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Not that it is any of my business Gregory,but I was wondering if you were holding onto any of your MATR shares,If memory serves me correctly you were going to flush all of MG's picks at some point.
Stoney did say on the cc that they expect to break even 3rd quarter next year and be profitable by the 4th quarter
Not Stoney, They
i sold all of mine last year sometime in the low 7s. I repurchased somewhat recently a fairly small position as a trade. I was a bit early, and now certainly wish I hadn't. The stock cycled regularly over the last 18 months between ~5.5 and 8, so I thought I might catch a cycle there. I don't really have much interest in holding this long, since I have more questions than anything regarding it - over a decade of losses and it is not getting any better - but i thought it would be worth another trade - I made quite a bit on it 2 years ago or so, on a few trades. Just glad I made my play a very small position....
With the Market getting pounded again at present time and MATR trading at average volume hopefully most sellers are gone, this could be the bottom who knows. I picked up a 2.5% position just under 4.50. I am going to let it ride and see how things unfold.
Thought I was smart and picked up some at 4:05, now trading below 4.
It was not long after I made my previous post volume picked up and it dropped another .12 geez shound have kept my trap shut.
I would not panic if you picked up shares recently as i believe we are at the lows from a support perspective. I would suggest that if you are taking a position at this point you keep a longer term horizon given the state of the economy, oil, stock market and a FED which has no clue what they are doing. MATR has broken below what was a upward trend channel and it take time for the stock price to get back into that channel. At that point I would watch the channel carefully and be ready to get out when stock price get near the top line. If someone has a R/R chart please post it. If not, i will try to post one this weekend. Thanks, Kurt
Here it is... just the trendlines. A bearish market may not apply generous revenue multiple valuation when companies are losing money - risk off mode. MATR has about 15% to fall from here to hit the bottom and would get back over 6 if it came back up from here to the top of the channel in the next 3-6 months. [MATR_RR](//muut.com/u/pttresearch/s1/:pttresearch:UXtF:matr_rr.png.jpg)
Eventually, I intend to buy again. I sold my position last year.
Thanks Remi I will hold what I have for now if it does pull back 10% or 15% I may average down.
Thanks Remi!
Can anyone comment about messages on Yahoo about accounting issues and company dipping into credit line. I have not seen anything about this but message board talks about. Do not know if true or just someone shorting the stock. Mark has made no comment about this stock in awhile and I thought it was one of his largest holdings.
Maybe you are referring to the SEC filing posted on Yahoo "On March 25, 2016, Mattersight Corporation (the "Company"), together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries Mattersight Europe Holding Corporation and Mattersight International Holding, Inc., as co-borrowers, entered into an amendment to its existing Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement (the "Amendment") with Silicon Valley Bank (the "Lender"). The Amendment extended the term of the Company's line of credit with the Lender for an additional year, through March 31, 2018, and replaced the existing financial covenants with a requirement that (a) the Company achieve certain free cash flow targets, measured quarterly commencing in the quarter ending March 31, 2016, and (b) the Company maintain unrestricted cash on deposit with the Lender that, when added to the unused availability under the revolving credit facility, equals or exceeds $17,000,000. Pursuant to the Amendment, the Lender also agreed to make available to the Company an additional $6,000,000 term loan (the "Term Loan"), which is interest o nly through March 1, 2017, and fully amortizing over a thirty-six (36) month period thereafter. The Term Loan may be prepaid at any time, provided that a prepayment premium of 1%, with respect to prepayments made prior to March 25, 2017, and 0.5%, with respect to prepayments made prior to March 25, 2018, is made in connection with such prepayment." Agreeing to free cash flow target covenants starting with this past quarter sounds good. Interest only, no principal payments for a year is ok too. It seems on the surface that Mattersight sees its business starting to generate cash but needs an extra year of time to ramp up. Are we going to hit the bottom of both the descending and rising channels (around 3.40 or so, see chart attached) If we do, I might actually grab some.... always a price for everything... [MATR](//muut.com/u/pttresearch/s1/:pttresearch:XCkj:matr.gif.jpg)
https://mattersightfail.wordpress.com/ which is always worth checking helps clarify some of these issues, including that "the company achieve certain free cash flow targets" apparently alludes to "negative free cash flow no worse than".
