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Social Expectations and Cycling
This was mowed just a few weeks ago. Technically, OKC should trim the margins of the sidewalk, but I’m guessing that they won’t do it until they have served the private landowner with the process of condemnation for nuisance. The … Continue reading
Prophetic Word to the Aging
My Mom likes to share some of her emails with me because she knows I’ll have a reaction. Recently she passed along a message with 21 items of advice for folks aging and retired. I won’t copy it here because … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, materialism, middle class culture, propaganda, prophecy, tribulation
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Will the Real Peasant Please Stand Up?
I’ve been asked to describe culture and class in a little more detail. It’s pertinent if I’m going to allege that one particular culture is closer to God. One again: We are not talking here about economic class. There is … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged ANE, civilizations, culture, feudalism, history, middle class culture
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Liberty Is Death
“Few Men desire Liberty; most Men only wish for a just master.” Sallust You are supposed to read that and ponder how wonderful it would be, how morally necessary it is, to pursue liberty. But genuine liberty is a major … Continue reading
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Tagged history, materialism, Middle Ages, middle class culture, moral discernment
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The Cultural Value of Life
Some things are instinctive to us humans in the sense that, for the average Joe and Jane, the heart cannot be totally silenced. It takes a lot of damage and willful spite to become totally deaf to it, and it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged middle class culture, moral values, politics, sanctity of life, social sciences
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They Will Always Be There
Christine is still exploring the heart-led path with her fourth installment. She mentions in passing something that was poking at me all day. A prominent feature of Western mythology is taking oneself too seriously. You aren’t supposed to notice the … Continue reading
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Tagged heart-led, materialism, middle class culture, otherworldly, social sciences, Western mythology
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Bureaucratic Cancer
Our modern bureaucratic coward is easy to trace as the final stage of middle class culture. Whatever it is communists mean by “bourgeois,” that’s not the right image here. It’s loaded with too many emotional and mythical ideas. Instead of … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged economics, government, history, materialism, middle class culture, oppression, psychology, resistance, sociology, survival
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Meta-religion and the Reformation
We bother studying history and other social sciences so we can more intelligently recognize how we got where we are today, and contrast that against where God said we should be. We are then in a better position to plot … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian religion, church history, church politics, government, history, middle class, middle class culture, spirituality, The Reformation, theology
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