Tag Archives: social mythology

The Demon God of Sexual Fantasy

Posted on March 22, 2015 by ehurst

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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What Are You?

Posted on February 10, 2015 by ehurst

Welcome to the real world with all the real people. Even without a formal doctrine of the Fall, we have no trouble seeing that humanity is broken. However, Scripture points out that this broken condition cannot be fixed on our … Continue reading →

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How?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by ehurst

There is no single answer for all of us, but perhaps I can help you serve the Lord better by asking decent questions. I have often said we make a mistake by trying to differentiate between what we presume to … Continue reading →

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Western Guilt

Posted on September 23, 2014 by ehurst

Put on your Social Science reading cap. Perhaps you recognize that a cultural bias can steer genetics. A social milieu creates a bias that offers better survival rates and transference of genes for those who match the dominant social mythology. … Continue reading →

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Pertinence Attacks

Posted on August 1, 2014 by ehurst

Re: My book, Expectations, Hopes and Dreams currently serialized on this blog…. Yesterday I decided to see what would happen if I updated my resume [PDF] and submitted it in plain text form to Monster.com. It’s not that I am … Continue reading →

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EH&D 6

Posted on August 1, 2014 by ehurst

(This is a serialization of the draft for my book, Expectations, Hopes and Dreams. Regular readers will recognize this as a rewrite of a previous post.) Leverage I mentioned previously the concept of recognizing the authority of others over us … Continue reading →

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EH&D 4

Posted on July 30, 2014 by ehurst

(This is a serialization of the draft for my book, Expectations, Hopes and Dreams.) It’s People People cannot give you objective truth, only their own experience of it. That was inherent in my caveat at the beginning of this book. … Continue reading →

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Chunky Love

Posted on May 13, 2014 by ehurst

I’m not special. I’m pretty ordinary. Over the past three years I pushed my aging and injured body from kinda fat to fairly fit. Call it the last hurrah before I’m too old for that stuff. Of course, the real … Continue reading →

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Mission and Friendships

Posted on April 19, 2014 by ehurst

Natural to our humanity is an appetite for warmth connected with a sense of identity. Something in us knows without any possible explanation that we must belong to something. If we do not, then a major element in our sense … Continue reading →

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A Quantum Step

Posted on April 17, 2014 by ehurst

Don’t follow me; search the pattern of my walk to find your own path. Yesterday I summarized afresh the concept of levels of awareness: This is merely a clinical expression of spiritual truth. (1) We are aware of the demands … Continue reading →

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