@Stephen - very interesting link you provided. Someone has spent a lot of time and effort on that site, posting weekly for almost 4 years which makes it seem like its a vendetta. Although there's lots of fair points in there. What's your view on MATR?
Thank you to Remi for the explanation and chart and to Alan for the link.
Credit to Stephen for the link. That was all his. I'd be interested to get people's view on it.
Alan, I was fortunate that Gomes released the MATR pick on a Friday after the markets closed. If he had released it Thursday at 2 EST, I might well have bought some promptly. Researching it a bit over the weekend, finding that Mattersight Fail site, and looking at Glassdoor, I came to the impression that management was skilled at spin artistry and, quite possibly, self-dealing... not one I trusted to meet its own predictions. By Monday I was checking to see whether I would be able to short it, but that turned out not to be the case via my broker. That said, I haven't followed it closely lately, and Remi very well may be right that at around $3.40 it may be worth buying.
Thanks Stephen, the detail regarding the free cash flow targets makes a positive turn into a negative... The piece regarding the accounting was actually from this site looks like, I think that one looks like it's reaching. But then you have them talking about how one of their largest customers seems to be late in paying their bills, the customer concentration risks, the disgruntled employee(s) not getting paid overtime, the track record of management and lack of leverage in the business, the executive/board getting good compensation regardless of the missing profits, etc. I might still play this for a small trade at some point but I will definitely define a stop loss before doing so (if you're playing for a short term move you should ALWAYS define your stop before entering).


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Roland Snowgren, 89, of Rippey died Sunday, March 11, 2018. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 15 at Slininger-Schroeder Funeral Home in Jefferson. Interment was at Franklin Township Cemetery in Greene County, Iowa. Visitation with the family was from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 at Slininger-Schroeder Funeral Home.
Roland Herbert Snowgren was born February 28, 1929, to Roy Snowgren and Elsie (Paulsen) Snowgren in Boone County, Iowa.
Roland was raised in the Jamaica, Iowa area. He graduated from Cooper, Iowa in 1948 and enlisted in the United States Navy in the same year. He was honorably discharged in 1954. During his service he was stationed on the U.S.S. Essex aircraft carrier. Roland relished his service to the country and frequently reminisced about his experiences.
Upon return from service, Roland was united in marriage to Donna John in August of 1954. They became parents to Dennis, Dwight and Connie. They lived many happy years on the farm north of Jamaica before their marriage ended.
Roland later married Ruthann Cosner and together they had one son, Gary Snowgren. Following their separation Roland and Bobbie Millard married and lived many happy years together before her death in January 2000.
Roland farmed much of his life north of Jamaica, raising dairy cows and hogs early on along with corn and soybeans throughout his career.
Roland was a member of The American Legion. He enjoyed fishing, mushroom hunting and playing cards in his early years. He also enjoyed traveling and gambling. Roland loved cooking, gardening, preserving, watching westerns and spending time with family.
Roland is preceded in death by his sons, Gary Snowgren and Dwight Snowgren; his parents, Roy and Elsie Snowgren; step-brother, Eddie Davis; and step-father, Ormea Davis.
He is survived by his friend and companion, Dorothy Groves of Rippey; son, Dennis (Ann) Snowgren of Perry; daughter, Connie (Vivian) of Des Moines; daughter-in-law, Marsha Snowgren of Jamaica; sister, Betty Farley of Atlantic; step-sons, Joe Mallard (Mary) of Rippey and Kenny (Melinda) Mallard of Jefferson; grandchildren: Jake Snowgren of Perry, Brad Snowgren of Perry, Ben (Amber) Snowgren of Grimes, Heather (John) Erickson of Perry, Adam (Rachel) Snowgren of Paton, Stacy (Joe) Tolle of Dexter and Brent Woods of Madrid; many great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews; and many more relatives and friends.
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Sukham Ayu – the cookbook by Jigyasa & Pratibha presents Ayurvedic cooking in a simple, friendly format. Winner of Best Health and Nutrition Book in the World 2009 – second place, this book features recipes from the kitchen of Kerala Ayurveda & Yoga Retreat in Pune where its research took place. It is a creative combination of recipes & food-tips on one hand, and Ayurvedic insights & tenets on the other, thus appealing to the gourmet & the novice!


