Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
No, not that kind of railing!
My general impression of the term railing has been one that has to do as much with content as with the tone and demeanor of the speaker.
The very day after hearing a definition that was milder than the one I’ve had, I had work-related occasion to check some book sources. Let me show you some of what I found.
OK, so it’s hard to read. See below. Read it all
Before my list, some questions:
Do you still want to see my list of 11 things most people don’t know about me? Read it all
In the course of writing material for the Teacher Guide for an eighth grade Bible course, I’ve come to a lesson titled “Evil Will Lose.” It’s based on portions of 2 Thessalonians 1 & 2.
While researching through some of my previous writing on those chapters, I came to this:
I’m talking about pleasure sources that may be amoral or even moral for the most part but have unrighteousness scattered through them.
I know, I know. Life is life, and life has loads of unrighteousness through it.
But why must my “entertainment” present it?
To be more interesting and realistic.
Fine. My concern stands.
This is a strike against many of contemporary Christian novels.
I wrote that almost eight years ago, but it’s pertinent enough that I’m encouraging you to read the entire piece — My Pleasure.
I still stand there. Or do I need to see something differently?
What do you think of including detailed evil in order to make something real-to-life?
Goody two-shoes? What does that mean?!
It must be something bad. Really, terribly bad. I’ve never heard anything positive about a goody two-shoes. I’ve never heard anyone aspire to being one. Obviously there’s no good in that kind of goody.
Goody two-shoes are mocked, derided, and scorned. They are held in contempt and as a standard of what not to be.
Why?
OK, after writing all that, I looked up the term and found these two helpful entries:
A prudish, self-righteous individual, a goody-goody. For example, Phyllis was a real goody two-shoes, tattling on her friends to the teacher. This expression alludes to the main character of a nursery tale, The History of Goody Two-Shoes (1765), who was so pleased when receiving a second shoe that she kept saying “Two shoes.” The goody in the story is short for goodwife but means “goody-goody” in the idiom.
Source: dictionary.com
That helps. I’ve even met people like that. And people I thought were like that, but I discovered later my own weakness propelled me to a huge leap onto a wrong, unjust conclusion. Andrée over at World magazine experienced something similar: Read it all
Andrée Seu Peterson
Dreaming of worry-free chickens
So George Zimmerman helped save the lives of a family of four that was involved in a single-car accident.
Would those four people still be alive if . . .
Possibly.
After all, George wasn’t the only rescuer.
And God could have easily saved these people with one rescuer. Just like He could have provided someone else as the additional rescuer.
But let’s suppose that these people would have perished had George Zimmerman not participated in their rescue.
Does his rescue of them somehow atone for his killing of Trayvon Martin?
(PS: There’s something wrong with that last question.)
Nobody was hurt, say the police. And the driver fled before The Law arrived. 😯
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