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Gavin Richardson

rest in peace : roll tide!

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rest in peace & roll tide! john mark stallings!

i am saddened to hear of your passing. though might have had a disability you were the big man on campus and we knew it.

"For someone who never played or coached a game, I
think John Mark may have touched more Alabama fans than any
other person ever did," said Mal Moore, current UA
athletics director and former assistant football coach.

though we never talked or met i too am impacted by your leaving. it is always a nicer world when you know that folks like you are still in it.

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music monday : one of those childhood memories

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i often say i have no childhood memories. that isn’t entirely true, but it is interesting how i seem to have very few compared to others i meet. what i do have it spot images. one of them is the first song i can consciously say i listened too. i was probably 7 then, so it isn’t the first thing i heard. but i remember my sister listening to her "walkman" and then making me play a guessing game as to the name of the songs. as i know, this was the only one i got right.

justification : love

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There is no justification for love, for if there were, then it would not be love. If we love because we are compelled through force, then it is not love. If I give some money to the poor only because someone is holding a gun to my head and demanding the action, then this is not a loving action. Neither is it loving if I act in order to gain a reward, even if the reward is simply the feeling that comes from doing the act. As soon as we say that we should love, then love disappears, for love is the law that has no law, the way that knows no ‘should’. Love is the law that tells us when to subvert the law, when to obey the law and when to break with laws, yet love is a lawless law that cannot be argued for.

how (not) to speak of God, –peter rollins