This blog will become active again one day, once my lovely wife takes it over. For the time being, however, I am in the process of moving pretty much the entirety of its article content over to KennethHynek.net, which is my new blog.
So if you have come here via a link which suggests a date prior to February 2008 and have not found the article being sought, may I suggest you try searching it out at my new website; you will not find it here any longer.
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
This particular issue is very near and dear to my heart. I agree with Ken that Kathy is very hasty to jump to the conclusion that the Palin family is looking trashy and lower class.
Perhaps if Kathy had a sister in this same situation, she would not feel that way. Because that is the way we have to think about issues of the world; apply them to our own lives, as if we lived in their shoes. Having to adjust to a similar situation as this in my own family, I have found that it is not a desire to condemn that I feel, but a sense that I should offer what support I can to my sister so she can live a life of self-actualization and fulfillment. See, I used to be on the outside saying, “This won’t happen to our family,” and constructed my own views about how I would feel if it did. Let me tell you, I feel very differently than I thought I would; I thought I would really struggle, but the truth is I love my sister and her unborn child even more.
If we are truly Christ-like, we will not judge, but bear all siutations with great love.
I leave this as a question to ponder. Why did God choose a virgin teenager who was not married to carry his son? Why not a Jewish woman who was recently married and living according to the law?
One last note: we should not judge the lower class; some people have no choice but to live that life and there is nothing wrong with making less money than someone else. I think we could all lose our distain for such a class, becoming more Christ-like.
Regarding this post by Ken, I find that where Health Canada is concerned, only certain issues regarding health care are ever addressed, and then, not always with the proper statistics or education. I take everything they say or do with a grain of salt myself.
