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Suicide is Painless? Albert Camus’s First Problem of Philosophy—and the Southern Novelist Walker Percy’s Answer to It
Is the game worth the candle—or not? And if life is worth living, why aren’t you doing it? I like this reflection on suicide in Walker Percy’s brilliant Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self Help Book (Pocket Books 1984, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, cosmos, death, existentialism, life, literature, lost in the cosmos, philosophy, psychology, religion, suicide, walker percy
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Is the Bible an Anthology—or a Unity?
F.F. Bruce, a biblical scholar rather better known in the 1960s than he is today, once said this: [T]he Bible is not an anthology; there is a unity which binds the whole together. Bruce, as an “old school” conservative scholar, has long been … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, contradictions in the bible, ff bruce, inerrancy, James Dobson, Jesus, John Macarthur, New Testament, religion
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Big NY Times Science Story TODAY: 1.5 Million Year Old Proto-Human Footprints Discovered in Kenya
Can we put the inanities of young earth creationism to bed now? And can we finally just admit the obvious—that, yes, we descended from ape-like ancestors? The NY Times reports today that, in Kenya over the past three years, proto-human footprints (almost certainly … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, apologetics, Charles Darwin, creationism, evolution, Genesis, homo erectus, humans, Jesus, planet of the apes, science, the Bible
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Jesus of Nazareth, Republican?
Hey, you “Christian” Republicans out there! Jesus was a liberal. That’s right. Jesus said to sell all you have and give it to the poor, and he said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye … Continue reading
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Tagged al franken, Christianity, gospel of Luke, gospels, Jesus, Politics, religion, Republican party, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the poor, true religion
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John Cleese of Monty Python on Twittering
John Cleese deconstructs “twittering” in ten short seconds here.
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Tagged books, communications, inanity, john cleese, media, monty python, technology, twitter, twittering
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Mid-Day Caffeine Substitute
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Tagged dance, energy, life, mental health break, music, republica
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35 Years Ago (in 1974)
. The groovy-guy dancing, horns, and duds put me in mind of this late medieval Italian painting at the Getty Museum in Westwood:
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Tagged 1970s, 70s, clothes, dancing, Getty Museum, life, love, music, westwood
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Weird Fact for the Day: Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana (and Serious Rush Limbaugh Dittohead) WAS A COLLEGE EXORCIST!
So says TPM Online. Money quote: As others noted during his 2003 and 2007 gubernatorial campaigns (see update), in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story … Continue reading
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Tagged bobby jindal, college exorcist, demonology, demons, exorcism, faith healing, philosophy, Politics, religion, rush limbaugh
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Talk Radio and the Louisiana Exorcist: Beloved Leader of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, HEARTS Exorcist Bobby Jindal—and Exorcist Bobby Jindall HEARTS Rush Limbaugh, Too
The love affair between Rush Limbaugh and exorcist Bobby Jindal is getting intense. Exorcist Jindal seems to have a serious crush on El Rushbo: In an interview with Limbaugh in 2007, Jindal gushed that he reads Limbaugh’s books and that he is … Continue reading
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Tagged bobby jindal, dittohead, exorcism, love, Politics, psychology, religion, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the exorcist
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“I’m Still Falling”: A Russian Joke and the Global Economy
There is a Russian joke that I like, and that bears upon the global economy. It goes like this: Ivan sees his friend, Dmitri, fall into an old well. Ivan runs up to the rim of the well and calls down, “Oh my God, … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, economics, economy, Great Depression 2.0, humor, wall street
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Prometheus Unbound 