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Bits & Pieces 15

I really don’t like gatekeepers when it comes to information. I recognize the necessity of paying to get online and that the Internet would not exist without all that expensive hardware. However, the virtual world is itself an entirely different … Continue reading

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Marx, Strauss and Mass Manipulation

What do you say to a man born and raised on the East Coast who is a rabid fan of some West Coast football team? There are a lot more of such people than you might expect. Throughout history it … Continue reading

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Job 32

People in the Ancient Near East would recognize that most moral questions can be answered differently on different levels. They were untroubled by apparent paradoxes and reversals of good and evil when viewing the exact same issue from different contexts. … Continue reading

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Idolatry of Reason

Call it what you like; divine moral justice is nearly impossible to put into words. We can characterize it. That’s what parabolic language is for and Jesus used parables as the primary means to teaching. People whose spirits are alive … Continue reading

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Certain

You can have certainty, but not certitude. It’s not so much the precise definitions of the words, but the connotations. The latter implies something outside of you, a basis in external reality, while the former is distinctly internal. In that … Continue reading

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The Value of Life

The questions we face in dealing with Westerners is the underlying mythology. While you could easily round up a bunch of them and get each one to profess a different set of moral values, all of them together will remain … Continue reading

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Ignore Me If You Can

Fundamental to our message is that we have no intention of convincing anyone of anything. What we hope is to offer a slice of truth that compels attention of itself. We don’t get in God’s way because we never imagined … Continue reading

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Not of This World 2

This is not random thoughts; see if you can follow the thread. What do you mean, “Why don’t I like it?” The question assumes a falsehood, that I am somehow duty-bound to like something. My lack of interest is the … Continue reading

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ANE Meditation

In Western traditions, meditation is about receiving insight and understanding of higher truths. This is the same old crap that eviscerates the power of connecting to the Spirit Realm. It’s an effort to force the Spirit to accommodate the human … Continue reading

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Shouting Silence

The biggest problem in acquainting Westerners with truth is their lack of a sense of paradox. Yeah, they can learn it, but to make it instinctive is what is so difficult. Without that predisposition to expect paradox, truth remains elusive. … Continue reading

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