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May | 2010 | truth and action
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Archive for May 2010. The “God spot”, and 3 questions to ask a Christian about God. Earlier tonight a friend of mine asked me what I thought of the “God spot” in the brain (that is, a suggested neurophysiological basis. So here we go. The brain is the ultimate sensor we possess, for physical and emotional sensation, in fact, there is no experience we have which is not mediated by the brain. Mystical experience exists. People have experiences of transcendence. When we ask “Is a mystical experience. The po...
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July | 2009 | truth and action
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Archive for July 2009. I was driving down the beautiful Mt Ousley. Road the other night when I switched my radio to Triple J’s. Program. The topic for the night was explicit text messaging and MMSing, and the legal ramifications for the youth engaging in it. One of the discussants (I surmised him to be a teenager from one of the catholic youth organisations) said something to the effect of. 8220;What our youth need is not more laws, but greater discernment and moral fibre”. Moral FIBRE,”. The dogmatic de...
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Elevating Discourse – AIDS and Abstinence. On the subject of useless arguments:. I am sick of hearing about the P ope. This came up on the previously-mentioned episode of. I watched tonight. Again the discussion went approximately along the lines of:. Step 1: 98% of the group jeer at the remarks of the Pope. Step 2: Someone from the crowd stands up and gives a short speech criticising the Pope’s actions, to loud applause. All of this is clearly worse than useless, and extremely unenlightening. Since when...
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June | 2010 | truth and action
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Archive for June 2010. Early 90s rap theology. Leave a comment ». Loving the developments over at Katay’s blog. I must, however, ask: Who’s down with OPP. June 2, 2010 at 2:42 am. Erin’s blog – naysayer17. Nothing new under the sun. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Blog at WordPress.com. Follow “truth and action”. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Build a website with WordPress.com.
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morality and mocking | truth and action
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I was driving down the beautiful Mt Ousley. Road the other night when I switched my radio to Triple J’s. Program. The topic for the night was explicit text messaging and MMSing, and the legal ramifications for the youth engaging in it. One of the discussants (I surmised him to be a teenager from one of the catholic youth organisations) said something to the effect of. 8220;What our youth need is not more laws, but greater discernment and moral fibre”. Moral FIBRE,”. The dogmatic denial of the inherent co...
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March | 2009 | truth and action
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Archive for March 2009. Elevating Discourse – AIDS and Abstinence. On the subject of useless arguments:. I am sick of hearing about the P ope. This came up on the previously-mentioned episode of. I watched tonight. Again the discussion went approximately along the lines of:. Step 1: 98% of the group jeer at the remarks of the Pope. Step 2: Someone from the crowd stands up and gives a short speech criticising the Pope’s actions, to loud applause. Why are we angry? Encourage away, but why is it our right t...
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My infallible 4 step study plan to learn anything in 15 minutes | truth and action
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My infallible 4 step study plan to learn anything in 15 minutes. Leave a comment ». So I think I’ve discovered an extremely powerful study method. 8220;Source material” – that is, a brief (digestible) summary written by someone else – a summary-style textbook. Or a wikipedia article. An A4 notebook and a pen. An alarmed timing device. A flash card (small). Now on to the steps. Set your timer for 10 minutes. In that 10 minutes write down (and organise in a logical fashion). All the important information.
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supererogation and Jesus | truth and action
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I’ve just started reading Principles of Biomedical Ethics. By Beauchamp and Childress, and have been introduced to the ethical concept of. A rough definition might be “exceeding one’s obligations”. [Be warned: it’s not a word to use in conversation.]. I’ve been reflecting on the place of supererogation in christian thinking. As our example is God Himself, and as we are called to “Be holy, as I am holy”, it seems that supererogation is irrelevant for the christian. What more are you doing than others?
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September | 2009 | truth and action
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Archive for September 2009. Leave a comment ». If I were launching a new version of an iconic australian spread, I would recognise the impossibility of a “this is a good product” style of campaign, and instead give it a comically bad name, generating interest (and sales) with very little advertising outlay. September 30, 2009 at 1:28 pm. Erin’s blog – naysayer17. Nothing new under the sun. Blog at WordPress.com. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Follow “truth and action”.