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Author Yair Caspi had a religious experience once, what psychologist Abraham Maslow would term a “peak experience.” It’s content? We can only find true freedom by making ourselves slaves to god. Caspi then built that experience into a psychological method that relies heavily on Jewish god-talk. A secular Jew, Caspi find traditional psychology to be […]
Last night I bought my first house. We’ll be moving to East Atlanta in a week and half. The meantime will be spent painting, caulking, and mowing. You are an old, old man when you’re looking forward to mowing the lawn. Among the assets included with the house is one electric wheelchair, which with new […]
A new friend has asked if, instead of letting my angst and ennui drive my writing here at MyIrony, I should let my angst and ennui be my writing. If, instead of speaking from the safe distance of theological abstraction, I should embrace the danger of personal revelation. So I ask, gentle reader, am I […]
Beautiful, determined, and true. (Hat tip to Philocrites.)
Over the past week, MyIrony has been getting spammed in the comments section. On all individual post pages now, you’ll notice a warning to would-be spammers. Regular posters should just skip over it. Schillers of porn sites and penis enlargement pills should go the fuck away.
Imagine, if you will, the young man going off to seminary, his ideals firmly in place. His place of employment is a dying church with a youth group of two, a church that wants young adults but doesn’t want to go get them. The church asks the world but will not lift a finger, and […]