Tag Archives: resistance

Frantic Spamming (Updated)

Update: A manager at Love’s called shortly after I posted this and was unhappy to hear that I had so much trouble getting this SMS spam to stop. I take his apology at face value. I told him it took … Continue reading

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Not a Spiritual Influence

As always, it’s more complex than we want to recognize. It’s easier to pin it all on this or that one thing and make it our crusade to end that thing. And I could easily take you down a false … Continue reading

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Arrows in the Quiver

Can I suggest you take a look at this? To summarize for you, it concerns a report coming down from Department of Homeland Security distributed to various law enforcement agencies across the US. DHS is attempting to create a climate … Continue reading

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The Pastoral Narrative

I haven’t seen it all. What I have experienced forms the burden of my pastoral communications. The shepherd’s call is to tell what you know, as best you know how to tell it, so that others can catch a moment … Continue reading

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Deaf Ethics

I suppose it was never more than some kind of experiment. When I posted my resume on Monster.com, I seriously doubted I’d get any useful response. Out of some 20 contacts, one was genuine, but misguided. The rest were simply … Continue reading

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The OpSec Mind

The failure of OpSec will always be a moral weakness. We live in an age when even the most mundane human activity can come under attack. Treat your very existence as a mission. Operational Security starts in your soul. Not … Continue reading

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Strident Media Racket and Apocalypse

This post is a bit long, so I won’t blame you for skipping it. The only questions that matter start with moral truth. I’ll keep hammering this issue over and over, that all truth is a question of morality, not … Continue reading

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EH&D 2

(This is a serialization of the draft for my book, Expectations, Hopes and Dreams.) Grabbing You by the Throat “Oh my God!” Her eyes weeping, she put her hand against her lips, knuckles folded. On the screen just across the … Continue reading

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I Was Just Trying to Help

Let’s explore some of the implications of the Doctrine of Leverage and all my blather about Christlike charity and moral sacrifice. We understand the necessity of standing back and suffering the empathy of those who hurt without taking action because … Continue reading

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Information Activist 2

If “activist” means striving to force a change in government policy, then I am not one of them. It seems I often have to explain why we are not supposed to participate in democratic government: It’s fundamentally immoral. Democracy is … Continue reading

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