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Tag Archives: moral truth
The Rot in Mainstream Religion
One symptom of the Curse of the Fall is our natural tendency to trust charisma over moral truth. God works through His Creation. Indeed, Creation — Reality — is imbued with His moral character. In terms of human experience, there … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged church leadership, Creation, feudalism, heart-led, moral truth, pastoral ministry, quantum reality
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Variable Time
Spiritual truth defies precise description. The only proper language for it is indicative language: characterizing, symbolism, parable. God Himself views all of human history as spread out before Him and nothing hinders His hand from adjusting anything anywhere or anywhen. … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged Creation, human intellect, moral truth, The Curse, the Fall, time and space
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The Wrong Truth
The famous meme taking a line from a stupid movie — “You can’t handle the truth!” — had nothing to do with whether the truth was so mind-blowing, but that the person demanding the truth was so lame. It reflects … Continue reading
Playful Kitties are Better
The hard core gamer walk-throughs presented on YouTube are instructive. Back in my youth, I was a serious fanatic of Science Fiction. I could get lost in novels and short story anthologies for days at a time. I bought a … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged entertainment, fallout series, moral truth, western civilization
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We Are Open Source
If there’s one thing we affirm and embrace from the nascent Networked Civilization, it is the ethics of Open Source. I’ve already stated quite bluntly that I don’t support the legal concept of copyright and intellectual property because I’m convinced … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged feudalism, heart, moral truth, Network Civilization, open source, original sin, personal loyalty, symbolic logic
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Conditional Physics
I felt that this didn’t fit in the pulpit because it’s didactic, more a question of fundamental philosophical approach. Western Christianity tends to push God out into the spooky unknown. God is “knowable” only in the sense of propositional statements … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged ANE, culture, heart-mind, moral truth, mysticism, objective reality, propaganda, science, Western Christian mythology, western civilization
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Answering 06: Freedom
The truth will set you free. If all you have is mere factual knowledge and analysis, it won’t matter how much or how deep is your knowing, you are still trapped in this world and on the way to Hell. … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged conscious awareness, divine revelation, faith, freedom of conscience, government, heart-mind, moral authority, moral truth, psychology, religion, science
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