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months if my memory serves me correctly but she has ultimately moved to the acceptance stage of grief and has prepared herself emotionally for the advent of the aaron rodgers era of packer football but then a bomb was dropped yesterday perhaps i should let her speak for herself this is an email that she sent to all of her packer fan friends yesterday edit she sent this before brett favre s text message denying that he would return subject line omg hey friends so http sports espn go com nfl news story id 3471189 although it is completely hearsay i have so many mixed feelings espn speculated let me repeat speculated about a denial from green bay and a vikings team that would welcome favre with open arms tim was giddy at that possibility although i can hardly blame him i told him that might be really bad for our marriage what do you think are you excited crying unmoved or just mad jess p s is it just me or is brett favre just like a stereotypical bad boyfriend you love him he breaks your heart he leaves then he calls saying he misses you hmmmm i seriously don t know if i can take this all summer now granted this email is dripping with sarcasm and wit i might add but i think it illustrates rather well the differences in loyalty schemes between a packer fan and a viking fan and so does this start listening at about the 2 45 mark so what do you think blog reading faithful can our marriage survive brett favre in a vikings uniform i d like to think it can but of course i m far more optimistic about the prospects of our marriage than i am about my football team labels in the news jess nfl posted by timmer k at 9 53 am 3 comments thursday june 26 2008 eye eye eye anyone else who has gone through an eye exam knows what a strange phenomenon it is one or two is this better or this just look straight ahead as we shine a blinding light into your eyeball take off your glasses and try to read the bottom line for me and i m thinking if i could read the bottom line without my glasses i probably wouldn t be here in the first place but i needed new contacts and an eye exam is apparently a prerequisite to getting them one of the things that always bugs me is that machine that shoots little air bullets into your eyeballs how is that helpful and it would have been really nice if the technician and i use that term in the loosest way possible would have warned me that it was coming it scared the hell out of me oh well at least it wasn t as stressful as my last eye exam labels rant posted by timmer k at 9 48 am 1 comments tuesday june 24 2008 what s a month between friends as promised german is finished and i am officially back in the saddle unfortunately the horse is blind and shaped like the letter u oh well you get what you pay for i guess coincidentally today s blog is also brought to you by the letter u weird i digress there really is no better way to get back into the blogging groove than with one of my patented bits and pieces episodes so for better or worse here s what i ve done learned in the past month 1 one of the greatest epidemics facing america today is mumbling mumblers can be found just about anywhere and you can certainly find them at ebenezer s a word to the wise if you insist on mumbling while placing your order and i respond by asking you to repeat what you just said it means i want you to annunciate the second time you speak mumbling a second time will only result in me asking what you just said a second time we could repeat this little game ad nauseum i really do have all day or you could put in a little effort and stop placing your order like a primate just a suggestion and i m just getting warmed up 2 the german language is crazy and not the good kind of crazy either oh german why must your words have 32 letters who came up with verbs that have separable prefixes why must you place the verb at the very end of the sentence and for that matter why must you write sentences so long they would make charles dickens blush 3 2008 has been a good hear for music so far death cab for cutie tapes n tapes sigur ros and coldplay all have spectacular new albums and those are just the big names a host of other more obscure bands have made my ears very happy this year amongst them are amber rubarth liam finn headlights and ghost in the water 4 jess and i like visitors a lot have you come to visit us in dc yet if not you are running out of time act now this offer can t last forever 5 the best movie i ve seen in a long time lars and the real girl if you haven t seen it yet put it to the top of your netflix queue you won t be sorry hopefully i ll get to post something more extensive about this excellent film in the near future 6 movie to skip prince caspian the film version of the c s lewis s excellent book is flaccid from start to finish it boggles my mind why the director would have departed so much from the book and created motifs that are alien to lewis s original story telling 7 i had the privilege of attending tim russert s wake last week jess and i met his son and wife while we were there so incredibly sad he was one of the good guys in a world filled with blathering pundits nbc won t be the same without him he was the best in the business and an irreplaceable voice of reason amid the white noise 8 has anyone else noticed that the twins are only 1 1 2 games out of first place they re far exceeding my expectations for the year i can t wait until they open the new stadium in 2010 9 speaking of sports i m happy for kevin garnett it was good to see him get the monkey off his back though he was well compensated while in the twin cities dealing with kevin mchale on a daily basis is its own special kind of hell congrats big ticket 10 ht jessica banti be sure to read this excellent and scathing op ed piece by thomas friedman of the ny times about the insanity of the bush administration s current energy policy 11 i confess that i have been regularly listening to npr s this american life lately i m officially an elitist god have mercy on me 12 two of my favorite people came together in one place last week click here to see n t wright s appearance on the colbert report well i best be getting to bed i m sure there s more to be said but it will have to wait another day labels bits and pieces ebenezer s good movies good music in the news politics sports twins posted by timmer k at 8 09 pm 4 comments monday may 26 2008 the rumors of my blog s resurrection were greatly exaggerated geez i blink and another two weeks have gone by this time though faithful readers i have a decent excuse right now i m taking a german reading class at catholic university the goal is to teach students how to read complicated german theological texts and you only get five weeks to learn how so needless to say the class is going at breakneck speed after just four days of this stuff we ve learned more than a normal german class would learn in its first month and a half ich spreche gut deutsche yeah you heard me as a relief from all of the german jess and i went to the nationals vs brewers game on friday night with some friends we left a bit late so we were walking through the gates just as the national anthem was being played the friend suggested that we stop and wait til the anthem was finished before proceeding to our seats so we stood there and waited and a million thoughts were running through my head i wonder who s playing the anthem is that kenny g why on earth would they have a soprano