Author: Tim
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The Disingenuous Voice Of Political Activists
Political activists are regularly outraged when their opponents mistreat them. Well, I’m shocked that they are shocked. They must not understand their own axioms. But let me back up and lay the groundwork by describing those things that seem obvious to me about political activity, and the personality type of the activist. Politics is the…
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Rival Versions of History
It all depends on how you connect the dots in history. Left history is a story of more and more money taken from the robber barons and returned to its rightful owners, the masses. Right history is a story of the gradual escape of the individual from the tyranny of the state. You tell me:…
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Matthew 13: Divine unDesign
Jesus says the kingdom is like a field where the farmer planted grain, but his enemies planted weeds. When the busybody farm hands asked to uproot the weeds, the farmer said “no, you’ll just kill the crop.” The field is the world. So Jesus is telling us, again, that God intentionally lets the world appear…
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“Although You End Up Becoming Yourself…A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”.
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. When maturity is defined by a highly individualistic culture, your very development progressively disconnects you from tradition or community. So for the modern artist, the more you find your own voice the more alone you are. Many writers never quite…
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Matthew 5:45: God avoids the appearance of design
“…so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.” So God’s indiscriminate love makes it look like there is no moral actor behind natural law.
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Conversation: Liturgy as Form, Toward Ecstasy
[Preliminary notes] To choose the random is the point of the post-modern, and is essence of the demonic. Chosen un-relation is the world that Adam created when he hid his ass behind the bush, choosing a place un-related to God. People cannot touch each other without structures, and un-relatedness is death. The mood…
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The First Object of Government: Thwart the Majority’s Theft
From Power Line: Given that poorer citizens always outnumber the rich, the classic political philosophers held that government based on majority rule was untenable. They were of the view that it would lead to organized theft from the wealthy by the democratic masses. Thus Aristotle warned in The Politics, for example: “If the majority distributes…
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The Two Operations Of The Intellect
‘There ’s a traditional distinction between the synthetic and analytic operations of the intellect: the synthetic operation builds parts into wholes, while the analytic operation breaks wholes into parts. The distinction seems to have lost its usefulness among moderns, as thought becomes an unclarified mess of mush. And reductionism results from this amnesia, as we…
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On Biblical Gender Roles, Experience Filters Theology
This is just my observation from life… the more responsible and caring a woman’s husband is, the more likely she will read the NT submission passages literally. The more passive or mean or noncommunicative her husband is, the less she will be able to comfortably imagine that God really made gender as a functional heirarchy.…