tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.comments2023-05-19T02:05:24.454-07:00Todd Saunders - A Useful RecordTodd Saundershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comBlogger491125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-66599618985985769782015-04-06T11:14:36.417-07:002015-04-06T11:14:36.417-07:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-68562376048659674882015-04-06T11:14:08.876-07:002015-04-06T11:14:08.876-07:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-76806175495373723802015-04-02T16:29:03.034-07:002015-04-02T16:29:03.034-07:00"Writing is a form of personal freedom. It fr... "Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals." - Don DeLilloTodd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-51885777294884875192014-01-14T09:30:09.281-08:002014-01-14T09:30:09.281-08:00I find it interesting that, from a secular standpo...I find it interesting that, from a secular standpoint it could be argued that the heterosexual union could assert a natural right to its original name, marriage -- the term born to describe the unique heterosexual union in the first place. Cultures change, yes, but they can't change those realities. Nature is not so easily changed.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-16581000869867420952013-09-16T21:09:47.504-07:002013-09-16T21:09:47.504-07:00Here is some interesting information I ran across ...Here is some interesting information I ran across on 9/16/13 while studying for a research paper.<br /><br />In a more recent example, a national study on young adults conceived through sperm donation, including a small sample of lesbian couple families,found a recurring theme among these young people of “looking for my father everywhere.” According to the 2009 study:<br />• Among the young adults raised by lesbian couples, over one-third agreed “it is wrong to conceive a fatherless child.”<br />• Also, 33 percent said that when they see friends with biological moms and dads they feel sad.<br />• Nearly half of these young adults said, “My sperm donor is half of who I am.”18<br />The above examples are reminders that all children—no matter how they are conceived or into what type of family environment they are born or adopted—desire to know where they came from, who they look like, where they get certain characteristics, and most importantly, to know and be known by their own mother and father.<br />Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-912935326005887782013-08-03T21:40:51.865-07:002013-08-03T21:40:51.865-07:00And I am now trying to survive Intermediate Algebr...And I am now trying to survive Intermediate Algebra.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-44539406447940098332013-06-05T12:23:07.634-07:002013-06-05T12:23:07.634-07:00I believe this has been the coldest March and Apri...I believe this has been the coldest March and April on record with the first 50 degree March day-time high temperature arriving later than ever, and the first 60 degree April day arriving later than it ever has as well. Warmest ever and coldest ever, in back to back years. Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-84935466471135156572013-06-05T12:07:58.240-07:002013-06-05T12:07:58.240-07:00The advantages of the cloud are that you can put a... The advantages of the cloud are that you can put an article, or any information, into your "dropbox" to grab with your smartphone or minipad when you're away from your PC, that you can then study, refresh your thinking with during a break at work, or refer to in discussion at church, school, or conversation.<br /><br /> It is a myth that you trade your privacy for the benefits of using this technology. Its success depends on its security. Complete privacy never has, and never will exist. <br /><br /> I would gladly make the trade in either case.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-81118192722588527302013-04-09T15:33:35.449-07:002013-04-09T15:33:35.449-07:00I'm glad too Barbara. Who would have thought?...I'm glad too Barbara. Who would have thought? I believe your dad did good too considering the circumstance. Rob is an exceptional guy. Especially as a father. Thanks for being such a good sister for him especially now. I hope I can be as good of a brother. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. <br /><br />Second cousin,<br />Todd Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-14591949534181674112013-04-09T14:12:34.946-07:002013-04-09T14:12:34.946-07:00Todd, I am Rob's sister Barbara, I have know f...Todd, I am Rob's sister Barbara, I have know for years about your dad & Bette. It broke my heart when we were no longer allowed to visit Big Bend. I am so glad the Rob is able to share & be a part of your life. For years he was always asking me about his father & what I knew. I didn't have proof.I was grateful that my dad excepted Rob as one us. Rob is a great little brother, I love him alot. BarbaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-72927471759340385802013-04-09T12:45:50.242-07:002013-04-09T12:45:50.242-07:00Marriage is a cultural universal, existing in some...Marriage is a cultural universal, existing in some form in every culture. It is defined as <i>"a union between a man and a woman such that children born to the woman are the recognized legitimate offspring of both partners"</i> (Committee for the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971, 133).Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-62830640606518041872013-04-02T15:41:00.148-07:002013-04-02T15:41:00.148-07:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-45972569564277289902013-03-27T09:56:38.004-07:002013-03-27T09:56:38.004-07:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-31621238931245737932013-03-25T08:17:21.698-07:002013-03-25T08:17:21.698-07:00Just as -- per last weeks NPR article on transgend...Just as -- per last weeks NPR article on transgender operations -- you can't completely surgically render a woman into a man or vice verse (you produce something that feels itself as being neither), the same thing holds true with trying to marry two men or two women. You don't produce a "marriage", you produce a "contractual friendship". Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-17586252190465073632013-03-23T10:58:01.590-07:002013-03-23T10:58:01.590-07:00My pleasure.
I appreciate your letting us in on...My pleasure. <br /><br />I appreciate your letting us in on your recent 5-yr sojourn. Sounds like it was a great experience for you both, even if you've now moved into a bible church. It does sound like your experience as a family would make a very readable and thoughtful book. <br /><br />We also home educate and one of the things I've told my daughters is that the learning process can be threatening. I've told them that there is a stage where when you are learning a major new concept about the way the world works and which may seem counter-intuitive, and not just counter-intuitive but thoroughly disruptive regarding your current model of the way things work, when the threatening feelings almost give you a fight or flight response. And unfortunately you have to keep learning in order to find out if your feelings are discerning or just the normal reaction against the disruptive side of building a more accurate understanding of the world. So I tell them just get used to it.<br /><br />My husband loves reading philosophy, esp. Kant and Kierkegaard, and also Alvin Plantinga.<br /><br />Right now I'm reading a little, which I may blog about.<br /><br />You Genesis analysis sounds reasonable. Have you looked into the RATE scientists, and their geological project?<br /><br />Your daughter's online high school sound terrific.<br /><br />Blessings.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14129403607163332340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-40210533203514912792013-03-22T07:14:51.784-07:002013-03-22T07:14:51.784-07:00Don't forget, I didn't write this article....Don't forget, I didn't write this article. Hopefully I can drag my writing beyond a junior high level by the time I'm done with my degree in psychology.<br /><br />I love this quote here: <br /><br />“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language,” wrote Wittgenstein.<br /><br />I've recently moved on from the local conservative mennonite church after 5 years. Great experience for both my daughter and I. Their private school was a nice touch to my daughter's personality (the Rod and Staff books did not nearly cut it). However, what cut my time short there was, (I had been planning on staying until May when my daughter would graduate the eight grade), when the head preacher (the bishop) began teaching that words are our enemy, knowledge is our enemy, and even understanding is not possible in many instances. I had seen this potential in him but I thought I could help him balance it out for himself. But finally, in his frustration, and not wanting to be accountable to "words", or anybody else, he preached one Sunday that, "we don't even use words when we are before God on his throne". He says that without working in Romans 3:4 which suggests that we will be justified by our words before the throne of Christ-- confessions of existing faith and love that places us there in Christ rather than with the unbeliever's judgement further on down the line by the Father.<br /><br />This was the bishop's reaction to my having confused him by asking him to think about things a little more deeply. The confusing part for him was how to stay in the small denominational box of his, separated from the rest of the Body of Christ, while considering clearer alternatives.<br /><br />This was a real, exciting, visceral experience for us over the last five years and I am looking forward to writing about it as time permits.<br /><br />From here my daughter goes onto online high school for a diploma, with an emphasis in getting out with other onliners, home schoolers, and children from our new bible church.<br /><br />In regards to "Adam", I'm thinking "old planet, a genealogically dated Adam, and correspondingly aged newly refurbished planet earth". I hope you see how I arrive there. The Lord gives us a lot to ponder as we look around us and study His word.