Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version
A liberalism! --- Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A perspectivalism!! > - Original Message - > From: ShieldsFamily > To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org > Sent: July 22, 2005 09:40 > Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version > > > Ahh, isn't America just wonderful? :-) iz > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Muir > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:50 AM > To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org > Subject: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: July 20, 2005 21:10 > > Subject: greetings from ky: long version > > > > > > > We are in the heart of the kind of country where there is a flag > on every > > > house or lawn and a bumper sticker on two out of three vehicles > that reads > > > "We support our troops." At the tourist bureau in Ohio there was > a sign on > > > the door: "It is illegal to carry any firearm, deadly weapon or > ordnance > > > on these premises." Leave your cannons at home, folks. Now we're > in > > > Kentucky, in the hills; the signs at fast food restaurants are > all 100 > > > feet high so they can be seen in this very humpy countryside. We > are > > > staying in a small but clean and modern motel near the I65, on a > narrow, > > > winding rural road, flanked by Aunt Bee's Restaurant and > overlooking a > > > large, green, lovely, unkempt, tussocky meadow. We got off the > highway too > > > early and in the space of about five miles must have passed no > less than > > > 16 or 17 churches on the one country road--Friendship Baptist, > First > > > Baptist, Baptist Missionary, New Life Fellowship, New Horizons > Fellowship, > > > Church of God of Prophecy, Gospel Assembly, you name it, > literally one > > > every quarter mile or so. (There is also a thing about the Ten > > > Commandments. We have seen them writ large on a billboard and on > the > > > window of a storefront church in a small town. "Repent Now" signs > also > > > appear here and there.) When we reached the road we wanted, we > went the > > > wrong direction first and drove by a farm gate with two boar's > heads on > > > it. Real ones. Dorothy, we're not in Ontario anymore. The road is > very > > > narrow and winding but paved--what you just don't find in our > countryside > > > where all the roads that lead anywhere are wide and follow > straight along > > > the surveyors' lines, and only major ones are paved. It feels > weird. > > > > > > On the other side of the highway from the motel and down a short > distance > > > is the sad little town of Horse Cave--we're in the Mammoth Cave > region--in > > > which pretty little wooden houses sit cheek by jowl with > tumbledown > > > ramshackle ones, and by that I mean houses whose shadowy porches > still > > > have people sitting in swings but which would have been > condemned long > > > ago in Ontario, sections of their roofs collapsed or missing, > windows > > > broken, doors sagging on their hinges, the wood showing hardly > any paint > > > anymore. It's incredible there are still people living in them. > Next to > > > the disused railway tracks stands the wreck of what must have > been an old > > > station hotel when the town was booming. It is a melancholy > sight. A bit > > > further down the highway is a village hyperbolically dubbed Cave > City, in > > > which half of the establishments are defunct. But in amongst > these sites > > > are a fair number of large elegant new houses set far back from > the road. > > > > > > So today we visited the Mammoth Caves, the world's longest cave > system, > > > 365 miles of passageway explored so far. We were under 250 feet > of > > > limestone. Very impressive. We decided against the six-hour tour > > > consisting mostly of crawling through tight spaces, taking > instead the > > > two-hour tour which only requires you to turn sideways a few > times or duck > > > now and then to fit thr
Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version
A perspectivalism!! - Original Message - From: ShieldsFamily To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: July 22, 2005 09:40 Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version Ahh, isn't America just wonderful? :-) iz -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance MuirSent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:50 AMTo: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.orgSubject: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: July 20, 2005 21:10 Subject: greetings from ky: long version > We are in the heart of the kind of country where there is a flag on every > house or lawn and a bumper sticker on two out of three vehicles that reads > "We support our troops." At the tourist bureau in Ohio there was a sign on > the door: "It is illegal to carry any firearm, deadly weapon or ordnance > on these premises." Leave your cannons at home, folks. Now we're in > Kentucky, in the hills; the signs at fast food restaurants are all 100 > feet high so they can be seen in this very humpy countryside. We are > staying in a small but clean and modern motel near the I65, on a narrow, > winding rural road, flanked by Aunt Bee's Restaurant and overlooking a > large, green, lovely, unkempt, tussocky meadow. We got off the highway too > early and in the space of about five miles must have passed no less than > 16 or 17 churches on the one country road--Friendship Baptist, First > Baptist, Baptist Missionary, New Life Fellowship, New Horizons Fellowship, > Church of God of Prophecy, Gospel Assembly, you name it, literally one > every quarter mile or so. (There is also a thing about the Ten > Commandments. We have seen them writ large on a billboard and on the > window of a storefront church in a small town. "Repent Now" signs also > appear here and there.) When we reached the road we wanted, we went the > wrong direction first