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NQN Game Film, December 6th, 2023. Introduction. It has become our custom and why shouldn't

it have become our custom to review the month of November once we turn the page of the calendar and all the pieces have fallen out of the sky and the drone.

The drone too.

In short, how did it go?

Did the month of November live up to expectations?

Were we happy with how things went?

And the answer comes back as a solid resounding yes. Best November ever.

The trick is to learn how to take the truth seriously without taking yourself seriously at all. This is the reverse of the strategy

urged upon us by Anthony Bradley. He is big on dignity and all this horsing around comporteth

not with the kind of dignity he has in mind. Oh well, if we can't horse around and have the

approval of Anthony Bradley, then it appears we shall just have to continue to horse around.

Of course, you do want to be careful with the hijings. If there's too much of that you can draw the reproach of those who would quote the great James Denny.

Quote, no man can give it once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save. But there's more to this

principle. We really need to think it all through. Denny's observation is quite

true, but because we live in the kind of world we do, quite a number of words can be

substituted in for clever, and the spiritual

lesson remains every bit as valuable.

For example, Trippias, or scholarly, or censorious, or dignified.

The great danger is in the phrase give the impression and not actually in the

characteristic you are seeking to project. It is not bad to be clever or pious or dignified.

But if you are striving to be known for whatever it is, then that is where the trouble is.

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