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-55850644459445385962013-03-21T21:54:48.323-07:002013-03-21T21:54:48.323-07:00By data having the potential to bewitch, do yo mea...By data having the potential to bewitch, do yo mean that, like language a huge amount of data can be used to sort of decorate and stabilize our current worldview and understandings. While philosophy and science give us tools to potentially slow down our over-confidence and provide us with a check on our sense of the way things are? <br /><br />Interesting comparisons you make here. Good post. I'm not a science person myself, but it is inspiring for me to read on it anyway.<br /><br />Also, from other posts, are you thinking that the Earth may be quite old, even if Adam was not too long ago? Just wondering...<br /><br />And your Whom Do We Pray to Question and links are appreciated. Great Question.<br /><br />Blessings.<br /><br />JohannaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14129403607163332340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-13411734164708017752013-03-21T19:44:59.237-07:002013-03-21T19:44:59.237-07:00Since our God has always existed, why would beginn...Since our God has always existed, why would beginning to look back through an observable 13.5 billion year part of the history of His incredible universe be out of the ordinary. And soon, through His astrological science, perhaps be glimpsing a miniscule hundreds of billions of years back into the past of His eternal creation. What a splendid gift. Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-27045765804313466702013-03-18T16:16:17.887-07:002013-03-18T16:16:17.887-07:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-53381496266386798922013-02-28T12:53:42.686-08:002013-02-28T12:53:42.686-08:00I do believe it is your blog. I was careful how I ...I do believe it is your blog. I was careful how I worded it that day in class. I guess in todays world they don't view homosexuality as the fallen part of man but a natural and good part instead.<br /><br />Ha ha on the Calvanism.Bhedrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08091896907803479900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-26695848777710324922013-02-27T18:56:52.135-08:002013-02-27T18:56:52.135-08:00I haven't had the guts to ask him yet. It'...I haven't had the guts to ask him yet. It's only the first week of class. It will probably sound like a stupid question if I ask him. I don't want to get yelled at by the teacher for acting stupid right away.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-90036964772608772812013-02-27T18:43:55.477-08:002013-02-27T18:43:55.477-08:00Yah, I feel sort of sorry for the homosexual. I w...Yah, I feel sort of sorry for the homosexual. I was born a heterosexual. I don't know all of the in' and outs of all of that. I just got done writing way to much here and then deleting it. Probably more about my little buddies when I was 8-9 and the things we experimented with. Oopp, there I started again. But, I was never sucked in for some reason. To me it is a vulgar abomination, no matter how you slice it. But there is something depraved about us all apart from God. And that levels the playing field. So I guess now I'm a one point Calvinist after all (aahhhhhhhahahaha). Hey take care Brian. <br /><br />Hey, is this my blog or your blog that I'm saying these things... Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-84081214411365568992013-02-26T20:09:24.793-08:002013-02-26T20:09:24.793-08:00Yeah, you'll have to find out about that guy. ...Yeah, you'll have to find out about that guy. <br /><br />I took a psych class last summer. Studied the stages of development as well. Piaget and Erickson are a couple of the theorists we studied. So much seems to hinge on homosexuality now in these textbooks. They make such a big glow of it now. I unfortunately had to tackle the subject in front of the class and the discussion got wide open. I finally closed it out by telling everyone we were made in the image of God and this is what the Bible teaches and we have fallen from that image and that homosexuality is part of that fall. The professor was in the back of the class rolling his eyes.<br /><br />Glad you let everyone know you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.Bhedrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08091896907803479900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-77011657162130194822013-02-22T20:20:10.620-08:002013-02-22T20:20:10.620-08:00Thanks buddy. Yeah and some of the blogs are just ...Thanks buddy. Yeah and some of the blogs are just dormant after a few years. Be nice to breathe a little life back in here. What I like about blogging is the slower pace and like my friend told me today, you don't get 46 likes for eating a tuna fish sandwich and fall prey to wanting to perpetrate more of it.Bhedrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08091896907803479900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16662993.post-85046371356666013742013-02-22T10:07:49.475-08:002013-02-22T10:07:49.475-08:00It'll be a challenge, and a much needed stretc...It'll be a challenge, and a much needed stretch. Thanks Brian.Todd Saundershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07460516882625598170noreply@blogger.com