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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Class, At Last
During my years online, I’ve always devoted a portion of my time studying and fighting spam, hoaxes, scams and urban legends, among other Internet abuses. After that prank when someone posted my resume on some of the most abusive job … Continue reading
Scientists Are Not God
Scientists, and other people who represent the cream of human intelligence and wisdom, should not be trusted any more than the psychopaths who rule in governments. There are good reasons for this: 1. Scientists, by the very nature of their … Continue reading
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Tagged business, cynicism, government, science
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Our Mysticism Is Not As Their Mysticism
Mysticism includes a whole range of things, not simply the practice of Transcendental Meditation. There will always be movements within a larger whole of any demographic. The mere existence of a thing which can be labeled “a demographic” requires acknowledging … Continue reading
Web of Deceit
I hear a lot of folks crying about advertising on web pages. One camp says they’ve gotten too aggressive, to the point you can’t access any content unless you permit the most egregious demands for placing tracking cookies, tracking webbugs, … Continue reading
More Implications of the Fall
Inherent in the parabolic language of Scripture is the flexibility to cover lots of territory with the same narrative. A picture replaces a thousand words, but only if those words are reduced to clinical descriptions. If you are trying to … Continue reading
Steering Limits
Moderation is a lost art. A fundamental evil of Western Civilization is objectifying everything. We end up with the paradox of fearing death while we commoditize human life. The only people who don’t fear death tend to be nihilists. What … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, government, oppression, peace, propaganda
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Hard Headed or Hard Hearted
The Bible differentiates between commitment and meanness. We call someone a hard-head if they tend not to listen to advice, or even to learn from the evidence which beats them upside the head. They aren’t evil, just don’t appear to … Continue reading
Wealth, Power and Evil
There is nothing inherently wrong with having wealth and power. It’s dangerous, but it can’t be avoided, and it can be done well. The people who deserve our lasting despite, and perhaps bloody execution at the hands of a lynching … Continue reading
Elitism and the GUI
As a group, the people who write most of the code for Open Source GUIs have no idea what typical users want. I’ve noted before the strength of Open Source is those who code can do anything they like. That’s … Continue reading
A Ruling Spirit
The barriers to the Hebraic grasp of spiritual matters are not hard to understand. Over the years during which I was trying to play the game in mainstream denominational Christian ministries, there were thousands of conversations about very fundamental issues … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, intellect, mysticism, psychology
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