You should never read something that starts your intellectual juices after midnight; it will probably prevent you from getting very much sleep as the thoughts race back and forth across your mental topography, pushing sleep further and further from its necessary threshold. I made the mistake of looking in on the John Eldredge – An…
Category: Philosophy
Christianity, Conflict and War, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Religion
The War On Terror: A Perspective From Faith
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If you are a Christian who believes in the Great Commission and takes your faith seriously, then you should be aware of the recent argument made by the author of Belmont Club, Matt Wretchard (he calls himself Wretchard The Cat), in the article What If We Win? The Belmont Club is one of the most, if…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Personal, Philosophy
Happiness
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Sunday usually gets me thinking about abstract things, such as what I have been thinking about today, happiness. John Steward Mill in arguing for a Utilitarian ethic said that the highest normative principal was Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Personal, Philosophy
Fridays
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Fridays. The world in which we live views Friday with its own acronym, TGIF (Thank God [or goodness] its Friday), since the general view is that work is something we can’t wait to get away from so we can be at our real life, which is the pursuit of pleasurable experiences. We have all sorts…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Philosophy
Habits
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”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle was on to something there. I think I now understand those relentless drills we did in Catholic school to learn things like the common prepositions or basic arithmetic formulas. To this day I remember how to find the volume…
Culture & Social Issues, Personal, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Dreams
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One reason I watched the Democratic National Convention last week, even though I am not a Democrat, is that I wanted to see who from the African-American community would speak, especially in prime time slots, and what message they would present. I also wanted to see if there were any rising stars in the party…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Personal, Philosophy
Retrosexuals ‘R Us
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The emergence of the metrosexual as the leading character trait for males at the Democratic National Convention has lead to a resurgance of a counter movement called retrosexuals. Numerous bloggers are jumping on the bandwagon. Columnist Mark Steyn discusses the problem indirectly while deriding metrosexuals or “girlie men” and Michelle Malkin comes down on the…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Philosophy, Politics and Government
TRUTH
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It is an election year and almost every point of intellectual contact I have has something to say about it. One of the overwhelming voices has been coming from the Democratic and liberal side and it echoes over and over the same refrain, “Bush Lied.” The dialog around this issue was marvelously encapsulated in O’Reilly’s…
Personal, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Having It All
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For the first time in human history, it is possible for almost anyone (with the limited caveat of starting with reasonably good health) to have it all. If you decide to live near a major metropolitan area, technology and its offshoots and byproducts have created the ability for you to have almost anything you want,…
Christianity, Personal, Philosophy
Time, Value Judgments, and Our Chosen Path
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Whether we realize it or not, we make value judgments on the various aspects and activities of our life by the time we dedicate to them. There is an old aphorism that says, “Put your money where your mouth is” which basically argues that if you are willing to put resources into something that demonstrates…