Best of Spirits
For intelligent debate on intelligent design.
Murder is a subset of killing.
The battle lines are clearly drawn.
A chance meeting of two perspectives on life's highway.
In order to imagine an alternative to your perception, you must admit to the possibility of perceptual confusion.
Subjects: problem solving, perception, awareness, pareidolia, self-control
Wait for the enemy to come to you or take the fight to the enemy?
Subjects: self-defense, war, sacrifice, Norway attacks, inspiration
Eras end. New ones begin. Space still beckons and humankind will answer the call.
Subjects: space exploration, NASA, astronauts, science, heroes
We cannot possibly be perfectly prepared for every possible contingency. But we can be ready.
There's nothing wrong with being corrected to what's right.
When I began pondering the question of determinism and free will, I found myself, philosophically and theologically, going back and forth.
Subjects: philosophy, theology, determinism, free will, omniscience, family, Calvin, Hobbes
Problems are sometimes simple. More often problems are compound and complex, and complicated.
Along with the physical weather damage there's been waves of what I've come to call "April madness," a seeming spike in random beat-downs, suicides, family murders, etc. Just my impression; I've not compiled statistics.
Subjects: weather, April madness, tornadoes, emotions, SAD, Waco massacre, Columbine High School massacre, Oklahoma City Bombing
Jerry respected science and had to reconcile its facts with his belief in the Bible's — including Genesis's — inerrancy.
Picking up the phantom hitchhiker.
The sheer poetry of it all is inarguable.
A degrees of separation thing
Subjects: degrees of separation, judge, Miracle on 34th Street, Eugene Lockhart, June Lockhart, Lassie, whistling, Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, Jonathan Winters, Natalie Wood
To be or to become... What was the question?
Subjects: Spirit, growth, meditation, service, balance, satisfaction
What leads you to believe judgments?
It goes wronger every day!
Be on guard against sinister forces at work in the world.
Sometimes you can't tell 'em apart
That we are and we ask makes us the revelation of the I Am That I Am
Must have infinite patience to put up with the mortal creatures of finity.