Tag Archives: psychology

Pain Is Gain

It wasn’t working right. My “new” laptop was behaving inconsistently with Xubuntu, so I had to test other options. Every time there was update, it broke something. Win7 certainly didn’t work; the manufacturer’s drivers kept breaking the file system and … Continue reading

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A Few Management Errors

I’ve watched managers and leaders screw up their own position so badly that they destroyed the operation itself. This is not guidance you’ll get from a secular or Christian leadership seminar. This is guidance that comes from the Ancient Hebrew … Continue reading

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Quantum Truth; Behavioral Deception

One of our biggest mistakes as humans is classifying people. We have a jillion labels we use and it makes us feel so very intelligent when we can describe where someone fits in the catalog. The overuse of Meyers-Briggs matrix … Continue reading

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Divine Variables

As a teenager, I had an adult friend once who said, “I sometimes think I should just carry around a shotgun with my Bible. That way, when someone confesses Jesus as their Savior, I can just kill them right there … Continue reading

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Warm Deception

More than once I’ve awakened to a pounding heart and the stinking sweat of terror. Not merely from some bad dream, not simply a too vivid movie scene in my memory, but the very real threat of death crawled through … Continue reading

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Resume for the Network Age

You can’t hire me, but you can invoke my loyalty. On the one hand, we must comply with the laws of the land at least enough to fly under the radar. On the other hand, you must understand that I … Continue reading

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Shepherd Instinct 3

Let’s move this to a practical exercise. The shepherd instinct is fundamentally embracing the calling God has placed on manhood itself. Learning about it requires deconstructing everything that perverts it. As my regular readers know, this sort of deep discernment … Continue reading

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Shepherd Instinct 2

Always be ready to walk away. In the previous lesson, we noted what happens when you are on your own turf. What happens when it’s not your turf? If the Lord does not deliver a situation into your hands, you … Continue reading

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Shepherd Instinct 1

(I’m trying to organize a series of concise lessons about how to think like the ANE shepherd in opposition to any part of Western social mythology about manhood.) Don’t cave. Ever. Western Civilization has created the laziest men on earth. … Continue reading

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Moral Rewiring Job

Most people are morally wired like children. In the past I’ve mentioned the Delphi Method for destroying opposition to radical changes in a system. It’s the sort of discrete and scientific method you would expect from Pavlovian folks, never mind … Continue reading

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