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This entry doesn't do the experience it relates any justice, but I had to
share. Hopefully it makes sense.

Okay, so one night a while back I was drifting in and out of sleep
and pondering what name by which to refer to God in my post-Christian
spiritual walk. I was at that point leaning heavily towards coming up
with a unique, personally-relevant name for God, rather than borrowing
a term from any already-established religion. Drifting into sleep...

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And it's the Spirit that gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:6).

And if the Letter kills, petty debates over it are going to kill worse. If that's even possible.

I have learned a hard lesson about leaning so heavily on antiquated religious writings that differences of opinion over it would actually matter to me.

I used to think that there were no contradictions in the bible, and that any perceived contradictions were merely due to not understanding...

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“As hyper-parenting has spread, “family life” has eroded: in just the past 20 years structured sports time has doubled, unstructured children’s activities have gone down 50%, household conversations are less frequent, family dinners have declined 33%, and family vacations have decreased 28%. Kids have become talent to be groomed; Mom’s with masters and PhD’s have become chauffeurs.”...

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Awhile back, I had intended to post a serious entry about the Biblical story of Lazarus and the Rich Man. Instead, the following came to mind, so I posted that instead. I can't for the life of me remember anymore what the serious post was supposed to say.

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Ya gotta see this.

Comedian Tim Hawkins' renderings of old rock songs as they might be sung by their bands in old age.... see video

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