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Divine Order and Chaos
Have you been watching it? Humans are inherently nomadic, though our fallen nature prefers a sedentary existence. As population has grown over the centuries in habitable areas, our fundamental design is causing trouble. Western Civilization has done some useful things, … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, community, heart-mind, moral discernment, mysticism, social conditioning, spirituality, The Cult, tribal society, western civilization
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Resting in the Heart
Excellent article by Bruce Schneier on his security blog: Living in a Code Yellow World references something Jeff Cooper wrote back in the 1980s about self-defense and how your mind works. Quoting Schneier’s summary: In White you are unprepared and … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, culture, heart-mind, survival, war, Western mythology
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Heart-led History Lesson
You won’t get this from the history books because those who write them don’t acknowledge the fundamental truth of our human existence. Do you get tired of hearing about this heart-led stuff? Then go away, because it is the ever-present … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, Greco-Roman Civilization, heart-mind, historical context of the bible, history, war, western bias, western civilization
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HOWTO: Forgiveness
I suppose for some folks it’s just not obvious enough. We are all born in sin. If you try to reason about culpability, you’ll never understand. Rather, you start from the understanding that your human nature is broken — for … Continue reading
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Tagged adultery, covenant, divine justice, divine mercy, forgiveness, heart-mind, human nature, Jesus Christ, law, legalism, mysticism, Pharisaical Hellenism, revelation, social stability, spirituality
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Depth and Height
Metaphors are so much fun! In the Bible, the language of parables (“parabolic language”) and symbolic logic are the standard. Just grasping those things on their own terms is a whole new vista of sky and mountain that does not … Continue reading
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Tagged divine justice, epistemology, heart-mind, languages, Law Covenants, western intellectual heritage
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Secret Insanity
I’ll repeat a fundamental principle: Reality is variable. I could as easily had said that Creation is living, active and has a will of its own. You’ve probably experienced and dismissed it in the past because our society places the … Continue reading
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Tagged government, heart-mind, intelligence, Military Police, oppression, propaganda, psychology, resistance, The Cult, war, Western mythology
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The Devil’s Workshop
Passivity is the name of the game; there’s no work in the Devil’s workshop. The Cult controls certain things, encourages a lot of stuff, and lets everything else take its own course. In pursuit of holiness, the trick is to … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment, heart-mind, internet, psychology, resistance, spirituality, technology, The Cult
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No Template
It’s a miracle. Nothing else can explain it. Did it require our planning and labor, the results would kill us. We could use social sciences to examine some of this, but human faculties cannot understand more than some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged heart-mind, human vanity, mysticism, peace, radix fidem, religion, social mythology, social sciences, spirituality
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Baptists and The False Dichotomy
I’m going to pick on Baptists because I was one and know all the ugly details first-hand. I was a party to some of the propaganda battles, much to my shame. I noted in my series on The Cult that … Continue reading
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Tagged church history, divine revelation, epistemology, heart-mind, oklahoma baptist university, Southern Baptists, spirituality
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Heartless and Perverse Society
Most folks don’t get quite what we mean by characterizing Western social mythology as bizarre. It has a thousand bogus and immoral features, but I’ll pick out one that seems to represent the worst of it: one-way attachment. In Ancient … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, civilization, feudalism, heart-mind, sensory heart, social sciences, spirituality, western christianity, Western mythology, Western society
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