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Maurice + Shanice Hayes Shed Tears to 'You've Got a Friend' on 'America's Got Talent'
Street performers Maurice and Shanice Hayes were another father-daughter duo to hit the 'America's Got Talent' stage last night (May 14), performing a touching rendition of 'You've Got a Friend' that left many in tears — including themselves.
"My dad is like my best friend," Shanice said in her opening montage. "I'm nervous," she admitted, "but I hope we can show how much street performers can bring to the stage tonight."
Before Shanice began to sing, judges Sharon Osbourne and Howard Stern couldn't help but remark on how beautiful she is. We bet her papa's proud! Once Shanice, 18, and Maurice, 62, began to sing, you could hear a pin drop in the studio. They absolutely brought the house down, receiving standing ovations from the audience and the panel.
Both Shanice and Maurice cried at the conclusion of their performance when the judges began their usual banter. "You move me. You guys are spectacular together," Howard Stern said. "I think every father in America watching is saying, 'This is the kind of relationship I want with my daughter.' … This is what I call perfection."
Howie Mandel agreed with Stern and elaborated on Shanice's raw vocal talent, calling her an "angel." Sharon Osbourne also gushed, "You moved everyone in this theater tonight." Even Nick Cannon teared up — but of course he denied it! Watch the clip below and see if you don't start weeping, too.
Watch Shanice and Maurice Hayes Perform 'You've Got a Friend' on 'America's Got Talent'


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The blog of a female scientist who owns too many pairs of shoes and her musings about the world. All views are my own.
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Science makes us feel stupid
All through Bob's PhD he always seemed really motivated even when metaphorically beating his head against the wall trying to get some obscure results. But what's important to me as a scientist is that Bob always asked the BEST questions - the ones I really hadn't thought about before but make me think in a new way about my research. I think this quality of Bob's could make him a truly great scientist - I have always really enjoyed having science discussions with him.
I was a bit shocked then, when I caught up with him recently, to find him using words which I keep hearing more and more now that my 'cohort' are finishing PhDs and moving on. For those that choose to continue in research I hear words like "feeling isolated", having a lot of "self-doubt", wondering if science is "for me". I hear people saying this not just occasionally, but when it comes down to it, all the time!
Perhaps I'm only noticing it because I've been doing postdoctoral research for just over a year myself and I have at times (OK, quite often) wondered the same thing?
To top it off I keep discovering awesome scientists leaving science to go and do other things not because there aren't any jobs*, but because they don't enjoy it any more or because they don't feel they are good enough. I've heard this from both men and women, although the women seem to be more open about their feelings and reasons for leaving.
To be fair, a lot of people I know in this position are talented science communicators so will still be using science, just not in a research career. But... surely there is a failing of the "system" somewhere here where our bright, talented, promising PhD graduates suddenly feel like they just aren't up to the task of actually doing science?
It would be easy to blame it on training, on supervisor support, on any number of things. But perhaps it's just that today, more than ever, we strive to have jobs that we enjoy, that mean something to us and that are satisfying. Science is (often) not a satifying job on a day to day basis. You can spend weeks working on a single problem feeling like you're bashing your head against the wall and then discover it was all for nothing.
One of the things I've come to realise is that just loving science isn't quite enough. You have to be prepared to feel stupid on a day-to-day basis. Because sometimes, that's just science. Thanks to a great discussion I had recently with a guy who introduced himself as Bill** I have come to recognise that it's not just me who feels stupid in science - in fact there are many arguments to be made that if you've stopped feeling stupid then you've stopped really doing science.
This is a career in which we uncover the unknown, and it's not easy. But at the same time, recognising that everyone else feels the same way is worth a lot to me. So for now, at least, I'm sticking with it. I just hope I can convince my friends to do the same...
*As a side note there are obviously many other reasons why people leave science, but this is just one that I've been coming up against a lot recently. The "bright, talented, promising" people that do PhDs often quite rightly feel they would get more satisfaction elsewhere. Somewhere with scientific challenges, but a career that has good rewards for hard work, where their efforts are appreciated (and not quashed by ambitious senior postdocs scrabbling to get recognition to get the next job), and where they feel some level of job security. Because, let's face it, who wants to pay rent and move around the world every 2-3 years? Very few relationships can stand that and anyone wanting to 'settle down' and have kids or buy a house has an almost impossible task if they are in the academic science post-doc circuit unless they are very very lucky.
**turned out he was Bill Phillips, 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Great post Suzie. At least working in accelerator science at a facility, I am fairly settled, at least for the moment. The feeling of joy I get whenever I understand something new is what keeps me in the job, but the rabbit hole is very, very deep, and I know that ultimately I will, and can understand very little of the whole. Rather be doing this than anything else though.ReplyDelete
"Because, let's face it, who wants to pay rent and move around the world every 2-3 years?"ReplyDelete
For me, moving around the world was one of the most rewarding aspects of my early career. The chance to live in places completely different to anywhere I'd ever lived before was wonderful, and personally very enlightening. Travel broadens the mind; living in a place for a couple of years, even more so.
Someone told me that, in a career in films "you don't eat often, but you eat well." It's the same with job satisfaction in research I think.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on the 10,000 views by the way :)
While I totally hear what Zen is saying about travel, I have lived on three continents in as many years and I'm tired of it. Life is so basic when you move all the time. How 'bout treating post docs like valuable employees instead of this spend all your savings to move to the other side of the world every year bullshit. Like how 'bout 3-4 year contracts because we all know every worthwhile project will take that long anyway, and a moving allowance.ReplyDelete
Last night I got home from a long day of doing the kind of work we should probably have a technician to do and thought "You know what would be really good right now? A smoothie." And then I remembered that I had to part with my blender three continents ago and settled for eating frozen berries out of a bowl. It would be nice to feel like an adult again. Feel like I might own a blender, or have a partner, or be excited about science. But this is shit. And I am definitely looking for job options that are not in research because I'm tired of being treated like a lab rat.
Would love to chat ladies... 5 years after achieving my B.Sc. in honors physiology and pharmacology.. i have floundered around doing nothing with my academic background; just indulging myself in the finer things of life (shoes, handbags, wine, sun). I am now taking a marketing program and when introducing myself, without fail, I always make the remark, "I am absolutely passionate about pharm/ phys/ path... but i want to wear nice clothes!!"ReplyDelete
Interesting post! And I can see your point that feeling stupid is essentially part of being a scientist as we continuously challenge our knowledge. But I think feelings of inadequacy are more common for a different reason. This blog post describes it much better than I could, outlining depression and PhDs in the US: http://www.universityaffairs.ca/speculative-diction/my-grief-lies-all-within-phd-students-depression-attrition/ReplyDelete
After reading the above article, I certainly identified with many of those emotions during my physics MSc, in particular 'imposter syndrome'. I had very much wanted to do a PhD but lacked the intellectual self-confidence to do so. Unfortunately in my experience, most of my supervisors were highly dismissive if you showed any sign of struggle - emotional or intellectual. Looking back, I wish I'd cast aside the doubts they reflected on to me, but I didn't quite have the balls back then! After being told many times that if I couldn't stand the heat, I should get out of the kitchen, I sadly left the world of science (but with a hope to stay within its realm through science communication instead) - but it seems sad to that it keeps happening to so many others!
I have many friends who have finished or are in the throes of their PhDs, and the lack of support seems depressingly common. From what I gather, it seems that everyone expects to have some kind of breakdown during their PhD - a self-fulfilling prophecy, perhaps! Now (with some balls grown) I spend a lot of my time reassuring my friends that all will be well and that they can do it – it seems rare to get any positive encouragement, which seems vital in such a long-term endeavor. I think it's crazy that such talented and passionate individuals should be worn down and eventually driven away when all it might take is sitting down once a week with coffee & a cake and asking how people are doing.
This advice could go some way to help maybe: http://sciencehastheanswer.blogspot.com/2012/01/things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-i.html
In my view, some in the scientific community seek to intimidate those junior to them to the point that they wish to discontinue – is it done to test them? See if their worthy to stay in this field? Perhaps (and we all need to grow a backbone) but whittling away at people's confidence like this is very damaging, not only to their academic career.
