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you won’t find this in your bible, but maybe you should

Samuel 28:18 reads, in most Bibles, something along the lines of, Now Absalom in his life had taken and erected himself the pillar which is in the King’s Valley.  For he said, I have no son for my name to be remembered by.  And he named the pillar after himself.  And it is called Absalom’s [...]
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hate thy neighbour?

Jeremy has turned a sharp eye toward the (Roman Catholic?) Biblical lectionary reading for today.  He has looked carefully not only at what is being read in the lectionary, but also at what is being passed over, and why.  Regardless of whether you use the same lectionary tradition he does, or whether you come from [...]
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On the difference between truth, falsehood, and . . .

. . . and if you can handle a tad bit of harsh language for the purpose of clearly enunciating some serious concepts, why not go here. Related Posts:No Related Posts
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maybe i shouldn’t go on to get a PhD

A successful teacher with a PhD has written a series of articles making an articulate case against PhD’s for almost everyone, including really bright folks.  It’s reviewed here by Timo Pananeen, my fellow February blog-neighbor. Related Posts:sloppy state apologist of the day: robert crusnoelibertarianism and streetlights
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for those who use windows 7, use hebrew characters, and don’t want to learn how to use a hebrew keyboard . . .

. . . I doubly pity you.  First because you use windows, and second because you don’t have the resolve to really learn your way around the Hebrew keyboard layout.  But your bad taste and laziness are atoned for by the fact that you are at least making the effort to use Hebrew characters.  For [...]
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calling all who know about MySQL

This website, along with a great many others, is powered by a free program known as wordpress.  It’s a handy tool that allows bloggers to focus almost all of their thinking on content and have a convenient and generally intuitive program taking care of the formatting according to default settings that can be easily customized.  [...]
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just in case some of you might be interested . . .

. . . here‘s a link to some rather interesting conversation I’ve been having off this site on Jeff Oien’s site.  It’s about the historicity of Genesis 1. Related Posts:“According to Their Kinds” and EvolutionNegotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed TranslationAdam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1On Genesis 1, literal history, and presuppositionsGod is [...]
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i don’t usually advocate illegal activities . . .

. . . and I’m not doing that now. I do, however want to draw your attention toward an important project:  Tor.  Tor is an online system which provides a free open network through which people can access the internet in a manner which, if I understand it right, is pretty much untraceable even for [...]
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say hello to a little restriction of speech

On the celebrated biblioblog, Say Hello to my Little Friend, Glenn Peoples (whose theology I admit I often don’t much care for), has continued his tradition of writing in extremely perceptive ways about restrictive governmental interference in life.  Today I found this little gem on campaign financing.  I won’t respellout everything he said, but know [...]
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here’s a link to a cool photo

Jeff Oien is doing his part in creating a more sharing world by offering some of his own hard work and talent for free use.  I tell you this because the picture which the link leads to is a really cool concept which I’d never seen before.  Go take a look at it, and read [...]
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