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From 'Mudbound' to Marvel: Oscar-nominated DP Rachel Morrison brings a vibrant palette to 'Black Panther'
Cinematographer Rachel Morrison first worked with director Ryan Coogler on 2013's Fruitvale Station. Their latest collaboration, Black Panther, opening Feb. 16, is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Starring Chadwick Boseman as the Marvel Comics superhero T'Challa, it has a cast including Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis.
Morrison previously shot Mudbound, directed and co-written by Dee Rees. Released by Netflix, it is a generational drama set in the South that contrasts a black family and a white family through the Depression and World War II. For it she received the first Academy Award nomination for cinematography ever given to a woman.
Morrison spoke by phone about these two projects and her nomination. Spoilers for Black Panther follow.
Black Panther is your first blockbuster project. What was your approach?
I always start with the director's vision, and Ryan had a pretty clear vision of what he was looking for. We were really trying to figure out how to approach something that was epic in scope but also incredibly intimate and human. A lot of his references were grounded in naturalism to some extent. We looked at these beautiful, epic nature pieces like Baraka and Samsara and Planet Earth. And then we looked at dramas like The Godfather and A Prophet, which is a film Ryan always goes back to. I think he also wanted it to be a bit of a love song to Africa and African culture.
How did you work with production designer Hannah Beachler?
On movies like this it's pretty critical that we're all on the same page, and when I say "we" I mean the production designer, director, DP and the VFX supervisor. Hannah and Ryan design the world, and then I compose and light that world, and then the VFX are fleshed out to complete the world that was imagined.
This was probably much more closely than I've ever worked with a production designer. When we're developing sets for how they will be photographed, I can speak to certain challenges Hannah might not be thinking of. And it's crucial that I understand her vision so I know what it is I'm lighting and trying to achieve.
Black Panther fits in with the Marvel Universe, but it has a much different look. How easy was it for Ryan and you to fit your personal styles into the project?
Marvel was incredibly supportive of making Ryan's movie. They really never hung over us or told us that things had to be just so.
I was very protective of the contrast in the film—I think contrast is a reflection of the emotional stakes in a scene. I like night scenes to be dark, for example. And one thing I was aware of going into this is that, whether it happens in the production or in the DI, many Marvel films did have a tendency to be bright or to go quite flat.
But I now understand why this happens. A lot of the action sequences are shot outdoors over the course of twenty-plus days. That can lead to really inconsistent weather, especially in Atlanta. So when you have a scene shot half in sunshine and half in clouds, the best way they knew how to balance it out was to kind of meet in the middle. And you end up with this slightly mushy, low-contrast look.
That was something I really tried to safeguard against. We were lucky enough to shoot two-thirds sun and one-third overcast, so I said to Maxine Gervais, our DI colorist, "Please, please, please, let's lean in to the sunny look and do everything we possibly can to make the overcast footage match the sunny footage," not just dumb everything down.
The African scenes, the skies and landscapes, have a majesty to them that takes them beyond the Marvel look.
We wanted Wakanda to feel warm, to have a golden hue to it. A lot of people think of Africa as a desert, they don't necessarily think of how lush it can be, how rich the culture can be. As far as the palette goes, we leaned into saturated colors and intense vibrant patterns and did all these things that probably many films shy away from.
You got to work on material you've never really tackled before, like the car chase through the streets of Busan.
It was an awesome opportunity for me to do a night scene in Asia. I naturally thought of Wong Kar Wai. Obviously this is nothing like a Wong Kar Wai film, but it's cool to do a car chase in that environment. We collected all of our favorite chase scenes, looked at what elements worked, and then tried to distill from that. Ranging from Bullitt and The French Connection to Drive.
But that was a true second-unit piece, that was the one thing we didn't actually get to be physically present for. Which kind of killed Ryan and me both, because it was such a dream to shoot a car chase at night. We scouted it all, we picked the streets, we did the plans, we designed the shots. But then it was carried out by Darrin Prescott, the second-unit director, and his DP Igor Meglic.
There's also an elaborate fight scene through a casino.
