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Kids These Days
(This is a parable of something which transpired recently here in the comments. For your amusement…) *sigh* Another wasted day. John had just been told the truck delivering his trusses was broke down twenty miles from town. The job site … Continue reading
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Recapitulation
Here’s the plan. Things will get worse before they get better. Whatever it is we all collectively think of as the USA will be gone really soon. In fact, most people who think of it at all are mostly wrong … Continue reading
Am I Done, Yet?
I started this blog because I had a mission. That mission changed somewhat, but not fundamentally. So here I am reassessing what I’ve covered so far. While I’ve managed to say it differently, from different angles, I’ve begun to repeat … Continue reading
Let Us Be
Live and let live. My brother lives in a very old neighborhood just a mile north of downtown Oklahoma City. He has a traditional brick fireplace and I am cutting wood for him this summer so he’ll have a good … Continue reading
Tell Me God Does Not Exist
Depending on how you define the terms of the debate, I might agree with the statement “God does not exist.” If your entire approach is Aristotelian (included as an element in Enlightenment, Post-Modernism and just about the entire basis of … Continue reading
Hazing Is Torture
In the past few weeks we’ve seen reports in the news about hazing. I suppose it’s one thing if you voluntarily join a violent gang and pass through their initiation rituals. It’s like military basic training. You know what you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged mysticism, psychology, resistance, survival
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Biblical Business Theory
Based on my frequent rants about God’s Laws, we can outline what a genuine lawful business would look like in the USA today. Fundamentally, the objective is not profit, at least not in the sense commonly used in business right … Continue reading
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Tagged business, management, scripture
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Wildly Fruitful
So very much of life is symbolic of much deeper truths. I love fruit; it’s my favorite type of food. I’m quite fond of jams, preserves and jellies as a way to have fruit out of season. This is the … Continue reading
Mysticism and Disentanglement
One of my provisional Three Pillars of Christian Mysticism is disentanglement. Try to keep in mind, I don’t take seriously the particular way I think about this, in the sense I promote those three key points — “pillars” — as … Continue reading
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Tagged government, law, mysticism, war
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Time Slipping Away
To me it’s actually quite funny to see the mangled logic of a civilization which does not understand itself. We have court cases where people have been found incompetent and “evil” because they don’t care enough about tomorrow. We have … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, government, mysticism, peace
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