Archive for the ‘life’ Category
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
More cross-pasting™ I'm sad to say. The debate at TRA's Sept. 12 question of the day snarls on, and after a few days absence I jumped back into the fray...
I'm trying to figure out what all this dogma means. Several times in the comments above, various commentors have ...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2005
At eight days since I last posted to this blog, I'm ready to shamelessly cross-paste™ my own comment on The Raving Atheist's Question of the Day (see his right-hand sidebar, or just click here).
If I must find or create or assert meaning in my life for myself, then by definition ...
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
Dawn Patrol guest blogger The Raving Atheist wrote in a guest post at the DP:
The most frustrating thing for an atheist is to debate a believer who refuses to answer the question, "What is God?" It's the threshold issue in any theological argument. The discussion can't get started unless the ...
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Please pray for the victims of the winds, floods and looters down in Louisiana and Mississippi today. If you wish to help, consider a donation to a trustworthy charity such as The Salvation Army. If you are a blogger, you can participate by writing about it, and by ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
I'm reading a book called The Power of Full Engagement. I hate these books designed to make executives more effective, with all their catch-phrases like "corporate athelete" and "organizational energy." But this is still a pretty good book; the authors posit that humans were meant to have cycles ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Can you smell what the rakhi's cooking?
This is the rakhi my youngest sister gave me today, on her birthday. It is a traditional Indian thread which sisters give as a gift to their brothers on the holiday called Raksha Bandhan. But as she explains, this gift has strings ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
I don't know if it was the chocolate beet cake, the two beers, sibling rivalry, or destiny, but I lost. Texas Hold 'em: the name has good advice built right into it, wisdom for the ages which I could have used. One minute I'm play-acting "bad-hand-Luke" with a ...
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Sunday, August 7th, 2005
Two twenty-something men and a twenty-something woman sat at a table talking about subjects which ranged as far as childbirth. At one point the most exuberant of the young men said, with obvious excitement in his voice, "Someday we'll all be, like, vice presidents and we'll sit around and ...
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
"You and me are floating on a tidal wave." --Coldplay, X&Y
I was four going on five the day I rushed into the house and excitedly gushed, "Daddy is building a playroom for my sister and..."--here I paused every so briefly, trying to remember the appropriate grammar rule--"and I," I finished.
Those ...
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
My son's computer is complete except for the operating system, mouse and mousepad.
I was pleased this evening as I finalized the assembly of my son's new computer. And I just couldn't get over that lovely beige microATX case which I purchased online about four years ago for six bucks.
"Six ...
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