September 2009
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I’ve been trying to take a picture of one of these for some time. Usually they flit around so abruptly, and stay put for such a short time when they land, that I can’t get them in focus. But this one posed on this fence for several minutes, only moving from one picket to another,…
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Or a girl. Sigh. Makes me kinda glad I’m not young anymore. Unrelated: I’ve just spent twenty minutes or so watching an extremely violent thunderstorm. It’s miles away, to the southwest, probably out over the Gulf. I hope no one is out on the water in it, at least not in anything small. It’s one…
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In that post about Richard Dawkins and Karen Armstrong a week or so ago, I mentioned that Dawkins appears not to grasp the idea of creatio ex nihilo, creation from nothing. More precisely, he appears not to grasp the idea of nothing. This seems to be true of quite a number of scientists and materialists.…
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As those who read the comments here regularly are aware, the young lady who signs herself “antiaphrodite” lives in the Phillipines. I was surprised, upon reading her request for prayers today, to learn that there is major flooding and serious hardship going on there (see her comment here—“flooding issues” indeed—and typically wry remarks at her…
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Last night, standing by the bay, I was remembering that a year or so ago I was standing there thinking about the fact that in Love in the Ruins Thomas More mentions seeing and hearing a kingfisher, and that it was strange that I never had, because this is the same sort of place as…
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When they threw together that ridiculous story about the iceberg, they didn’t reckon on the power of the Internet. More evidence, if you need it, here. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Otherwise I would be on this list. But then I don’t really want to be in the same club as some of these folks, so nyah nyah nyah. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Here is an interesting pair of short essays on the existence of God by Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins. I called it a debate first, but then read the intro more closely, and found that the two pieces were written independently of each other. Still, they provide a good picture of the mental dilemma in…
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I’ve been very busy with work this week (ten-hour days, inter-departmental acrimony, etc.) so haven’t had a chance to write about any of the several things that are in my mental queue. But I had to pass this on before I forget it. A co-worker went into the hospital yesterday for a heart catheterization procedure.…
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Some months ago in a discussion here Francesca Murphy made a remark that has stuck with me, because I think there’s a lot of truth in it: …it made me wonder whether some male / female arguments come down to misunderstanding, whereas female on female disagreements can go up in smoke because of too much…
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