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And also some wisdom from Ben Witherington III (on certainty)

An excerpt from a great post by New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III: A minutes reflection will show that intellectual coherency, as judged by finite fallen or even redeemed minds, is not a very good guide to what is true. The truth of God and even of the Bible is much larger than anyone’s ability (or any collection of human being’s abilities) to get their mental calipers so firmly around it that one could form it into a ‘coherent theological system’ without flaws, gaps, or lacunae. . .

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One Common Faith ~ The Story - Part Seven

The End {?} of the Story…Here’s the beginning… The last two posts, about my Dark Night of the Soul, didn’t have much detail. I tried to convey the essence of my journey through the halls of worldly learning and my lack of well-being during the trek. What I didn’t relate was the gritty, dirty, degrading, disheartening details. I’m sure some of you can fill in those details… Our human family’s trek through the ages has much more depravity and wrenching sorrow than I ever  could have lived. There

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The legacy of Darwinism

A selection from: World History And The Eonic Effect The Legacy Of Darwinism At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect inference to speculate about deep time. In the face of much criticism from religious Creationists, now accompanied by the Intelligent Design movement, adherents of Darwinism forever defend a flawed theory that has been challenged from its first appearance

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What Mysteries Lurk Within a Jungle Deep

[The sound of volcanoes exploding in the distance blends with the cawing of exotic birds and the howls of unidentifiable beasts. A few long-haired wild men swing from the trees, dropping into sight only to snag lava rocks just before they hit the ground] Ben Roethlisberger: HI WILDERNESS UNTOUCHED BY MAN THANKS FOR BRINGING ME TO YOUR ISLAND, TROY. EVER SINCE SOME KID POINTED A LIGHT GUN AT ME AT THE GAMESTOP, I DON’T FEEL SAFE! GOTTA FIND BODYGUARD IN YOUR VERSION OF THE SAVAGE LAND! CA

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CEO conversations - part I: Chief Trouble Maker & CEO Joanna Pineda of Matrix Group Int’l talks shop

Who she is: a trouble maker, for starters Founder/CEO & Chief Trouble Maker Joanna Pineda of Matrix Group International knows tech, winning, endurance, generational team building, and the social media age. And her expertise goes well beyond that list. Pineda’s interactive agency and leadership have been around since 1999; and while helping associations and non-profits with their interactive online presence, Matrix Group has grown to be the 6th largest interactive agency in the DC region.

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First the Temple of Artemis, Now the Colossus of Rhodes

I had no idea that my closing thoughts on plans to rebuild the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus would turn out to be somewhat prophetic. "Will it signal a new trend in not simply preserving old temples and landmarks, but actually rebuilding them to their former glory? Could we see a new Delphi or Colossus of Rhodes? An embracing of our pre-Christian heritage slipped through the side-door as "tourism", "art", and "culture"." It seems that on Monday, The Guardian reported that plans are underway to

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CREDIT CRUNCH:OCCULT COLONIZATION OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD?

By: Henry Makow Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Economic crises have been produced by us for the goyim by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation.” – Protocols of Zion, 20 How did the Rothschilds manage to emerge relatively unscathed from the financial meltdown? “You could say that we may have more insights than others,” Baron David de Rothschild coyly told a reporter during a recent visit to Dubai. Does “more insights than others” include being personally responsibl

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2012 Doomsday Movie Review

2012: An odyssey is a movie produced by Sacred Mysteries. It gives an impression of a commercial documentary. It talks about a raging phenomenon that is due to take place sometime near the winter solstice of 2012. The documentary footage travels through the length of United States panning out to California and Georgia with equal ease. In between traveling from one geographical locale to another, the footage is mingled with expert comments from lecturers and erudite locals. This makes for an

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Movie Quotes from UHF: Quotes from the movie UHF

#1: You get to drink from the fire hose!! #2: Yay!!! (Somebody gets thrown out of an overhead window) GEORGE: (looks up) Hey, Kuni! KUNI: Hiya, George! GEORGE: Beginners class today, huh? KUNI: Yeah. Dere so stupid! (Another student gets thrown out a window) STUPID!!! 1)Ahhh, a red snapper! Mmmmm, very tasty! Okay, Weaver, you can either hold onto you red snapper… or you can go for what’s in the box that Hiro-San is bringing down the aisle right now! [Hiro-San emerges, carrying a table

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A Meditation on Prayer

AVE MARIA MEDITATIONS Prayer, then, is like the expression of our intimate life as children of God, like the out­come of our Divine sonship in Christ, the spontaneous blossoming of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. And that is why it is so vital and so fruitful. The soul that gives itself re­gularly to prayer derives therefrom ineffable graces that transform it little by little to the image of Jesus, the Only Son of the heavenly Father. Says St. Theresa, “by which graces of choice, such as those

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Catholic Carnival 199: Life. And how to Live it.

