Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
Friday, June 11th, 2010
This blog has been largely dormant since the beginning of the year. Lately I have been rethinking my approach to the Internet and technology as a whole, and finding it to be more and more just a giant waste of time in many ways. Not to say blogging ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
R.C. Sproul Jr. wrote a recent piece regarding how philosophies have infiltrated our thinking and their relation to Christian faith. Here are some noteworthy excerpts:
“We, His creatures, are willing to submit only to those standards that we have first accepted. This concept came to us in America through the ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
(I meant to post this awhile back, but only just now got around to posting it.)
Since when, really, did everything become the government's job? When I was growing up I don't remember the government having to be responsible for this magnitude of our every day lives. Sure I ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
The copy of USA Today that came out the day after the election read, “Just The Feeling Of Being There,” in reference to Obama’s final victory lap speech after he had won. Feeling. It is an odd thing to watch one's society slip further and further from any ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
I read the updated version of Steven Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" several months ago. For those of you unfamiliar: "A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and superstring theory, to the nonspecialist ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Note: I originally published this as a whole, but decided this morning to make it a series, so I have stripped out some of the content for length.
“We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
I, among a vast majority of Americans, have become rather disgusted with both major political parties. Their ever growing desire for more power and more money is really the root of this country's current financial difficulties. Most of the problems have not been caused by errors in the ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
"When Thomas Jefferson selected the phrase "the pursuit of happiness" to describe one of the unalienable rights of man, he was appropriating an idea with a very long history. Since the time of Aristotle and before, happiness was understood as a condition to which all people properly aspire. ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Honestly, I don't know what to think of this. I think my first reaction is confusion. Unless I am mistaken, I thought American culture was frowned upon by the Muslim world. Then why is it that they are building this behemoth destination of American entertainment. I ...
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