Comments on: This Ain’t No Revolution http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/ Christian Agrarian Counterculture Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:41:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Deb http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4557 Deb Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:22:22 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4557 Scott, If I didn't fear that people thought I was trying to hog the comment log in the upper right hand corner of your blog, I'd probably write you after each and every post. I like your insight on the most recent one about the Constitution. Touche. But, I also really liked this one. (And, mea culpa if I ever used the word revolution.) The day that you posted this entry was an especially difficult day at home with our daughter. Her adoption loss and abandonment issues had reared their ugly heads again and I was very frustrated that day. To see my own words in print when and where I didn't expect them was a perfect jolt of reality for my soul. We are in a spiritual battle and I know I must persevere in love and faith. As always, it's great "talking" with you. I sort of picture you and your commenters all sitting on your front porch on a Sunday afternoon, chatting away about life. Blessings to you and your family. Scott,
If I didn’t fear that people thought I was trying to hog the comment log in the upper right hand corner of your blog, I’d probably write you after each and every post. I like your insight on the most recent one about the Constitution. Touche. But, I also really liked this one. (And, mea culpa if I ever used the word revolution.)

The day that you posted this entry was an especially difficult day at home with our daughter. Her adoption loss and abandonment issues had reared their ugly heads again and I was very frustrated that day. To see my own words in print when and where I didn’t expect them was a perfect jolt of reality for my soul. We are in a spiritual battle and I know I must persevere in love and faith.

As always, it’s great “talking” with you. I sort of picture you and your commenters all sitting on your front porch on a Sunday afternoon, chatting away about life. Blessings to you and your family.

]]> By: Stephen Orr http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4342 Stephen Orr Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:00:24 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4342 You've given me reason to reconsider my use of the term "revolution" in my writing and thinking. Thank you for your blogging efforts. You’ve given me reason to reconsider my use of the term “revolution” in my writing and thinking. Thank you for your blogging efforts.

]]> By: Karisa http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4313 Karisa Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:40:58 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4313 "this thing we call industrial capitalism has not been with us very long at all" What you say right there is something that I've been noticing more and more. And yet most people look at me funny when I happen to point it out. I guess every single generation of people- whether Greeks, Romans or Americans- have the idea that the way it is RIGHT NOW is the only way it should be, or should have ever been. Thanks for the very thought-provoking post. “this thing we call industrial capitalism has not been with us very long at all”

What you say right there is something that I’ve been noticing more and more. And yet most people look at me funny when I happen to point it out. I guess every single generation of people- whether Greeks, Romans or Americans- have the idea that the way it is RIGHT NOW is the only way it should be, or should have ever been.

Thanks for the very thought-provoking post.

]]> By: Colin http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4258 Colin Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:12:19 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2007/08/28/this-aint-no-revolution/#comment-4258 I think the reality check that is needed is this By some miracle of grace you may just have noticed that for you the end times have become the now times. Simply by standing still for just a few short decades you have become a dangerous thought criminal. So fast is this pace of change that what was one considered by humanity for milenia as perfectly normal is now percieved as the haunt of the lunatic fringe. Never not even at the heights of the industrial revolution has the effect been so swift, pronounced or as deeply felt. The eternal patterns of life that could once be recognised by all the peoples of the planet have exploded!! I think each imperfect and struggling agrarian aspirationalist could be considered, not as a lilly in the field but perhaps a mustard seed. and for that mustard seed to grow into a shady tree it will need generations. And I think that the multigenerational inheretence must be the key to all we do. I think the reality check that is needed is this
By some miracle of grace you may just have noticed that for you the end times have become the now times. Simply by standing still for just a few short decades you have become a dangerous thought criminal.
So fast is this pace of change that what was one considered by humanity for milenia as perfectly normal is now percieved as the haunt of the lunatic fringe.
Never not even at the heights of the industrial revolution has the effect been so swift, pronounced or as deeply felt. The eternal patterns of life that could once be recognised by all the peoples of the planet have exploded!!
I think each imperfect and struggling agrarian aspirationalist could be considered, not as a lilly in the field but perhaps a mustard seed. and for that mustard seed to grow into a shady tree it will need generations. And I think that the multigenerational inheretence must be the key to all we do.

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