Ryan had a pretty daring but crazy idea to do that entire casino sequence in one shot, which is very much his style, in line with Fruitvale Station and Creed. But we quickly realized that these other two films were entirely focused on one character, whereas in the casino we needed to know what several different people are doing at the same moment, which is a hard story to tell in one shot, without cutting amongst the different characters. So in the end, while we did shoot a "oner," the cut uses four or five shots in that sequence.
Black Panther was a big jump for you after the modestly budgeted Mudbound.
There were two major differences between those movies. One is the scale. It's the difference between me operating in a small room with the director and knowing every single person on the crew's name versus not operating because there was so much more to coordinate. Not only did I not know the whole crew's names on Panther, but I barely met everyone in my own departments! There were more rigging grips on Black Panther than the entire number of crew members on Mudbound, if not double or triple.
On a shoot like Black Panther, you definitely end up doing a bit more planning and managing—you have a rigging crew and a second-unit crew and a splinter crew, there are a lot of sets being built simultaneously and lit simultaneously. It's pretty different than running around in the mud with a camera.
The other big difference is that on Mudbound, nearly everything was in camera. We were shooting on location and you could look through the lens and see the end result.
Black Panther is less VFX-heavy than a lot of Marvel films, it's not like we had any ten-foot-tall full CG characters and we weren't set in outer space. Wakanda is a fictional African country, but it's still Africa, which is a continent and a world that we know and could stay grounded to.
But there are still VFX extensions and blue screen out the windows and there's a few sets which are much more of a virtual environment. It was rare that you could look through the lens and see exactly what the final image is going to look like. That took some getting used to.
What's it like not knowing what the shot will eventually look like?
It's a little nerve-wracking. That's where having done it before might have helped. Or knowing and trusting that you were going to end up with something that looked like the concept art. It's a bit of a mind-meld to light a firelight scene but not have any fire in it. Which is so different from Mudbound.
It's just a different beast. I guess more than anything it just requires trust. Communication and trust. Thankfully, Geoffrey Baumann, our VFX supervisor, was very communicative. We worked very closely together and for the most part the delivered effects looked like I imagined they would.
Some films like this do a lot of pre-viz and they shoot pretty close to what the pre-viz is. We didn't really do that so much. We used pre-viz such that if we got lost, we had something to fall back on.
It wasn't like I would go rogue and light something that we hadn't discussed ahead of time. It was all based on the prep work. We had a lot of conversations about what the world looked like, what it was going to be, what the mood and tone was, what the lighting would be.
For instance, the two fight scenes on the waterfall, I really wanted them to look and feel different from one another. One scene was a sunny day scene, it was T'Challa and M'Baku [Winston Duke]. But the other scene [T'Challa and Erik, played by Michael B. Jordan], I wanted to feel like the sun breaking through after a storm, where you have very cool shadows punctuated by warm sunlight. So I showed Ryan, Hannah and Geoff references for what I was going for and I said: Guys, can we make this work? Because it's not going to be easy for me to light this, but if you're into this environment and tone, let's go for it. Which is what we did and I'm really happy with it.
What's it like to suddenly be able to work with resources like that?
On the one hand, it's like being a kid in a candy store with tools like technocranes and oculus heads. But it's also a much slower beast. You take the good with the bad. When you're working on a machine that big, you can't turn the boat very quickly. It's more like turning the Titanic.
You can't just steal shots. On Mudbound, half of my favorite shots were just moments that I grabbed because I saw something special. That doesn't work on a film like Black Panther. It all has to be planned and choreographed and tested. So it's a slower machine, but you get to do pretty amazing things.
Do you feel like you're so locked in you can't make changes?
You can change anything, and Marvel's sort of known for it. But the more you change, the less "right" it feels. If I light a scene to be sunny and suddenly it turns to overcast, it's not going to feel right.
Thankfully, that didn't really happen, with one or two small changes, little silly things. Like in N'Jobu's apartment, when Killmonger goes back to see his father in a dream state, we had talked about the ceiling being missing and the sky being an aurora borealis, so I lit for that. But in the end they kept the ceiling and put the aurora outside the window. Little things like that, I wished I had known because I would have lit it a little bit differently. But thankfully, they weren't reimaging entire ideas in the post.
