Category: witness
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Time with William
William came over today just to hang out. We talked for a bit until I got a call from Danny. Stephanie told me to get off the phone and I did. I offered to put in a movie for William and me, but he wasn’t interested. We talked a little more and then he had…
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Infinity to Eternity
When you first learned about infinity you probably started with the idea that natural numbers are infinite and that given an eternity one could count forever. But that opens a whole bucket of philosophical slop. Most people I know believe that the universe had a beginning and that absolutely nothing existed in the eternal past.…
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Evening Hymns
I had already listened to my daily hymns when Ben asked for pills and soda simultaneously. As I’ve said here before he cannot have both at the same time. Caffeine and Benadryl tend to cancel each other out in his body. So I made him use expressive language to choose between the two. He wanted…
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My bed? Really it is.
Today I was sitting at my computer and Alex wanted to be near me so he crawled into my bed which is directly behind my computer chair. Alex can change his wet diapers but needs reminders to do so. He was wet, and so my bed is too. I guess I’m doing laundry tomorrow. I…
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The Poverty of Language
The map is not the territory. Words are a poor excuse for reality. Language is finite and arbitrary and yet the fact that I am communicating at all is a mystery. Each word means something a little different to me and each of you my faithful readers. You probably have a good idea what’s in…
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Alex is Functional
Alex had an assessment recently. He is doing more things on his own so he needs less help from me. It is good for him that he is becoming more functional. On the other hand my hours have been cut again. That is the nature of the beast. Ben is a much more difficult adult…
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God and my Wife
I gave a piece of advice to my oldest son Brandon today. His girlfriend wants him to be more holy. I agreed with her. But more importantly I think God agrees with her, so I told him if God and his girlfriend agree that he’d better pay attention. This theology has created a stable marriage…
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Bottlecaps
I just started a beer. I had an insignificant amount of trouble opening the bottle cap. It got me thinking of the video game Fallout. It’s a post-apocalyptic world where bottlecaps have become the primary currency. I don’t know how hard they are to make in this world but in the world of Fallout they…
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The Ritual
Ben and I have a ritual that comes with bedtime. He says “Diaper, Clothes, Pills, and Light Off,” and I put him to bed. Today he said “Diaper, Soda, Pills and Light Off” instead. I just won’t give him soda and pills at the same time. I gave him a choice between the two in…
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Worth and Worthiness
I don’t believe people are created equal, I think it is provably true that we don’t end up equal, and I don’t think we should try to reverse engineer equality. Some people are smarter than me, some people are more creative, some people are more generous, and some people have more influence. Those aren’t the…
Latter Day Sinner 