Monthly Archives: October 2013

Yapping Religious Terriers

The fundamental nature of the Fall is placing human reason in the executive role. God gave the intellect as the proper tool for organizing how one is to obey the Spirit. The intellect is the servant, not the master. Western … Continue reading

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Pain Is Gain

It wasn’t working right. My “new” laptop was behaving inconsistently with Xubuntu, so I had to test other options. Every time there was update, it broke something. Win7 certainly didn’t work; the manufacturer’s drivers kept breaking the file system and … Continue reading

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Buckle Up, Westerners

When you finally grow up and learn to understand the full range of reasoning, not restricting your thoughts to the shallow swamp of Aristotelian epistemology, everything you’ve learned is transformed. The whole of Western history is one long, sad tale … Continue reading

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The Power of Transparency

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8) Seeing God is its own reward; basking in His glory trumps every other human desire. While this does correlate with things going pretty well for us in … Continue reading

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Irrelevant Church

This is going to sound arrogant; I can’t help that. I am very leery of people who chatter so much about leaving the churches. Most of them are trying to escape something prodding their inflamed conscience. They mutter on and … Continue reading

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My Religion

The questions I get indicate that some folks don’t understand, so maybe I can clarify things a bit. I worship Jehovah, the God of the Bible. I am in constant personal communion with Him. I take the Bible seriously, so … Continue reading

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Job 13

Job reminds his friends that they aren’t addressing an inferior, someone lacking a good solid education. Nothing they’ve said is new. For seven days they sat in proper silence until they decided to judge Job. Had they not opened their … Continue reading

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The Purge Has Begun in Earnest

The detachment encouraged by Christian Mysticism allows me to be entertained by events that actually threaten my physical safety. Maybe you’ve read accounts of the harsh political purges conducted in old Soviet Russia, still done in China today, and now … Continue reading

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A Few Management Errors

I’ve watched managers and leaders screw up their own position so badly that they destroyed the operation itself. This is not guidance you’ll get from a secular or Christian leadership seminar. This is guidance that comes from the Ancient Hebrew … Continue reading

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Slimboat Is Better than Chrome

Update: There have been reports of suspicious activity from Slimboat and Slim browsers. At least one user reported a distinct attempt to download malware coming from the running process. My own experience is that using Slimboat brings on a lot … Continue reading

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