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I Am a Tryant

So I’ve been told, at least. The cosmic moral principles don’t change to meet your mythology. They work in all contexts, even when everyone present denies them. One of those principles deals with dominion. The concept of human rights is … Continue reading

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Pranks and Trust

The best way to destroy trust is through pranks. As noted previously on this blog, your sense of humor is your own. You never apologize for what you find funny, but it may force you to seek other company. In … Continue reading

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Doing What’s Right for Me

What is your commitment? You don’t have to come up with a name for it, but you do need some frame of reference to claim the full benefits of the moral fabric of the universe. The fundamental nature of God’s … Continue reading

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Dinner with Jesus

Jesus wined and dined with sinners. This was no mere social justice campaign. That it appears as such is merely the insistence of reading modern Western politics back into something totally alien. It’s not as if Jesus never engaged in … Continue reading

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Tool Shed 6

Despite my years of tinkering with Linux, I find the printing framework (CUPS) still lags what you can get on Windows or Mac. Most people might never notice the difference, but when I need something out of the ordinary, I … Continue reading

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Obvious and Wrong

In the Kingdom of Heaven, good and evil are determined by the Spirit of God. That means we cannot rely on mere utility. It’s not in the nature of the thing, but in whether it serves the purpose of God’s … Continue reading

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Another Milestone

The currency of the Spirit Realm is voluntary sacrifice of the flesh. By implication, it means rejecting this entire Fallen Realm as untrustworthy. It’s one thing to know all about this world and the mechanics; it’s another thing entirely to … Continue reading

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Job 22

The debate sinks to the level of being preposterous. Eliphaz commits intellectual dishonesty to defend his untenable position. From the very start of this whole story, Eliphaz and his pals have perverted truth by pulling things out of context. Human … Continue reading

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Network Age Economics

Once the Network Civilization has fully taken hold of humanity, much of what we now think of as economics will be forgotten. Not because people will be stupid, but the Net changes things and it is we who have failed … Continue reading

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The Spiritual Battlefield

It’s not what you naturally expect. In our fallen state, we have an awful lot of trouble discerning the fundamental nature of reality. The single most common failure is refusing to grasp the nature of the Fall itself. Most humans … Continue reading

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