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Calvin the Moth as He Relates to Will Provine

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Calvin the Moth as He Relates to Will Provine

Calvin the Moth as He Relates to Will Provine

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Yue Little grew a caterpillar into a pure, white moth, which she named Calvin. When I witness such things, imagining that somehow, through a blind process chock-full of errors, an organism arose which changes from a many-legged caterpillar into a two-winged creature of flight, is so preposterous as to be something out of a fairy tale. 

Soulless Eyes

Soulless Eyes

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Reading Time: < 1 minute We’ve all heard of murderers who are described as having soulless eyes. It’s a creepy thing to imagine. In the worldview of atheism though, everyone has soulless eyes, because no one has a soul.

Is the New Testament the New Testament?

Is the New Testament the New Testament?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Is all of the New Testament the New Testament?

A Very Motivational Christian Message from a Friend in Africa

A Very Motivational Christian Message from a Friend in Africa

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Reading Time: < 1 minute My friend and mentor, Jeff, has lived in Africa for going on 4 decades. He has the most upstanding family and extended family I’ve ever met. With a message like this always coming from him, it’s no surprise.

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Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Americans exist in a nation of failed families. A nation which sacrifices the unborn for convenience. It’s a nation of shattered homes, and of nuclear families ripped asunder, where they even existed in the first place. A nation where commitment and lifelong together-goals are scorned and derided as superstitious relics of a bygone era.

The Obligation of Man

The Obligation of Man

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Stewardship is huge these days. From environmentalism to welfare, we’re bombarded with the message that we, as the virtuous people we know ourselves to be, need to focus on saving things: democracy, the planet; feelings. Companies accept diktats under the acronym “ESG,” standing for “environmental, social, and corporate governance.” You’ve got to keep that ESG score up, so accept the messaging you’re given and promulgate it. Yet often what we…

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OnlyScams: Accretion of Knowledge

OnlyScams: Accretion of Knowledge

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Reading Time: 2 minutes An old coworker once told me that he was spending a good deal of money on a website where he could subscribe to a certain girl and watch her perform sexual acts and apparently also work on cars while naked. It was easy for me to list off the reasons I didn’t think this was healthy, moral, or financially prudent (and sure enough, his marriage fell apart). I think that…

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Roller Coasters and Life

Roller Coasters and Life

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Reading Time: < 1 minute I love roller coasters and have a particular fondness for ones made by the Swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard. Through the ups and downs of the run, I’m able to have fun because much thought went into the design, and I know I’m going to be safe in the end. The ups and downs of life are also much easier for me knowing that I’m following a design made by…

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A Tale of Gimli and Boldness

A Tale of Gimli and Boldness

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Reading Time: 2 minutes “Let them come. There is still one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath.”

Idiots in Hateful Sky-Daddy Cult Once Again Giving Free Disaster Relief to Poor People

Idiots in Hateful Sky-Daddy Cult Once Again Giving Free Disaster Relief to Poor People

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Deranged religious cultists are once again spreading their intolerance and bigotry abroad.

Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Big tech suppresses certain ideas through social mechanisms and disallowing certain interactions. You’ve seen the playbook, which includes things like removing dislikes from ideas they support, prohibiting sharing of certain information entirely, banning heterodox thinkers who seem most open and might attract others, posting “fact-checks” which are factual though not truthful (and in some cases which are purely fallacious), and promoting certain concepts while disallowing others. 

Raising a Daughter in a Bizarre World

Raising a Daughter in a Bizarre World

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Thanks to the events of the recent past, many people have been putting a huge emphasis on avoiding people who seem ill. They want to avoid contagion, so unless they’re healthcare workers, they don’t spend all day around sick people.

Being Self-Sufficient

Being Self-Sufficient

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Part of being “self-sufficient” is having a close network that helps you. Self-sufficient communities exist far better than self-sufficient individuals, as there’s a need for human connection, and of course on the more technical side of things, people tend to specialize and have different strengths and weaknesses.  In fact, one of the most successful such societies in the United States is probably the Amish. They survive so well because they focus on…

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Live Not by Lies: Unyieldingly Anchored to Reality

Live Not by Lies: Unyieldingly Anchored to Reality

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Reading Time: 11 minutes Examining the telltale signs of a culture marching toward totalitarianism at breakneck speed.

Live Not by Lies: Prepare by History

Live Not by Lies: Prepare by History

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Reading Time: 9 minutes A look into the history of Marxism, Nazism, and Christianity.
Be ready. Be active. Don’t lie. Serve others. Live Not by Lies.

Check Yourself Out, Good-Lookin *finger guns*

Check Yourself Out, Good-Lookin *finger guns*

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Hey there good lookin’! What’s cookin’—in your character, that is? *finger guns* And how can you find out?

Live Not by Lies: Involvement Increases Investment

Live Not by Lies: Involvement Increases Investment

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It has been said that politics is a conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. If you do not think this is true, read about the October Revolution of 1917, where Lenin and the Bolsheviks proved that a dedicated minority can gain absolute power over a disorganized, leaderless, indifferent majority.

Teachers and Saints

Teachers and Saints

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Thoughts about a study I had with a friend on the concept of some people in Christianity being “very special.”

Consider Your Destiny

Consider Your Destiny

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Reading Time: 2 minutes We often wonder about “fate,” or a predetermined outcome that we can’t escape. Does it exist?

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Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

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Reading Time: 6 minutes In an age that seeks to force you into mental compliance, because surely you alone are left, do not give in, no matter how the temptation is packaged. Live Not by Lies.

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Live Not by Lies

Live Not by Lies

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does it mean to “live not by lies?” People will soon either come to find out, or they will live by lies.

The Soul-Shattering Sound of Silence

The Soul-Shattering Sound of Silence

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Reading Time: 2 minutes It is hard to be thankful for pain when you consider all the moments you got to hold you kid and listen to her floating laugh echoing in the halls, which now ring only with the high-pitched, tinny whine that your ears pick up when there is only silence. It’s hard to be thankful for the times your mom cooked you your favorite dinner as you stand in the kitchen, now empty forever, helping load boxes of items you have to do, well, something with. It’s hard to be thankful for the pain as you tell your best friend and confidant, “I finally got rid of his toothbrush today. I guess this makes it real.”

Ancient Writings: Has Christianity Changed Views on Baptism Over Time?

Ancient Writings: Has Christianity Changed Views on Baptism Over Time?

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Reading Time: 14 minutes Although I’d known the various views on immersion that churches today tend to hold, I was curious about what Christians closer to the time of Jesus thought. In this post I explore a number of their early writings, and then offer my own conclusions.

What Saves Man? A List, But Not a Checklist

What Saves Man? A List, But Not a Checklist

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Saved by faith alone? A little more? What’s the answer?

Should You Behead Those Who Insult You?

Should You Behead Those Who Insult You?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes In the past I’ve run into unexpected cruddy behavior and found myself asking, “What in the world do I do now, and how can I make it as painful for them as possible?”

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