Catholic Carnival 199: Life. And how to Live it. It seems that most of the posts this week dealt with life issues. Either a pro-life position or an interesting take on living life itself. So this seems to be the "Life" Carnival - and not a second too early! Hope you enjoy: Kicking Over My Traces kicks us off with South Carolina Priest Called On the Carpet for Chastising Obama Voter. It examines a recent controversy around Father Jay Scott Newman's statement that Obama voters should repent.

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Religion, Elections, and Education

As regulars know, I'm not big on religion. Being a former Navy officer, I tend to avoid religious discussions if at all possible. Basic wardroom etiquette dictates no discussion of the job, politics, and religion at the dinner table. Now obviously I've completely disregarded the first two topics here at Stonekettle Station, but I try to avoid discussing religion as much as possible for a couple of reasons. One, I have little interest in attracting the pro-religion folks or the anti-religion fo

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Let Them Eat Fruitcake, by Melody Carlson

About Let Them Eat Fruitcake… The Christmas season is a magical time of the year when there is peace on earth, winter wonderlands, and rockin’ parties . . . right? But Megan is struggling with a difficult boss and is forced to spend Christmas alone. Lelani can’t afford to fly home, and she isn’t sure she’d be welcomed. Anna’s old boyfriend has sailed back into her life, just when she’s met a for-real “nice guy” that she has been keeping away from her crazy Latino family. And Kendall has

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A Brief Mystery: What are Short Gamma-ray Bursts?

October 20, 2008: For decades it was baffling. Out of the still night sky, astronomers peering through their telescopes would occasionally glimpse quick bursts of high-energy light popping off like flashbulbs at the far side of the universe. These bursts seemed impossibly powerful: to appear so bright from so very far away, they must vastly outshine entire galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars. These explosions, called gamma ray bursts (GRBs), are by far the brightest and most ener

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Mobile Adventure ‘Angel Sword’ Comes to the iPhone

DVide Arts Inc. has just released an iPhone version of its popular mobile adventure game Angel Sword [App Store] through the iTunes App Store. Once upon a time, in a land of magic, two wizards ruled in peace. The legend says that the Red Wizard unlocked the power of the Sword of Angels, a blade forged by the gods using good and evil magic. Over time, the power of the sword filled the Red Wizard with darkness. In order to stop the Red Wizard, a guardian angel was summoned using the power of lig

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We Have Our Murderer, Thank You Very Much

Forensic Astrology I get the strangest things from Google Alerts.  I get e-mail alerts from “Tangled Up in Blue Guy” based on keywords and text from other blog posts.  A large portion of the alerts are setlists from Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour, nautrally.  Often I get alerts which include any combination of the words “tangled” “up” “blue” “guy.”  And of course, I generally skim over most of them. Occasionally, I find something interesting and click the link just to see what’s up with the bl

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Book Review: Shade by John B. Olson

Grad student Hailey Maniates is running for her life. Pursued by a seemingly invisible presence that infiltrates her mind, inciting fear and rage within her, she runs instinctively with no thoughts as to her destination. Hiding amongst the bushes in Golden Gate Park she is attacked by a knife-wielding stranger - a much lesser threat - only to be saved by a towering giant of a man. A homeless man with matted hair, tangled beard and hunched back whose thoughts and emotions somehow resonate within

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Robert Logan on the Extended Mind

Prof. Robert Logan, the author of The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture, got in touch with me, offering to provide a synopsis of his book. I thought it was well worth putting up, even if frequent readers of this blog will recognize from the things I’ve written — well, not lately — that I disagree with Prof. Logan on a couple of things (like the fact that I think Chomsky’s idea of innate grammar doesn’t help us to deal with culture). I find Prof. Logan’s way

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Mysterious Occult Symbolism At International Denver Airport

By Mihalis Moros Metafysiko | On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean a new mythology inspires the US researchers. It is related with the enigmatic Denver International Airport which is said to be connected with the New World Order conspiratory plans; whereas some others claim that it is even linked with the extraterrestrial matter. The common proverb "there's no smoke without fire" seems to apply in this case since the particular airport contains a variety of occult and Maso

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Ian Stone Must Die

“Your watch. After you left for work this morning, it stopped, didn’t it? Whenever a clock stops, they’re coming.” Ian Stone must discover who keeps killing him and why he returns in a different life — before they kill him permanently. Last week we began our look at movies from After Dark Horrrorfest Movie series. We started with Borderland, a shocking bloodfest I couldn’t finish watching the first time but one that was worth the effort to see it the second. Now I want to talk about my favori

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