Yes, science can be extremely challenging, but the challenges should be in the lab, on the chalk board and in text books, not from the community itself. Supervises, lecturers, colleagues and other students should be helping those to enjoy and flourish within it rather than making them feel they have to suffer to prove their worth first.
(This is a sweeping generalisation here –and quite a rant! There are some absolute gems out there, of course... let's have more :))
Hi Suzi (and thanks for linking to my blog post Briony).ReplyDelete
Science is hard work, there is no question about it and the politics that surround it can make it 100x harder work than it needs to be at times. I dislike the attitude that many people have of putting others down to prove their worth.. (not everyone is like that though). Critical assessment is part of science, but it shouldn't be a personal attack or nor should it be used just for the sake of it. But that seems to be the way it is in science..
Hey, nice site you have here! Keep up the excellent work!ReplyDelete
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At EC&M, we know NEC issues are very important to our readers. That's why we've dedicated a department to answering your latest Code questions and concerns. When you find yourself stumped by the Code, just e-mail your question to the author at [email protected] for future consideration in Code Quandaries.
Q. I'm installing 3-in. intermediate metal conduit (IMC) with an extended run length of about 300 ft to 350 ft. My coworkers told me I have to install a pull box about every 100 ft, but I can't find a reference to this in the NEC. Is there a rule in the Code that specifies the maximum distance between pull points?
A. No. The Code does not specify when a pull box is required, but Sec. 314.28 does specify how to properly size a pull box. You can run the raceway as long as you want, but the Code does not permit more than the equivalent of four quarter bends (360∞ total) between pull points [Secs. 362.26, 342.26, 344.26, 352.46, 358.26, 348.26, 350.26, and 356.26].
Q. I just set a service on a new house where I used ½-in. electrical metallic tubing (EMT) to encase the grounding electrode conductor (GEC) from the meter base to the ground rod. The inspector said I have to bond both ends of the metal raceway to the GEC. He also said I should use nonmetallic conduit in the future. Is he correct?
A. Yes. According to Sec. 250.64(E), you can use a metal enclosure to encase the GEC, but you must maintain electrical continuity between the point of attachment to cabinets or equipment and the grounding electrode. You must also securely fasten it to the ground clamp or fitting and make metal enclosures that are not physically continuous from cabinets or equipment to the grounding electrode electrically continuous by bonding each end to the GEC [Sec. 250.92(A)(3)]. This ensures they will be in parallel with each other. Failure to bond both ends could create a condition where the reactance of the raceway becomes so high that it creates an "inductive choke" that would limit the GEC's ability to carry current. If you used nonmetallic conduit to encase the GEC, you don't have to worry about maintaining the electrical continuity of the metal raceway.
Q. What is the maximum secondary conductor length permitted by the NEC from a transformer to a main breaker in an office building?
A. Twenty-five ft. The rules in Sec. 240.4 require you to protect all conductors against overcurrent in accordance with their ampacities as specified in Sec. 310.15. However, Sec. 240.4(E) allows you to run unprotected secondary conductors up to 25 ft if you meet the following conditions of Sec. 240.21(C)(6):
The secondary conductors shall have an ampacity that, when multiplied by the ratio of the secondary-to-primary voltage, is at least ⅓ of the rating of the overcurrent device protecting the primary of the transformer.
Secondary conductors terminate in a single circuit breaker or set of fuses that limit the load current to not more than the conductor ampacity permitted by Sec. 310.15.
The secondary conductors are suitably protected from physical damage.
The 1999 NEC is not very clear about secondary conductor lengths over 10 ft, but not more then 25 ft for nonindustrial facilities. Fortunately, Sec. 240.21(C)(6) has been added to the 2002 NEC and clearly explains how to properly size and install secondary conductor taps.
Q. I'm working on a project that includes hooking up a listed kiln in a ceramics classroom. The kiln is rated 100A at 208V. The flexible metal raceway from the kiln to the 100A disconnect includes two 1 AWG conductors, one 6 AWG grounded (neutral) conductor, and one 12 AWG equipment ground. I can't find a section of the NEC that allows the grounded (neutral) conductor to be reduced in size as it is. Am I missing something?
A. Yes. There are no Code rules that specifically tell us how to size the grounded (neutral) conductor for branch circuits, but there is one for feeders (220.22). You only need to size the grounded (neutral) conductor to carry the maximum unbalanced load between it and any ungrounded conductor. Because this is a listed product, you only need to wire the appliance according to the instructions.
However, the size of the equipment grounding conductor in the flexible metal raceway is cause for concern. This equipment grounding conductor may not be smaller than shown in Table 250.122, based on the rating of the circuit overcurrent protection device. For a 100A protection device, the equipment grounding conductor may not be smaller than 8 AWG.
Q. I've heard an insulated equipment grounding conductor for an isolated grounding circuit installation should float from the electrical system. I've also heard it must terminate at the neutral point of a transformer or at the neutral-to-case connection point at service equipment. Which way is correct?
A. Neither. The NEC doesn't require the isolated equipment grounding conductor for electronic equipment to terminate to the neutral point of a transformer or at the neutral-to-case connection point at service equipment — nor does it permit you to float the equipment grounding conductor from the electrical system [250.96(B) and 250.146(D)].
The equipment grounding conductor from electronic equipment may not be "floated, lifted, or isolated" from the electrical source. If the metal parts of an electrical system were truly isolated or floated from the electrical source, a line-to-case fault could not be cleared — there would be no path for electrons to return to the power supply — and the metal parts of the equipment would remain energized with dangerous touch voltage.
To ensure a safe electrical system, you must bond all metal parts of the electrical system together and to the utility grounded (neutral) conductor at service equipment or the neutral point of a separately derived system [Sec. 250.4(A)(4)].
According to several industry standards, the insulated equipment grounding conductor should originate at the neutral point at the transformer or neutral-to-case connection point of service equipment, and it should remain insulated from the metallic raceway and all other metal parts through its length. To maintain isolation from the metal parts of the electrical system, the isolated equipment grounding conductor may pass through metal enclosures [Secs. 250.146(D) and 408.20 Exception].
Real world experience demonstrates that the difference in ground potential between electronic equipment (which causes the problems with digital equipment) can be reduced to a satisfactory level by simply terminating all insulated equipment grounding conductors to a "single point" at the panelboard where all the circuits originate.
Q. Does the NEC require you to measure (test) the resistance of the grounding electrode to validate the ground resistance does not exceed 25 ohms?
A. No. The rules in Sec. 250-50 specify that a metal underground water pipe, the metal frame of a building or structure, a concrete-encased electrode, or a ground ring can be used as the required grounding electrode for services (Sec. 250-24), separately derived systems (Sec. 250-30), and remote buildings and structures (Sec. 250-32). The NEC does not require any of these electrodes have a resistance of 25 ohms or less (contrary to what many think), nor does it require you to measure their ground resistance.
However, if none of the electrodes specified in Sec. 250-50 are available, then for all practical purposes you need to install a ground rod (Sec. 250-52). Sec. 250-56 specifies that where a single electrode consisting of a ground rod has a resistance of more than 25 ohms, you must install an additional electrode. You must bond the additional electrode to the first electrode with a conductor that is not required to be larger than No. 6 cu. [Sec. 250-66(a)], and the additional electrode must be located at least 6 ft from the other ground rod [Sec. 250-56]. Once you have installed two ground rods, there is no need to measure their ground resistance, because the NEC does not require them to have a resistance of 25 ohms or less.
Q. What size copper equipment grounding conductor is necessary for a 5 hp Design Letter B, 208V, 3-phase motor protected by an inverse time circuit breaker, assuming no more than three current-carrying conductors in a raceway, ambient temperature of 30°C (86°F), and a circuit conductor length of 50 ft?
A. Number 12. According to Sec. 250-122, the equipment grounding conductors shall not be smaller than shown in Table 250-122, based on the rating of the circuit overcurrent protection device. But it does not have to be larger than the circuit conductors supplying the equipment. Follow these steps to determine the size:
Step 1. Size the circuit protection device (circuit breaker) per Sec. 430-52(c)(1).
Motor FLC = 16.7A [Table 430-150]
Protection device size = 16.7A x 250%
The next size up permitted is 45A [Secs. 240-6(a) and 430-52(c)(1) Exception No. 1].