and drove by a farm gate with two boar's heads on > it. Real ones. Dorothy, we're not in Ontario anymore. The road is very > narrow and winding but paved--what you just don't find in our countryside > where all the roads that lead anywhere are wide and follow straight along > the surveyors' lines, and only major ones are paved. It feels weird. > > On the other side of the highway from the motel and down a short distance > is the sad little town of Horse Cave--we're in the Mammoth Cave region--in > which pretty little wooden houses sit cheek by jowl with tumbledown > ramshackle ones, and by that I mean houses whose shadowy porches still > have people sitting in swings but which would have been condemned long > ago in Ontario, sections of their roofs collapsed or missing, windows > broken, doors sagging on their hinges, the wood showing hardly any paint > anymore. It's incredible there are still people living in them. Next to > the disused railway tracks stands the wreck of what must have been an old > station hotel when the town was booming. It is a melancholy sight. A bit > further down the highway is a village hyperbolically dubbed Cave City, in > which half of the establishments are defunct. But in amongst these sites > are a fair number of large elegant new houses set far back from the road. > > So today we visited the Mammoth Caves, the world's longest cave system, > 365 miles of passageway explored so far. We were under 250 feet of > limestone. Very impressive. We decided against the six-hour tour > consisting mostly of crawling through tight spaces, taking instead the > two-hour tour which only requires you to turn sideways a few times or duck > now and then to fit through a small passage. At some points on the path > (it had railings) you could look up or down a good 80 feet or so into > these vertical shafts left by water. We kept imagining we were in Moria > and heard orcs and cave trolls. "Fool of a Took!" "You...shall...not... > pass!" "Fly, you fools! Fly!" Apparently people have played violins or > trumpets in these caves, or have sung down there, and the effect is > supposed to be magnificent. I can only imagine. One of the nicest things > about the caves was the temperature. It is killingly hot here--all the > cows in the fields are standing in ponds, like water buffaloes in > Asia--but in the caves it was a pleasant 18C or ther
RE: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version
Ahh, isn't America just wonderful? :-) iz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Muir Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:50 AM To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Subject: [TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: July 20, 2005 21:10 Subject: greetings from ky: long version > We are in the heart of the kind of country where there is a flag on every > house or lawn and a bumper sticker on two out of three vehicles that reads > "We support our troops." At the tourist bureau in Ohio there was a sign on > the door: "It is illegal to carry any firearm, deadly weapon or ordnance > on these premises." Leave your cannons at home, folks. Now we're in > Kentucky, in the hills; the signs at fast food restaurants are all 100 > feet high so they can be seen in this very humpy countryside. We are > staying in a small but clean and modern motel near the I65, on a narrow, > winding rural road, flanked by Aunt Bee's Restaurant and overlooking a > large, green, lovely, unkempt, tussocky meadow. We got off the highway too > early and in the space of about five miles must have passed no less than > 16 or 17 churches on the one country road--Friendship Baptist, First > Baptist, Baptist Missionary, New Life Fellowship, New Horizons Fellowship, > Church of God of Prophecy, Gospel Assembly, you name it, literally one > every quarter mile or so. (There is also a thing about the Ten > Commandments. We have seen them writ large on a billboard and on the > window of a storefront church in a small town. "Repent Now" signs also > appear here and there.) When we reached the road we wanted, we went the > wrong direction first and drove by a farm gate with two boar's heads on > it. Real ones. Dorothy, we're not in Ontario anymore. The road is very > narrow and winding but paved--what you just don't find in our countryside > where all the roads that lead anywhere are wide and follow straight along > the surveyors' lines, and only major ones are paved. It feels weird. > > On the other side of the highway from the motel and down a short distance > is the sad little town of Horse Cave--we're in the Mammoth Cave region--in > which pretty little wooden houses sit cheek by jowl with tumbledown > ramshackle ones, and by that I mean houses whose shadowy porches still > have people sitting in swings but which would have been condemned long > ago in Ontario, sections of their roofs collapsed or missing, windows > broken, doors sagging on their hinges, the wood showing hardly any paint > anymore. It's incredible there are still people living in them. Next to > the disused railway tracks stands the wreck of what must have been an old > station hotel when the town was booming. It is a melancholy sight. A bit > further down the highway is a village hyperbolically dubbed Cave City, in > which half of the establishments are defunct. But in amongst these sites > are a fair number of large elegant new houses set far back from the road. > > So today we visited the Mammoth Caves, the world's longest cave system, > 365 miles of passageway explored so far. We were under 250 feet of > limestone. Very impressive. We decided against the six-hour tour > consisting mostly of crawling through tight spaces, taking instead the > two-hour tour which only requires you to turn sideways a few times or duck > now and then to fit through a small passage. At some points on the path > (it had railings) you could look up or down a good 80 feet or so into > these vertical