sax for a saturday night game geez is he ever gonna breathe i never learned to circular breathe but it would have been sweet i guess it s not kenny g cause this guy is african american i wonder if that instrument will ever shake the image of kenny g before i knew it the anthem finished and i was shaken from my daydreaming by a rather large man he tapped me on the shoulder and said excuse me are you an american surprised and confused by the question i stammered um yes then you really should take your hat off during the national anthem the dude walked away leaving me wondering did that really just happen i had totally just gotten shot down as a commie all that to say i want anyone who reads this blog to beware with my german studying and my communist hat wearing habits the government may consider you an accessory to whatever it is that i m doing mr mccarthy would like to ask you a few questions you just can t be too careful about your friends these days labels mlb politics posted by timmer k at 10 05 am 7 comments thursday may 15 2008 the lapse dance the fact that i kept my blog in the grave for two months after i wrote on the resurrection is an irony that i assure you has not been lost on me and though it has become incredibly cliche to give reasons for not blogging as if the whole world were depending upon fresh wit from this corner of the internets i m afraid i must offer a few the primary of these is i just haven t felt like it i could say that i ve been busy and that would be true but i haven t been too busy i ve probably just been lazy i think this blogging thing has to happen in seasons and i was ready to let my blog lie in the tomb for a bit fear not it s sunday well actually it s thursday but we re speaking in metaphors here and if there s one thing i know about metaphors its that they re sooo much more profound when you type twenty five extra words to explain them so yeah seasons i d like to be back i ve got a lot to say and some of it might even be interesting to the three of you who had the patience to wait around for another post there s some politics some funny work related happenings some theology some sports some music and some movies just more of the beautifully broad range of thought that you ve come to expect from this renaissance man and his renaissance blog speaking of that i still like the name of my blog after 3 years that really surprises me i thought that whole i m pensive eloquent and misunderstood thing would have gotten old by now who knew labels bits and pieces posted by timmer k at 10 10 am 3 comments sunday march 23 2008 surprised by hope part 7 resurrection well friends i m afraid i m going to have to end this series not because there s nothing more to say rather these posts are pretty labor intensive and i m not sure i m going to have the time to continue them any longer to those that have accompanied me on the journey both those who commented and those who did not i owe you my deepest thanks i wish there were more time to deeply explore some of the issues that have arisen in the past few weeks perhaps there will be at some point part 7 seemed to be the perfect one on which to end this series for those of you who are into jewish numerology at least also it seemed right to post on this particular topic on resurrection sunday today christians everywhere rejoice in the fact that the tomb is empty and that we worship the risen and exalted messiah jesus in terms of apologetics for the truth of the resurrection i will give only a few brief comments here i am drawing heavily upon wright s work my hunch is that few readers of this blog doubt the historicity of this event but these things are still worth mentioning first those that would doubt the truth of the bodily resurrection of christ must explain the historical and sociological curiosity of the early christian movement if jesus did not actually rise from the dead why would his disciples have continued to proclaim him as the messiah a crucified jewish would be messiah in the first century was a failed messiah this point cannot be made too strongly and there are plenty of historical examples to support it the followers of that would be messiah had two options a disband and forget the hope of liberation that the messiah seemed to offer or b elect a new messianic candidate from within who would continue the cause of liberation curiously the first christians did neither of these things instead proclaiming that jesus had bodily risen from the dead wright and others argue vehemently that such a proclamation is historically inconceivable unless jesus actually did rise a second and very convincing argument for the truth of the resurrection accounts in the gospels is that women were the first witnesses of the event in part 6 i mentioned briefly the second class status afforded women in jewish society they were not allowed to testify in court their recounting of events would have been worthless for legal purposes such a situation begs the question if the evangelists were trying to author a convincing fiction and pass it off as history why in the world would they have written women as the leading actresses of their accounts it would have convinced no one the only explanation for the gospel accounts reading as they do is that they are historically accurate so having established the facticity of the gospel accounts what can we say about how the disciples understood the event itself what did it mean within the larger schema of jewish eschatology here the road is a bit bumpier and i will again recommend reading surprised by hope for yourself if you want to get a clearer picture for our purposes an all too brief summary will have to suffice first most jews expected a resurrection to occur save the sadducees everyone knew that yahweh would one day resurrect all people for judgment in anticipation of preparation for the new heavens and new earth let me be clear all expectation in this regard had an end of the world referent for jesus disciples to claim that their lord had been raised from the dead in the middle of history would have been a novel invention indeed were it not true so what did it mean for paul the answer is clear it meant that death had been defeated it meant that yahweh s new creation had already been inaugurated in the person of jesus jesus was in this sense the truly human one he was the lone example of what human life in god s perfect new creation would look like he was the person in whom the future was caught up in the present notice that there is nothing that can be spiritualized about jesus resurrection it was not another way of referring to life after death in another place nor was it an interesting description of an intense private spirituality rather it was the prototype for life after life after death on earth this is wright s way of putting the matter and i think it s spectacular so what should we make of the fact that god s new creation has been set loose in the person of jesus christ i suggest the most appropriate response is to find out how we can get in on the action after all if there are two types of creation going on all around us one that is subject to death and decay and another that bears the beauty of the risen christ it would seem logical to shoot for the latter it is therefore our privilege and pleasure to be in christ in this way that we reflect the agenda of god s certain and conclusive future redemption for the entire cosmos in the present or as paul puts it if anyone is in chris...