Vox thinks outside the “box” here and irritates people with his good question. Basically he posits that God is not omniscient in the sense that we have always thought of him as being, which is a hard concept for people to grasp if they want Him to be. It boils down [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Que tu pensar?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Strange and tasty things I have eaten..
Posted in More About Me on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Smoked eel. Smoked venison. Boar meat, which I got from a friend and cooked with potatoes. Whale meat, in Iceland. Ethiopian food. Alligator sausage. Roe of fresh water fish. True caviar (can’t say I like it) … A small — really! – glass of coconut moonshine. I turned down a chance at fried spiders once. [...]
Eidetic memory
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t have this phenomena, but sometimes I can nearly approximate it if I am emotionally engaged enough and have no subliminal blocks.
Here is this interesting link about using poetry to aid the memory.
This may be why classics like Pushkin’s verse and Shakespeare come so readily to people’s minds. Perhaps there is [...]
Doing a Martha
Posted in Commentary on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I contemplate that lots of churchy activity can be in fact bad for a marriage. What’s the message of the NT? It’s about being conformed to His will (in the particulars of what to do and the generalities as well) and image. If you [...]
The “bubble”..
Posted in Commentary on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Coughlin is speaking the truth, and speaking my language, when he says this:
Christian culture is prone toward “bubble living,” isolating (or thinking we’re isolating) ourselves from danger when sometimes what we’re really doing is trying to immunize against living real life.
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