Step 2. Size the motor-circuit conductors per Sec. 430-22(a).
Conductor size = 16.7A x 125%
The 75°C column in Table 310-16, calls for No. 12 [Sec. 110-14(c)(1)(d)].
Step 3. Size the equipment grounding conductor per Sec. 250-122(a) and (d).
The copper equipment grounding conductor required by Table 250-122 is No. 10, but the equipment grounding conductor does not have to be larger than the No. 12 circuit conductors.
Q. I'm a contractor in California with a limited specialty license relating to swimming pools and spas. I continually run into electricians who have a different interpretation of the GFCI protection requirements of Sec. 680-42 for spas and hot tubs. When is GFCI protection required?
A. According to Sec. 680-42, GFCI protection is required for the outlet that supplies:
A self-contained spa or hot tub.
A packaged spa or hot tub equipment assembly.
A field-assembled spa or hot tub with a heater load of 50A or less.
This section also states that GFCI protection is not required for:
A listed self-contained unit or listed packaged equipment assembly with integral GFCI protection provided for all electrical parts within the unit or assembly.
A field-assembled spa or hot tub rated greater than 250V or rated 3-phase.
A combination pool/hot tub or spa assembly.
Q. Does the NEC have any requirements about where a 120V smoke detector must be installed?
A. No. The NEC does not cover the location of smoke detectors. This is covered in other NFPA documents such as NFPA 72 Fire Alarm Code or NFPA 101 — Life Safety Code.


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In some ways, a person's choice of phone might say a lot about them. In other ways, it doesn't. And as much as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, we're all guilty of it from time to time.
Do you ever infer things about people's personalities based on little more than what kind of phone they use? Is it ever even remotely fair to do so? Can phone-based judgements in the real world ever be more than just the rash and unfair assumptions that someone is an arsehole or a fanboy that they tend to be on the internet?
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Although the Goessel Bluebirds will be without any seniors on this year's volleyball team, they will have valuable experience in several players.
Junior Erin Brubaker will return from the Wheat State League Championship Team of 2012 as a hitter along the front row. Brubaker registered 100 kills last year and 38 serving aces in 80 games.
Sophomore Page Hiebert brings strength to the hitting position and sophomore Alicen Meysing will also be used along the net for hitting and blocking responsibilities. Hiebert scored 236 kills and 47 serving aces on last year's team. Meysing also played in all 80 games last season and recorded 29 kills and 17 solo blocks.
In 2012, the Bluebirds had a record of 29-10 and worked their way into the finals of sub-state before being eliminated in the post-season tournament.
Players that saw limited time last year, but anchored a successful junior varsity season, are expected to contribute to the success of this year's team. Makayla King will likely assume the role of libero, or defensive specialist. Gentry Thiesen will contribute as hitter and Alyssa Booton is the likely candidate for starting setter.
"There will be a lot of new faces this year," head Coach Crysta Guhr said about the varsity. "The bulk of playing time will come from younger classmen who are eager to make their own mark in league play and beyond."
Along with the competitive league play will be tough matches with Sedgwick, Halstead, Olpe and Hillsboro.
"We competed well during the summer, even against larger schools," said Brubaker. "We found good team chemistry during the summer," Meysing said.
"To be the Wheat State League champions again this year is one of our team goals," Hiebert said.
Goessel's season begins Sept. 3 at Elyria Christian in a non-league contest with Ell-Saline. Wheat State League competition begins Sept. 10 at Elyria Christian with Centre. The first home meet for the Bluebirds will be the Goessel Invitational Tournament on Sept. 14 with a total of eight schools.


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So, even if it was caused by a technical problem with the car, it would still be considered negligence?
If it helps, think about who's the least-cost avoider on whom you would like to place the damages arising from the incident: the car owner who should get his brakes checked regularly or the lady innocently and legally crossing the street? If someone has to pay, I think common sense would say the driver.
But more generally, nothing is ever a certainty in law. That's why we have judges and juries...to use their expertise (or lack thereof) to fill in the gaps/reconcile conflict facts. The default rule is to send the case to the jury and let them weigh everything.
ETA: And if it was a design malfunction with the car, then the driver could ask the judge to join the car company, or he could sue the company in a separate action.
I expect that vehicle controls are standard procedure after accidents like this.
Quote from: Mr. Cookie on May 19, 2007, 07:29:35 PMI expect that vehicle controls are standard procedure after accidents like this.What do you mean by "vehicle controls"? If you're talking about a company taking action to correct the defect after an accident, evidence of that would probably be barred in court (as a subsequent remedial measure).
I had Evidence the first day, then property and today (Saturday) I had Con Lawgood grief.I did good on the evidence portion because I just took that class last fall property ... about 45% But today in Con law I TOTALLY bombed. I didn't realize that Con law on the bar was largely topics that were taught in federal courts class which, of course, I didn't take and first amendment, which I didn't take either. I randomly knew the establishment clause stuff but the rest...not a chance. I naively thought con law would be about...what I learned in con law. But...not so much.Anyway...good luck to all. Torts tomorrow, Fun times.
Quote from: Alci on May 16, 2007, 07:52:07 PMC. I think it can be inferred. Res ipsa loquitur, right? Properly parked cars don't just roll down hills. Let the jury weigh the evidence. Alternatively, B.That's correct. The answer is C. Its a definite case of res ipsa.For the 0L's, res ipsa loquitur is latin for "the thing speaks for itself" - its a tort law doctrine that allows a jury to infer negligence where you don't quite have all the pieces to the puzzle in situations where negligence must have happened because things ordinarily wouldn't have ended up how they did unless somebody was negligenct - like the car rolling down the hill.
C. I think it can be inferred. Res ipsa loquitur, right? Properly parked cars don't just roll down hills. Let the jury weigh the evidence. Alternatively, B.
RIL was one of the easier tort questions for me to answer. Once you learn the doctrine, it is easy to see it set up in a fact pattern. All of the 0Ls and other onlookers, don't freak out. If you take PMBR you should be fine. I thought it was very helpful in terms of getting you accustomed to studying all day, and letting me know where my weak areas are on the multistate. I'm glad I invested the $620.00.
w00t! Post a crim question...I had an awful prof for that and will probably have to learn from scratch.


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Tonight we're going to look at Colossians, Chapter 2, verses 8 through 10, in our study. Really, this is just the first part of a look at verses 8 through 15, which should be taken as a composite. We might title our discussion tonight, our study tonight, "Philosophy or Christ?" - because really, that's what Paul is dealing with in this passage. The word "philosophy" which appears in verse 8: "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy. The word "philosophy" is from two Greek words phileo and sophia "phileo" mans to love and "sophia" means wisdom. "Philosophy" is the love of wisdom. And throughout all of history, man has pursued this fascination with wisdom, and that is simply an etymological meaning of the word the love of wisdom - but philosophy itself really boils down to the effort of ran to determine the ultimate causes in the earth and the universe... the effort of non to determine ultimate causes.
Throughout all the history of the world, man has pursued an understanding of what caused what is and why it is what it is and where it's going, and what its intent and purpose is. Man has sought to explain the reasons for existence, the purpose of living, all of the phenomena of the universe it's really one great mystery that man has tried to solve. There have been many, many solutions offered by many, many different philosophers. Therehave been tens of thousands of philosophers and a different philosophy for every one of those, as well as millions upon millions of homespun philosophies and philosophers. Everybody has his own explanation of the universe.
I remember when I was in college, one of the most frustrating and depressing experiences I ever had was a course I took in European Philosophy. I'll never forget the course because of one particular student who just loved philosophy. He loved it. He was a very interesting fellow. He couldn't spell at all. That's why I always remember him. He couldn't spell anything. He had some kind of dysfunction in what he saw getting translated to his thought patterns and everything got inverted, twisted, and put upside down. And he couldn't spell anything I mean anything the, and or but, dog, cat nothing. Cat cam out "tca" and the "t" would be upside down. It was an incredible situation. One day he came to me and he said, and I think it was only the first year I had been at this college, and he said, "I think you should run for Student Body Vice President." I said, "I don't want to run for Student Body vice President. I'm not interested at all in doing that. I have enough to do playing sports. If I want to get through college and have any time to study, I can't do that." Well, he said, "I'm going to do it for you anyway." And so he proceeded to do an entire campaign for me, all over campus, and not one time was my namespelled anywhere near correctly. And naturally, as a result, I won in a landslide. It was the most hilarious thing that occurred on the campus during the whole year.
