Pastormac’s Ponderings
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PASTORMAC’S THEORY OF SEVEN INESCAPABLE THEMES
1.  Substitutionary Love--love which is expressed by one person sacrificing and taking the consequences due to another.
2. Christ figure--This figure always has some special power or quality which makes him uniquely suited to save the world.
3.  Fellowship--This is the idea of a number of people who, only by working together, are the Christ figure as a unit.  Each of the members of the team contain special gifts which when put together make them successful.
4.  Justice--At its simplest this theme is the idea of wrongs being righted.  Often it means punishment coming to the guilty and/or vindication coming to the innocent.   It’s basically the right consequences befalling the right people.
5.  Resurrection--the hero (usually the Christ figure, but not always) dies, or appears to die, and then returns to life at the pivotal moment.
6. Redemption--Simply this is the change of a character from bad to better, or even from good to better.    This redemption most often comes through suffering of one kind or another, often involves the turning away from particular weakness or temptation at a crucial moment, and interestingly is often thematically represented through some kind of baptism or immersion in rain, river or water.
7.  Alternate worlds--there is our world and then there is a better, more exciting, more vivid, more colorful world where the hero either manages to get or wants to get. It is usually the alternate world which holds the main plot or adventure of the story. It is usually the christ figure who can uniquely travel freely between the two worlds. Occasionally His Fellowship can travel also, but rarely anyone else.  
An unusual list
10 idioms invented by Shakespeare
 
A foregone conclusion (Othello)
All that glitters is not gold (Merchant of Venice)
Eaten out of house and home (Henry V part 2)
The Game is afoot (Henry IV)
Wild Goose Chase (Romeo and Juliet)
Greek to me (Julius Caesar)
One Fell Swoop (Macbeth)
All one to me (Troilus and Cressida)
A Sorry Sight (Macbeth)
As luck would have it (Merry Wives of Windsor)
 
 
I’m Pondering...Ethiopia Journeys part 1    
Sunday, August 12, 2007
 
 Ok, so now that we are back in the land where Internet does not cost 20 bir per minute and a simple email takes ten minutes(!), I can begin to fill you in on our Ethiopia Journey.
 
Over the next day or two we’ll gather together pictures and videos and run some of those here as well.  
 
For today’s installment, let me just say that Lem Lem’s super hero name has been Changed to Queen of Sheba.  Much more fitting.  You’ll probably understand why as we go.
 
To that let me add, that she is well
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I’m Pondering...1:55 in the a.m.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
 
I thought we were doing good.  WE had most of our packing done by much earlier today, but somehow we still ended up doing last minute stuff until now.
 
I’m about to get the car loaded and then catch a couple hours before our flight.
 
While I’m gone my daughter will be helping keep both my blog and PA’s blog alive.  I’ll try to email entries while we’re gone, but I’m very unsure what our internet capabilities will be, so we’ll see.
 
Also, as with HSLT, some of the counters and videos and such
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I’m Pondering...All Ethiopia all the time!    
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
 
Now that we’ve finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I will make no further comment on it until we’ve returned from Ethiopia.  Sometime after that we will have our “prediction party” at the Aloha families house where we will find out just how well or poorly I did in my predictions.  By that time, most people who care will have finished the book and with the appropriate spoiler alerts, we will report here on the results of the challenge.
 
For now though, our house and life is
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I’m Pondering a Harry Potter challenge update and an Ethiopia trip update.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
 
Ok, we’ve managed to read over a hundred pages a day for the last few days.  I admit it, it means I”m letting the kids stay up a bit late, but we’re trying to finish before mom and dad head off to Ethiopia!  So, thus far, I still there has been nothing conclusive about any of my predictions.  And, I can’t really say that there are clear signals that any of them are right.  Furthermore, my wife and children are pretty confident that my two major predictions (which you’ll just have to attend the
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Ponder:
think about, contemplate, consider, review, reflect on, mull over, meditate on, muse on, deliberate about, cogitate on, dwell on, brood on, ruminate on, chew over, puzzle over, turn over in one's mind.
What I’m reading now
(Click on a book  title for more info.) updated 2/06/07
Stim Stevens and Tony Morgan Simply Strategic Stuff
 
 
 
Malcolm Gladwell Blink
 
 
 
 
 
David Green, More than a Hobby
 
Michael Medved, Right Turns
 
 
 
 
 
Previous Ponderings
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
What is it?
It’s Back!
Click on the picture and make your guess.
 
From Dossier to referral acceptance was 64 days, 28 minutes, and 00 seconds.
From acceptance  to court date set was 36 days, 1 hour, 4  minutes, and 00 seconds.