Category: witness
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Opiate of the Masses
More than a hundred years ago Karl Marx famously said that “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” The world has moved on and people at least here in the United States can choose their religion or no religion at all. And yet we are still being sedated as a country and as a society.…
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The Greatest Myth of the Scientific Mind
Sometimes I doubt that there are gods or a God. The best arguments for the divine are largely unfalsifiable. Did Jesus miraculously rise from the dead? I don’t care if you believe he did or not but I hope you will see that to prove it one way or the other we would have to…
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Fancy Ideas
One of the challenges with a blog is to write something new and interesting every day. This would be a little easier if I was just writing fiction. If for instance I were to say: The hairy plaid monster took the man as his wife. That is probably new. It might even be interesting. But…
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No, sorry, I can’t prove it to you on the internet
Discussions and debates online often end with someone demanding I prove a point to them. That demand is absolutely worthless to me and I have found time and time again that it is pointless to try. No matter what I say to such a person they will just dig their heels in deeper. That inevitably…
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Believing in Leprechauns
There are some very well meaning people that don’t believe in leprechauns. They are adamant that modern science precludes the existence of them along with fairies and vampires and dragons. Many go on to insist that since it is irrational to believe in these sorts of creatures that I should be forced to admit that…
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Me and the Cats
Everyone is out of the house. I’ve done all my daily habits. I’m just listening to one of the cats meow and scratch the wall in the kitchen. There’s a little ambient house noise in the background. A ceiling fan overhead and the furnace below. But I can take a moment to listen to my…
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Infused
I am artificially infused with happiness. But it leaves me in a good mood most of the rest of the time. I’m on a cocktail of prescription and self medications without any alcohol or nicotine. I sometimes feel like I’m just going to drift away and God is going to call me home. That seems…
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This blog is a mandala
This blog is a mandala. Beautiful for the few moments I am writing in it, then drown in the internet to be truly lost.
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Supreme Guidance
I am still slowly working my way through Chuang Tzu. Sometimes I am truly moved by the idea of The Tao. Sometimes I think that it is analogous to the Holy Spirit. But in that thought experiment only the Tao and the Holy Spirit exist. It seems at times like this that there is guidance…
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The Virtue of Uselessness
It has been another good day. I have not been getting as much sleep as I like. But I have remained as productive as a usually am. I have been shifting back and forth between artificial D&D and the works of Chuang Tzu. He is among the wisest philosophers that have ever lived. He spent…
Latter Day Sinner 