by Jim Stitzel | Dec 29, 2005 | General
It is the extremists of any major religion that end up giving the whole a bad reputation. Bad news travels more quickly than good news does, and poor behavior is more easily remembered and available to memory than is good behavior. So what typically ends up happening...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 29, 2005 | General
One of the things that I think I find most irritating is when people make the assumption that, just because you hold a different viewpoint than them, you 1) must be mis- or underinformed; 2) must be spouting the standard ‘party’ line; and 3) must be unable...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 28, 2005 | General
Ben “asks”:http://scatteredwords.com/2005/12/what-is-lust/ another very good question: bq. Everyone decries it, but no one really explains. I spent some time today trying to find someone, somewhere on line who had a good handle on what it is. Obsessive...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 28, 2005 | General
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I never have, and I probably never will. To some people this might be considered heresy, but those are often the same people who make their resolutions and then never keep them. I’ve honestly never seen the sense...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 27, 2005 | General
bq. What about questioning the existence of God, the legitimacy of the Bible, whether or not one should be living to bring glory to God? Are these also questions one should speculativly ask?...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 27, 2005 | General
There is no clear-cut definition for postmodernism, but it does seem to encompass two general facets of philosophy — 1) that all ‘truth’ is relative to the individual, that it is, essentially, whatever you make of it, and 2) a strong focus on...
