Comments for The Happy Moron

Comment on About The Happy Moron by happy_moron

happy_moron — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:41:13 +0000

Hi Akim! Thanks for letting me know you visited!

It would be a great favour to me if, when you find something you don’t understand (or don’t agree with) you leave a comment so I can find out where I’m going off the rails.

If we tell a story, it’s more fun telling it together!

Comment on About The Happy Moron by Akim

Akim — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:50:36 +0000

I recently became interested in the symbol of the “happy moron”, and when I just googled that phrase, this website was about the first that I stumbled upon.

I instantly found it quite interesting, and was kind of baffled when I read this “about” page, because I recognized certain parallels to my own person.

I’m really interested what more I’m going to find on your page – despite not knowing if I’m actually really going to understand it.

Comment on Hungry by Katie Peacock

Katie Peacock — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:24:59 +0000

It’s possible to talk about this using terms like worldview, narrative, and modern and postmodern paradigms. But not necessary, and definitely anti-story telling in the end. Understand them,and sometimes use them so academic folks will recognize that you are on the same page, but tell us your stories as you have written this piece. Shalom.

Comment on Errors by happy_moron

happy_moron — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:19:46 +0000

True enough! We always need to be questioning ourselves and our path! It’s a point of faith that submitting ourselves and our course to God’s evaluation will cause us to converge to the right path. This is surely by his grace.

Comment on Errors by Lila

Lila — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:37:50 +0000

When I think of “navigational errors,” I immediately think about those Christians with a belief that’s only one degree off tack–give them ten years and that one degree will throw them ‘way over into the deep blue sea!!

Comment on Directing Study by happy_moron

happy_moron — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:57:28 +0000

I like that; that’s cute!

Comment on Directing Study by Lila

Lila — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:30:13 +0000

When I read out loud about the Hebrew verbs, my husband wondered who I was quoting. When I mentioned you, he said, “oh yeah, the guy that’s studying at that ‘nonexistent place.’

When I tried tracing “Regent College” from the information desk at our library a few years ago, I was politely informed that it didn’t exist. To make it even stranger, one of the librarians who was working there was married to a graduate from Regent College (Dr. Terry Donaldson)

Comment on Directing Study by happy_moron

happy_moron — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:06:11 +0000

Stackhouse makes the point emphatically for research – when you pick up a book, know the question you are trying to answer or else you will get caught muddling/dawdling through it.

Often the urgency is that there is another, more important book in the stack of ten that really deserves your time.

Freeing up time for something valuable is, I think, a suitable reason for focus in drudge work. “I will do this because it has to be done but I will do it in a focused and efficient way for the sake of something else I do love.”

There are parts of our lives which, even (especially?) in God’s story, are, rightly speaking, to be endured.

Comment on Directing Study by Vriesea

Vriesea — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:26:34 +0000

Knowing what I am doing and why I am doing it, it seems, is the secret to not wasting time and not being distracted.

Well put. I find I need to be reminded of the importance/meaning of my daily work as it sometimes seems very mundane.

Comment on Please come back in January by happy_moron

happy_moron — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:03:02 +0000

Well, I’ve just recently read all the way through Jeremiah, which was a major sticking point… So it’s quite possible the 396 word bible will complete after some years in limbo…