Thursday, June 18, 2015

O come, O come, Emanuel....

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I wish I knew more history on this subject, but the next time I read some crank on the internet insisting we keep "religion" ou...

Fear itself

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Reading about the shooting in Charleston, I realized the difference between a "lone gunman" and a "terrorist."  And...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Finding the religious connection to almost anything.....

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The Kingdom of God is like this A trader sold all his merchandise to buy a single pearl (But how is the Kingdom of God like that?)...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Gold GTT

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Because next Texas issues it's own scrip...or something. After reading about the "bullion depository" now law in Texas (...
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Summer time, and a young man's fancy turns to martyrdom

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Which is understandable if you're stuck in Texas for the summer.  But this I don't get : Dr. Rick Scarborough, a prominent Bap...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

"Nothing will mar your mood"

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So I've started this inter-blog dialogue , which is a good thing, because I crave dialogue above almost all things (well, beer and ham...
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Potshots

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Still waiting for the Big One.  It's in the oven; it's just not done yet.  In the meantime you can see where I'm trending.......
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Friday, June 12, 2015

The Monks are Right

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I woke up this morning, as usual, full of beans and words (well, inasmuch as both are metaphors), and just as ready to release the produc...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

O Tomorrow! O Tomorrow!

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So, the future, according to Elon Musk, is that we will be living on Mars.  A one-way trip, but hey!  Living on Mars! Right?  Away fro...

Oh, HELL No!, or, Don't Try This At Home, Kids. Leave it to the Professionals

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To begin with, this has nothing to do with the 'fundamental order of the universe' I can't comment at Slate (don't as...
Friday, June 05, 2015

I will bow and be free

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That atheism is "parasitic" of religious belief cannot really be gainsaid.  In a world where no one believes, who would count th...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Duggary, or, Let us now consider what should NOT be out of bounds

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You know, the creepy thing about the premise of "The Truman Show" is that a child (Jim Carrey) was raised solely for the monetar...

Let us now consider what is out of bounds

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It's a mattress!  It's a protest!  It's a "rape performance piece"! I've been struggling to formulate this is...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Everything old is new again

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Talked today at the open forum which meets every Sunday afternoon in the high school.  The "lunatic fringe" of the city congre...
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Let us now praise the wisdom of youth

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Just for the memory that picture brings, I should dedicate this post to my maternal grandmother I heard about this study (that the que...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

"If I had my way...."

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Very interesting stuff here : When fundamentalists and evangelicals rally against abortion or same-sex marriage, for example, it’s no...

Starting the day with the commonplace book

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This sounds very much like Kuhn : Surprisingly, [Max] Planck ["father" of quantum mechanics] never requested or expected fl...
Monday, June 01, 2015

People don't matter. Things matter. Ideas matter.

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Ain't it always the way? The new Ford car is out....Mr. Ford has given out an interview saying that the car has cost him about a ...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

A musical followup

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to what I was saying ; because what says it better than music?  

More entries for the commonplace book

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Now with more Niebuhr! And apropos of this post  (and to introduce a few entries from another of Niebuhr's books): We had a great...