From the inimitable musings of CWU:
Think what you want to think (and you will) but Old Life is a one of a kind place, with at least one of everything — Presbyterians, Lutherans, anabaptists, flaming Socia-mentalists, the undermedicated, gaybros, atheists, feisty women, armies of one, cranks, theonomists, non-denoms, tattooed Jeremiahs, academics, lawyers, Mark Jones, Iain the Druid, RSC, New Calvinists, and hillbillies. It’s not for the weak of heart, as this thread attests, but comments are open. Light and heat emanate by turns. It’s a dive bar in a seminary basement, a psych ward with a great library, it’s real and many of us could hardly live without it.
That is the quote of the month.
Like any dive bar (or library for that matter), I don’t make it in as often as I’d like. But I never regret stepping in.
I always leave smelling like smoke, too.
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Awww, how sweet. C-Dubs, gets a big wet sloppy kiss, no-homo.
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Please note how I’m looking away dismissively in the photo. And the new accepted OL term is “gaybro”.
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What happened to brosexual? I’m always behind(no-homo).
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Manifesto, I think?
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weeklyWeakly.
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The only dive bar my wife lets me visit. Always refreshing to be here.
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Wow, and with a whole month to go yet. Speaking of confident predictions and quotes here is today’s: “I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest.of.your.life.” Come on, Groundhog Dayers.
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This place is only as good as its antagonists – I say let’s give it up for Jason Stellman, Bryan Cross, Jeremy Tate, Richard Smith, Doug Sowers, Nelson Kloosterman, Kenneth Winsmann, Tom Van Dyke, Mark Van Der Molen, Nelson Kloosterman, Darrell Todd Maurina, Bret McAtee, Tim Bayly, and Cletus What’s-His-Name.
And let’s take comfort in the fact that they would all get along with each other far worse than they get along with us if given the chance.
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Heck, let’s even give it up for Dr. K twice!
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I realize the omissions are glaring — list surely should have included mordid Dutchmen, impertinent papists, a hatted HAL, dozy she-catholics, self-imporant Scots, manic serial posters, convicted heretics, failed church officers, pedantic legalists, and truckstop culture vultures. Precious memories, how they linger.
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OLd Life.
Well, they say light attracts bugs…
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Jack, but imagine if Ref21 had comments.
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Loved the Hook reference.
Arrggh!
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A simile for OL’s relation to evangelicalism, New Calvinism, pietists, and bapterians: Like a marmot tossed by nihilists into their cozy little candle-encircled bathtub.
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When is the next OldLifeCon? I’m ready to book a ticket.
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Seth, early March 2015
Check out @jasitek’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/jasitek/status/555056764925009920?s=09
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Whoops, not early March.
Try this weekend.
Better hurry and get your ticket : – )
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It wouldn’t be OL without a bit of bad news, right?
Unfortunately myself and Mr. Weakly will not be carpooling or in attendance as planned due to some late breaking scheduling conflict.
Please adjust your hotel room Scotch drinking schedules accordingly.
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cw, great image but you only get one comment of the month per month.
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I can’t turn it off but I can turn it down.
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Darryl,
Jack, but imagine if Ref21 had comments.
Then I would think to myself…
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And the main core of those who adhere to the Reformed Confessions of faith at oldlife have not noticeably budged in any significant confessional issue through all the antagonism’s of the antagonists. Or, am I wrong about that? Is it worth the time the antagonists have spent here? It makes for interesting reading from time to time.
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John,
Or, am I wrong about that?
Isaiah 40:8, yo.
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Andrew,
This one always gets to me like a death or suicide of a close friend- the Gospel in that enduring Word:
https://markmcculley.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/the-belly-problem-philippians-3/
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John, thanks for sharing. I’ll read it when I have time.
Grace and peace.
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Just finished reading that Mark Mcculley link you posted John Yeazel – good stuff.
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Thanks for the notice, Chris. I’m just now getting to it.
Busy day fighting heretics on other threads, yo.
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Be careful CWU, with your witty and incisive penmanship you might become a social media celebrity – then what?
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John (and Mark),
Thanks again, for that post at Mark’s blog. I liked to too.
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More on this weekend’s
OLTS booze cruise OldLifeCon (h/t Seth), at the HB.LikeLike
^^^Mulligan^^^
More on this weekends
OLTS booze cruiseOldLifeon (h/t Seth) at the HB.LikeLike