Comments on: My eight years of lying http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/ against.all.odds Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:29:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: ericsweiven http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-736 ericsweiven Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:41:16 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-736 Me, I never lie (let's see how long that one lasts). I have a simular story only involving neighbors with horses, a shetland pony and a trip to get my right arm set and put in a cast... Me, I never lie (let’s see how long that one lasts). I have a simular story only involving neighbors with horses, a shetland pony and a trip to get my right arm set and put in a cast…

]]> By: Sam. http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-641 Sam. Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:26:07 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-641 Jeffy - the feature to be able to upload your own header image is not yet available. It is something we're working on though and hope to have available soon. Sue - thanks for sharing...great story. Brian - thanks for stopping by...feel free to steal away! Heath - I'll try and make sure I say it as best as I can if I do the podcast! Mel - It was two male teenage elephants who were fighting. We were right there...amazing to see. Jeffy - the feature to be able to upload your own header image is not yet available. It is something we’re working on though and hope to have available soon.

Sue - thanks for sharing…great story.

Brian - thanks for stopping by…feel free to steal away!

Heath - I’ll try and make sure I say it as best as I can if I do the podcast!

Mel - It was two male teenage elephants who were fighting. We were right there…amazing to see.

]]> By: mixed moss http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-640 mixed moss Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:40:35 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-640 Sorry I meant to type "saying hello" Sorry I meant to type “saying hello”

]]> By: mixed moss http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-639 mixed moss Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:39:57 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-639 I like the knew look. But are those elephants fighting or kissing? Maybe they're saying hellp in the French manner. Are there French elephants? Maybe in Senegal or Cote d'Ivoire? I like the knew look. But are those elephants fighting or kissing? Maybe they’re saying hellp in the French manner. Are there French elephants? Maybe in Senegal or Cote d’Ivoire?

]]> By: heath http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-638 heath Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:07:28 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-638 I'll admit - I'm as immature as they come. but I can't stop myself - I would pay good money to hear Sam say "sent two spies from Shittim" in his beautiful Kings English.... as for lying, I was told in my early 20's that the man who is my father was not likely my biological father - I can only imagine there are "lies" that we carry unknowingly our whole lives.. I’ll admit - I’m as immature as they come. but I can’t stop myself - I would pay good money to hear Sam say “sent two spies from Shittim” in his beautiful Kings English….

as for lying, I was told in my early 20’s that the man who is my father was not likely my biological father - I can only imagine there are “lies” that we carry unknowingly our whole lives..

]]> By: Brian Bowen http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-637 Brian Bowen Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:39:21 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-637 oooh that does get one thinking... when is it right to lie. Sign me up for the podcast as well if you do put it together, I'd like to... ummm borrow... some of it. Giving full credit of course :) oooh that does get one thinking… when is it right to lie. Sign me up for the podcast as well if you do put it together, I’d like to… ummm borrow… some of it. Giving full credit of course :)

]]> By: obahsomah http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-636 obahsomah Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:10:26 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-636 Sue...that sounds like a children's book there! Sam...Record your talk...I'd love to hear it. I think it would make a great podcast!!!! Sue…that sounds like a children’s book there!

Sam…Record your talk…I’d love to hear it. I think it would make a great podcast!!!!

]]> By: Sue http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-635 Sue Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:04:54 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-635 As a young girl, I lived all over the U.S.: Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Washington, Pennsylvania and so on and so on. By the time I was 8, I had already been to 6 different schools. Our latest move was to North Bend, Oregon; a beautiful, harbor town that sat on the coast. This tiny town didn't get a lot of new people often so my first day of school was quite a big thing! In my wee little brain I somehow came up with the plan to speak with an English accent! Thinking about it now just kills me! For three weeks I spoke some mixed up English dialect: a cross between a cockney basket girl and a Texan! (At the age of eight, I hadn't quite perfected my Benny Hill impersonation!) Eventually, however, the kids started to get suspicious and began asking me where I was from. I tried avoiding the question, but one day a group of girls approached me as I hung upside down on the monkey bars. "We want to know why you talk funny! Are you from another country or something?" And out of nowhere I boldly claimed, "I'm from Spain!" I had them all fooled that morning recess, but my exotic intrigue was soon dismantled as word spread and eventually reached my teacher, Mrs. Trabillo. She wasn't accusatory, nor was she upset. She simply told me to be myself and be proud of who I am. So there you have it! Three weeks. The biggest and most outrageous lie I ever told lasted three weeks in the third grade. As a young girl, I lived all over the U.S.: Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Washington, Pennsylvania and so on and so on. By the time I was 8, I had already been to 6 different schools. Our latest move was to North Bend, Oregon; a beautiful, harbor town that sat on the coast. This tiny town didn’t get a lot of new people often so my first day of school was quite a big thing! In my wee little brain I somehow came up with the plan to speak with an English accent! Thinking about it now just kills me! For three weeks I spoke some mixed up English dialect: a cross between a cockney basket girl and a Texan! (At the age of eight, I hadn’t quite perfected my Benny Hill impersonation!)

Eventually, however, the kids started to get suspicious and began asking me where I was from. I tried avoiding the question, but one day a group of girls approached me as I hung upside down on the monkey bars. “We want to know why you talk funny! Are you from another country or something?” And out of nowhere I boldly claimed, “I’m from Spain!” I had them all fooled that morning recess, but my exotic intrigue was soon dismantled as word spread and eventually reached my teacher, Mrs. Trabillo. She wasn’t accusatory, nor was she upset. She simply told me to be myself and be proud of who I am.

So there you have it! Three weeks. The biggest and most outrageous lie I ever told lasted three weeks in the third grade.

]]> By: Sam. http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-634 Sam. Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:42:34 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-634 Hey Deana. I've actually had brewing from a number of years now a talk I'd love give entitled something along the lines of "when it's ok to lie"! I've copied in a few verses from Joshua chapter 2 below where Rahab blantantly lies. And she goes on to be celebrated for this act of protecting the spies (by lying) through the rest of the Scriptures, making it into the Geneology of Christ and the giants of faith in the book of Hebrews. She is there because she lied! It makes you think doesn't it?! <i>1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. "Go, look over the land," he said, "especially Jericho." So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. 2 The king of Jericho was told, "Look! Some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land." 3 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: "Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land." 4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. 5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I don't know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them." 6 (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) 7 So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut. </i> Hey Deana. I’ve actually had brewing from a number of years now a talk I’d love give entitled something along the lines of “when it’s ok to lie”! I’ve copied in a few verses from Joshua chapter 2 below where Rahab blantantly lies. And she goes on to be celebrated for this act of protecting the spies (by lying) through the rest of the Scriptures, making it into the Geneology of Christ and the giants of faith in the book of Hebrews. She is there because she lied! It makes you think doesn’t it?!

1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look! Some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.” 3 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.”

4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. 5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.” 6 (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) 7 So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.

]]> By: jeffy http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-633 jeffy Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:05:40 +0000 http://samradford.voxtropolis.com/2006/07/05/my-eight-years-of-lying/#comment-633 Hi Sam, sorry to hijack this post...but obahsomah told me to! I was wanting to put a different header picture on my blog, but I am not sure how. obahsomah told me you are the man. So, how do I put my own jpg up there? thanks in advance... jeffy Hi Sam,
sorry to hijack this post…but obahsomah told me to!

I was wanting to put a different header picture on my blog, but I am not sure how. obahsomah told me you are the man. So, how do I put my own jpg up there?

thanks in advance…
jeffy

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