What's it feel like to receive an Oscar nomination?
It's been surreal. I feel like I'm living an out-of-body experience. It's something you dream of and aspire to, but don't actually think will happen in your lifetime.
I'm one part floating on cloud nine and the other part kind of wanting to hide under a rock. We're behind-the-scenes people. I'm behind the camera for a reason. The sudden influx of media attention has been startling. It takes me way outside my comfort zone.
It must be especially satisfying to be recognized for what was such a difficult shoot.
Not just for myself, but the crew. We worked so hard on that film. I think the crew would probably say it was one of the hardest shoots they'd ever done. We had gear stuck in the mud, caked in mud, we had people passing out from heat exhaustion.
I think the thing that kept everybody coming back to work was the hope that we were making something special. The payoff is that all that hard work wasn't in vain. First and foremost, the movie's getting seen, and second, it's being appreciated. I imagine it's kind of the way the crew felt on The Revenant. Not that Mudbound has that kind of acclaim. But can you imagine if nobody saw that film after a year and a half of freezing your asses off?
Do you feel your nomination might open doors for others?
I hope more than anything it encourages more women to become cinematographers. And to stick it out. It's one thing to be in the camera department, or to shoot a little bit as a hobby. Obviously, those are great stepping stones. But to become a full-fledged DP is not an overnight thing. You have to be patient and persistent and keep believing in yourself against all odds. I hope that this nomination says that it's a career worth having and that you can go all the way to the top with it.
For me, personally, I hope between Mudbound and Black Panther, now there won't be any scripts that I'm not at least eligible for, you know what I mean? I hope that I start to make it on the studio "list" that I've always heard about but I've never been on. Where directors get a list of the 20 DPs they are allowed to hire. That may be silly, but it would be nice to know that now nothing's off limits for me.
And furthermore, I do sincerely hope that cracking the budget ceiling helps other women get calls for bigger studio films. It's so crazy that there are plenty of female DPs shooting documentaries and small indies, but the number drops off significantly when bigger budgets are involved. That really needs to change.
Do you still have to fight to be considered for projects?
Not because I'm female. I don't think it's about being a woman. I think there are so few solid dramas being made anymore that it's competitive, even near the top.
When you look at the handful of films that make it to awards seasons, you realize that there just aren't as many dramas being made anymore. But that's all I've been particularly interested in. Sure, I'd love to shoot a sci-fi film or a western. But I'm not really interested in comedy or horror or rom-coms, and I'm not particularly interested in television. So much of the great drama has gone to TV, but as a DP it becomes quite repetitive to shoot fourteen episodes of the same show. As amazing as "Breaking Bad" or "Game of Thrones" or "Mad Men" look, I don't know that I would want to repeat the same visuals over and over. The pilot or a mini-series, sure, but not five seasons of the same show.
Thankfully, there's a lot of great content being made at the indie level, which has always been my bread and butter, but once you have a family to support, especially if you're like me and you're supporting them on a single income, it's much harder to do those one- or two-million-dollar films. So while it's amazing that I'm even being considered, now I'm up against legends like Roger Deakins and Hoyte Van Hoytema and Bradford Young and Robert Elswit for the very small handful of feature dramas with a budget big enough to support a family and/or a technocrane. And that have enough time in the day to try something complicated and creatively challenging.


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Sunday, September 7, 2008
In Defense of Labels
"Well," I replied, "It helps to define the differences between us and what we believe.
"Why can't you just call me a Christian and be done with it?" He asked.
Considering how to answer, I thought for a moment. "Because," I began, "I honestly don't consider you a Christian."
This nearly-true-to-life interchange occurred some years ago at my friend's house. We had been discussing the differences in our beliefs when I mentioned that his understanding of things was similar to the Jehovah's Witnesses. He was appalled, and refused the label. In truth, while much of his belief system is similar to that of the Jehovah's Witnesses, there are some subtle differences, specifically in authority, prophecy and the like. In the major issues of the Christian faith, however, my friend is Arian, Universalist and anti-nomian.
I can hear his voice now, "There you go with the labels again..." and yes, it's true, labels help us to define things. That said, like my friend's view on the subject, many folks would rather we not use labels. Often, I've heard views like his expressed similarly.
