 04:31, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- I'd argue that—no matter what Roger Ebert says—Movies, TV Shows, and video games are one thing and that print media such as comics and novels are another. I'd love to ask "the powers that be" for an answer, but who would that be at this point, CBS or Paramount? - Khaaaaan! 04:38, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- I'd also guess that, if asked, CBS or Paramount or whoever will ride the fence on this for 20 some odd years—the same way they did with the animated series' canonicity—until it's painfully clear that they'll never follow up TNG, Voyager, DS9, or the rest of the "Prime" reality with a film or television production. This has producers, directors, production artists, voice actors, and a lot of other things you'd find behind a cinema or TV product. If it smells cinematic, feels cinematic, tastes cinematic... - Khaaaaan! 04:59, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- I'd argue that—no matter what Roger Ebert says—Movies, TV Shows, and video games are one thing and that print media such as comics and novels are another. I'd love to ask "the powers that be" for an answer, but who would that be at this point, CBS or Paramount? - Khaaaaan! 04:38, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- Still ain't canon, and won't be any time soon. Sorry. Them's just the way that we roll. -- sulfur 05:08, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- I do not dispute the Memory Alpha Cannon Policy in any way. Though I believe the original question was "Is the storyline of this game canonical?" not "Are articles on Memory Alpha about this game going to be treated as canonical?" (whether or not the latter should be inferred) and personally, whether the rest of the world should consider the game canon is the answer I came to this section of this discussion page to look for. I don't care if the answer comes from CBS, Paramount, Cryptic, or Gene Roddenberry's ashes reconstituted and reanimated into a zombie.
- If this game, and other productions like it are all we'll ever see of the "prime universe" again, outside of fan fiction... Well, for one thing that'd make me a little sad, and for another I'd personally start to re-evaluate what I considered "canon". - Khaaaaan! 06:13, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- You can hold whatever personal beliefs you want, it's a free country. I know people that consider the Destiny novel arc to be canon. That is their personal belief. It does not change the official policy, as set out by Paramount. No gamer article can change that, no interview with people flat out admitting that they can't decide what is canon will. Games, not official canon. Is there anything new you can actually bring to the debate, or are we just going to keep running around in circles on this? --OuroborosCobra talk 06:57, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe Cryptic is working with Paramount, to establish it as canon. Wormulon 07:17, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- @Wormulon: Maybe! I'm still looking for mention of it on their site. @Morder: I didn't think we were really debating anything. I'm just looking for answers. - Khaaaaan! 08:38, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- Well, you got your answer. It isn't. If you want another version of it, go ask at TrekBBS. -- sulfur 11:27, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- I don't want to butt in,but a trekkie point of view, everything is canon. Do we trekkers follow theory, or do we not? Every decision you make, neigh, anything imagined can create an alternate universe (tmeline). Who cares what's canon in our (Star Trek) universe, when all that is imagined is in actuallity...true.--Thoggnee 02:40, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm afraid not. What is canon is not up to fans, it is up to Paramount(or whoever owns Star Trek) and they have consistently stated that only what is seen on the TV screen is canon, and not licensed products. You can personally believe whatever you wish, but that does not make it canon. --31dot 07:49, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't want to butt in,but a trekkie point of view, everything is canon. Do we trekkers follow theory, or do we not? Every decision you make, neigh, anything imagined can create an alternate universe (tmeline). Who cares what's canon in our (Star Trek) universe, when all that is imagined is in actuallity...true.--Thoggnee 02:40, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
- CBS is beginning to cannonize this game. These days Star Trek Online is about as close to TV cannon as we are ever going to get again. CBS has placed very strict rules on Cryptic in terms on content and story. It would not supprise me at all if STO becomes official cannon in the near future. --126.96.36.199 00:32, February 14, 2012 (UTC)
- It's "canon", not "cannon". Anything is possible, though I don't think it's likely given the nature of the game. It's also an academic discussion until they say it is or not. --31dot 00:55, February 14, 2012 (UTC)
- Obviously this was a fairly silly 'discussion' but I felt like clarifying what the diff in opinions between the admins and the fans seems to be. Prime universe may never again be touched, thus you can chose whatever you want to continue the story in your mind but if they ever do go back to the Prime universe, if Frakes releases another movie, for instance, he will NOT consider the events of STO first. Because it is not canon. There may be discrepancies at that point. Ofc if they don't touch it, then enjoy your own version of the next, next generation. Degrelescence (talk) 04:59, September 16, 2012 (UTC)
And other races. Will you be able to play as them? The Cardassian ships are by far the coolest in the Star Trek universe, and I won't get this unless I'm allowed my own personal Galor-class. LandBuffalo 20:34, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
- The information is on their website. You can play as a Cardi. You cannot, at launch, play as the Cardassian faction, nor can you own a Galor. IT IS GREEN 23:59, November 4, 2009 (UTC)
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Hi I added a link to the sto database.
