Tag: agency
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The “i” in Christ
Someone farther back than anyone has done my genealogy literally took on the name of Christ for the family. That decision many centuries ago has a pernicious effect on me. I am certainly a Crist but that doesn’t make me a Christian. The “i” in Christ gives me delusions of grandeur. I am the Mark…
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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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A Will of its Own
How much agency did the One Ring in Lord of the Rings have? Did it want to be returned to Mount Doom? It was ultimately a slave of Sauron, and the magic in it might have sought release from that bondage. The One Ring ruled the other rings but was itself ruled. It was a…
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The Choice
450 am CT. I just woke up from a dream where I was arguing with my wife. It was the argument that I’ve had in a thousand forms with a hundred people. I argued that the choice between good and evil was more important than the choice to be good. She (and so many others)…
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Inspiring
It made it to Sacrament Meeting today. The brother who drives me also picked up a Spanish speaking family. I was able to understand about a third of the words in the conversation to church. Sacrament Meeting was pretty bland. A member of the stake high council and his daughter spoke. Both talked about how…
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