November 27th, 2009
On March 31, 2005 Terry Schiavo died. If you don’t remember the name Schiavo, maybe you’ll remember that there was a nationwide controversy surrounding her husband’s efforts to pull the plug.
This case – probably mostly forgotten – was a high point for “the culture of death” and a low point for prolife and disability advocates.
But [...]
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November 24th, 2009
On Monday, November 23, 2009, I thought about November 22, 1963. The entire Sunday, the date never entered my mind. This is the first time in 45 years that I haven’t thought about the Kennedy assassination on November 22. I have noted with each passing year, however, the media coverage shrinking.
I am a little mad [...]
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November 23rd, 2009
What’s the biggest social problem facing the western culture? Is it poverty and class warfare? Is it overpopulation? Is it economic inequality? Maybe it’s secularization or religion. Perhaps it’s militancy. Not sure what the biggest problem is, but a very big problem has to do with the “polarization of ideas.”
It appears one of the biggest [...]
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November 12th, 2009
It’s pretty clear everyone has an opinion about the afterlife. These opinions range from “there is none” to very elaborate envisioning of the future.
This is not always a favorite topic – especially if it seems very far off. If you are an atheist and to some degree an agnostic, this question causes little concern. Death [...]
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November 9th, 2009
It’s pretty unlikely that you’ve spent a lot of time thinking or talking about either Communism or Eastern Europe. We don’t even use the term “Red China” much anymore. Most twenty-somethings probably don’t even know that much about Communism apart from their college years. They also don’t know how worldview colors so many other things [...]
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November 5th, 2009
I met a Hindu at a steakhouse the other day. I was a little surprised. He said he didn’t worry too much about eating his uncle. Then I went to a Chinese restaurant full of Jewish people eating pork lo mein with parmesan cheese. I met both a Communist atheist and a Communist Christian. I [...]
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November 4th, 2009
Freud was all about one thing meaning or symbolizing something else. So much so that it was alleged that his incessant cigar smoking was about something quite different. He defended himself by saying “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
It has been documented that Freud smoked around 20 cigars per day. That would mean he [...]
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