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brain-candy, ear-candy, metrospirituality, soul-candy, spirit-candy, spiritual-milk
Spirit candy
08.25.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Spirit candyBack in my charismatic days, we talked about moving from the spiritual milk of the newly reborn to the spiritual meat of the spiritually mature. (Spirits, apparently, are carnivores.) And I’ve learned that we Unitarians sometimes fret about hosting a spiritual cafeteria where folks just pick what they want and move on down the line. […]
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More Wal-Mart crap: You’re paying for it
08.24.06 | Permalink | 31 CommentsFollowing up on Andrew Young’s racist compliment of Wal-Mart: 1. Wal-Mart is pressuring its employees not to sign on to a court case alledging it forces them to work overtime pressure they say “borderlines on criminal witness intimidation,.” 2. Crime in Wal-Mart parking lots is disproportionately high. There’s a police incident at your local Wal-Mart […]
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george-allen, macaca
No more macaca
08.24.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on No more macacaSo Sen. George Allen finally apologized for the “macaca” remark, well over a week after it happened. Oh yeah, he’s running for president, ain’t he?
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first-principle, hitler, inherent-dignity, inherent-worth, inherent-worth-and-dignity, purposes-and-principles, UU
Inherent worth versus inherent dignity
08.23.06 | Permalink | 11 CommentsHad a good discussion this weekend with the Chalice Coven this weekend re: the first principle—“the inherent worth and dignity of every person.” (I’m normally wary of “let’s talk about the principles” discussions; they seem to carry a tacit assumption that we somehow “believe” them and move on from there to what feels like an […]
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afterlife, bible, ministry, protest
Friday Scribbler: 2006/08/18
08.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Friday Scribbler: 2006/08/18Stuff you should check out from some of my fellow Daily Scribblers: A People So Bold! reminds us why Garrison Keillor likes to pick on Unitarians. He also goes off on this-little-light-of-mine romanticism masquerading as ministry. A Pagan Sojourn fills us in on the Heathen (Norse pagan) afterlife—Wyrd, Ragnarok, Hel, and much more. Lo-Fi Tribe […]
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carl, mayorbob, plastic, plastic.com, trees-and-things
Plastic is dead! Long live plastic!
08.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Plastic is dead! Long live plastic!If you’re a fan of Plastic.com—that is, a polymer—you’ve probably been wondering where the hell your favorite snarky news trolling discussion board the past three or four months. If you’re not a polymer, here’s a quick and dirty intro. One of the guys from Suck.com (Carl) bought some Slashdot code and hacked together a news […]
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