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Ben

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About Me

"Each man's life is but a breath. Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro; He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it. But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you." --Psalm 39 --It's taken me a very long time to learn that life is meaningless vanity when one has only their own ambitions to live for. For a long time, I too, bustled about in vain after my own strivings. I hope now to be more than that. Lord willing, I will be.

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I'd like to meet:

People whose influence makes me better than the Benji I am today. "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." I want to meet more of the great cloud :) without whom I would be very little.

My Blog

A Philosophy of Romance

Sorry about the overly sappy romantic content to follow, but I'm back in the woods, and the sappy romanticness just seems to want to flow. That's my disclaimer :) It's seems that by and large,...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:53:00 GMT

The World

    My single overarching dissatisfaction with the modern age is that science and technology have reduced the world to simple terms. There is no mystery left in life, no intrigue, no u...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:05:00 GMT

The Ranch

I visited a ranch today which lay far off the beaten track.  It was seated amid some hills of rolling grass with bouldered mountains as a distant perimeter all around. I might get the opportunit...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:50:00 GMT

A few sad Poems for a rainy day

It's a cold and rainy day, so I guess the mood's right for a few excerpts from some sad poems.   There's nothing like good quality poetry next to a warm fire on a rainy day:"When you are ol...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:34:00 GMT

Solitude

The ancient Greeks had a saying which they had engraved onto stone, "Know Thyself." If there was ever a good reason to be alone, that would be it. When everything outside is distant, that is when I ...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:00:00 GMT