Friday, October 30, 2020

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My Thoughts

There is a familiar passage—familiar to those who perchance have heard it more than a time or two or those who have bothered to take the time to read the Gospel of John—in the last chapter where Jesus asks, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” not once mind you, not twice, but three times. After Simon Peter answers Jesus, assuring him that he does indeed love him, Jesus says to him something both remarkable and mystifying: “Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you would; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go” (John 21:17-18).

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Colloqui Vol 05 No 03

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October 30, 2020

In this issue:

The Dogma Lives Loudly Within You: People seldom read the fine print

Deacon’s Diner: Food for a restless mind

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

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First and foremost, I do not, do not foster a belief that humans are an incorrigible, incurably ignorant, or irredeemably deplorable species. Quite the opposite; if it were so, what would that say of the One who made us in His image and likeness. We are not gods, our nature is neither divine nor infallible, though there are and have been far too many fools who would stake their claim to such high exaltation. There are likewise, many more who slavishly kneel and bow before such fools in absurd adulation.   

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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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My Thoughts

I have been reading a book. No kidding. I know those who know me and know my deepest avocation will not be in the least surprised. The truth is I am seldom reading fewer books than fingers, I will leave you to the math. But—and this is important—most books I read these days are rather involuted and esoteric, what most would prefer to read to cure a mild case of insomnia. Fiction seldom finds a place on my reading list.  

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

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Most Americans, I believe, are proud to live in this grand land. Most are not of the same ideological fever exhibited by the left-wing lunatic looneys licking licentious lickerish larcenous lips sneering and snarling at the slim slice of injustice served with the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett as the newest Associate Justice to the Supreme Court. Pack the Court! Pack the Court! Pack the Court! Rah! Rah! Rah! The sky is falling, and all are doomed.  

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Monday, October 26, 2020

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When was the last time you read a label? Any label: box, can, package, clothing, linen, book, tool, furniture, statue, painting; everything has a label these days. Labels are as ubiquitous as the coronavirus, perhaps more so since not everyone has the virus but nearly everything else has a label … or two … or three. But do you ever bother to read what is on the label, really read what is printed there?  

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Colloqui Vol 05 No 02

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October 23, 2020

In this issue:

Gaslighting, Dogma & Dog Whistling: The darker side of darkness

Deacon’s Diner: Food for a restless mind

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Friday, October 23, 2020

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My Thoughts

Rare are the great ideas; the most common are trivial, harmless, rather banal; not every idea a good one. There are, as we must surely recognize through common sense and exposure, an overabundance of bad ideas generated by the overwhelming mass of humanity[1] every day. Among those bad ideas far too many can be classified as highly infectious idea pathogens, according to Gad Saad, evolutionary psychologist. These bad ideas—cancel culture, erasing biology, and safe spaces, to name three, there are many more—can be likened to brain parasites, which take hold and often lead hosts to bizarre, self-damaging, and fatal behavior.  

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

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Hello, my name is Chuck, and I am a book junkie. I am addicted to books—and magazines, newsletters, newspapers, eBooks, eMagazines, blogs, posts, posters, labels on bottles, boxes and cans, even clothing tags for heaven’s sake; I get a high every time I find something new to read and I simply cannot quit acquiring anything with print upon a surface.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

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A philosopher friend once prefaced a question to Karol Wojtyla (Pope Saint John Paul II) “Evil sometimes seems omnipotent, it seems to exercise absolute dominion over the world. In your view, Holy Father, does there exist a threshold that evil is unable to cross?” His answer was straight from his own lived experience and it is telling and terrifying, yet offers hope, something for which we should all give serious attention.

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