So I was stuck for the next year with being the Student Body Vice President, much against my will. But I always remember the class because he was in it and he used to write we had an exercise where we would have to respond to the professor by writing answers on the blackboard. And he would write these absolutely incoherent answers andI used to think to myself, "That to me is the ultimate picture of philosophy." None of it made any sense at all. I hasten to add he got an A and I got a B. I think I got a B on the basis of attitude more than anything else. But it was very frustrating to study philosophy because of the fact that it was an exercise in the frustration of a degenerate mind, trying to determine ultimate truth without the help of God. And some of the solutions that people came up with were absolutely unbelievable. And no two of them ever agreed.
Most philosophers deny the existence of God. Those philosophers who do allow for the existence of God usually allow for His existence only as a general cause, perhaps in a deistic fashion, that somewhere back there someplace, sometimes, God kinda spun it all out, but most of them deny the existence of God altogether, and they try to explain everything in the universe in terms of their own rational thinking patterns very hopeless. I Corinthians, Chapter 2, verse 9: "Eye, hath not seen..." You can't discover truth by empiricism "...nor ear heard, neither have entered in the heart of man..." You can't discover truth by rationalism. "...the things that God has prepared for them that love Him." "But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit." The Spirit is the one who searches the deep things of God. Science that's empiricism. Philosophy that's rationalism. According to 1 Cor. 2:9, neither of them will ever discover ultimate truth.
No wonder Bertrand Russell, at the end of his life, 90 years of age, the vast majority of his life at least 70 of those years being spent as a philosopher, his last words were, "Philosophy has proved a washout for me." That's a long washout 90 years. Thomas Hobbs, the famous English atheistic philosopher, who fostered materialistic psychology and what is called "utilitarian morality," when he was drawing near his death, said this, "I am about to take a leap into the dark. I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of this world." End quote. David Hume, the deistic Scottish philosopher, was an immoral man in every sense of the word, totally indecent, completely dishonest. His biographers tell us that he was a teacher of immorality, a denier of God, and his death was so tragic that his attendants at his death said that he agonized to the point that he shook the entire bed and demanded that the candles be lit all night, that he never be left alone for one moment, and his lips were filled with word of cursing and remorse until he died.
And so it goes with philosophers so it goes with people who want to eliminate God and then in their own minds by their awn human effort attempt to discover truth. Now the city of Colossae had its philosophers. The city of Colossae had its Hobbs, its Humes, its other philosophers... as every society does. Famous ones and backyard ones. And the little assembly of believers the church at Colossae was in danger of being captured by them, of being infiltrated by them, of being duped by them. Now, remember a little of the background about Colossae. It was a little town in the midst of the Lichas Valley. The Lichas Valley was so named for the Lichas River. It was approx. 100 miles from Ephesus, located in Asia Minor, and in that lovely little valley were 3 cities: Colossae, Hieropolis, and the most famous, because of the indication in Revelation, the city of Laodicea. Those 3 little cities occupied that territory. Now, one of those 3 the city of Colossae had a church. As far as we know, so did Laodicea, and perhaps so did Hieropolis as well. But it was a typical pagan city, in that it was occupied by Greeks, Romans and a population of Jewish people who had left their land.
Now, Paul had been in Ephesus for 3 years. During the time in which he was in Ephesus, he was instrumental in founding the church in Ephesus and the other churches in Asia Minor, and all of those churches mentioned in Revelation 2 and 3 are in Asia minor, and most likely all of them were founded during that 3 year period, as well as some other churches, namely Colossae. And what probably happened was that while Paul was ministering in Ephesus, a man came there by the name of Epaphras. And Epaphras was won to Jesus Christ under the ministry of the apostle Paul. He's mentioned in Chapter 4, verse 12. He was won to Christ by the apostle Paul and he returned to Colossae and became the founder of the Colossian assembly.
Now, six years have gone by since the church at Colossae was begun. Paul has finished his 3 years in Ephesus; after that, he spent a winter in Greece, from which he wrote perhaps Romans and Corinthians. Then he returned to Jerusalem. When he got there with his offering to give the poor saints in Jerusalem, it turned out that he was arrested. He was then taken to Caesarea and he was left in prison there. When his imprisonment was completed, he was brought to Rome to await his trial. That's what happened during those 6 years. And we pick the story up now as he's already in Rom, waiting his trial. Epaphras visits him in Rom and Epaphras unburdens his heart about the Colossian situation and Paul sends him back with this letter to try to help straighten it out.
Now, basically what Epaphras told him was mostly good, because there aren't any really serious, critical defections occurring in the congregation. Rather there is warning, lest that should occur. And the letter is mostly about warning them, relative to letting any false teaching, false philosophy infiltrate their congregation Colossae had its false teachers every place does. It had its philosophers with their human wisdom, loitering at the doorstep of the church, ready to enter in and vie for control and Paul simply warns them about it. Now this is always to be expected, that the church in every city, in every culture, in every country, in every century, will have to fight to hold its doctrinal purity. It will have to fight to keep its spiritual equilibrium. It will have to defend itself against errorists and maintain the truth always because Satan will always endeavor to topple the church, to drop it down to the level of false doctrine. That's Paul's great concern and that becomes the heart of the letter to the Colossians.
Now, as we come to Chapter 2, verse 8, we come to what is frankly the heart of the epistle... this is the heart of the epistle. Really, from Chapter 2, v. 8 through v. 23 that one section there Paul gives the main message of this letter to the Colossians. Because here he deals directly with the false teaching that is on the border of the churchthat is possibly to threaten the church in Colossae.
Now, just to give you an overview of the book, Paul has already confirmed the truth relating to Christ in the great doctrinal section, Chapter 1, v. 15 through Chapter 2, v. 7. This is the doctrinal section. It presents the great doctrine of Jesus Christ and salvation. The first 14 verses are introduction. The great doctrinal section is 1:15 to 2:7. The practical section is 3:1 Chapter 3, v. 1, he moves into the practical clear to the end ... Chapter 4, v. 6, really, and then SCAT personal words closing out. So you have a doctrinal section at the beginning, naming Christ and clarifying who He is and what salvation is; you have a practical section, dealing with what should characterize the lives of the Colossians and all believers. Now, in the middle of that, you have what I could possibly call a polemical section. Polemic means a dispute here is the argument of the book. Here is the dispute. Here is the dialog of Paul who says, "Now, let me get at this issue. I've talked about Christ; I've talked salvation; I'll talk about your practical life. But let me attack those false teachers." And he does it in the heart of the letter. And that's where we are.
Now, we're going to notice something interesting. There are 4 aspects to the false teaching that threatens the Colossians. We have a very hard tine, incidentally, putting this heresy together, because Paul never names it officially. He only flirts around the borders of it and it's hard for us to crystallize just exactly what it is. But, it may become somewhat clear as we go through this section in the weeks to come. But this we do know: it had 4 elements. One it had the element of philosophy, according to vv. 8 thru 15, and that's what he talks about in 8 15. That whole section deals with this whole problem of human philosophy. Secondly, it had in it an element of legalism. You might say No. 1 was humanism, No. 2 was legalism. Verses 16 and 17 are relative to legalism. Thirdly, it had an element of mysticism. In verses 18 to 19, it talks about a rather mystical worshipping of angels. And fourthly, it had an element of asceticism, a monastic kind of thing, a false kind of humility, withdrawing from normal patterns of life, like somekind of recluse or monk. So here is a conglomeration of human philosophy, legalism, mysticism and asceticism. And it my little computer, all that goes in and clicks out the word "Essenes" and we saw in our introductory study of the book of Colossians that it is very likely that the influence could have come from the community of Jews known as the Essenes. They were a community of Jews who seemed to fit these patterns. Now, that may be the case. Perhaps it was a form of that Jewish sect. Perhaps it was just/coincidentally similar series of things that really embody all of the possible kind of heresies that you could imagine.
