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Two songs
This is the song that makes me feel like I’m a kid again, at home with my mom in our living room, on a peaceful afternoon. All those memories come back, the feeling of safety, of ease, of being cared for, of freedom, of relaxing after a good day, of looking forward to more good…
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Why I react so much to the words and thoughts of others
Excerpted from a personal letter. In my life, people I love bring home things and say things that really concern and disturb and upset me. They arouse dissonance within. Friends, family members. I’m the sort of person who can’t help but have a lot of thoughts about a lot of things. It’s just who I…
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Strategies for unity
Unity and peace among people won’t be found by focusing on our differences but by embracing our commonalities. Representation is an incoherent concept for fixing human society and eliminating injustice because there is no limit to how you can divide people by their differences. If we can’t find the commonality within one another and set…
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The dwelling place of redemption
The lesson of the gospel is this, that no matter how necessary the law is, morality doesn’t live at the level of collective action. It lives at the level of individual transformation. Jesus didn’t die to fix something about the laws of his country, or the collective consciousness of his country or conventional attitudes. He…
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How tech changes culture
It’s interesting, reflecting on how the culture of safetyism got started, and the role of the media in producing it simply by following the story. One big high profile case led to a radical restructuring of what people believed the world was like and what people were like and how they treated them. The media,…
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Muck
In the current culture of muckraking and accusation and everyone constantly flinging dirt at everyone, there are two types of people who can escape and thrive. Those who absolutely refuse to get involved and stay out of the puddle, and those in the middle who are so inured to the mud that they don’t even…
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Parenting challenges
I sometimes feel like every day I’m giving lectures on the theory of how basic human society works. I feel like a lecturer confronting a reluctant classroom. I feel like a crisis negotiator. My girls are constantly getting into fights. And the hardest task is to not pick sides, but to try to explain to…
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Fairness and parenting
Fair play is when we decide that neither of us is subjectively in charge of the rules of the game. Instead, we set up rules both of us have to play by and submit to and agree to, an independent arbiter that can be appealed to, regardless of who the actor in question is. In…
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How different are science and philosophy?
What has not been broadly understood about science is that it is far more like philosophy than anyone imagined. For a long time it was envisioned as a kind of different, better, more objective way of resolving questions and settling disputes. It was less human, less fallible, less easily influenced, more trustworthy. What modern science…
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The proper uses of grace
Grace has a powerful but often misunderstood role. It is like a powerful anasthetic that neutralizes negative feelings and severs the connection between the reality of our perceived identity and the reality of our perceived life outcomes. It gives us a free pass, essentially. This makes it both terribly dangerous, when used incorrectly, and a…
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