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Category Archives: God
Do We Need God?
I see debates about the need for God. My hunch is that the lonelier you are, the more you need God. That has been my life experience. The less connected I felt, the more desperately I reached for God. Conversely, … Continue reading
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God: A Biography by Jack Miles
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would interpret God: A Biography not just as a piece of literary or theological criticism, but as a coalition-shaping narrative about meaning, identity, and moral authority. The book treats the God of the Hebrew Bible as … Continue reading
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How Do You Touch The Face Of God?
It’s hard to feel like you’re touching the face of God in traditional Orthodox Judaism, outside of Hasidism. You have to work for your spiritual highs, there’s little cheap grace. Most Orthodox Jews can’t just accept divine love and ride … Continue reading
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Decoding Passport Bros (4-2-24)
01:00 Passport Bros, https://www.businessinsider.com/digital-nomad-passport-bro-bromad-how-to-guide-love-abroad-2023-612:00 No such thing as true love15:00 Are passport bros exploitative? 18:00 The Buffered Identity, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14951220:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1441681:07:00 Phone charge correlates with credit scores 1:09:00 The God … Continue reading
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Beyond Good And Evil (7-4-21)
00:00 Can we move beyond good and evil? https://rumble.com/vjbk1r-saving-private-godward-7-1-21.html 03:00 Godward on Justin the Martyr, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr 25:00 Scholar of religion, John Z. Smith, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Z._Smith 45:40 Richard Spencer gets mean about Christianity and Judaism, https://youtu.be/RLVVrmbm1bc?t=5860 49:00 What does Judas Maccabeus want … Continue reading
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How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
From the New York Review of Books: * “People evangelize because they fear that the belief to which they have committed themselves may not be true.” * For American evangelicals, the problem of God is endlessly a problem of the … Continue reading
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NYT Flirts With Mass Suicide, Take That Pete Davidson
00:00 NYT: Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? 10:00 Ariana Grande, Pete Davidson 28:00 Texas dad could lose custody of 6-y-o son for not affirming transgender identity 36:00 Sam Harris quits Patreon, protesting deplatforming 40:00 Criticizing Islam 1:06:00 New media … Continue reading
Laughing With
This song is brilliant. Laughing With No one laughs at God in a hospital No one laughs at God in a war No one’s laughing at God When they’re starving or freezing or so very poor No one laughs at … Continue reading
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Am I Willing To Align My Will With God’s Will?
This has always been the hardest part of religion and 12-Step work for me. I want to do my own thing but only when that keeps resulting in disaster for me do I reluctantly turn back to God and then … Continue reading
Under-Earning As An Addiction
One day this past week, I listened five times to talk #8 from Underearners Anonymous. Every time I listened, I felt like I shed a layer of defensiveness and denial. Pam: My sponsor reminds me that we’re either channeling our … Continue reading