Now, Paul has already called the Colossians to maintain pure allegiance to Jesus Christ. In verses 1 to 7, he says, "I have great conflict for you and I want you to hang onto Christ and the truth about Christ and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." He's made this great, positive statement. I want you to hold onto Christ. I want you to commit yourself with pure allegiance to Him. And now he moves away from the positive to the negative: Here's what I want you to avoid... Chapter 2, vv. 8 to 23. Here's the polemic. Here's the argument.
Now, false teachers, as we've learnedalready in our study of Colossians, were claiming, as they have been continually claiming in the early years of the church, to have a superior knowledge. And they continue to do that even today. They come along and say, "Well, we know what you don't know. We have a system that is higher than yours. We have knowledge and insights beyond yours a higher, truer system than Christians have. And from the time of the New Testament, they always cane along and said we have a superior "gnosis" the word for knowledge. We have a higher knowledge; we have a higher revelation; we have a higher apprehension of God's truth." And so Paul, in this section, counterattacks that. And what he's saying is that there is no higher truth; there is no nobler knowledge; there is no greater insight; there is no superior revelation, no matter what they claim. And against the enticing claim that a higher system was offered by this new teaching, he emphasized that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Christ. Against the doctrine of eons, the doctrine of the series of emanations, intermediate spirit beings, through which the divine essence was distributed until it finally reached man in a diluted form. Paul set forth Christ as the only single embodiment of the fullness of God, Chap. 2, v. 9. There aren't a whole lot of eons and angel beings between us and God, through which God filters His personality. There is only one representation of God in human terms, and that is Jesus Christ. Against the idea that those spirit intermediaries should be worshipped by men, who must approach God through them, Paul shows they are nothing but demons who have been conquered by Christ. He says in verse 15, "He has spoiled the principalities and the powers." Against the idea of selfdenying asceticism and false humility, Paul shows that we are no longer attached to any fleshly things, since we have come to know Christ. We have moved into a spiritual dimension and fleshly abstinences have little significance.
Now, and I'm just giving you some overviews, I think it is important for us to see here an excellent example of how you deal with heresy. And as you look at what Paul is doing here, he's lambasting these 4 areas of heresy, all coming at the Colossian assembly, whether in me form or multiple forms, we're not sure. But you'll notice it is not a matter of bitter denunciation of the heresy. He doesn't name the heresy and then tear it apart piece by piece by piece. He doesn't do that. It is not a detailed discussion of the false teaching. It is not a fiery blast at the heresy. The thing that he does all the way through here as be deals with heresy is positively affirm the truth. He just positively affirms the truth again and again and again and again. One commentator says this, "Mien he now reaches the very heart of his letter, the apostle dwells so eloquently upon the deity of Christ and the dignity and completeness of believers that the reader is left in some uncertainty as to the exact system of error against which the Colossians were to be on their guard." I think the point is obvious. If you know the truth, any system of error is going to collapse in the face of the truth. And so it's vital that Paul present the truth.
Now, these 4 things, Paul will be dealing with: philosophy, legalism, asceticism, and mysticism, but only one for tonight we'll begin to look at and that is philosophy.
Now, as we look at verses 8 to 15, and actually we'll only get 8 to 10 tonight, we see a simple contrast. Let me just give you 2 points and we'll just look at them simply. "Captured by philosophy" as opposed to "complete in Christ." And this is the story of every man, because every man is either captured by human philosophy or he is complete in Christ that's all. Pretty simple. A man either becomes a victim of human wisdom, human reason, human logic, or he becomes complete in Christ. That's the choice of every human being. You will choose man's wisdom or God's.
First of all, notice verse 8, "captured by philosophy" let's see what happens. "Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ." Now, Paul is warning them and he's saying this essentially. Beware lest those of you who were rescued out of the dominion of darkness and have already been translated into the kingdom of the Son of God's love should be carried off like captives and enslaved again. It's similar to Galatians 5: "Don't be entangled again in the yoke of bondage." For freedom, Christ has set you free. Don't get tangled again in the yoke of bondage. Don't go back to a former human system legalism in Galatians. Here, don't go back to a former human system human philosophy or wisdom. So the warning is introduced by a call to vigilance, in its present tense, continually being beware a constant watchfulness, lest we be led astray. Be continually being aware. It never lets up. The church is always under siege by false teachers.
Our Lord warned us. Going back to Matthew 7, verse 15: "Beware of false prophets who cone to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves." Matthew 16, verse 6, Jesus says, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees." The leaven of the Pharisees what is that? Legalism. Beware of those false philosophies. Paul warned also the 20th chapter of Acts, verse 29, speaking to those who are the Ephesian elders, "I know this that after my departure grievous wolves will enter among you, not sparing the flock of your own selves, shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. Therefore, watch..." Therefore, watch! The apostle Paul in Philippians 3:2, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision." The mutilation party those who want to circumcise. Peter warned as well in II Peter 3, verse 17: "Beware lest you being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own steadfastness." Jesus said, "Beware." Paul said, "Beware." Peter said, "Beware." And it behooves us to hear the echo, "Beware." There will forever be an effort to woo you away from the truth. And you say, "Well, what am I supposed to beware of?"
Look at verse 8 again, "...lest any one spoil you." Now that's an interesting verb. That is a very rare verb. There's an interesting combination it's a combination word. The word, " " is there and " " it means to carry away, " ". The word,
" "is there. That's interesting, because that word means booty... not baby bootie, but booty that you take in a robbery or booty that you take in a war or whatever. And the word simply means to carry off booty. It was used in later nonBiblical Greek writing to speak of kidnapping, plundering a house, or raping a maiden. He is saying, "Don't let anybody kidnap you." "Don't let anybody plunder your treasury of truth." "Don't let anybody rape you." With their false teachings. There's real danger that somebody's going to carry you away, make you prey, make you a captive, lead you off like a war prisoner; that's the thing Paul is warning them against. Beware.
In II Timothy 3: 6, in the latterdays, it says, "There are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with various lusts." Same idea exactly leading somebody away captive. And the word can be used of a slave dealer, who carries away the people of a conquered nation to sell them as slaves. To Paul, it was unthinkable that those who had been ransomed, those who had been redeemed, and those who had been liberated, could submit to that old slavery again. Every once in awhile, somebody says to me, "Well, I used to go to Grace Community Church." I'll meet them in the market or somewhere. "Oft, you used to go? Where do you go now?" "Oh, we left there, because we discovered that Grace Community did not have the truth." And we have found the truth at the Church of the Living Word or at the whatever this thing is down here with no name... or at the soandso society, whatever it is the Royal Order of Goats I don't know what it is. People are always coming along and saying, "We've found the truth." And the truth of the matter is that they have forsaken the truth for slavery to human wisdom.
How is it that they're going to lead you off? How is it that they're going to capture you? Verse 8 "Be continually being aware that they don't carry you off like spoil..." or booty "...through philosophy." And then you have an equivalent there "...even vain deceit." Philosophyequals vain deceit. The means of capturing people is philosophy.High sounding knowledge and theory, but it's all human. Incidentally, this is the only use of the word in the New Testament. Philosophyis human wisdom human wisdom that sounds like it's divine... human wisdom that supposedly is greater than anything else that you've ever heard. That's what the cults always offer. "You don't know the truth until you know what we know. " One writer says, "Everything that had to do with theories about God and the world and the meaning of human life was called philosophyat that time, not only in pagan schools but in the Jewish schools of the Greek city."
Now that historian Slatter is his name says that the term. "philosophy" was used of every single theory about God and the world, whether Jewish or Greek, in that era. That was the common term. So everybody coming along with any new theory about God or new theory about the world, its origins, its meanings and its destiny, constituted a philosopher with a philosophy. Josephus, the historian of that day, has shown that any elaborate system of thought and he says any moral or disciplinary thought pattern was called a philosophy. Josephuseven says, and I quote, "There are three forms of philosophies among the Jews: the Pharisees, the Saducees, and the Essenes." That's a quote from Josephus' Jewish War No. 2, and that helps me to think maybe it was the Essenes who were propagating their philosophy. Whatever it was, it was a lie, and he calls it vain deceit. He links this term with philosophy to describe it.
