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My girls
For me, the idea that there will come a day when I can’t hug and snuggle and love my girls is almost unbearable to contemplate. I love them more than the whole world. They’re the sun that rises and lifts me each day. They’re the life I live and struggle through and endure. They’re my…
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Reflections on parenting
I can remember a couple of the key discussions I had with Alex. I often felt like I fought the same battles with her every day for months and months without any progress (which I did). I got sad, I got angry, I got frustrated, I got cynical. I remember Alex would never hold my…
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The inadequacy of modern and postmodern Christs
The postmodernist Christ is completely unnecessary. He did not and cannot conquer death, because he was not truly unique or divine and did not rise. He was a divine story and rose in our hearts, but in reality he died, and he had no more real power than any other prophet or story in our…
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My goodbye to social media
It’s time for me to admit that I’m a bit of a coward. Over time, I’ve noticed a couple things. First, social media (and media in general) is making my life worse instead of better. It’s making it harder to work, sleep, love and care for my family, have good atitudes about others, care about…
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How to respond to emotions
There is a certain response to questions that considers it more important to validate feelings, and the intuitions they represent, than it is to resolve them. That it’s more important and more kind to a person to agree with and respect their intuitive response than it is to test whether they are actually appropriate, potentially…
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The social nature of moral norms
In practice, the majority of moral norms are socially negotiated. The excuse “everybody was doing it” may not make much sense to parents, but it has a lot of explanatory power when it comes to explaining actual behaviors. The perceived acceptability of a behavior has an enormous influence on its allowability and acceptance and its…
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Do men actually like other men?
A question for thought, do men actually like one another very much? It always seems to me that women liked each other more and had more active actual relationships. Men have alliances, they enjoy playing together in a way that involves practice for competition, they also engage in dominance establishment activities. But to most men…
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The pursuit of the self
What percentage of your day is spent deliberately caring for or trying to bring pleasure to someone else? What effect is this likely to have on you as a person if it is little? If it is a lot? What are the likely long term effects of a society that encourages us to spend more…
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The value of disagreeability
There is much that we dismiss because it is disagreeable, and many people who we dismiss for the same reason. But simply because something is disagreeable does not necessarily mean that it isn’t true. Life and reality are often disagreeable, truth is often disagreeable. As a parent, it is a heavy and difficult burden that…
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Disadvantage
There is no upper limit to the amount of different ways a person can be disadvantaged. And for a great majority of people and these factors, our possession of them is neither to our credit or our detriment. We neither produced nor refused them, they are simply part of the fabric from which we are…
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