--184.108.40.206 22:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC)Lee Henderson
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It seems someone tagged the "unknown" ship as Klingon ship, when it is really unknown as to what type it is. We do know it is seemingly of "Romulan design with Borg enhancements. Please check this link to confirm my information. http://www.startrekonline.com/ships/unknown I will move the ship to a new section, Unknown Faction instead of Klingon.Jlandeen 06:08, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
- The ship depicted in the bottom left hand corner, the one with listed as a modified sovereign class ship, is not a sovereign class ship at all. The official site designates it as a [[3]]. Vulcazoid 15:21, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- Or maybe Species 8472? Although it is more likely to be Romulan. – Wormulon 01:05, November 5, 2009 (UTC)
- Or maybe Mazarite? We can't be sure, although it closely resembles a Romulan bird. We'll find out when the game comes out. IT IS GREEN 00:08, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure Cryptic is saying that Star Trek Online is due to be released, quote, "early 2010". Apparently, they really mean that. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk).
Unknown rankEdit
I changed the unknown rank heading above miranda, centaur and soyuz to Lieutenant. Cryptic speficially says that you start as a lieutenant.--IT IS GREEN 00:10, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
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Text (21 May 2009) Edit
I've removed the section on "Current Ships". This consisted solely of text copied from the entries at http://www.startrekonline.com/ships and as such was a copyright violation. -- Michael Warren | Talk 13:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
- I don't think using anything they've put in a press release constitutes a copyright violation... - Khaaaaan! 03:55, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
Links (14 March 2010) Edit
I have just removed the following links from the "External links" section:
- forums.StarTrekOnline.com - official Star Trek Online community forums
- CrypticStudios.com - official web site for Cryptic Studios (developers of STO)
- Star Trek Online Wikia wiki
- STO-Intel Star Trek Online wiki
- Star Trek Tricorder fan site and wiki
Reason: We're not a link directory. I've kept the official page (but not the additional forum link or the separate developers link), the WP link, and a link to the most active Wiki dedicated to the game. -- Cid Highwind 17:12, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
Text (15 March 2010) Edit
Removed the following - not sure what to make of it, as it is unformatted and even contains a request for further editing/fact-checking. Before re-adding, please consider whether we a re the right place for too detailed in-game information, at all. -- Cid Highwind 15:20, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Ensign-Tutorial
- Serius Sector Block/Regulus-Lieutenant(Main Enemy:Klingons)
- Pi Canis(Klingons)/Alpha Centurari(Romulans)-Lieutenant Commander
- Psi Velornum(Hirogen)/Iota Pavionis(MORE Romulans)/Begin the Cardassian season arc-Commander
- Cardassian arc-Captain/A little Admiral
- Borg-RA 3
- Note:Not entirely accurate, the player editing is a Commander 7. PLEASE edit this to the correct way!
Constellation VS CheyenneEdit
Ok, I've changed Cheyenne to Constellation three times now. Every time, It's been changed back. What's going on? According to http://www.startrekonline.com/ships-index, It's Constellation. A I missing something???– The preceding unsigned comment was added by NX-74205 (talk • contribs).
