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Syria Follies Not Over

More and more ships and other military assets continue gathering off the Syrian coast. Both US and Russia are moving stuff around. Currently the congressional leadership are all on board with this. Since the first lie didn’t work to excuse … Continue reading

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Dehumanizing Charity

It’s possible to kill your neighbor by feeding him when he’s hungry. That is, in the sense you dehumanize and enslave him without actually making things any better. In biblical morality, simply preserving life is not a good moral value. … Continue reading

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Job 3

It’s too easy to summarize the meaning of Job’s speech: He’s depressed. There is nothing to suggest moral failure. Some folks have come to visit Job in his distress and he’s about as entertaining as he can be, with truly … Continue reading

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Net Speculation

There’s some pretty serious warfare on the Net right now. I’m little more than a power user, not a real hacker or professional technician. I have a computer ministry, but it’s mostly mundane stuff any power user could fix. But … Continue reading

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Boomer Dementia

Most of us have some idea of what Dementia/Alzheimer’s looks like. What we may not know is the entire complex as we know it is dominated by the single largest group of patients suffering from it: Baby Boomers. I’m not … Continue reading

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Invisible Divine Justice

The whole business of mysticism is receiving actionable knowledge from outside the normal human intellectual inputs. It requires a faculty missing from humans by default. The very nature of the thing eludes our grasp, but we can discuss it in … Continue reading

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Moral Hazard in Our Times

The fundamental moral hazard is enticement away from safe grounds. The mythology of our day is a siren song. Out on the submerged rocks and ripping currents stands this glorious vision that if we fail to act, evil men will … Continue reading

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Friday Randomness

Responded to a computer ministry service call today. The Win7 box was suffering from three types of advertising malware, one of which hijacked some function in the Google Toolbar and caused intermittent Net access problems. Do you know you can … Continue reading

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Financial Cataclysm

The US government as we now experience it daily will soon end. I can’t predict how much of a change is coming, but there is a sense in which it will collapse and be replaced. This will happen even if … Continue reading

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Middling Presumption

Mysticism comes naturally for me. It was no great struggle to adopt the idea that material wealth isn’t that important; most of my life was in poverty. It’s not sour grapes, just a different experience. When you spend so much … Continue reading

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