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What do you have to know to say you know someone well? (Linds)

I would say that knowing someone well, makes them predictable. Although predicatability may not always be a good thing, when you know someone well, you know their behavior, and their responses to certain stimuli. There are levels to it though, some superficial, some deeper. in a sense, you know how that person is wired. You know how the neurons are going to tick off and respond to a certain event, statement, etc. *shrug* on some level its impossible to know people. We know people ultimately through our own experience, thus there is a certain amount of spontenaety involving the behavior of others, because we can never actually get in their head. We can only predict their behavior patterns, based on their similarities and differences with our own.

What is something you want to accomplish in the next six months? (Stina)
Learn to breathe and swim simultaneously.

Next week: Where are you going?

Sin and Self

I found it!!! Enjoy *smile*!

Is sin a function of bondage, or the downfall of personal responsibility? (Stina)
Both.

The Bible speaks of sin as an entity, a "something." Specific sins mentioned though, are always related to the absence of God. I'm not sure about evil being its own entity or not. What I do know is that there is no evil in God and man only finds himself evil apart from God.
Perhaps the downfall of personal responsibility and the function of bondage are really the same thing. Perhaps when there is downfall in personal responsibility we find ourselves in bondage and functioning there. Perhaps God gave us numberlines to help us understand sin. Negative numbers don't really exist. We cannot count "things" up to negative 13 or have minus three scoops of ice cream. Yet anyone who knows anything about mathematics will tell you that negative numbers function and exist in our world. They are place holders, equalizers and irreplaceable ingredients in most equations. Light and dark are also good examples. Darkness exists, it is a function of the night, of the underground, of the enclosed and unlit, yet all it is is the absence, or the downfall if you will, of light.
As far as we as humans are concerned, you hit the nail directly on the head.
"If evil is a lack of something, namely with the case of sin, that something would be good, then really you are bound to it. If we go on the principle that you can't make something from nothing, than if you lack something, you cant really make it and thus are bound to your lack of something."
We are perpetually stuck in the negative numbers and have nothing with which to add.

What is your favorite and least physical feature and why? (Linds)

Lol- this is a funny question to have in the same post with your deeply doctrinal one. And, seeing as I spent far more than ten minutes on your question, I will keep this short.

My favorite physical feature would have to be either hands or eyes. So much can be communicated with both. With our hands we receive what the world has to offer and are able to serve those in it. Our eyes are our windows into the world and its windows into us. Now that I think of it, most of our body is made for sort of an ebb and flow of giving and receiving. Except for things like ears which don't have any apparent function for giving and feet which have little capacity for receiving. But then again, that may be quite different if we all went around barefoot, eh?
At the moment my least favorite would be hair. So much trouble for so little purpose. Someday I swear I really am going to shave it all off.

Question for Monday: What do you have to know to say you know someone well?