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You Don't Know That Moral Relativism is Real

Moral relativism as a philosophical construct is not fueled by logical or scientific discovery. By definition it cannot be. The only reason to pursue moral relativism is to justify behaviors or beliefs that are wrong acc…
Characteristics of Someone Who Desires Truth

Handling truth in a community of believers means that individuals who earnestly desire to know God share certain characteristics. 1. The person who desires to know the truth believes that what he believes to be true is …
Desiring Truth in Community

For meeting our material needs, it is beneficial to have community. It is possible for someone to live completely alone until he dies caring for himself until he can no longer care for himself. At that point, he dies. He…
Desiring Truth

What are our existential needs? We need sustenance. We require food and water to fuel and hydrate our bodies so we can continue to live. We require clothing and shelter to protect us from the harsher characteristics of t…
The Mind of God in the Believer

Continuing on my observations regarding the duplicity of the human mind, I have to ask myself what causes the desire to assent, or even to submit, to truth once truth is understood? If I assent, I at least acknowledge th…
Who is an African-American?

I keep hearing/reading patent lies and I won't go through them all - just one: Barak Obama, if elected, will not legally be the nation's first African-American president. Why is this? Because he's not, by legal definitio…
The Responsibility of Understanding the Truth

I'm a production controller. That means I handle communications from Order Entry, Project Managers, Product Engineering and Master Scheduling and plan the resources of my plant to produce what is needed to fill the order…
Tonality and Absolute Truth

World On The Web's WorlMagBlog has a thought-provoking post from time to time. Yesterday they sparked a debate about absolute truth and the disparity between Christians and non-Christians in the humanities. Someone menti…
Religiously Atheistic

An atheist who gets it - at least in part: 1:29-2:13 "It's still no more than a belief as with anything in life." He doesn't drink because he doesn't see the point: 2:44-2:50 "I'm not at all judgmental of other pe…
Pember-Rhapsody

It’s time for another rhapsody of issues and thoughts after the pattern I established last month. For this entry I offer you this father teaching his sons how to communicate through musical improvisation. …