House Church Talk - Re: playing skillfully, doing diligently

[DanG]

An '88 American iron car is what I'm talking about - reliable for a very looong time which
makes it a whole lot more valuable than the wires and sensors that comprise a car today from,
well, anywhere - that is my opinion.

I realize my castitgation of all things china does not fit hctalk directly, perhaps, but it
comes to mind about excellence.  I would be an equal opportunity buyer if there were things
excellent coming from china - but this buyer does not see excellent from china...yet.  Notice,
I expect kwality from china someday, but the mind of many americans (which marketers are trying
to satisfy) about less money is better which affords non-excellent products is a mind that does
not speak toward excellent in my mind.  When we as consumers (who ostensibley drive the
marketplace) demand kwality from china, we may see more of it.  (Furthermore, my neighbors -
fellow americans - lose their jobs and are put out of living wages by suppliers selling me
cheap china stuff and I do not like that treatment of my neighbor so I do NOT participate in
that scheme because in that scheme only the middlemen make millions - that is not excellent to
my thinking)

Similar mindset and results can perhaps tie into hc?  I dunno - I haven't fully explored that
yet, but will as this thread develops, methinks.
Dan ChicagoArea

> Dan G,
>    Sometimes excellence or beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or
> recipient.  The example I am thinking of is my 88 chevy celebrity, she's
> not much to look at but the best and most reliable transportation I have
> ever owned, mAYBE the point is mute though because to think of it she's
> american built which ironically enough is the arena where most americans
> opt for the foreign stuff for various reasons, I guess I quit judging
> most books by their cover for a while now and I can proudly proclaim I
> am a non racial purchaser, as far as anyone tying this to home church
> good luck unless you say that even home churchers have to deal in the
> market place too.  Your brother, tom.
>
> "The Surprise of marriage is not that adults produce children but that
> children produce adults whereby moving one more center of the universe
> to maturity"