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Where Are All The Gods
I’ve been listening to Holding Out For A Hero and feeling sorry for myself. I’m not a god, or streetwise, or a knight in shining armor, or fresh for the fight, or even larger than life. Sometimes I’d like to be the first one and sometimes the last one, but I’m getting old for combat.…
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The Law is Dead
The idea that we are not saved by the law is a pretty typically Christian one. The Law of Moses is dead. The extension of that is that we are alive in Christ. But I don’t think that only in Christ can we be alive. I think that a Jew who follows the spirit of…
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Following Directions
I learn best by doing things wrong and realizing that I have done them wrong later. Then I do something different and hopefully less wrong. I repeat the process by hopefully again continuing to be incrementally less wrong as I continue to go. This is time consuming and not always productive, but when I have…
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What’s Left Undone?
I am thinking about sins of omission at the moment. There is a world of things I could be doing that I am not. Instead of blogging I could be working to end hunger and homelessness in my city. I could be studying to learn how to cure cancer or building something that will make…
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Losing My Phone
I dreamed I lost my cell phone again, that the person who took it from me also dismantled it, and that I had to reassemble it when I finally got it back. I have a sense that my phone isn’t really mine and my subconscious agrees. Granted it’s only been actually stolen once and I…
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Asking the Government
The USA is conducting the largest mass deportations in the country’s history. Children of illegal immigrants are being rounded up to be sent back “home.” Home is in quotes because many of them have never lived anywhere but the USA. And yet they are here illegally. There’s a political principle I picked up over the…
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Rough Month
Today has been difficult. This month has been difficult. There’s a joke that January is the free trial month. I would like to cancel my subscription to 2025.
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Them Golden Plates
So obviously the stories of the Book of Mormon coming from golden plates are intended to be taken literally. Joseph Smith Jr believed he had physical golden plates even if the stories about the actual translation of the Book of Mormon don’t seem to use them. I reconciled to Smith dictating it with his head…
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Reimagining Eden
“Eve fell that women might be, and women are that they might have joy” (not quite Nephi). Stephanie is watching a show where the devil is the protagonist. She wanted me to know that. I have long seen Lucifer as an antihero at worst. The above quote was about Adam and men before I lifted…
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What is Propaganda?
Stephanie and I have been arguing about what constitutes propaganda. She studied it in her Master’s Degree program but came to the conclusion that virtually all media is propaganda. I find that a very unsatisfying conclusion. If almost everything is propaganda then almost nothing is. It reminds me of climate science. People spend decades studying…
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