It’s always entertaining to re-read old college papers, especially when you’ve learned more since then. In the case of Feminism & the Bible: Examining the Christian Myth of Creation, the handful of later realizations or learnings I had were interesting enough to me that I thought I’d relate them here. For example, most people know…
Originally posted February 2006 Please be warned there are spoilers in this review. I went to The Corpse Bride expecting something fantastical and whimsical, much like Burton’s earlier The Nightmare Before Christmas (TNBC). In a way it’s a shame this movie did not come before TNBC, as it isn’t exactly bad… it just isn’t very…
So, after all that rambling, what do I think Love is? It’s oddly, unexpectedly simple — almost startlingly so. I could puff it up with more verbiage… but if that’s what we want, we can turn to media for that. “But there is such a thing as genuine love, which is always considerate. Its distinguishing…
Helping Love “Because where there is no courage, there is no love: Love demands honesty, which is frightening, or it is only pretense. It demands vulnerability, or it is hollow. It engages our deepest power, or it lacks force. It brings us to confront sorrow, loss, and death.” — Starhawk, The Spiral Dance Be honest!…
“Traditional” marriage is supposed to express love also, from what I’ve read. However, I suspect those who believe this haven’t actually read the religious texts describing what they believe traditional marriage is. Marriage in the Old Testament isn’t the loving union of a man and a woman. It’s the union of a man and a…
Originally posted February 2004 Credits: Thanks to the myriad folks I’ve known through my life, and (for varying reasons) to Barry, Guthrum, Carl, George, Ian, Lou, especially Bob… and life in general, for this article. Random thoughts in the traditional month of Love… Some time ago I tried defining love, in discussion with some folks…
This is a class assignment to critique Huber’s article “Biodiversity vs. Bioengineering?” solely on the issue of whether the use of deception was sound argumentation technique. Huber’s short but fascinating article appears in The Environmental Predicament, shown to the left. From the article, I quote the most personally relevant portions: [T]here are still transcendentally important…
Conclusions Gathering together all the ramblings and data we’ve gone through so far, we can now hopefully reach some useful insights on dealing with issues such as these (Note: please consider the pronoun ‘you’ to be a general reference term for myself and any readers): First, let’s state the goals for which we performed this…
The previous post related just a few examples I’ve personally experienced, of course. I’m sure there are many more psychological avoidance techniques which can be bent to their cause: to always get their way. If there are problems in their lives, it simply must be someone else’s fault — never their own. If there are…
What’s been written before is all fine and good, but these examples are also pretty clear-cut. Let’s try a slightly more ambiguous real-life situation. What do you say when someone asks you the dreaded question: “Does this make me look fat?” A personal belief I feel needs saying: anyone who is foolish enough to ask…