Philosophy is empty deceit. It doesn't give you what you expect. The word "deceit" is interesting in the Bible. One of the words that's used in II Peter 2 is "guile" or "deceit". The original meaning of the word is fish hook. And the interesting thing about a fish hook is that it is not what a fish expects. What you see is not what you get in that circumstance. And he's saying that philosophy is the same thing. It's a baited hook. You think it's going to be wonderful it turns out to be deceiving. For all of its claims, philosophy is an empty illusion. That's why Bertrand Russell says, after 90 years of it, that it's a washout. And that's why Hobbs and Hume lie on their death beds panicky without answers. It sounds good. It seduces the mind because it plays into the hands of pride. But it deceives. Truth is in the revelation of God, spoken finally and clearly in Jesus Christ. There is no value in speculative human philosophy.
I think Herbert Carson has a good warning at this point. He says this, "This does not mean that he should come with a blind unreasoning faith, but it does mean that instead of bringing philosophical presuppositions which will color his study of Scriptire and so prejudice his interpretation, a man comes as one conscious of the finiteness of his intellect and aware that his mind also is affected by his sinful nature. Thus he is willing to be taught by the Holy Spirit and acknowledges that it is the Word of God rather than his own reason which is the final arbiter of truth."
So Paul says, "Beware of philosophy." Beware of sane human mode, sane human theory, about God, about the world, whatever. Stick with the Bible. Where do human philosophies come from? Well, he gives you two sources in verse 8. Philosophy and vain deceit "...after the tradition of men..." that's source #1. Source #2: "...after the rudiments of the world..." and not after Christ.
Two inadequate sources: #1 tradition. It's always been the case. People have always believed it. You know what that does? That just perpetuates inadequate, depraved human thinking patterns. Tradition doesn't mean anything. Just because it's handed down doesn't mean it's true. If you've got error to start with and hand it down, it doesn't make it any better than what you started with. Here he's saying, "Philosophy comes after the tradition of men." One of the things that's so interesting and we don't really have time to develop this ... when you study philosophy, almost all philosophers,build on other philosophers. There'san incredible sequence that flows through the history of philosophy. And one guy goes this far, the next guy chops off a little bit of his philosophy and develops it, and the next guy...so what you have today in philosophy can go all the way back and almost all philosophy finds its roots in Aristotle and Plato. It's all just a changing and a variation in the flow of the tradition of man. The errors are perpetuated, perpetuated, perpetuated, perpetuated. Look at Judaism. By the time Jesus arrived on the earth, the Jews had built up such a monstrosity of philosophy, such a mess of human wisdom, that they were unable any longer to tell what the traditions of men were and what the Word of God was. Mark 7:5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders?" They had developed this sophisticated system all on the basis of tradition. In verse 8, Jesus says, "laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men." And verse 9, "Full well you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your am tradition." There's nothing honoring about tradition. There's nothing sacred about tradition. It's just perpetuated human ignorance.
And so the Jews had their traditions. The Gentiles had traditions did you know that? They passed their same old philosophies on. I Peter "For as much as you know you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers." We're all victimized by it. We're all victimized by a passing on of error. I see my little child go off to school and come home and say, "Hey Dad, we didn't really come from monkeys, did we?" And I say, "No, we didn't cam from monkeys." "But everybody says we came from monkeys and the book says we came from monkeys." And I asked the teacher why everybody says we came from monkeys. And she said because that's what scientists havealways believed. And I said, 'Val, that's good proof that no matter how smart you are, without God and His revelation, you never get away from error to truth, do you?"
So, where does this philosophy come from? It comes from all the philosophiesbefore it. It just perpetuates the sane old stuff. Second source rudiments of the world. Well, that's not an easy term to figure out. There are several possibilities. Let me just give you a general idea of what Paul has in mind. The term in its literal sense refers to the basic elements of learning. Rudiments would be ABC's it literally means "things in a column" or "things in a row" 1, 2, 3 or a, b, c. He says that this just comes from the ABC's of the world they think that it's graduate work, but it's googoo. You know, you go to philosophy and you'll get a doctor of philosophy. And Paul says that's A B C...rudimentary principles of instruction for childhood, not adequate for mature adults. That's rudiments. The thought then is that the return to philosophy would be to cast away the mature teaching of the Bible for the infantile povertystricken opinions of an immature religion drawing its being, not from God, but from this world. In Galatians, chapter 4, we find the same phraseology, verse 3: "Even so we were in bondage when we were children to the elements of the world." The elementary teaching of human religion is what be means. And in Galatians, he's talking about the Jews religion, and perhaps in Colossians, he's combining it with the Gentile religion, as well.
But what he means here is just the basics of the same old human religion. And what is the same old basic in all human religion? Salvation by what? Works... same old deal. The same terminology is used also in the 5th chapter of Hebrews. It just means basic human religion. Where does all this stuff come from? It comes out of tradition perpetuated error. Where else does it come from? It comes from man's own infantile, primer type religion. It isn't giving you some advanced, deep new, profound spiritual knowledge. You hear these guys advertising this ... I opened the Saturday paper yesterday and there are weird people promising new insights, new knowledge. This guy with beady eyes his name is Norvel or something he's going to transcend anything you've ever know; all he has to offer is infantile human religion, based upon the tradition of men that's been unable to find God because of its depravity. You want to know who the really advanced folks are? Look around you're sitting with them. The people who know the Word of God.
The word also interesting thought Colossians 2 again. The word "rudiments of the world" has a second possible meaning in the ancient world and I would guess that the one I just gave you is probably the one Paul had primarily in mind. But it's possible that the allusion could be broadened to include this. That was that it referred to elemental spirits--spirit beings-especially the people of that day were bound up in associating spirits with the stars and the planets. That's astrology and they were into it heavy. And it's amazing today that people think they've got a whole new thing astrology. That is not new. That's the same old rudiments of the world. Did you know Julius Caesar was an astrology buff and governed his whole life by what the stars told him? Did you know Alexander the Great did the same thing? Devout believers both of them in the influence of the stars. People who believed in this kind of stuff the elemental spirits connected with the planets were in the grip of a rigid kind of determinism that was set by the stars and the influence of these spirits through these stars dominated their lives. And they used to say there was only me way of escape. You were absolutely a prisoner of the stars and the spirits of the stars unless you knew the right passwords and the right formula so you could escape the fatalism built into the stars. You bad to have, they said, a secret knowledge a secret teaching.
And along come the false teachers and say, "We have the secret teaching that can relieve you from the fatalistic determinism of the stars." Jesus Christ can't save you from the spirits in the stars and planets. We have the secret information for that." And some of the people in the Colossian church had probably been in that kind of system and when they were saved out of it, they still had lingering thoughts about it and the temptation may have been there to say, "Well, what if they're right?" But Paul warns them and he warns us to be constantly being aware of the false truths, that that stuff is just human tradition. It is just perpetuated ignorance; it is infantile, inadequate human religion of the past being revived. And it's nothing more. We have Christ. God is enough.
And thatmoves him to a second point complete in Christ. He says at the end of verse 8: "...not after Christ." And then he shifts gears, "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and ye are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power. " You don't need to be captured by philosophy you can be complete in Christ. You can chuck all that human philosophy. You can throw away all the traditional religions of the world. You can throw away all the manmade forms and theories. For in Him alone dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily and you are complete in Him. The word"dwelleth" in verse 9 "in Him dwelleth" continuous present tense still dwells. Jesus Christ is still the fullness of the Godhead still.
The word "Godhead" incidentally is the wordfor the essence of deity. He is still deity; He is still the fullness of deity just like He was in chapter 1, verse 19 it hasn't changed, "...please the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell." The whole "pleroma" the whole fullness of God dwells bodily. The one who at Bethlehem took a human nature is in heaven now and still retains that humanity and will retain it throughout all the ages of eternity. I believe that verse 9 may be the greatest statement of the deity of Jesus Christ in any of the epistles. "In Him" modifying Christ in verse 8 "continually dwells" it doesn't come and go like the gnostics taught all the pleroma, the fullness of deity in a body. I don't know how you can deny it. Some harebrained character cams along and says, "Christ is not God." What are you going to do with it?