What's in Your Fridge?
Consider for a moment the contents of your refrigerator. Imagine opening it to find similarly shaped, opaque bottles filled with some sort of sauce. Imagine too that none of the containers in the fridge have labels on them, but simply sit there awaiting for you to discover what is in them.
How can you tell them apart?
By looking, you might not be able to. It is possible that the color of the sauce might show through and you can assume one from another, but sometimes sauces look similar. How can you tell the mayonnaise (for example) from the Miracle Whip? (Believe me, this is something you really want to know! Putting that so-called "miracle" stuff on someone's sandwich should be grounds for jail time.) Or the ketchup from the spaghetti sauce?
Let's go a step further and say that you've got yourself a perfectly roasted braut or dog in your paws and you're really jonesing for some mustard to put on it. Once again you peek your head into the fridge of hidden condiments and are again faced with the dilemma of finding the tart yellow stuff that will make your dog scream with flavor.
You could open them, and taste them, one-by-one. Then you could easily determine the mustard from the anchovy paste, and even tell if the tartar sauce has spoiled... (of course if it had a date on its label you wouldn't have to run for the faucet to wash that evil taste from your mouth.) After much trial-and-error you could even determine the Kraft from the Grey Poupon and finally slather it on your now-cold dog.
The Better Solution
You also could... label them. That is, after determining the contents, write in nice bold letters what is in the container. Thankfully most store-bought products have clearly labeled containers all with that most important imprint of the "Good until" and/or "Sell by" date.
Sure, you say, it is important to label sauces and the like... but we're talking about belief systems here, not deli mustard and Sriracha!
It would seem that, with something so important as one's faith, proper labeling would be even more important than that of condiments. Not only would identification of said system of belief be made quicker and easier, but lengthy discussion about various and sundry [ht: DrOakley] minutia might be avoided.
So, for the moment, let's say the wisdom of proper "labeling" of systems is accepted. Let's say my pal agrees to being properly labeled as an Arian-Universalist heretic. (I think he'd still flinch at that last label), this by no means ensures that certain errors in labeling won't be avoided.
There are two specific errors I want to address. I call them the Caner Error, also known as the category error and the Calminian Error, also known as the middle ground fallacy.
Caner Error
Imagine looking into the fridge of mystery sauces and pouring one into a bowl. After examining it carefully your nosy neighbor declares "It is neither mustard, nor ketchup, it is sauce."
Surely, after staring at your neighbor for a few moments you'd realize that he's well worn out his welcome and shuffle him out the door. Yet this very type of comment is sometimes used in reaction to the Arminian/Calvinist debate.
Declaring yourself to be neither "Armenian nor Calvanist" but merely a "Baptist" is as likewise a boneheaded statement as that made by your neighbor. (Why did you invite him over anyway?)
Baptist is a category, specifically relating to one's view of baptism and church government. Baptists, then, are "credo-baptist" (there goes them labels again) as opposed to "paedo-baptist". Basically, Baptists don't baptize babies. Baptists generally differ from Presbyterians and others in their view of church government.
Calvinist and Arminian are categories different from that of Baptist/Presbyterian. One is either Calvinist or Arminian, not Calvinist, Arminian or Baptist, no matter what the current president of a Christian college wants you to believe. One is either a Calvinist Baptist or an Arminian Baptist.
The second error, a much more common and yet just as dark-sided (if you don't have a sense of humor, don't click on that link!) is the Calminian Error.
Calminian Error
"It's kustard!", she exclaimed. "It's ketchup AND mustard!!!" The lady at Costco really seemed to enjoy the brownish concoction she was attempting to foist upon the passersby. "Iffssss dewissshus!"
Somehow, you weren't buying it....
Sure, it's possible that someone would so defile two condiments so as to attempt to mix them and the sell the stuff, but would they to go so far as to label it? Everyone knows, mustard is mustard and ketchup, ketchup. It's possible, I'm sure to mix them, but then neither is true to the other.
Often I've heard folks declare themselves to be neither "Calvinist or Arminian" but rather "Calminian!" Sure... unhuh, and I'm ketchard, or perhaps mustup, whatever... take your pick. The results are similarly wrong.
