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Chark Pharsen

I am here for Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me


Chark Pharsen’s made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. He’s fast enough for you, old man.
I want to teach fleas to perform circus tricks and go out on tour with them, bringing joy and wonder to the hearts of children everywhere.
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sound. byte. poem.
the chisel, the tablet
the pen and the ink
a tower of babble at
humanity's brink
the fool and the sophist
will rant and resound
the poet and prophet
nowhere to be found
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epilogue
the hand of man creates horsepower
and paves his lot atop the flower
beside the gleaming office tower
where heracles’ descendants cower
it is in you that i’ve confided
fret not that this world is blighted
‘tis time to guide, or to be guided
the wrongs of old shall soon be righted
while evildoers acts are cited
the weak made strong, the blind man sighted
the apathetic turned excited
their inner fires re-ignited
the table’s set, and you’re invited

My Interests



"Our Lord has written the promise of the Resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." -Martin Luther, scholar/minister/reformer

Additional photography can be found here .

Visit the Institute for Biblical Studies to read some of my theological papers.

I'd like to meet:


Just about anyone, but for our first meeting it is imperative that we sneak into Area 51 together and check out all the crazy tech the government has been developing in secret. We'd enter a machine that creates a portal to other dimensions and start exploring distant worlds, with the goal of trying to find an alien bowling alley.

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INQUIRIES WELCOME (or Antiquity Is Just A Funny Word)

She turns to me, and I can see her countenance so pallid
Gentle as the rain, and yet it's somehow menacing
She has no recollection of yesterday's sunset
She tells me that antiquity is just a funny word

She can tell me the exact contents of her handbag
She can tell me all about the latest broadcast's plot
Try to find some sparkle in her eyes so plain and tragic
Try to catch a whisper of her breath lost to the wind

In this bitter night, I call, and stall for you, unknown
Absent at first light, I crawl, and fall for you, alone

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Iced Mocha
Sometimes I think my ideal woman is a 300-pound gospel singer from New Orleans who will chase my blues away with her stirring renditions of Mahalia Jackson songs. She will endure me playing my guitar and harmonica while I sing to her, "I'm built for comfort, baby / I ain't built for speed." Her sweet melodies will soothe me to sleep every night, and her bedrock faith in God will tame my mischief. In the morning she will bring me my coffee: strong and black.
But other times I think I'd fall for a petite nymph with long, flowing tresses twirling about in a field on a spring evening. The wildflowers and radiant sunset cannot compare to the beauty of her dance as she lights upon the prairie with such grace, her sundress twirling with the freedom of a thousand populist revolutions. She makes me wish I'd never left art school, as if I could ever do her justice on a canvas. Of course, we retire to our picnic blanket to watch the evening's colors, and I surprise her with a teacup and saucer filled with her favorite beverage: milky white coffee with lots of sugar... and a touch of spice.
In the faded recesses of my mind is a lithe, catlike form that prowls the rooftops of the city. No one has filmed her and escaped alive. She smells like gunpowder and leather, and the lowlives of the back alleys only dare whisper her name in fear. Some call her a vigilante, an avenger of the powerless and oppressed, though others consider her a violent menace and a blight upon society. I know that the only possible way to get her attention is to buy her a double-shot espresso and hope that she invites me to join her crusade to fight crime.

Music:



Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Tchaikovsky, Handel, Public Enemy, Hank Williams, Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix, Django Reinhardt, Chet Atkins, Velvet Underground, Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt/Wilco, Alison Krauss and Union Station, The Band, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Professor Longhair, CCR, Minutemen, Neil Young, Van Morrison, U2, R.E.M., Scud Mountain Boys/Pernice Brothers, Ray LaMontagne, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Thelonious Monk, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, The Clash, The Louvin Brothers, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Booker T and the MGs, Gillian Welch, Blind Willie McTell, John Lennon, G Love and Special Sauce, The White Stripes, Waterdeep, Third Day, Keith Green, Soul Stirrers/Sam Cooke, Andrae Crouch, Phil Keaggy, Fernando Ortega, Kirk Franklin, Wes King, Steve Wiggins/Big Tent Revival, Mahalia Jackson, et alii

Movies:



Dead Poets' Society; Good Will Hunting; Schindler's List; The Count of Monte Cristo; Rushmore; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Adaptation; Vanilla Sky; The Godfather; Apocalypse Now; JFK; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Finding Forrester; Les Miserables; Gattaca; The Empire Strikes Back; Luther; The Cross and the Switchblade; Don't Look Back; I Am Trying To Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; The Blues Brothers; 12 Monkeys; The Big Lebowski; Stranger Than Fiction; The Last Waltz

Television:

Austin City Limits; Sopranos; Kids in the Hall; Simpsons; Seinfeld; Da Ali G Show; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Firefly; Heroes; The Office (UK & US); Extras; Curb Your Enthusiasm; news junkie

Books:

Azusa Street by Frank Bartleman; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; 1984 by George Orwell; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; We by Yvgeny Zamyatin; How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture by Francis A. Schaeffer; Windows of the Soul: Experiencing God in New Ways by Ken Gire; Surprised by the Power of the Spirit by Jack Deere; The New Reformation: Returning the Ministry to the People of God by Greg Ogden (revised and updated as Unfinished Business); The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson; San Francisco and the Lady by Marilynn Gazowsky; Progressive Dispensationalism by Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock; The Law and the New Testament: The Question of Continuity by Frank Thielman; The Basics of Biblical Greek by William Mounce; A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller; V for Vendetta by Alan Moore; Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont; Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon; Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan
New Testament
Old Testament

Heroes:

Abraham; Joseph; Moses; King David; Daniel; The Lord Jesus Christ; Stephen; Paul of Tarsus; John Wycliffe; Jan Hus; Martin Luther; Michael Servetus; William Tyndale; John Wesley; Charles Fox Parham; William Seymour

My Blog

Word

Jesus Christ is the Word Incarnate, the One Who was from the beginning, at once with God and yet at the same time God Himself. Therefore, as we learn more vocabulary words in our native tongue, we can...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:02:00 PST

Marital Separation

2008-01-16 Marital Separation You have each taken your vows, and you now have a beautiful, devoted bride to come home to each evening. The newlywed time is special, as you each grow in intimacy wit...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:08:00 PST

C.S. Lewis on scruples and law

2008-05-07 C.S. LewisScruples One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, [for] two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Wed, 07 May 2008 06:48:00 PST

How to Smile

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Posted by Chark Pharsen on Tue, 06 May 2008 06:06:00 PST

Mercy

     The city was Jerusalem.   The place:   Herod's Temple, and many people had gathered to hear this controversial new teacher, Jesus of Nazareth.   ...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:05:00 PST

Poetry Archive

i spied a deer in twilight i spied a deer in twilight (at carter woods park) i spied a deer in twilight 'midst the urban wildlife ghetto a faint whisper of its presence and a flash of its flight ta...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:37:00 PST

Cross Sing


Posted by Chark Pharsen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Untitled

tomorrow’s world is unforgivinglet those who know speakman must reflectreconsiderrepentthe road he’s chosen will soon be closedmeter expiredbroken and tiredand children siredcast into the ...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

(another UNTITLED blast from the past)

Away, the citys silent scream To gardens growing, gardens green Run, running rapids, flowing streams Tranquil waters, soul serene Hear, hear the autumn breezes rustle Blowing strong against m...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

He refused to eat his daily ration...

He refused to eat his daily ration. The tin-can voice of his housekeeper calmly advised him of recommended daily allowances and the inevitable fatigue his body would suffer if these were not met. ...
Posted by Chark Pharsen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST