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Cure for depression #1
06.05.04 | Permalink | 2 Comments“But Jesus loves it when you smile. You wouldn’t want to make Baby Jesus sad, would you?”
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To tell the old, old story
06.01.04 | Permalink | 2 CommentsImpressive. Through some stray links at the WordPress forums, I wondered into a group of young (post?)evangelicals talking about pluralism and postmodernism in a most helpful way. The two terms offered up for discussion are metanarrative and meganarrative. Metanarrative come from Quebecois philosopher Francois Lyotard, who defined postmodernity as “incredulity toward metanarratives.” What does that […]
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When robots attack
Robots have a right to protest too. And, now we know, the gumption to do it too. Following the ever masculine General J.C. Christian, Patriot, I call for an immediate robot protest advocating the release of millions of spermatozoan-Americans from their frozen captivity in sperm banks across America. Anybody with me? Who wants to picket? […]
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Decency and Slapout, OK
05.27.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Decency and Slapout, OKIsraeli philosopher Avishai Margalit says that a decent institution is one that doesn’t humiliate people. Besides the obvious point about US indencency in Abu Ghraib, there is also the case of the United Methodist Church (my former home). Can a denomination littered with conferences which hold the open secret of “punishment parishes” not be said […]
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Redemption at hand
05.26.04 | Permalink | 4 CommentsHave you heard? It’s no longer Abu Ghraib—that was the bad place. Now it’s been renamed Camp Redemption. You wouldn’t want to deny Iraqis redemption , would you?
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Evil is banal
05.24.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Evil is banal9/11 pariah Susan Sontag had this to say in a recent Guardian: You ask yourself how someone can grin at the sufferings and humiliation of another human being – drag a naked Iraqi man along the floor with a leash? set guard dogs at the genitals and legs of cowering, naked prisoners? rape and sodomise […]
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