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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Job 18
We begin to understand Job’s visitors do not grasp what parables are, and do not comprehend symbolic language. God has always preferred parable as the means to communicate to mankind because it winnows out the spiritually dead. Only those with … Continue reading
Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 3)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) Linux is an implementation of the Unix computer technology; a type of Unix, if you will. In Unix Land, everything is a file. Every bit of hardware that the … Continue reading
Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 2)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) XFCE is a wonderful desktop environment, but it’s not the simplest to configure. There are several items we need to consider for desktop display. Extra wide displays are popular … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, debian, linux, Open Source software, panel configuration, technology
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The Mythology of Uniformity
As one reader noted, with full consciousness I subject the intellect to the Spirit. The mind was granted by God to serve the Spirit. Western Christianity typically presumes to intellectualize the Spirit, and that’s backwards, because it subjects the Spirit … Continue reading
Posted in prophecy
Tagged government, human reason, intellect, mysticism, oppression, peace, psychology, religion, spirituality, western christianity
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Debian: Try It; You’ll Like It (Part 1)
(The updated version of this series can be found here (gone).) Lots of folks offer various kinds of guides to installing Debian. This is just one more. Why Debian? It’s easily the single best escape from MS Windows for most … Continue reading
Internet Unrealities
Perhaps you’ve met one like him. He asked me to come over to his apartment and look at his computer, saying only that it had a problem. Some charitable agency had given him a decent system with Ubuntu installed. He … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged civilization, computers, culture, government, internet, Internet traffic, NSA, oppression, technology
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The Core of Human Existence
No grand theory here; I’m struggling to echo the Bible in modern Western terms. Let’s pretend, maybe something along the lines of the Fallout series of video games. Trailers and bits of game play can be found in good quantity … Continue reading
Posted in religion
Tagged computers, epistemology, game, game play, Law Covenants, mysticism, peace, philosophy, scripture, spirituality
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Three Debian Install Issues
This applies to Ubuntu Precise and Debian Wheezy for sure, and perhaps other versions. 1. Libre Office Extensions: You need to install OpenJDK’s JRE version 7 (“openjdk-7-jre” is the package name) or at least some of your installable extensions from … Continue reading
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Tagged debian, Debian Wheezy, Libre Office, linux, technology
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Some Limits Apply
The atheist or secularist who takes a poke at faith is merely shadow-boxing. Since they can’t hit the real thing, they simply castigate the effects. Faith is unreasonable in the sense of being far above reason, operating in a different … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged divine justice, epistemology, intellect, law, mysticism, spirituality
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Job 17
Job’s visitors demand that he tell a lie against God. They have no objective evidence at all that Job has sinned such that his situation is punishment for some specific error. Instead, they have only their pitiful reasoning. What they … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged hebrew poetry, Job, mysticism, scripture, spirituality
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