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stoopbeck1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.
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"He knew that he had grown out of belief in these horrors, yet he was glad when he saw the church tower and the lights in the cottage windows, even though this was not the home of his birth, and his great-aunt did not care much about him.
Inside and round about that old woman's 'shop' window, with its twenty-four little panes set in lead-work, the glass of some oxidized with age, so that you could hardly see the poor penny articles exhibited within, and forming part of a stock which a strong man could have carried, Jude had his outer being for some long tideless time. But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small."
--Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.
______________________________________
"He knew that he had grown out of belief in these horrors, yet he was glad when he saw the church tower and the lights in the cottage windows, even though this was not the home of his birth, and his great-aunt did not care much about him.
Inside and round about that old woman's 'shop' window, with its twenty-four little panes set in lead-work, the glass of some oxidized with age, so that you could hardly see the poor penny articles exhibited within, and forming part of a stock which a strong man could have carried, Jude had his outer being for some long tideless time. But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small."
--Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
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I don't feel like posting a 4th time today :-p
Date: 2007-05-05 12:54 am (UTC)"Faced by the constant possibility of personal and cultural collapse into lawlessness, humankind has perpetually grounded social structures in the cosmos and thereby given ontological status to institutions. Religion provides a cosmic frame of reference with answers to the questions of origin, identity, purpose, meaning, and destiny.
The model of religion as world-building is fruitful for understanding the church's contribution to political order that derives peace and justice in the world from the sacred and that legitimates and sanctifies social structures through the sacraments and the jurisdiction of the church."
- "Church and Society" by Kee, from my History of Christian Thought and Practice II reading packet
I found that reading to be much more interesting than what was actually on the 23rd page of the packet.