November 2009
2 posts
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This is a test. Please don't reblog and make me...
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September 2009
3 posts
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April 2009
0 posts
Postmodernism, Biblical Interpretation,...
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(I’m pretty sure this is a reasonable amount to tackle in one post.) SDS posted a quote from Clarence Thomas, which included:
There are really only two ways to interpret the Constitution — try to discern as best we can what the framers intended or make it up
Hilker commented,
Insert “Bible” for “constitution” in Thomas’ quote.
This raises a few questions about appropriate authority...
March 2009
4 posts
Sarah Palin and the Feminists: What went Wrong
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Antifeminism, who (evidently) speaks with the royal we (presumably from nostalgia for a grander, more hierarchical era) has finally provided the long awaited explanation of feminism’s perceived ills. You can read it here—but the short version is that a lot of self-identified feminists said a lot of mean things about Sarah Palin. It concludes:
Why and when did feminism stop being...
We're Bad at Math
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In the smoking aftermath of the Robot Wars, we’ll look back and wonder why we couldn’t get along with our creations. Didn’t we program them to love us?
I think it will be because we’re bad at math. At least, we’re bad at the kind of math computers are good at. While we may not be irrational, we don’t always think in terms of precise numbers. If I set my coffee maker to make coffee at...
February 2009
3 posts
Lucifer and the Republicans*
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* Normally I don’t like comparing anybody to Lucifer, Prince of Lies. It seems to run afoul of Godwin’s Law (in spirit, if not in letter).
Dan realizes that by posting this, he loses. Dan posts it anyway. Dan loses.
Reading the Bible "Literally"
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Whether or not somebody reads the bible “literally” has become a litmus test for where somebody stands theologically. Both sides use it. I’m not sure either has thought about it. I don’t know anybody who reads the entire Bible wholly literally. The Psalms are stuffed full of figurative languages. Does the sun run around the earth in Ecclesiastes? Not literally—but that’s not the point...
The Best is not a Myth
jeffmiller:
If someone is worth $100,000,000 to a distressed company, we lose an awful lot of money if we let him go because we wouldn’t pay him more than $500,000 to stick around.
Has offering obscene amounts of money really ensured the best people have been hired? In retrospective, it seems that it only attracted the greediest people….
January 2009
2 posts
I vacuumed. Kirana was a little bit nervous, but she saw me smiling, so she smiled too.
Hello world!
