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Luke

We wandered around, carrying our bundles of rags in the the narrow romantic streets. Everybody looke

About Me

"Virtuous atheists actually have a stronger claim to real goodness than virtuous Christians, Jews, or Muslims, because there can be no taint of cupboard love in their obedience to the moral law. They do not believe in a reward for goodness, and thus must love goodness for its own sake. The challenge to religious people is that they ought to do the good as if there were no afterlife, no heaven, no reward. God does not get a reward for all the good things he does, and if we are supposed to become as much the image of God as we can, as we are told in the scriptures, then we should seek out that life of love and service that is its own reward."table table table{ border-color:; border-style:solid ; border-width:1px; background-color:; filter:; opacity:; ..-opacity:; background-image:url(http://); background-position:Top Left; background-repeat:repeat; } table table table table, table table table td{ border-style:none; } table, tr, td{background-color:transparent; }.nametext { font-size:8pt; color:; font-weight:none; }body, div, p, strong, td, .text, .blacktext10, .blacktext12, a.searchlinkSmall, a.searchlinkSmall:link, a.searchlinkSmall:visited{ color: ; font-size:8pt; font-weight:none; font-style:none; font-family:; }a, a:link, a:visited, a.navbar, a.navbar:link, a.navbar:visited, a.man, a.man:link, a.man:visited, a.redlink, a.redlink:visited{ color:; font-size:8pt; font-weight:none; font-style:none; font-family:; } a:hover, a:active, a.navbar:hover, a.navbar:active, a.man:hover, a.man:active, a.searchlinkSmall:hover, a.searchlinkSmall:active, a.redlink:hover, a.redlink:hover{ color:; font-size:8pt; font-weight:none; font-style:none; font-family:; }.orangetext15, .whitetext12, .btext, .redtext, .redbtext{ color:; font-size:8pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-family:Arial, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }.lightbluetext8{ color:; font-size:8pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:normal; font-family:Arial, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }table table td.text table td.text table table table a {color: ; } table, tr, td { border: none; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; }.blacktext12{color:;}a.navbar{sans-serif;font-size:8pt; font-weight:none} a.navbar:link{color:;font-size:8pt; } a.navbar:active{color:;} a.navbar:visited{color:;} a.navbar:hover{color: ;}
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My Interests

Writing, Drama, Music, Community, Waking myself up from stupor

I'd like to meet:

People with passion of some sort.

Music:

The Arcade Fire. Halloween Alaska. The Black Keys. Death Cab for Cutie. Tom Waits. Mewithoutyou. The Blood Brothers. John Coltrane. Johnny Cash. Miles Davis. The Album Leaf, Tristeza, and anything else Jimmy Lavalle has ever touched. GSYBE!. Bloc Party. Pink Floyd. BT. Coldplay. Sigur Ros. Since By Man. Refused. The Clash. Ed Harcourt. Explosions in the Sky. Mogwai. Spoon. The Dirty Three. Dredg. Weaver at the Loom. Ryan Adams. Unearth. Devendra Banhart. Sufjan Stevens. Robert Johnson. Darkest Hour. Bright Eyes. Tortoise. Peter Gabriel.

Movies:

About Schmidt. The Believer. Spirited Away. All the Real Girls. Undertow. Ravenous. The Beauty and the Beast (1940s). Halloween. Suspiria. Black Christmas. Audition. Old Boy. Lord of the Rings. Conan the Barbarian. Sin City. On the Waterfront. The Maltese Falcon. Chinatown. Taxi Driver. The Big Sleep. Mulholland Drive. Haute Tension. 8 1/2. 400 Blows. Seven Samurai. Yojimbo. Hero. My Neighbor Totoro. Aguirre: The Wrath of God.

Television:

TV is for Fools, Cratchit

Books:

Bible. American Gods. Mere Christianity. Lord of the Rings. Anything by Philip K Dick or Ray Bradbury. A Christmas Carol. The Great Gatsby. Anything by Peter Straub.. Outer Dark and anything else by Cormac Macarthy. Sanctuary and all Faulkner. Anything by China Mieville, Matthew Stover, or the other Next Wave Fantasists. Let's not forget more Dickens, and more CS Lewis, and more Henry James, and more books in general.

Heroes:

C.S. Lewis.

My Blog

Sometimes life can deform you

    So, just when it feels like I'm making some sort of progress as far as my spiritual life goes, you know, shedding the confines of youth, putting aside the things of childhood, tryin...
Posted by Luke on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:30:00 PST

God with Who??

Immanuel:  God with us.  How many times have we heard this one?  How many services have we sat through in which those three words are read, thrown about, tossed up like some sort of sal...
Posted by Luke on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:58:00 PST

Curse these Angular Features

So, my cousin Daniel and I (who has the exact same face as I do planted on a more willowy and muscular body) have determined that, as Allisons, we are destined to always be thought of as feminine, gay...
Posted by Luke on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:03:00 PST

First Night of Winter? First Night of HELL!!!

So it snowed for the first time last night.  Actually, it was more like sleety snow mixed with actual rain.  Whatever the case, it sucked to drive in.  I wish I could go back to the day...
Posted by Luke on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:04:00 PST

Why all this hurt?

    Funny, isn't it?  How far we've come from the happiness of years past.     Once I asked her how we all were made.  I inquired in my young, simple way why, i...
Posted by Luke on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:46:00 PST

I hate these

Stolen from a fellow spacer in a fit of boredom 1. What is your middle name? Michael, as is my brother's, which is our father's first name.  He has an ego, apparently. 2. Last person you kisse...
Posted by Luke on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:27:00 PST

Where's the deliniation?

Isn't there supposed to be some sort of purity when it comes to being an artist?  Aren't artists supposed to be so engrossed by their love and passion for their craft that they can't find time fo...
Posted by Luke on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:12:00 PST