Good morning all, clear and cool (yet again) with temps about 60. Is this still August in Chicago? … But neveryoumind, it’s just gorgeous out.
- A conversation I’ve mostly missed having been on vacation, and for some reason I still can’t leave comments there, but a longer reply on my part might be appropriate, as the notion of ownership of self seems to me misses the “rational dependent animal” (especially the interlocking dependence we have for those around us) entirely.
- A point for the Christian well taken.
- Contra certifications.
- Two conversion stories, one of a (somewhat) famous individual, the other is here.
- Heh.
- One ponit on the Olympics in China.
- Kevin Edgecomb pointed to me to this post regarding the Georgia/Russia situation, which is well worth reading.
- Well, a introduction to Rawls, the contention that luck rewards and therefore the consequences of excellence should be ignored has a difficulty in that it basically denies free will as having any role in ones life.
- The (Orthodox) holy mountain (that is Mount Athos in Greece) and the Internet.
- A new very very big number.
- A modern funeral oration.
- The Incredibles in part was a statement against the cult of mediocrity … which is not just a conservative fantasy. It is a thing which should be fought.
- The evangelical and Israel.
- An interesting experiment and question posed, which is more important the sense of safety or actual safety.
- Diseases returning and why.
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