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Sometime I am just sitting there being myself. She turns to me and says "I love you." The amazing thing is I am just being myself!
Thank you for letting me be your man.
We forget it's summer. We forget it's winter.
On top of the dead, there floats a head.
Math is an SAT test.
She takes care of you needs. But not your need for taking care of your needs all the time.
If we did not have news, what would we have?
Many time reasons are given for things that are decided ion non-reasonable grounds.
The commandments against covetousness can be taken more profoundly as a warning against resentment.
Even if you knew everything about religion, and recognized the value of each, you would still have to participate and commit — like sex, like marriage.
I like the thinkers who realize we cannot understand the nature language. So when they will they stop talking about it?
There are two kinds of unconscious (id) "thoughts": smart-id and stup-id.
Texting is one more way to keep the world small — and preoccupied.
Of course you don't know what to say to your own kid. You don't know what to say to your own dog!
The problem of imaging the future is that our imagination is so limited. It only depicts one or two things at a time.
We can only understand the world in terms of metaphors, and we only have a few metaphors at a time.
In academics unlike theology, we can talk about places the Bible was mistaken.
You replace the facts with pictures of facts, and the pictures of facts may not be true.
Music is hypnotism: it shuts out the rest of the world. (Studying the world in detail is also hypnotism.)
I like classical and you like country. I like French cuisine and you like mac 'n cheese. We could coexist in a situation of mutual respect (but that is hardly ever the case).
Where is the balance between a life of fantasy and a life of realism?
Rap is opposite of blues. In the blues is I got nothing. In rap is I got bling, and women. In your face!
We need a revolution. We are probably decades away from it. We still think we cannot live without our financial overlords, or the thrum of business as usual.
Statistics cannot be seen, only gathered. They can also be gathered inappropriately, and misapplied.
Teachers not need to read the novel they are now teaching, any more than students. Why would they? Everything they need is on-line. (Teachers have not even taken the on-line test.
We look at high-performing schools (or people, or families), and we think: these results are reproducible. They almost never are. People are not molecules.
Emotion is clarity. We need clarity and direction; we need simplifications.
There were times there were good things and bad things in the world. (Though the shamans could reconciled it and go into face of fear.)
Sorry I have not posted recently. I have been busy with school staring back up, and marriage. I am living with Linda much more and loving it much more than a few fears permitted me to believe.
We play house: clean house / dirty house.
Linda found a sock in the laundry I recognized as mine. It too was united to its sole-mate.
Someday we will look back on this time when we were sitting here in our bed, pricing books and being completely happy — if we have time,
On Tuesday I got a case of Bells Palsy which is a temporary , or Paralysis, or as I now call it, Phharallishshishsh.
The doctor did some peripheral work and will let nature take its course. Nature, like the medical profession is slow, taking two weeks to six months. (that's now "Monphhhs")
Bells Palsy is not a disease where you get a lot of respect. Were it cancer, everyone would be respectful and muttering soft condolences. This one is just funny, like a big zit on my nose. The pharmacist laughed at me.
"I am not wearing any underwear," sounds different when said by men.
BTW I am not wearing any underwear — beneath my underwear.
If you are going to click your shoes, make sure you are turn worthy.
Why no laptops in church?
Let's see if you accept your brother, and not just engaging in a conditional acceptance more like checking up
From the New Hymnal: Two plus two is five
There is no faith with doubt. There is no belief without doubt.
Is anyone else here also on a spiritual path of skepticism and doubts?
I want to be uncomfortable to learn what I need to deal with.
In our secular society, we secularize aspects of religion.
We like texting and driving. It is challenging, without that social opprobrium of drinking and driving.
Texting: shows us we can talk and do pretty much everything else
It is now 2012. Whenever I go out I see people checking their cell-phones. Constant and universal, cutting across the age-groups. What is going on? What are the consequences? These are questions that are never asked, or answered. In that texting is like television, cell-phones, the Internet, in our lifetime and movies and books generations ago: social features adopted by the public without any subsequent awareness of their impact on society.
What did people do before they checked their text messages?
How can this be? I am not sure we can even answer that question. Texting is permissible because it stands outside the purvey of traditional moral rules, it is encouraged by acceptable businesses that stand to benefit from this, it is hip and it serves a number of deep needs. I am not sure we can articulate needs.
Every Taliban terrorist killed in Pakistan with drones. Is it morally right to bomb a building to kill one person?
What is Christian morality? What is it to follow the ways of God?
The physiological basis of being moral is not rational.
Same as a correct moral decision, a cultural decision and a personal taboo.
A book that explains everything explains the things we can't explain and the things we do not know.
We are in some strange way not aware of our desires. They seem perfectly natural.
I await the SuperSurveillance Society™ where I can find out who everyone who is who us reading Thomas Mann's Blood of the Walsungen at the present time.
It is an important part of reading an actual book that you do not know completely what is happening and that YOU have to figure it out.
After a while, you think you might be good only because of the surveillance cameras. You forget people were good anyway. The same is true of a police presence. After a while we fear all unrestrained contact...
Kids don't know you are fat, overweight, or old, but almost all older people do. And it is a status thing.
Ethical problems are differences between people.
What do we want when we want to be good?
Places of peace and MYOB threatened by the war-lords. The Lord of War.
"The term 'dark energy' is a placeholder for something we are trying to understand" - Perlmutter
Clichés set to music, are still clichés.
my mind is so fast. I calculate the effect of my actions on so many levels... and I want to be free from that.
Intolerance encourages hypocrisy. You do so not want to be yourself.
Can you increase your capacity for happiness? Or is that just being stuck in the wrong metaphor?
You cannot determine retention in an on-line class. Can provide an "answer" a question as in provide the correct answer without knowing what you have said. Like handing someone a book. Can "read" a book without actually reading a book. Answer the questions you would get from the book.
How test if you can understand a poem, a novel.
What you can't test in an on-line class is their comprehension. But traditionally comprehension is a core part of intelligence.
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