Tag Archives: Thinking

Poetry, Prose, Vodka, a Recipe and thinking about life

The Front Porch Republic is always a good site for provoking thought, and this time it’s provoking thoughts about vodka, food, and life. DLH

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Writing: NaNoWriMo Preview: Finding the story

One of the questions people who don’t write yet tend to ask people who are already writing is, “Where do you get your ideas?” Frankly, there is no answer to that question because the process is different for every writer and, at least for me, different for every idea. While I can’t answer that question directly, […] Continue reading

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Industrialized society

There is a YouTube video making the rounds on the internet right now of a whiteboard animation of part of a speech on the state of American public education by Sir Ken Robinson: One of the amazing points Robinson makes … Continue reading

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No, no I’m not a rationalist

A continued popular thread around the internet is the self-declared righteousness of so-called rationalists: that is, people who believe that everything in the universe and outside of it can be explained only by empirical observation that accumulates facts that then, … Continue reading

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Meat and potatoes Christianity

A repost on Internet Monk from the late Michael Spencer on why he was not a fundamentalist Christian and some heavy duty Christian philosophy for the rest of us to chew on. If you’re not reading this weblog, you should … Continue reading

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