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June 2004
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Nice guy but…
06.11.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Nice guy but…The following exchange was just told to me by an old friend. Susan is a preschool teacher. Child: Susan, why did they kill Jesus? Susan: I don’t understand. He was a nice guy, and he comes by my house sometimes.
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The will to nice
06.10.04 | Permalink | 5 CommentsNice, as you know, is what little girls are expected to be and what little boys are told to be but not expected to become. But nice is also a luxury of the powers-that-be, who expect gratitude for it from the great herds of humanity, who must always prove their commitment to the will to […]
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Joy and melancholy
06.08.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Joy and melancholyFrom Raimond Gaita’s A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice (150): Optimism and pessimism are, anyhow, relatively trivial dispositions of personality. One can be a pessimist in the sense that one is disposed to take a gloomy view of prospects in most situations, seeing in them more reason to predict ill than […]
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Unitarian Universa-what?
06.07.04 | Permalink | 3 Comments(Read other responses to this month’s Coffee Hour topic.) No doubt you’ve heard the old joke. What do you get when you cross a Jehovah’s Witness with a Unitarian Universalist? Answer: A knock at the door for no reason. It ain’t easy saying what you are when what you are is a Unitarian Univeralist. No […]
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Cure for depression #1
06.05.04 | Permalink | 2 Comments“But Jesus loves it when you smile. You wouldn’t want to make Baby Jesus sad, would you?”
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To tell the old, old story
06.01.04 | Permalink | 2 CommentsImpressive. Through some stray links at the WordPress forums, I wondered into a group of young (post?)evangelicals talking about pluralism and postmodernism in a most helpful way. The two terms offered up for discussion are metanarrative and meganarrative. Metanarrative come from Quebecois philosopher Francois Lyotard, who defined postmodernity as “incredulity toward metanarratives.” What does that […]
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