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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Unreliable Reality
Up until that moment, we had been friends. Let’s face it folks: She was homely as mud pie. But she was a senior NCO in the unit’s command staff, and her influence was felt in every life attached to that … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged ANE, civilization, family, government bureaucracy, military, mysticism
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Flooding Human Vanity
We think of vanity as a bottomless pit. Solomon’s royal service manual (Ecclesiastes) starts out announcing that our human existence is vanity. The translation could as easily be meaningless, pointless or futile. The root meaning of the English word “vanity” … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged civilization, culture, fitness, health, mission, psychology, spirituality, Two Realms
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Economics Doesn’t Exist
Economics isn’t a useful body of theory, but merely a set of observations of human behavior regarding material goods and services within a specific context. I was certified to teach economics, one of the few public school teachers with that … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged economic theory, economics, education, human behavior, human nature, intellect
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I’m Tech Support
This is an exercise in mirror reading. There is no social group for me. I’m an alien in virtually every human context, in part because I am “not of this world” (Romans 12:2) — Even among my fellow Christians, I … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged epistemology, ministry, mission, mysticism, philosophy, psychology, social context, spirituality, tech support, technology, virtual world
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Oklahoma County Jury Duty
The county website is pretty sparse on information. Recounting my experience will provide a snapshot for early 2014. The County Courthouse is right downtown OKC, and the maps are good enough to get you there. I was coming in from … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged Gail Bowlby, government, law, parking garage, psychology, The County Courthouse
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Fanboy Folly
Computers are just a tool, not the prime mover of human future. If we could stuff a soft, fat rubber ball in the mouths of the world’s mindless fanboys, the silence would be suddenly deafening. That includes the vast majority … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged computers, culture, fanboys, game, linux, Open Source software, philosophy, psychology, religion, windows
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Job 24
God is not like mere men. It’s not as if you should expect Him to come around like a circuit riding judge with a seasonal schedule of visitation. So there are people out there who get away with moving survey … Continue reading
Connecting Ancient Dots
The sheer arrogance of the insular modern Western mind makes the Devil giggle. It flows from the essential nature of the Fall, of the “boastful pride of life” elsewhere called “hubris.” We stole from the Greco-Roman Civilization all the things … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged ANE, civilization, divine justice, family, government, mysticism, Nebuchadnezzar, scripture
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Dead Game
There is devastation all around me. On the one side, I see vast nations of men who languish under the lash of feminism. Worst of all, a vast carpet of Christian men who cannot possibly walk fully in the power … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged civilization, culture, divine revelation, fundamental assumptions, game, intellect, oppression, propaganda, religion
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