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Discovering The Watchmaker
My sense of the supernatural is a personal one. I think that to have a testimony of anything at all one must rely on a sort of private gnosis. Even people who aim to be hyper logical have to base their logic on some axioms that seem fitting. That choice of axioms goes back to…
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Hard Dirty Jobs
What’s a job you would like to do for just one day? I’m probably kind of old to be an oil rigger, or a deep sea fisherman, or a lumberjack. Even in my prime I don’t imagine I could have done any of those jobs very well. I’m just not that tough. But if I…
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Directions in Morrowind
My son shared a video with me that joked if people get Alzheimer’s they will be able to play Skyrim again for the first time. My favorite Elder Scrolls game is Morrowind and I told him that I couldn’t play it if I got Alzheimer’s. He asked me why and this was my response. Directions…
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My Vote
Do you vote in political elections? I don’t by and large believe that my political votes make much of a difference. I have almost entirely given up voting strategically when I vote at all. And where I am in the world a symbolic vote while personally meaningful doesn’t change much. I counterbalance this with a…
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Eternal Progression
I have a sense that every day I can improve and that the struggle to improve is worth it. This very often makes me a contrarian. The struggle is real and swimming upstream (as you will) seems more valuable in improvement because it is more difficult. To some degree this is true because fighting the…
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Priesthood Quote
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “41 No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; 42 By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul…
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Lilac Bush
Today is a beautiful day here in South Central Wisconsin. The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. And our lilac bush is in full bloom. It looks pink to me. Everyone assures me that lilac is a shade of purple. I often ask the question “How does it feel to be wrong?” The world…
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Inauguration Day
What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite? Once every four years the nation takes the whole day off. I look forward to that one in particular because there is virtually no commercialism about it historically. There is that one former president who was selling red hats on inauguration day, but that is…
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Latter Day Sinner 