shafts left by water. We kept imagining we were in Moria > and heard orcs and cave trolls. "Fool of a Took!" "You...shall...not... > pass!" "Fly, you fools! Fly!" Apparently people have played violins or > trumpets in these caves, or have sung down there, and the effect is > supposed to be magnificent. I can only imagine. One of the nicest things > about the caves was the temperature. It is killingly hot here--all the > cows in the fields are standing in ponds, like water buffaloes in > Asia--but in the caves it was a pleasant 18C or thereabouts, and quite > dry. When we came out again it felt like we had suddenly entered a > tropical rainforest; I could just feel the H2O going into my lungs with > every breath. I think a pair of gills would come in handy. > > Later we went to the birthplace of Lincoln, which is nearby and is a > national site, and saw the original log cabin enshrined in a sort of > Parthenonlike monument with a gazillion steps leading up to it lik
[TruthTalk] Fw: greetings from ky: long version
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: July 20, 2005 21:10 Subject: greetings from ky: long version We are in the heart of the kind of country where there is a flag on every house or lawn and a bumper sticker on two out of three vehicles that reads "We support our troops." At the tourist bureau in Ohio there was a sign on the door: "It is illegal to carry any firearm, deadly weapon or ordnance on these premises." Leave your cannons at home, folks. Now we're in Kentucky, in the hills; the signs at fast food restaurants are all 100 feet high so they can be seen in this very humpy countryside. We are staying in a small but clean and modern motel near the I65, on a narrow, winding rural road, flanked by Aunt Bee's Restaurant and overlooking a large, green, lovely, unkempt, tussocky meadow. We got off the highway too early and in the space of about five miles must have passed no less than 16 or 17 churches on the one country road--Friendship Baptist, First Baptist, Baptist Missionary, New Life Fellowship, New Horizons Fellowship, Church of God of Prophecy, Gospel Assembly, you name it, literally one every quarter mile or so. (There is also a thing about the Ten Commandments. We have seen them writ large on a billboard and on the window of a storefront church in a small town. "Repent Now" signs also appear here and there.) When we reached the road we wanted, we went the wrong direction first and drove by a farm gate with two boar's heads on it. Real ones. Dorothy, we're not in Ontario anymore. The road is very narrow and winding but paved--what you just don't find in our countryside where all the roads that lead anywhere are wide and follow straight along the surveyors' lines, and only major ones are paved. It feels weird. On the other side of the highway from the motel and down a short distance is the sad little town of Horse Cave--we're in the Mammoth Cave region--in which pretty little wooden houses sit cheek by jowl with tumbledown ramshackle ones, and by that I mean houses whose shadowy porches still have people sitting in swings but which would have been condemned long ago in Ontario, sections of their roofs collapsed or missing, windows broken, doors sagging on their hinges, the wood showing hardly any paint anymore. It's incredible there are still people living in them. Next to the disused railway tracks stands the wreck of what must have been an old station hotel when the town was booming. It is a melancholy sight. A bit further down the highway is a village hyperbolically dubbed Cave City, in which half of the establishments are defunct. But in amongst these sites are a fair number of large elegant new houses set far back from the road. So today we visited the Mammoth Caves, the world's longest cave system, 365 miles of passageway explored so far. We were under 250 feet of limestone. Very impressive. We decided against the six-hour tour consisting mostly of crawling through tight spaces, taking instead the two-hour tour which only requires you to turn sideways a few times or duck now and then to fit through a small passage. At some points on the path (it had railings) you could look up or down a good 80 feet or so into these vertical shafts left by water. We kept imagining we were in Moria and heard orcs and cave trolls. "Fool of a Took!" "You...shall...not... pass!" "Fly, you fools! Fly!" Apparently people have played violins or trumpets in these caves, or have sung down there, and the effect is supposed to be magnificent. I can only imagine. One of the nicest things about the caves was the temperature. It is killingly hot here--all the cows in the fields are standing in ponds, like water buffaloes in Asia--but in the caves it was a pleasant 18C or thereabouts, and quite dry. When we came out again it felt like we had suddenly entered a tropical rainforest; I could just feel the H2O going into my lungs with every breath. I think a pair of gills would come in handy. Later we went to the birthplace of Lincoln, which is nearby and is a national site, and saw the original log cabin enshrined in a sort of Parthenonlike monument with a gazillion steps leading up to it like at Lourdes. The little movie we saw about Lincoln's "Kentucky years" (he lived here till about age 10) included a lengthy segment consisting of scenic shots with a man and woman singing all the verses of "The Lord is my Shepherd" in the background accompanied by a guitar. I couldn't help but think how different the movie would be in a Canadian national site, regardless of how "religious" the hero might have been. It is very beautiful country, lots of forest but no evergreens in them, which makes them seem somehow strange. I think if I ever lose an eye, the thing I will miss most about depth perception is the appearance of a forest. Not from a distance, on the side of a hill, say, but when you are driving along right next to it and looking into it. Forests are a celebration of 3D
