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The False Norse God

The sheikh of the clan expected it, could feel it coming. Some decision he made for the welfare of the whole family didn’t go as one of his nephews had hoped. The younger man came storming in and bellowed like … Continue reading

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Naked and Invested

Humans do have instincts. Conceptually, it’s probably useful to think of them as part of your lower brain at the bottom of your spine, what I jokingly call the “butt-brain”. It’s the center of your body consciousness and the functions … Continue reading

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Heart of Faith: Conclusion

Don’t live in your head. Be on guard against simplistic reading of the Hebrew Scriptures. Yes, Jeremiah 17:9 says that “the heart is desperately wicked” in most English translations. Hebrew thinking is the antithesis of legalistic semantic wrangling. A fair … Continue reading

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Heart of Faith: Intro

It’s a tragedy of Western culture that relegates the heart to a mere metaphor of human emotion. Ours is the only culture that does that; every other civilization seems to have understood that the heart is quite literally the seat … Continue reading

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Proverbs 7

Solomon has seen it all. While at her pinnacle the Kingdom of Israel was never large enough to be called an empire, she was the single most stable and prosperous nation in a sea of instability. Previous empires had already … Continue reading

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Heart Mind

Just a quick note… Part of the failure of the various scientific approaches to understanding the heart’s neuron network is that they don’t go far enough. The secular scientific approach recognizes the heart has a very active and powerful sensory … Continue reading

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Blindfolding

It’s disturbing. Fundamental to the concept of civility is that we recognize the difference between private and secret. That is, we keep from others only what is private — stuff that, best you can tell, does not affect them and … Continue reading

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Archives Upload 3

Today’s selection is all about sin. One of the most popular and viscerally repulsive sins is child sexual molestation. It’s popular because it’s waved like a bloody flag to manipulate and herd the masses as some ultimate taboo. So I … Continue reading

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How Much in Charge?

I’m strictly hands-off on most things. Merely noting that the academic discipline of Comparative Civilizations is often a political boondoggle says so much about our Western Civilization. You would think that folks recognized there is no way to be truly … Continue reading

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The Demon God of Sexual Fantasy

Westerners suffer a serious sexual psychopathology. Western mythology has destroyed countless lives. It’s not so much a single thread as a collection of false dichotomies, the standard binary logic that makes Western Civilization damnably dangerous to Christian morality. If you … Continue reading

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