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Photography: High Water, Low Water

Posted on January 29, 2018 by ehurst

Two sets of pictures collected this past Wednesday and yesterday. Draper Lake is still at a high water mark, while the state is mostly in drought. On my trek to the lake, I decided to run south along the eastern … Continue reading →

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Not Fatalism

Posted on January 28, 2018 by ehurst

Our doctrine is divine cynicism, not fatalism. Nothing prevents anyone from being like a kid, delighted to explore this life. In it we find all manner of clues and cues to our Father’s love and mercy, His infinite wisdom. Remember, … Continue reading →

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Sermon on the Mount 17

Posted on January 27, 2018 by ehurst

Justice 7:12-14 First off, Jesus quotes directly from the Talmud, something accredited to several rabbinical scholars, but is found in far more ancient traditions all over the Ancient Near East. It’s the Golden Rule, which the Talmud states in the … Continue reading →

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The Wrong Truth

Posted on January 27, 2018 by ehurst

The famous meme taking a line from a stupid movie — “You can’t handle the truth!” — had nothing to do with whether the truth was so mind-blowing, but that the person demanding the truth was so lame. It reflects … Continue reading →

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Off the Cuff: Vaccines

Posted on January 26, 2018 by ehurst

I suppose it’s about time for a fresh restatement on this business of vaccines. The concept in itself isn’t that bad, but it won’t work for everything. Give someone’s body a very limited exposure to a weakened version of some … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 4

Posted on January 26, 2018 by ehurst

In the early 1970s I attended East Anchorage High School. We had in most of our classrooms one or two old desks with a foot missing or a leg bent a little, pushed off in one corner. At least several … Continue reading →

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The Issue of Anti-Zionism

Posted on January 25, 2018 by ehurst

This follows on yesterday’s post. Let’s go a little farther with putting things in perspective. While I am anti-Zionist, I’m not a weapon aimed at Zionism. I’m not an enemy of the Jewish people (however it is you define “Jew”), … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 3

Posted on January 25, 2018 by ehurst

Our hand-n-arm model in the previous lesson oversimplifies things, of course. If you went out to the subduction zone off the southern shores of Alaska, and took a submarine down into the ocean to look at it, you wouldn’t see … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 2

Posted on January 24, 2018 by ehurst

The Tectonic Plate Theory is a good working model. It doesn’t account for everything, but it will get us where we need to go with understanding the Bad Friday Earthquake of 1964 and earthquakes in general. Most major earthquakes are … Continue reading →

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This Life Is Death

Posted on January 24, 2018 by ehurst

I want to refresh the logic here on something. Our American culture stoutly militates against the truth. Creation is not fallen; mankind is fallen. We were designed to be eternal creatures, placed in a Garden where not much else lives … Continue reading →

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