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Sunday Night Journal — August 28, 2011 I've been out of town all weekend, and once again I lack both time and mental focus to write anything substantial. Instead, I've spent a couple of hours doing something I've wanted to do for a while, which is to figure out how to do some simple stuff…
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Weekend Music My buddy Robert sent me this a couple of weeks ago. It certainly sounds like it was released in 1968, which it was. Notice the sitar. A lovely and sad song. I don't recall ever hearing anything by David Blue back in those days, though the cover of this album looks familiar. It…
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Or should I say the dark? At any rate, he sees and accepts the hopelessness of the atheistic attempt to derive morality from the bare facts of physical existence. The thing that annoys me most about the loud spokesmen for shallow atheism–Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, et.al.–is their refusal even to admit that this problem exists.…
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Sunday Night Journal — August 21, 2011 I've been so busy and pressured in my job, not only last week but through the weekend, that I'm really not equipped to write anything of substance on a specific topic tonight. Instead, I'm going to mention a few things that I had filed away with the intention…
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Christianity does not proclaim merely some salvation of the soul in a vague afterlife in which all that is precious and dear to us in this world would be eliminated, but promises eternal life, “the life of the world to come.” Nothing that is precious and dear to us will fall into ruin; rather it…
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Some time back–almost five years ago, actually, which is a little disturbing–I tried to figure out why I don't have much interest in contemporary fiction. (The post is here.) One reason is that I didn't, and don't, care much for the static gloom that seems to pervade most of it, or at least most of what…
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15 Minutes of Exercise Every Day Reduces Risk of Death. I was about to say WebMD needs a better headline writer, but that's what the first sentence says, too: "A study published by The Lancet shows that if inactive people increased their physical activity by just 15 minutes per day, they could reduce their risk of death by 14%…
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Sunday Night Journal — August 14, 2011 Some months ago in a Sunday Night Journal I talked about the melancholy person’s view of this world as being substantially correct, in that we must ultimately lose everything: The melancholic doesn’t celebrate the seasons so much as accept them, knowing that each brings its pleasures but that…
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Peter Hitchens says they're very, very bad. I would be interested in hearing the views of anyone who is there or in contact with people who are. Update: Theodore Dalyrmple thinks the same. But of course he would–like P. Hitchens, he's been playing Jeremiah for years. I may have mentioned this before, but in case I…
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I often bookmark things I read on the net with the intention of posting something about them later, but sometimes I don't get around to it or am too busy, and then I forget about them. Here's one I saved a couple of weeks ago, and had forgotten till just now: Rick Bragg on last spring's…
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