2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
- Num. 14:2-3 (KJV)

*sigh* Looks like I'm back with Haloscan, until Blogout comes back online. Hoppefully it will behave better the second time around.

I know, I know..."What do you want for free?"

Family relations, please resend your blogger usernames and passwords and I'll see if I can get you on Haloscan.

Wow, what a great subject for a conference!

I wish I could've gone to this. When I was still a baby evanjellyfish one of the first books I read was Bridges' Pursuit of Holiness. It was wonderful, life affirming stuff. When I went to CCBC all of that changed as I started to read more and more pietist and holiness authors. The lessons that Bridges taught me were quickly lost. In my Systematic Theology class with David Hocking, I was assigned Bridges' Transforming Grace and before I (or CCBC) knew it I was on the road to reformation.

Y'know I find it interesting that Bridges never caught as much heat as Norman Shepherd did for teaching what is tantamount to the same tradtional (15th and 16th century) Reformed theology. I wonder why?

Wow, now I'll have to add this one to my collection of drinking songs!
Thanks John

Just for fun and memories I'll post this one:

immanuel kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
heidegger, heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
david hume could out consume
schopenhauer and hegel,
and wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just a schloshed as schlegel.
there's nothing nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raising of the wrist;
socrates himself was permanently pissed*.

john stuart mill, of his own free will,
on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
plato, they say, could stick it away
half a crate of whiskey every day.
aristotle, aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
hobbes was fond of his dram,
and rene descartes was a drunken fart:
"i drink, therefore i am"
yes, socrates himself is particularly missed;
a lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

(* "pissed" = "drunk" in brit slang)

I'll be attempting to make pot roast tonight. Pray for me.