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Genghis Khan, Tabriz, and Fiat Currency

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1848, 8th February, 2012
For a history about how fiat currency failed in Tabriz, see here. Historically, fiat currency has been a terrible idea that blew up every single time its been tried. To imagine that it won’t this time is the height of irrational optimism. Related Posts:some thoughts on trends and the futureJames Altucher on Self-PublishingNicola Rossi’s “Generation [...]
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Edith Schaeffer on how Francis Schaeffer Got His Apologetic From Anyone But Van Til

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2342, 7th February, 2012
I wish I were joking. Here’s an extended quote from pages 226-227 of the third American edition of her book L’Abri: I want to say something before finishing on what God has done in the past thirteen years in developing and training a man in His own way, as well as in developing a work. [...]
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Typos ‘In Antithesis’

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2142, 7th February, 2012
There’s a new journal out called In Antithesis. Somehow I missed the glad tidings of its appearing, which for such a Van Til fan as I is absolutely shameful. A link to its website is here, where you can read the journal online. I’m not even sure if a print edition exists. What do exist [...]
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Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 2

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2137, 7th February, 2012
We find adam where we left them last, in their original state of liberty, work, and rest. As God’s representatives, they were charged with bringing order to the world. God makes Adam and places him in an orchard to begin his work. Adam is a working creature, and not because some overlord needs his labor, [...]
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Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0252, 7th February, 2012
The first human being is named Adam in Genesis 1. In today’s English we capitalize some words to make them names. Thus, chastity is a virtue, but Chastity is a name someone might give a child. No such distinction is made in Hebrew, to this very day. So it would be more accurate to say [...]
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Tragicomedy, Slavery, and the Bible: a Look at the Metanarrative

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0122, 7th February, 2012
If we attempt to approach the Bible on its own terms, and view it as a whole, one thing immediately becomes clear: the Bible contains many genres, but it all fits into one giant story arc, a series of major stories subdivided into minor stories, garnished with laws and letters and poetry and advice. Taken [...]
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Infant Baptism and the Early Church

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1702, 6th February, 2012
Read a short history on the subject (22 pages) by Anthony N. S. Lane, here. He makes a very persuasive case for the very early practice of infant baptism, and makes a pretty good case that the early Church had a diversity of practices with respect to age of baptism. Given that the apostles clearly [...]
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Three Events of 1973 Which Define Our World Today

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1811, 4th February, 2012
1. Roe v. Wade. The legalization of abortion was a severe overreach which lead to the rise of the religious right, and hastened the demographic trend through which higher conservative fertility rates result in the stepwise elimination of liberals from political power. The process is ongoing. Partially as a result of it, the US is [...]
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Christian Reconstructionism Series, Part 3: The Problem of R. J. Rushdoony’s Biography

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1502, 4th February, 2012
R. J. Rushdoony is a polarizing figure. Most who write about him are either producing short hagiographies or short hate speeches, nearly always less than one thousand words (four pages) in length. There doesn’t seem to be much in between, nor anything longer, even though he is the founder of the Chalcedon Institute, which Newsweek [...]
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James Altucher on Self-Publishing

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1553, 2nd February, 2012
Read it here. The man is famous for one reason and one reason only: he shoots straight and out-thinks almost everyone. Ignore him at your own peril. Related Posts:Nicola Rossi’s “Generation of Locusts” Speech Now in EnglishBitcoins are on the way back up.Life in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel [...]
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