If you want to boost your ego a little, watch the television program “Jeopardy” using TIVO. When a question is asked, put the TV on “pause,” and that gives you as much time as you want to think about your answer.
Life is much more pleasant if we learn to use the pause button. The book of Proverbs is filled with such good advice. If you want your life to be a disaster, don’t pause when things upset you. Instead, answer in anger. Write that email you will regret. Make that phone call. Say those words in the heat of the moment that will destroy a valued friendship.
Just the other day one of my friends said that he couldn’t do some important recording I needed. I was upset at the time but didn’t say anything to him, until about an hour later. I went into his office, sat down and asked for his perspective. When I fully heard his side, I could see that he had complications that made it impossible for him to get a quality recording for me. His hesitation to do what I wanted was motivated by his desire to give me a quality product. I was sure glad for the pause.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
How to Boost Your Ego
25 comments:
Finally some good advice with marginal biblical nonsense.
Even among the swine you can find a pearl. Excellent advice for all to consider.
rAmen
Great post! The Bible says we should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger (James 1:19). Oh how I often fail at this! And I think all of us can think of a time where we were happy we shut up!
Wow! Ray! Nice post : )
More or less good advice, but anger can also be a powerful tool if you know how to use it constructively. It is not something just to be repressed and dismissed. But harnessed, understood and controlled.
Ray-Ray:
There's another way to boost your ego that you didn't mention, which you happen to be a master at; quote mining! Believers from Ray to William Dembski to Casey Luskin to Kent Hovind love to boost their egos with quote mining. I can't wait for that new book, Ray.
I have found the Bible to be full of good advice, and much much more. Ray does a pretty good job of sharing that good advice too.
Hey Ray, Todd is sending me a copy of Hermen Who, any idea how long it takes to ship?
God has paused in His righteous anger towards us...aren't you glad that He did? In that pause he sent and saviour, a redeemer....Pauses always end...
An excellent point! We may not see eye to eye on many things, but this is one I strongly agree with, accept I learn this from experience.
Keep it up with stuff like this Ray, instead of trying to promote incorrect science. Even if its something we might be already aware, its always good to get a kick in the butt to remind us.
Word is Bond!
~Atomic Chimp
"God has paused in His righteous anger towards us...aren't you glad that He did? In that pause he sent and saviour, a redeemer....Pauses always end..."
Barf. If god is an eternal being he cannot pause anything. Because that would require a change in state. Anything that is eternal must exist outside time, and the most fundamental property of time, indeed that which is time itself is change. So if he exists outside time he cannot change or influence change.
Ray,
An interesting story on our trip: We visited a church on Sunday for fellowship and worship before hitting the party-happy, alcohol sucking, sex-thriving beaches on Monday. It was a Salvation Army church. The people were very warm and encouraging and prayed for us. On my way out, an elderly lady shook my hand and said, "I'll be praying for you."
"Thank you, we need every prayer you can say."
"We Christians never go over the bridge during spring break," she said. "We tell Christians to stay away from there. It's a bad place." We had to cross a bridge to get from our location on the beach to this church.
"And those people need Christ," I said. "How are they going to hear Christ if we don't go tell them?"
We ended up taking three unbelievers home with us in the 17 hour bus ride, and two of them are on the verge of repentance. One girl we talked to in the mall said she was going to give her life to Christ when she went home.
I was going to elaborate on all this until I found that I have to start early in the morning, so I will boil it down to this, in spite of all our belief/ value systems there is, in fact one premise that can never be criticized, and that is:
ALL WE HAVE IS EACH OTHER
"rufus said, 'Ray-Ray:There's another way to boost your ego that you didn't mention, which you happen to be a master at; quote mining! Believers from Ray to William Dembski to Casey Luskin to Kent Hovind love to boost their egos with quote mining. I can't wait for that new book, Ray.'"
That's what you call trolling. Coming in and posting a derogatory statement that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Derogatory? What part? Ray is proud of his quote mining. When I first found his blog, he wouldn't even admit that what he did was quote mining, but now he's twisted it around so it's a good thing, not pathetic and dishonest. But thanks.
wow! i'm impressed. thus far, for the most part, the comments in this Thread have been pretty much a "group hug". thank you to all.
Ray, I'm proud of you! Excellent advice that most people of any religious (or non-religious) persuasion can agree on!
"Losing ones temper in a moment of anger anger can cost one a thousand days of sorrow."
Confucius
By the way, Confucius lived well before jesus.
Oliver...
So the one who created time can't change it, alter it or manipulate it?...He already has done this.
God paused the sun for a day...
But yes, God said he would keep spring, summer, winter, fall. Seems to all still be here. (Despite the religion of global warming...funny how well balanced we are to be able to get "nature" off balance.)
Also, the in Genesis after the flood it stated that the life of man/woman will be no more than 120.
Amazing with all of the technology, medicine and science. No one, I mean no one is documented as being over 120.
"GOOGLE THAT!"
sorry...couldn't resist.
Sinned34, it's not Ray's advice: it's God's (James 1:19-20).
To Seth Kniep,
Welcome back brother. As I read it I see your group trip to Spring Break Florida yielded fruit.
Excellent and I hope that things went well for you and the group with no sickness, fatigue of spirit, or complaining to dampen the trip.
I am sure that you were received well as people are surely starving for the Word Of Christ to be preached?
Any lessons learned?
Back here in the trenches it has been hand to hand combat with a plethora of ah-theists. Yet they too are hearing the Word of God, but mainly they are casting it aside as they choose to continue in sin for their season.
Yours in Christ,
Mark W Laine
Mark, I really don't understand the 'ah-theists' bit?
dale,
good quote.
here's one my favorite ones on this subject:
speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech that you'll ever regret.
sincerely yours because of HIM,
pj
eric,
can't put words in Mark's mouth, but maybe(???) he does it b/c...
theist=[someone who believes in] god
atheist=[someone who believes in] no god.
[i know that you know those definitions already]
the name of the first letter in the greek alphabet is "alpha".
the "a" in a-theist, is termed the "alpha privative". its function is to express absence of something or negation of something; that something being what follows the 'a' in the word which is begun with the alpha privative.
alpha in greek has a short 'a' sound, but *NOT* an 'a' sound like in "bat". it's pronounced more like the 'a' in "father"; so, like an "ah" sound.
so, maybe(???) Mark, is sorta' giving some phonetic help in pronouncing the alpha privative with the sound that the greek letter alpha has?
it's the best guess that i could come up with. we'll have to wait for a definitive answer from him.
sincerely yours because of HIM,
pj
Mark Laine,
Why are yu avoiding me?
I've asked you 4 times now what the term delta pee means to you.
Do you have an answer?
Alanrd67: Jeanne Calment, born 21 February 1875, died 4 August 1997, aged 122 years. I'm afraid you are mistaken.
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