And the result of that reality to us? You don't need philosophy. My? Because verse 10 says, if He is all there is of God, then ye are complete where? in Him. The one who is the head ofall otherspiritual beings, all other angelic beings, called principalities and powers. His fullness, beloved, is imparted to us. I don't know if you can understand that. Let me see if I can help you. Thesame terms are used: He is the pleroma of God and we are the pleroma in Him. God literally passes Himself to us through Christ. You are complete in Him. That's a perfect tense. We have been completed in Him with eternal results.
When you think about the fall of man when you think about what a happened, it is pretty sad. When man fell, he fell into a sad state of incompleteness. An unsaved man is spiritually incomplete, for he's totally out of fellowship. He is morally incomplete, because he has no standard of conduct, and if he did, he couldn't live up to it. He is mentally incomplete, because he is incapable of knowing the truth. So you have a spiritually, morally, mentally incomplete man. And Jesus Christ enters the scene, and Paul simply says, "...and ye are complete in Him." II Peter 1:4, Peter says you become partakers of the divine nature.
Think of it you've become a partaker of the divine nature. A man instantly becomes spiritually complete he has fellowship with God. The life of God is in him. He becomes morally complete not because he's perfect practically, but because he recognizes the authority of God's will. He has a standard and the energizing Holy Spirit to give him the strength to obey. And he is mentally complete not in the sense of knowing everything but in the sense of having the truth and the resident truth teacher, the Holy Spirit. Christians are partners of divine life. What an incredible truth! When you became a Christian, you received everything you need everything! Peter said, "we have all things that pertain to life and godliness." You don't need any higher knowledge. You don't need the words of Mary Baker Eddy. You don't need the words of Joseph Smith. You don't need the words of the Book of Mormon. You don't need the words of Auntie Deals Aunt Madame Blevatsky, Judge Rutherford, or anybody else. You don't need Mr. & Mrs. Filmore to add to what you have. You don't need Apostle Soandso to tell you anything other than what you have. You don't need Sun Yung Moon to come along and add to what you have. You don't need anything, because you are complete in Him.
I don't know about you, but, as a Christian, I have a sense of that completeness, don't you? My truth search is over. Is yours? I've found it. I can't even conceive of ever needing anything outside of Jesus Christ. Can you? Mat would it be? Every man has a choice. He can choose human philosophy which will capture him and carry him off in incompleteness to a spiritual, moral and mental sentence of doom. He can follow human wisdom which seems so high and so lofty and so fancy and is nothing more than the same old hackneyed tradition passed dam century after century ... the same old ABC's of human religion. or he can come to Jesus Christ and be lifted from out of this world to a spiritual, moral and mental completeness, The song and I used to love to sing this song says this, "He is all I need. He is all I need. Jesus is all I need."
Father, thank you for our timetonight. We've just kind of scratched really the surface of these thoughts. We're going to do more justice to them next time, as we really dig into the following verses in describing what that completeness mans. Complete salvation complete forgiveness complete victory. We're going to dig deep into whatthat completeness means. But just for now, it's so exciting to know that we're complete in Him nothing missing the life of God in us, the Spirit of God in us, the Word of God in us, the power of God in us all the fruit of the Spirit manifested love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, selfcontrol all those graces that you've given us faith and hope and love. And by the Holy Spirit wisdom and truth everything that could be conceivable to make life and eternity meaningful. Thank you for the words of Peter, "You have all things pertaining to life and godliness. You are partakers of the divine nature." Thank you, Father, for taking us, who aren't necessarily the brightest, smartest we don't have the doctor of philosophy degrees, who have maybe never been educated by the brilliant minds and fancy systems of our world. Thank you that you've hid those things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto us, the babes, because you get glory from simple trust. Father, it's my prayer tonight that somehow in our fellowship, you might speak to that struggling heart, that one life that is hanging in the balances between making a decision relative to being captured by philosophy or complete in Christ. I just pray that your Holy Spirit will minister to them, motivate them, convict them, that none would leave this place with a commitment to human wisdom, that none would leave this place trusting in logic, trusting in education, trusting in the most brilliant philosophy, but that they would know that only in the Word of God is there truth and only in the Christ of God is there completeness. Do your work, Father, in their hearts and in all our hearts. If we already are complete in you, make us thankful and help us to live our lives to the level of that perfection, that pleases you. In Jesus' name, Amen.


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Canyon ride tests access to BLM land
Several hundred ATV riders deliberately violated a trail closure in southern Utah in May 2014 to protest the federal Bureau of Land Management. Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY
BLANDING, Utah -- More than 200 people rode ATVs through a long-off-limits canyon in southern Utah on Saturday to protest the ongoing federal closure and demand more local control over land-use decisions.
The ride drew promises of potential prosecution.
Although the federal Bureau of Land Management's plainclothes rangers documented the ride through Recapture Canyon, they deliberately avoided any confrontation. Many of the ATV riders were armed and invoked the cause of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in violating the canyon's closure. Bundy's son attended a pre-ride rally, lending his family's support to the protest.
Just after 10 a.m., protesters began rumbling through the canyon, often stopping to photograph Indian cliff dwellings. The land is controlled by the BLM, which last month got into an armed confrontation with Bundy over his use of federal land.
The BLM eventually backed down in its efforts to round up Bundy's cattle on its land. The Utah protesters included militia members who drove from Bundy's ranch to participate in Saturday's ride.
"I was not going to have another Bunkerville, Nevada," said San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge. "It was very peaceful. Everyone was very respectful."
Protest organizer Phil Lyman, a San Juan County commissioner, said the BLM needs to work cooperatively with local officials. He said the trail through Recapture Canyon is legally a county road and should never have been closed to vehicles by an appointed bureaucrat. Hikers, bicyclists and equestrians were unaffected by the closure.
"Why does the BLM take such a heavy-handed approach?" Lyman said at the pre-ride rally. "That's not the way you deal with a community."
Bundy's son Ryan offered his support for the ATV riders in their fight to "take back" Utah from the federal government. About 90% of the land in San Juan County is under federal control.
The BLM closed the 12-mile-long trail to motorized use in 2007 and has declined to reopen it despite repeated requests and protests from local government officials. Environmentalists believe the trail should remain closed to motorized use to protect the numerous Indian ruins, which include burial sites and cliff dwellings.
Representatives of one environmental group maintained a low-key presence during the protest ride, photographing and documenting any damage. Riders plowed down sagebrush and splashed through a stream as they rumbled down the canyon, their engine noise echoing off the rocky walls.
In a statement, BLM officials in Utah said their rangers "today focused on recording and documenting individuals who chose to violate the law by traveling into the closure area on ATVs. The BLM will pursue all available redress through the legal system to hold the lawbreakers accountable."
Several ATV riders said they felt it was time to take a stand.
"We're not here to terrorize, to disrupt," said Blanding native Farley Crofts as he zip-tied a Gadsden flag to his side-by-side ATV. "We just want to have access to what we've had access to for years."
And rider Devan Palmer said he doesn't understand why the government forces private businesses to install handicapped-accessible facilities but blocks elderly people from riding ATVs on Recapture.
"They'll make you spend millions so my grandmother can get to the bathroom, but they won't let her on trails she grew up on."


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Thursday night | Queen Elizabeth Theatre
VANCOUVER -- Entering a concert like the one British progressive rock legends Yes offered their Vancouver fans Thursday night is a known quantity.
There was zero surprise to be expected from seeing the band perform not one, not two, but three of its classic '70s records in their entirety and in sequence.
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You could arguably have stayed home, dusted off your old vinyl platters of Close To The Edge (1972), Going For The One (1977) and, to wrap, The Yes Album (1971), sparked a fat one for old times' sake, and you would have heard almost note for note the same music you heard at the Queen E.
What you wouldn't have experienced, however, was to see the current lineup of vocalist Jon Davison, guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, keyboardist Geoff Downes and drummer Alan White show off their skills and parade an array of vintage instruments that made the many gearheads in the room drool with envy.
If the live 2014 experience wasn't too far off its stellar recorded mark, it was arguably much different than, say, seeing the band featuring original singer Jon Anderson, keyboardist Rick Wakeman and drummer Bill Bruford with Howe and Squire at the ol' Coliseum back in the day.