- From what I gather, at wikis devoted to the game, the official website has the ship mislabeled, and it is a Cheyenne-class in game, see this image - Archduk3 08:37, May 8, 2010 (UTC)
- Looks like they finally got around to fixing the website. It now says Cheyenne. To bad, I was kind of hoping it would be Constellation. --OuroborosCobra talk 08:06, June 21, 2010 (UTC)
Klingon shipsEdit
Can someone please add the klingon ships in the same format as the federation ships instead of just as screen shots? Thank you
Suggestion Edit
Since the game is and has been out for quite a while i suggest we make it so the article is in the present tense. Also if anyone on the wiki has STO they should contribute items like screenshots or in game pictures. (If you rebuff me i wont be like Worf) but hear me out. ScarletScarabX (Talk) 03:17, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
- The relevant bits are in the present tense. Bits that are not are portions talking about what the developers said beforehand. And there are some in-game screenshots, but we do not want to go overboard. The real meaty details and screenshots would be better suited at Memory Beta, as they have come up with a method of detailing the game, its missions, and the character changes introduced. -- sulfur 04:07, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
well thank you for getting backto me promtly ScarletScarabX (Talk) 04:30, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
IRW Narada? Edit
Why was that screenshot under "Romulan" labelled as "IRW Narada"? It looks more like the IRW Esemar than Nero's ship. - Mitchz95 (talk) 15:56, September 17, 2012 (UTC)
Verant Interactive version Edit
According to this page there was going to be a Star Trek Online MMO for Windows/PS2 around 2000/2001. It predates the Perpetual Entertainment version. Any objections to me creating a page for it under "Star Trek Online (Verant Interactive)"? StalwartUK 23:04, May 21, 2013 (UTC)
I was actually going to do that some day. Why not? 188.8.131.52 23:46, May 21, 2013 (UTC)SFC3


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Harvard University is pleased to announce the establishment of its 11th endowed coaching position. A generous gift from Gregory Lee '87 and Russell Ball '88 establishes the Gregory Lee '87 and Russell Ball '88 Endowed Coach for Squash. Newly appointed director of squash Mike Way will be the first coach to hold the position.
Russell Ball and Gregory Lee, friends and teammates, endowed the position in honor of their fathers, Theodore B. Lee '54, who has been a long-time supporter and advocate for Harvard College, the HAA and Harvard Athletics, and Russell C. Ball, Jr., who loved squash and used it as a vehicle to impart many life lessons: sportsmanship, humility, respect, perseverance, competition and the power of dedication and hard work. The long tradition of excellence within the Harvard squash program was built on these principles. The Lee and Ball families hope this gift will benefit generations of Harvard squash athletes and unite the alumni in continued support of the program.
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"I am honored to give something back to Harvard and to the squash program, and to honor my father, Ted Lee," Greg said. "Though my father did not play squash, he recognized that the game required the qualities he wanted to instill in me: hard work, humility and fair play. These qualities guide my leadership, and for that I am most grateful. I was fortunate to play on teams with extraordinary players, and to learn from them every day. I learned how to play squash, how to compete and still be friends, and how to measure my success by my own improvement. My experience at Harvard and playing squash gave me lifelong friendships that continue to enrich my life. I am honored to be able to share this gift with my good friend, Russ Ball."
Dave Fish '72, the Scott Mead '77 Family Head Coach for Men's Tennis, had the honor of coaching both Greg and Russ on the squash team. "It is gratifying to see two players from some of Harvard's greatest teams of the 1980's step up so generously to endow the Harvard squash coaching position," Fish said. "Both Russ and Greg always put the team first when they were members of the team, and have continued in the same spirit now. I'm sure they are both delighted as I am that Michael Way will be the first Harvard coach to benefit from their support.
"Also, having had the good fortune to know and admire their parents, their support also reflects admirably on the lessons of their parents, who were also generous stewards of Harvard and other institutions. This gift will enable Harvard to attract squash coaches of the finest caliber, now and in the future."
Harvard won four Ivy League and national team titles during Ball and Lee's time at Harvard. Ball was a three-time All-American, four-time first-team All-Ivy League recipient and served as captain in 1988.
Bob Scalise, The Nichols Family Director of Athletics, noted the endowment strengthens one of Harvard's most successful programs. The Crimson has won 31 men's and 12 women's national titles, including the women's crown in 2010. "The sport of squash at Harvard has earned more national championships than any other sport and has a tradition of educating our students in sport and life. I am thrilled that Russ and Greg stepped up to give us a chance to highlight what an exceptional program we have."
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The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse
The Virginia B. and James O. Welch, Jr. '52 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Soccer
The Gregory Lee '87 and Russell Ball '88 Endowed Coach for Squash at Harvard University
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