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Happy Birthday Katherine!
My youngest daughter turns two today. Hear her sing “Happy Birthday!”: Related: If We Had Known Our Daughter’s Hair Was Going to Look Like This … The Reaction of My Daughters to Jim West’s Recent Lambasting of Dora
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Be Nice or Leave
Here’s a sign at the place I’m having some work done on our vehicle. If you can’t see it very well it says “BE NICE OR LEAVE”:
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Black and Gold Kindergarten
Black and Gold Day at my Kindergartener’s school … Well, for everybody in Louisiana really …
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Kudos to Apple Customer Service
Short story … Well, my iPhone went on the blink last night. So, I took it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store. The “genius” plugged it in one time to try to restore it. Didn’t work. He handed me a brand new iPhone. Signed a paper and I was gone. Nice. Related: Cool…
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Roman Catholic Understanding of Faith (QOD)
Here is a quote of the day from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is in response to the question of how Roman Catholics define faith, which I get from time to time: Faith is a personal act – the free response of the human person to the initiative of God who reveals himself.…
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Apparently a Complete Idiot Can Write a "Complete Idiot's Guide"
Don’t believe me? Just watch for yourself: Related: Barack Obama is not the Antichrist … I am Why Bible Codes are Ridiculous
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"Where do bad folks go when they die?" …
Well, here’s a positively medieval view of hell in (semi) modern song (it’s sad when the stuff you listened to in high school will soon be what is termed “classic rock”): Related: “I Believe” (i.e. Saints are going to the SuperBowl) – Cowboy Mouth U2 “40” – The Absolute BEST Modern Version of a Psalm…
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War in the Bible & Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century Review
My friend Karyn has written a very thorough review of the book War in the Bible and Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. It is in three parts here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Violence in scripture is a topic that preoccupies my mind a great deal as I am sure that it does…
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Game Theorist Interpretation of Genesis 2
I’ve been reading The Art of Strategy by Dixit and Nalebuff mainly because I have a side interest in Game Theory. I just think it’s fascinating, especially some of the examples from the field of study. Anyway, I’m reading along and then they discuss in a very short manner Genesis 2. The context is a…
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"A God about whose existence or non-existence you can argue …" (QOD)
Here’s a quote of the day from Paul Tillich from his Theology of Culture: A God about whose existence or non-existence you can argue is a thing beside others within the universe of existing things. And the question is quite justified whether such a thing does exist, and the answer is equally justified that it…