Friday, July 30, 2010

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Lest it should be possible that any unchildlike soul might, in arrogance and ignorance, think to stand upon his rights against God, and d...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Friday, July 16, 2010

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

the wager

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In 1968, Paul Ehrlich was the author of a popular book, The Population Bomb, which argued that mankind was facing a demographic catastrophe ...
Monday, July 12, 2010

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Generations yet unborn will dwell with peculiar delight upon the scenes that we have passed through, the privations that we have endured; th...
Friday, July 2, 2010

tell me a story

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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon fo...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

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When you are on the board of a decent corporation, for example, if you have a direct financial interest in a matter under consideration you’...

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As I think Ayn Rand said, in any compromise between food and poison, poison wins.

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This morning I read an interesting story in Soundings magazine. It recounted the final voyage of the S.S. Morro Castle, purportedly one of t...

the Prince reassessed

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Laws are made by people who are, for the most part, the very scum of the earth; if something they impose on society is ethically beneficial,...

the doctor's tale

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The doctor and patient talked and then began an involved workup, “yet no diagnosis was made.” Later, the doctor discussed the case with a c...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

T. Jefferson: "A free press is the last bastion of liberty"

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Lead Headline for Drudge Report, 6/22/10: FLY LANDS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FACE. A fly lands on President Barack Obama's face as he d...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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1. The world as we experience it is somehow flawed. 2. These flaws are seen in light of the unflawed--some truth or notion of justice or goo...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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While the road to Hell is often paved with good intentions, the road to Heaven, too, is paved by many a bad intention that has not matured i...

Two People I Didn't Think I'd Miss So Much

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I was surprised by my reaction to the death of Gary Coleman. I had never been a fan of his, or even remotely interested in his career. I d...
Monday, May 17, 2010

say you want a revolution

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"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Ryokan reflects

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Shaggy hair past the ears, A worn-out robe resembling white clouds and dark smoke. Half drunk, half sober, I return home, Children all aroun...

hanging by a dread

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If more people bothered to actually read this document – including President Obama, who once taught constitutional law and who, in this year...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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Description of an early Christian baptismal rite of converts from paganism: Ideally...one's baptism would come on Easter eve, during the...

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Stated in its most elementary and most buoyantly positive form, my argument is, first of all, that among all the many great transitions that...

can you guess?

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Below is a passage from the "Spaulding Manuscript," supposed source of the Book of Mormon. Can you guess what verses of the...

how he did it

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In many ways, the most reasonable way to understanding the odd combination of ancient and modern elements in the Book of Mormon is to assume...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

"They look a bit like a sabre-toothed sausage"

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But It isn't just their unusual appearance that attracts attention: their behaviour is about as strange as it gets in the mammalian worl...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Guerrilla Public Service

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After the Los Angeles artist Richard Ankrom missed his exit off California Highway 110 one too many times, he decided to indulge in a little...

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To prove that these sort of policed societies are a violation offered to nature ... it needs only to look upon the sanguinary measures, and ...

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U.S. Air Force / Airman 1st Class Eboni[sic] Knox boards an airplane headed for Afghanistan "Within a matter of months, and certainly w...
Monday, May 3, 2010

first, be true saints

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Many think that they are going right into the celestial kingdom of God, in their present ignorance, to at once receive glories and powers; t...

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While visiting my parents last week, my father printed out a list of all the descendents of Harry and Myrtle Mortenson. Grandpa Harry died o...

Terryl Givens

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Here is an interview with Terryl Givens, who has written some of the most interesting recent books about LDS. http://www.mormontimes.com/vid...
Monday, April 26, 2010

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One tale is told of the Zen monk/poet Ryokan, that when he returned to his hut he discovered a robber who had broken in and was in the proce...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Parable of the Old Men and the Young

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So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as they sojourned both of them together, Isaac the...
Friday, April 23, 2010

war in heaven/war in kitchen

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Stake President Holman centered his talk on a concept President Boyd K. Packer has taught: “True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes an...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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"What is the sign," a young woman asked Hafiz, "of someone knowing God?" "Dear," he replied, "They have d...
Friday, April 9, 2010

hell to the chief

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Let us hear no more excuses for Barack Obama. Let us hear no more defenses, no more special pleading, no more extenuations. Let us have no m...
Friday, April 2, 2010

inspiring story

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Some people are born successful. They’ve got everything. Some people are born with a frog’s chance in snowball hell. My friend was born with...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

oh, never mind, whatever

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BELMONT, NH—Stating that she wasn't in the best place right now, and that things have been sort of you know, Belmont resident Megan Slot...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

more from MOBA

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This single painting planted the seed that grew into the Museum of Bad Art. The motion, the chair, the sway of her breast, the subtle hues o...

from a talk

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I am reminded of a wonderful day when God sent a personal message to me. One Sunday years ago, in that dim world somewhere between winter an...

these things happen

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About a year after that experience, I had another that convinced me that listening to the subtle stirrings of the still small voice is a mat...

more interesting observations from Bro. Bushman

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Reasons Behold, that which you hear is as the voice of one crying in the wilderness–in the wilderness, because you cannot see him–my voice, ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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Political scientist Elvin Lim carried out a semantic study of the all presidential inaugural addresses and state of the union addresses. He ...

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state of the union

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On the podium the president offers up preposterously grandiose assurances of protection, provision, and moral guidance from his government, ...

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If you had been living in Jesus’s time and had heard Him teaching, would you have been one of His followers? To be an honest taker of this t...