But Davison is both in name and sound a decent enough approximation of Anderson, one of rock's singular voices, and the band wasn't lacking in instrumental pyrotechnics.
Sparks indeed flew during the title track to Close To The Edge, a 20-minute existential prog masterwork that gave each member (especially Howe) a good workout.
Davison, unfortunately, suffered early on from a muscular mix emphasizing his mates during the full band sections.
Yet when he could shine in sparser moments and when he sang the classic Close To The Edge chorus, "I get up, I get down," you couldn't help but feel your spine tingle.
There were many shiver-inducing moments, none as glorious as Howe's stratospheric slide guitar during And You And I and, later, to kick off Going For The One, an album Howe said owed to the band's "weird obsessions" at the time.
Going For The One is indeed a strange album when stacked against the two others on offer. Some may have preferred 1972's Fragile, arguably the true companion to Close To The Edge.
But each track ended with a sizable chunk of the audience rising to its feet, with the entire room enraptured at the end of the mind-expanding Awaken, a 25-minute monster cut that featured Squire's triple-necked bass, Downes nailing a massive organ section, and some spectacularly off-kilter noodling from Howe.
The Yes Album came last, a record born from "the psychedelic summer of 1970" and the one most often spun on classic rock radio, thanks to heavy hitters Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper and I've Seen All Good People.
Closing with The Yes Album made sense: It was arguably the night's most straightforward rock offering, but it was also the one where Anderson's absence was most felt.
Overall, you couldn't walk out of this Yes concert a naysayer.
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On The Police Logs 04.26.12
After Mathew Foulds of Hedges Lane called police Saturday to report his 1997 Jeep gone from his driveway, he got a call from the Suffolk County Police Department, which had impounded it as an abandoned vehicle. It had been found on a commercial lot in Manorville. Strangely, Mr. Foulds later told town police, the thieves had invested some money in the car, purchasing a cut-down canvas top and a full Jeep cover. The items were inside the car when Mr. Foulds went to pick it up.
East Hampton
Bridget Hall, a model, told police last Thursday that she has been receiving letters, cards, and a book from a man she does not know. In one letter the man said he was coming to East Hampton this summer by Jitney. Ms. Hall said she felt threatened by the situation. Police are investigating.
Karol Delaisne of South Breeze Drive reported that her black Ellen Tracy handbag containing $200 in cash, a turquoise leather wallet, several credit cards, and all her identification had vanished from her car, which was parked in her driveway on the night of April 3.
William Matthews of Atlantic Street told police his mailbox was smashed on the night of April 15. He reported hearing a loud bang at about 11:15 p.m. and looked out the window, but saw nothing. Police checked the neighboring boxes and found no others vandalized.
A child's Huffy bicycle and a pink Barbie bike helmet were stolen from her front yard on April 14, Shelia Krasniqi of Cedar Ridge Drive reported.
East Hampton Village
A Long Island Railroad bus headed for Montauk became a center of conflict at the train station last Thursday afternoon after police were notified that several men on the bus had guns. The man who called police told officers he had argued with a group of six men seated behind him after asking them to turn down their music, and that he thought he heard one of them say something in Spanish about a knife. No weapons were found on the bus.
An 84-year-old Amy's Lane resident received a phone call on April 16 from a man claiming to be his grandson, asking him to wire $2,500 to Mexico. The man instead called police, who arrived and assured the caller that no money would be sent. The officer then called the actual grandson, who said he was at work, not in Mexico.
At 6 p.m. on April 16, the caretaker of an Egypt Lane house reported a break-in at about 2:30 that day, tripping the alarm. He told the alarm company he would check the house himself, and found that a screen had been removed and a window opened in the downstairs laundry. There was no sign of the intruder, and nothing was missing.
Police responded to a call a little after 1 a.m. on April 18 reporting a vehicle stranded on Wiborg's Beach. After calling a towing company, an officer cited the driver, Richard Smith of Borden Lane, for driving on the beach without a permit.
Mary Kay Jaroff of Further Lane told police last week that two pineapple stone lawn ornaments had been removed from the property.
On Friday morning, police took a call about a man "with a shaved head, talking to himself" on Newtown Lane. The man told an officer he was homeless and wanted to stay where he was, and he was allowed to, as he was not causing a disturbance, according to the report. A second call came in, however, at about 1:30 p.m., reporting a man lying on the sidewalk on North Main Street. It was the same man, who now said he was waiting for the afternoon train to go back to Riverhead. The officer took the man to the train station.
On Saturday at 3 p.m., police received a report about youths drinking alcohol on Gingerbread Lane. Officers investigating found many youths but no alcohol.
The manager of Obligato on Main Street reported a suspicious person in the store on Sunday morning, who was possibly drunk or drugged. An officer found the man walking nearby and reported him sober and sane.
On the afternoon of April 18, John Hauer of Wainscott Hollow Road reported that at some point between March 7 and that date, someone had smashed in a basement window of his house, slept in an upstairs bedroom, used two of the bathrooms, consumed liquor, damaged two rear garage doors, flattened an outdoor gutter, and gouged tire marks into the front lawn. A landscaper reported seeing a family of five — a mother, father, and three children — on the premises on April 12.
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For All U Irish Puppia Harness Lovers!!!!
I was conpemplating buying a puppia harness from the US and having family send it over to me until I went to Blanchardstown yeaterday!
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In Afghanistan, Marines might soon be able to snap together a 6.5-feet tall wall of armor for themselves in under ten minutes, using no tools or equipment. Inside, they'll be safe from bullets and frag from grenades, mortars, and rockets. Badass.
The Marine Corps has already spent $800,000 to buy 14 kits of McCurdy's Armor, the portable wall system developed by Dynamic Defense Materials. The kits are named after Ryan McCurdy, a Marine who was killed in duty in 2006 while pulling a wounded friend to safety.
The walls are also stackable, making them as easy to transport as they are to assemble. Once in position, four soldiers can assemble an individual panel in less than ten minutes, after which multiple panels can snap together in a U-, V, or J-shape, depending on what's preferable for the situation. The walls also feature ballistic windows that open and close, allowing Marines to fire back when necessary.
It's not clear if and when these will be deployed widely in the field, but given that the current alternative is stacking a bunch of sandbags, hopefully Uncle Sam's ready to put in another order. [DDM via National Defense via PopSci]


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Girl Pleads For Mum's Hand After Crash That Killed Family
Witnesses have described the heartbreaking moment a young girl has pleaded to hold her mother's hand after an accident that killed the rest of her family.
The Queensland family were in New Zealand when their hire car swerved into a delivery truck on Monday.
The crash killed 9-year-old Tessa Williams' two brothers Reuben, 12 and Jasper, 14, as well as her mother's partner, Stephen Phillips.
Queensland violinist and his two stepsons have been killed in a car crash while holidaying in New Zealand. https://t.co/VYaXjMgOpM #9News— Nine News Brisbane (@9NewsBrisbane) September 20, 2016
As rescuers worked to free Tessa and her mother Belinda Williams, who was seated in front, the girl pleaded to hold onto her mother's hand.
Witnesses have told how her brothers' bodies, who were sitting beside her in the back seat, were covered with dog blankets as rescuers tried to calm her.
Both Tessa and her mother were rushed to Waikato Hospital on the North Island, where they remain in a stable condition.
The family were on holiday in New Zealand for a family reunion.
Boys aged 12 and 14 among those who died in Huntly road crash: https://t.co/52SEokBub9 pic.twitter.com/kR81fFjLJn— Yahoo New Zealand (@YahooNZ) September 19, 2016
The deaths have deeply impacted the family's home neighbourhood of Loganlea with neighbours describing them as much-loved.
Talking to The Courier Mail, Billy Azad said the neighbourhood was struggling to come to terms with the news and planned to create a shrine in their memory.
"Losing the three of them at once was a lot to take in," he said.
"We would always have barbecues together. Tessa was always at my place playing with my daughter."
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra have also expressed their sadness at the news, with Stephen a member since 1987.
A first violinist, Stephen, along with Belinda on the viola, had only performed with the orchestra at the concert hall on Saturday night.


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