Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Entertainment, life on Jul 22nd, 2008
No. 1
Song: “I Am a Promise” (by Bill and Gloria Gaither? See also here)
From: Sunday School
“I am a promise / I am a possibility / I am a promise / With a capital P / I am a great big bundle of / potentiality . . . .”
(Full Lyrics)
Comment:
I found myself inexplicably singing this again, [...]
Posted in Philosophy, life on Jul 22nd, 2008
Due to some adventures The Wife and I have had over the past couple days, I am once again reminded that I shouldn’t be so worried about “determinism” whenever I hear some person or other compare the human brain with a computer.
If you’ve ever dealt with computers (which you have, or else you wouldn’t be [...]
Posted in Entertainment, life on Jul 14th, 2008
Is “Brick,” by Ben Folds Five, the saddest song ever?
That’s a question I’ve been pondering for a long time.
Mr. Stevens claims voting — at least as things are now — is irrational. And it’s hard not to agree, even if you don’t want to.
But all a decision’s being “irrational” means — sometimes — is that you can’t blame it on logic, and therefore you [...]
Argh
One of The Wife’s jobs has her working with babies. So every day she comes home from that job (it’s not a Mon-thru-Fri deal), I get to hear about all the cuteness.
We love babies. A lot. We go to church on Sundays so we can baby watch. They’re so cute!
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And one of these days I’m [...]
Hate
Phones
So much
Posted in Entertainment, life, politics on Jun 29th, 2008
So, The Wife had TMZ (the TV version) on for a few minutes. (Have I ever written here about why humans like celebrities? Ah, yes, I did. Here.)
They were making fun of Catherine Heigl for saying she was going to quit smoking for New Years, then not actually quitting, and then claiming it hadn’t been [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, life, politics, religion on Jun 26th, 2008
I have a new theory about theories. It’s a development of my theory about people. And it uses fun words.
I promised earlier that I’d have something more helpful to say about the different reading recommendations you’d get from conservative and progressives Christians. So I’ll do that in this post.
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Part 1 (of 4)
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Posted in Culture, Philosophy, life, politics on Jun 26th, 2008
“Can the Candidates Answer Politics’ Most Important Question?” at The Free Liberal
“‘Acts of God’ in the US” at Sight Magazine
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