The fact is, most self-proclaimed Calminians are in fact, Arminians with a once-saved-always-saved chaser (as if that heresy is even similar to what Calvinists believe), or so-called four-point Calvinists who deny the dreaded L word. (No, not the perverted HBO serial! Get your mind out of the gutter!)
To be honest with you, there are better labels for both positions that more accurately describe both of these systems (I believe both taste a lot like mustup would.) . The first system is truly Arminian, in its modern fashion, and has nothing to do with Calvinism what-so-ever. Those who hold this position are perhaps in the majority of what passes for Evangelicalism today. That is, they believe in the free will of human kind in the deciding moment of salvation, the basis for election on foreseen faith, unlimited potential atonement, resistible grace and the one odd-man-out, "once-saved-always-saved". That last viewpoint is relatively new within Christendom, that is, that because you "called upon the name of the Lord", God is somehow obligated to save you, regardless of whether you fall away or not.
The second system is properly referred to as Amyraldism after the fellow who is most connected with it, Moise Amyraut. Moise was a pastor in France who, even though a smart fellow, felt that Limited Atonement was unBiblical. Moise wasn't real careful in some of his writing, it seems and lots of folks misunderstood what he was saying. (I know the feeling, Moise...)
I realize in this day and age that for some, words have no meaning and for others words have power but in reality words help us to define things. Labels therefore are words we use to represent complex concepts, views and even mixtures of sauces. This desire to not be labeled usually either reveals one's desire to hide the truth of their beliefs, or exposes a lack of understanding of the issues involved.
So let's hear it for labeling, and while we're at it, label me a Reformed Baptist, or Covenantal Calvinistic Baptist if you will, but don't call me late for dinner!
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1st-time visitor!ReplyDelete
Just wanted to let you that I thought this was an outstanding post and that your analogy to unlabeled fridge items was a stroke of near-brilliance!
BTW, here's another variant of the Caner error:
"I'm neither Arminian, nor Calvinist. I'm Lutheran."
Have you heard of that one?
LOL! Actually... that one ALMOST works. Less than mustup or kustard its more like jars of premixed peanut butter & jelly that are available. Not quite edible, but some folks swear by it. ;)ReplyDelete
Lutheranism has elements of both the Calvinistic and Arminian systems. They would of course claim preexistence of their system, and I would admit that it's partially true, however I think that modern Lutheranism (conservative forms) really lie somewhere between Calvinism and Arminianism (are Lutherans true calminians?), in that they accept the concept of predestination, election and the like but their understanding of atonement is somewhat similar to Arminianism yet, there is so much that Lutherans leave to 'mystery' and to subtle Lutheran-specific categories (objective justification etc).
Here's a few posts on this very topic:
Thanks for commenting. :)
- Anonymous8:39 PM
Humor that stimulates thinking! Good job. Excellent post. Give me mustard on a Braut, and ketchup on my friends!ReplyDelete
Call me a calvinist.
Sriracha chilli! Dude, I drink that stuff!ReplyDelete


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Friday, March 14, 2008
A very sick week...
This week (and still going on) has been a very painful one. Remember how I thought it was strept throat...well it wasn't. I went to the doctor again 2 days ago and this is what she said. I got some sort of a throat infection whose symptoms are mimicking those of mononucleosis and the doctor gave me medication for the same. I have never had this before and let me tell you, this hurts a lot. More than strept throat, flu, etc. I am 40% better today. It is a relief. Anyways, could have been much worse and Thank God I am on the way to recovery already.
I miss mom and dad and how they look after me when I am sick. They know it all without me even saying a word. But this time, it was Atanu who posed to be my mom, dad and more. He was my go to person. My on-call man with no hesitations. Thank you so much Atanu...college students can be busy and you never let that get in the way. I have only one person to thank for my recovery and thats you. You are the sweetest friend who knows no boundaries and has the highest level of empathy I have ever seen. And listen Atu, don't ever say that you don't know anything about relationships , you know more than a lot of people...you'd be amazed. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...you are an angel in disguise, prayer to demise and a man very wise. Thank you.
Now, lets root for the the other 60% recovery.
Of course Gowri, my parents, etc. thanks for your love and concern....:)
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