Recent Entries

• Storm

  May 14, 2008

  I wish I had brought my camera with me this morning. There was (apparently) a big storm in the campus area last night with lots of wind and heavy rain, and perhaps even hail. On the bus ride to school, signs were cockeyed and leaves and small branches were everywhere on the ground. When I…

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• Request

  May 12, 2008

  Please, stop describing Christian "stuff", like books, music, worship services, and whole churches, using the adjective "authentic." The word has ceased to mean what it once did, and has been hijacked to mean something like the following: au·then·tic, adj Sappy Overwrought Slightly but not overly...

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• Larry Norman

  May 8, 2008

  It's been ages since I last posted anything. That's not entirely true. I wrote an entry about a book I've been reading called Christianity and Liberalism, written by J. Gresham Machen. I recommend it. The entry started to get a little out of hand, so I set it to private. I discovered Larry Norman...

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• Orientated

  March 30, 2008

  I'm in our nation's capitol (roughly speaking) attending an orientation for my Korea trip this summer. It's been surprisingly interesting and informative. Another nice thing is that I got to meet foolishathena in person. She ran into some (a lot of, really) trouble finding the hotel, partially be...

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• Fairieology

  March 25, 2008

  I went to hear Richard Dawkins speak last week. I was a little underwhelmed. As I think I've reported to several of you already, I was surprised by how polite and by how superficial he was. (Politeness here is a relative thing. He made plenty of barbed comments about religion and religious people...

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• Is Our Happiness Preordained?

  March 16, 2008

  I read this article about happiness a few days ago. I'm afraid it might be true. I'm largely an unhappy person. I don't mean that I'm sad all the time. I spend most of my time in neutral territory, and that seems to be what I prefer. I was walking about a month ago in…

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• Synonyms

  March 10, 2008

  When asked a question within their area of expertise, 99% of the time, the idiot savant graduate student will answer correctly. Outside their area of specialty, they are idiots. They cannot perform the most basic functions of life without help and are generally institutionalized.

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• That Hideous Strength

  February 26, 2008

  "I mean that there is a half-hearted attempt to adopt an attitude towards irrational creatures which cannot be consistently maintained. And I'll do the justice to say that you've never tried. The bear is kept in the house and given apples and golden syrup till it's near bursting --" "Well, I like...

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• 2/20/08

  February 19, 2008

  I got this clip from a blog I read, The Thinking Christian. (A personal reference for TheGoat.. The guy who writes it, Tom Gilson, is friends with Rob Koons. He mentioned him in a blog post a few weeks back, and I left a comment about it. He emailed me and said that he had…

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