Category: Christianity
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Enlightenment As Epicureanism
But the key point at issue is the great gulf separating [the gods] from us, together with the apparent randomness of the world and the non-intervention of outside divine forces. Much of the claim to be new, ‘modern’, and indeed ‘scientific’, at the time and ever since, has thus been simply the attempted justification of…
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Neil Peart Interview
Interesting (but brief) interview with Neil Peart about Clockwork Angels and other topics. …I’m less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you’re guarded. Certainly there is a line that seems perfectly clear to me about what’s to be shared and what isn’t,…
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Pssst! You’re Mortal!
Supposedly, when a conquering general returned to Rome and was given a triumph to celebrate his victory, a slave would ride with him in the chariot, holding a wreath above his head but whispering in his ear “Remember you are a mortal.” Sometimes I feel that way after a sermon. A while ago, I went…
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New Newsboys CD
I was pleased to see the Newsboys have got a new CD coming out. It’s called Born Again and (“for a limited time”) it’s a bargain at $6.49. It’s actually a better bargain than that, because buying it now gives you a download of a pre-release EP. So go do that. I’ve been listening to…
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My Next Church, for sure!
Check out this video from one of the next generation of churches. It’s Contemporvant, which is the cool way of saying it has everything I’m looking for in my next church: “Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo. I showed this to the people in my Pastor’s Bible study today, and we…
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Windows 7 setup
Well, my laptop won’t be the only functioning computer at church any more. I got the secretary’s new computer set up today. It’s an Inspiron Desktop 570 MiniTower, and features: AMD Athlon II X2 240 (2.8GHz, 2MB) processor 640 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 4 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz (4…
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Linux to the Rescue (Again)
My secretary’s machine blue-screened a couple of days ago with a STOP 24 message, which tells you (or rather, doesn’t tell you) that either the disk or the filesystem is broken. Fortunately(!) we’d just gone through a couple of weeks restoring everything after a virus infestation, so there wasn’t much on it of value, except…
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Funny Videos
I really enjoyed the Catalyst (West) conference again this year. I’m too old and its target audience is younger, etc., but there it is: I still enjoyed it. One of the reasons I enjoyed it was Tripp and Tyler. When a series of speakers challenge everything you think you know about a series of important…
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Blue Screens
Man, I’m sick of Windows. The secretary’s machine at church got infected with something a couple of weeks ago. I was only able to get rid of it by reinstalling Windows. I got an antivirus solution set-up and spent, well, a couple of hours, but it seemed like a month, uninstalling all the crap-ware and…
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Child Sacrifice?
This makes me sick: Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming. (There was, incredibly, a survivor.)