Author: Mr Nobody
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An oracle, in three moments of revelation
I’ve had three special moments in my life, unique moments of transcendent realization that lifted me above the clouds of thought and individual limitation for just a moment and gave me a prophetic view across history. Unfortunately, describing what I saw in thoae moments is rather difficult. The nature of such revelations is that they…
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My early feminine/spousal ideals
The women who exemplified what you want in a wife (a girl like dear old mom). My mom My mom’s mom Samantha from Bewitched Bonnie Hunt Harriet Vane from Dorothy L Sayers mysteries (someday I hope I’ll find someone as complex and difficult as that!) My early ideals of romantic beauty and awakening erotic interest.…
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The shadow
If you can see or aren’t willing to face the potential pitfalls and dangers of the ideology you wield, then it’s possible that you don’t really understand it, and likely that you shouldn’t be wielding it. Unless you’re familiar with your own inner monster and can recognize the danger it poses, you’re not a safe…
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Spicy meatball warning: A guide to sex
From a very candid letter to my spouse. It’s taken me some time to figure out my own feelings about sex, and even longer to get together the confidence to talk about it. So here, in no particular order, are some things that are true about sex and myself. First, I’m a sexual vampire. No,…
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Social media fears
In response to fears and shame my wife felt over an article she posted. About taking a complex and not reductive view of people. I understand. I also understand that what you wrote is personal because in many ways you’re speaking to yourself and your own struggles (as many people often are). What you should…
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Whether we need the law for salvation
I can answer, at least, one fairly concrete question that was in there. Are people capable of good or improvement, apart from salvation? I think the obvious answer is yes. The Bible has saved people doing bad things and unsaved people doing good things, which sometimes lead to salvation, sometimes not (or at least its…
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More on whether we need the law
This diversion is entirely tangential, and has nothing to do directly with any of the preceding stuff things I said about the law. It’s in response to so much of what my wife has to deal with in her work and how often she has to justify it to Christians. It’s funny, she has spent…
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On Christianity, liberalism, Trump, and Women
It is very sadly the case that in this particular area of moral concern, that of treating women with respect and validating their hurts and fears and injustices against them, that Christians have not been leading the way lately in the public eye, but have generally been observed to be on the defending side, protecting…
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Some thoughts on whether we need laws
There seems to be some odd idea that a nation is some sort of distinct thing apart from the people who make it up. A nation is nothing but the sum of its people. When the people are gone, it is gone. We create structures, physical, legal, structural. But those structures are merely the expression…
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On endings and facing death
“Everything ends, and that’s always sad. But everything always begins again, and that’s always happy. Be happy.” When considering death, there’s so much we tell ourselves, and so much we don’t. We see our lives in our stories, and so we tell the story of our lives to understand its ending. If the story was…
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