Happy anniversary to my dear wife!
Don't give in to the crazy today.
When's the last time you really thought deeply about something? What did you think about?
What single law, regulation, or government structure would you change to make your home country/state more humane?
"Something changed, and I don't like it."
What would have to happen for you to say this?
"[It is an] absurd fancy that these modern philosophies are modern in the sense that the great men of the past did not think of them. They thought of them; only they did not think much of them. " -G. K. Chesterton
"Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best. ... From the moral point of view it is very difficult! I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. I am certain there must be a patent American article on the market which will suit you far better, but I can't give any advice on it." -C. S. Lewis, "Answers to Questions on Christianity"
If you're looking for religion to make you happy, Christianity isn't the one for you. If you're looking for a religion that makes you better, that answers big questions, Christianity is a pretty good option.
What is God's biggest problem?
"...since [contact w/ God] cannot be avoided... & means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it." -C. S. Lewis, "Dogma and the Universe"
"When anyone comes into the presence of God he will find... that all those things which seemed to make him so different from men of other times, or even his earlier self, have fallen off." -C. S. Lewis, "Dogma and the Universe"
the hands of a sturgeon
@freemo Just Vermont and Hawaii, and maybe Rhode Island.
“It was never possible to oppose seriously the dogma of the Creation except by maintaining that the world has existed from all eternity in more or less its present state.” -Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, 1942
@freeschool You're welcome! :-)
…to think & act in the natural world we have to assume something beyond it…. In order to think we must claim for our own reasoning a validity which is not credible if thought is a function of brain, & brains a byproduct of irrational physical processes.” -C .S. Lewis
I hope you can count on one hand (or less) how many fingers you blew off with firecrackers on Independence Day.
Being in favor of human life has difficult implications for criminal justice, war, health care, environmentalism, and economics.
If you've ever thought, "Boy, these Old Testament laws are pretty weird," read the book "Is God a Moral Monster?" by Paul Copan. I'm about halfway through, and really enjoying the analysis and commentary.
We all long for something better, the ideal world, a return to Eden.
The anticipation as people waited for the pope's decree was papal-bull.
Joined Nov 2022
