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2020-10-27T20:17:54-04:00

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Beware Powerful Opinion: The Shoddy Argument often Appears in a Trendy Book (Beware the Eristic)

Last updated on: October 27, 2020 at 8:17 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Be brave. Be prophetic, but take care. Jeremiah loved Judah, would take nothing, certainly no gold, from Babylon, but Jeremiah predicted victory for Babylon and just punishment for Judah. That is intellectual bravery. There is no courage in attacking an establishment that does not pay you or that you despise. Many would rather lose their jobs than their social status. There is bravery in speaking the truth to the powerful in the group that pays your salary or whose approval you... Read more

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2020-10-25T22:34:02-04:00

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At Least I am Happy. . . No Small Thing

Last updated on: October 25, 2020 at 10:34 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

We can be happy. That is no small thing. If you must deal with depression, biologically based, then having something else, another reality, is meaningful. After all, life can be tedious and bad things happen. People around us make damnable choices, we make damnable choices, and we are sad, yet the God of love stands ready to make all things whole. That is what reason tells us and reason does not give into biology. That is the great error of... Read more

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2020-10-25T22:02:49-04:00

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The Talkie Man? Beware the Eristic! (Euthydemus)

Last updated on: October 25, 2020 at 10:02 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Against all temptations, keep asking hard questions of the powerful and providing comfort to the despised. The traveling salesmen of the Establishment throttle online media, movie production, and the music that gets promoted. The educrat keeps ignoring goodness, truth, and beauty for more administration, more quibbling, all in the cause of more funding. Against this situation we must not create a parallel culture of sophistry and argumentative foolery. Perilous times tempt to easy answers, finding ways to agree with the... Read more

Culture

2020-10-25T22:11:42-04:00

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Come On Man: How to Tell Hard Work from a Waste of Time (Euthydemus!)

Last updated on: October 25, 2020 at 10:11 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Loving wisdom can be hard work or you can dodge anyone who might change your mind, dodge the arguments, and super-saturate in materials that support what you wish is true. ”Come on man.” ESPN has a segment called “Come on man. . .” There we see football players who should do something, but inexplicably do not. Imagine running for the end zone, then looking back, and so getting caught, the football knocked out of your arms: the coach turning salty... Read more

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2020-10-23T18:36:06-04:00

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Being a Real Cannibal? A Journalist’s Tale

Last updated on: October 23, 2020 at 6:36 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The tyrant, or simply the establishment, promises you treats if you lie. As a member of the press you lie, covering (say) for a massacre of indigenous people for the folks back East, and so you stay in good standing with the people whose approval you crave. You get the job you want. After all, if you tell the truth about Comrade Stalin and his mass murder of Ukrainians, then you will not get the critical interview with Stalin that... Read more

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2020-10-22T23:57:24-04:00

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Child of the Kingdom

Last updated on: October 22, 2020 at 11:57 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Child of the kingdom, be filled with the Spirit! Nothing but “fullness” thy longing can meet; ’Tis the enduement for life and for service; Thine is the promise, so certain, so sweet. “I will pour water on him that is thirsty, I will pour floods upon the dry ground; Open your hearts for the gifts I am bringing; While ye are seeking Me, I will be found.” This is the conclusions of an old hymn that brought me comfort as... Read more

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2020-10-21T21:21:31-04:00

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Child of the World

Last updated on: October 21, 2020 at 9:21 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Child of the world, are you tired of your bondage? Weary of earth joys, so false, so untrue? Thirsting for God and His fullness of blessing? List to the promise, a message for you! “I will pour water on him that is thirsty, I will pour floods upon the dry ground; Open your hearts for the gifts I am bringing; While ye are seeking Me, I will be found.” This old hymn is not written for the professional skeptic, but... Read more

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2020-10-21T08:45:38-04:00

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On the Dry Ground

Last updated on: October 21, 2020 at 8:45 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Ho! every one that is thirsty in spirit, Ho! every one that is weary and sad; Come to the fountain, there’s fullness in Jesus, All that you’re longing for: come and be glad! “I will pour water on him that is thirsty, I will pour floods upon the dry ground; Open your hearts for the gifts I am bringing; While ye are seeking Me, I will be found.” This old hymn came back to me today. I recollect sitting... Read more

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2020-10-19T23:48:59-04:00

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The Legend of Charlie Arms and Being Ready if We Can

Last updated on: October 19, 2020 at 11:48 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Every day the College and the School begin with seven pulls on the rope of The Bell: Charlie Arms’ Bell. The Bell rang out joyously as we returned from lockdown, sounds the start of lunch or a party and marks day’s end. At solemn times we remember heroic souls. We rang it four times for the Birmingham Four. On 9/11, we pause and pray and ring the bell eleven times. That we recall brave souls is fitting for The Bell. The... Read more

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2020-10-20T22:43:36-04:00

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Saving Our Rational Souls: On Reading Plato (A Short How To Because You Should Do)

Last updated on: October 20, 2020 at 10:43 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Reading Plato There must be somebody who loves Plato the first time they read him, but I was not that man. I read Republic and the entire book seemed needlessly complicated, full of obscure arguments, and Socrates talking to horrible students. The problem was I . . . of course. Plato is beyond my judgments! Pause a minute and consider how obvious that truth is. Plato helped found philosophy and much of what we believe is either something he discovered... Read more

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