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Friday, December 05, 2014

God's Absence and Our Presence

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Ever since Tuesday's post I've been thinking about that gap between desire and reality -- the one that makes the world go 'roun...
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Thursday, December 04, 2014

Slaximus the Coonfessor

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So, it seems that it's all about that gap between desire and its fulfillment, or what we have and what we want. This polarity is appare...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Fake Needs and Real Power

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This is a potentially vast area which I haven't yet thought through, nor can I be sure if there's anything to my hunches, or even if...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014

The Vertical Church of What It Is

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"The doctrine of divine relativity," writes Hartshorne , "is not entirely unconnected with the great drive toward a synthesis...
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Monday, December 01, 2014

Who and Whom in God and Politics

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In reading this new biography of Stalin , it struck me that the 20th century's most evil men had one thing in common: they were all laz...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Merely Absolute

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As a way to warm up, perhaps I will deal with objections to yesterday's post (those that I didn't respond to in the comments). And ...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipathos

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Since recent posts haven't seemed to generate much interest, I am going to hunker down and write more for myself. You are, of course, f...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

Temporal and Spatial Oneness

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A few months back I read Hartshorne's The Divine Relativity , but never got around to discussing it in detail. In retracing my steps, I...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

Nothing

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Yeah, this is it for today: circumstances have conspired to reduce today's offering to an open thread.
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Getting Your Heart & Mind in Order (In That Order)

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Knowledge is dangerous; that is, it can always cut both ways, depending upon who has it and what they intend to do with it. For example, n...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The Last Honest Liberal vs. The Spiritual Lepers

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I'm starting to think Gruber is an angel sent by heaven on a divine mission: (Here's another good summary of his angelic work.) ...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

When Liberalism is in the Saddle, Lies are on the Move

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It is interesting that lying has been so much in the news, but this is inevitable when liberalism is in the saddle. To cite a timely aphori...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

The Spiritual Unthropology of the Left

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What kind of person concocts hysterical lies about President Bush lying about WMD, or about " torture ," and now casually lies abo...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

You Can Learn A Lot From a Political Sociopath

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About the authoritarian liberal bullshit machine (which is as close to perpetulant emotion as we'll ever get): Green writes that ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Two Roads Diverged in a Wood, and I Chose Authoritarian Liberal Bullshit Forever

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Liberal compassion lends itself to bullshit by subordinating the putative concern with efficacy to the dominant but unannounced imperative o...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Principle Wonks and Policy Wankers

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One irritating term that needs to be retired is "policy wonk." Have you noticed that everyone who is described as one just happens...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

You Shall Not Turn Theft Into Compassion

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So, we're out in the bewilderness with the unholy trinity of tempter, temptee, and temptation. It's a true mirror image of reality,...
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