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• More About That Path

  
  Mercy Not Sacrifice — Authority: 124
  And a quote from Anne Lamott who is quoting E.L. Doctorow about "the path" "E.L. Doctorow once said that Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. You dont have to see where youre going, you dont have to see ...
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• End of the World, LOST and 2012

  
  TLE's LOST Blog+All About Lost Podcast — Authority: 117
  In LOST, the end of the world is predicted by the Valenzetti equation.  The equation was developed shortly after the Cuban Missile crises and Alvar Hanso funded the Dharma Initiative to try and change the core coefficients of the equation which represents human and environmental factors. Not coincidently the ...
  10 hours ago

• God doesnt want robots -- He just wants you to do whatever He says.

  
  I wonder as I wander — Authority: 111
  The argument for why God doesnt just take everyone to heaven is that He gave humans free will. He wants people to choose to love Him, and doesnt want to force anyone to love Him. He doesnt want robots. I can understand the not wanting to force people to love Him. I dont get the not wanting robots part. The ...
  3 days ago

• Just a Little Nudge? There is No Compassion Through Coercion

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 129
  What if we had the power to change people? What if we could compel them to act humanely? Would we use that power? Should we? In some of my wild fantasies as humane educator, I dream of creating a huge Humane World Empire; I’ve joked with my husband and friends that the motto of this organization would be ...
  3 days ago

• Free Will, ep 01

  
  Literary Abominations — Authority: 114
  Download Subscribe And now, Episode 1 of Free Will and Other Compulsions. Cast this week (in order of appearance): Stephanie Sawyer as Cassy Orinthal Kim The Comic Book Goddess as Val Mark Smith as Nineveh Docking Control
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• weekly numerology – November 12

  
  Creative Numerology — Authority: 112
  CREATIVE NUMEROLOGY by Christine DeLorey The weekly forecasts are updated each THURSDAY The monthly forecasts are updated on the 1st of each month © Copyright Christine DeLorey 2009 – All rights reserved * Your personal number for 2009 (you keep this number for the entire year) is obtained by adding ...
  4 days ago

• The Apotheosis of Joseph Fiennes

  
  Overthinking It — Authority: 427
  Since Aristotle (and probably before that), humans have asked themselves: Do we really have free will? ABC is currently attempting an interesting answer to that question with its new show, FlashForward. In doing so, they inadvertently make Joseph Fiennes a god. In the beginning was the word... From ...
  4 days ago

• Remember: Never Forget

  
  One Mann's Opinion — Authority: 413
  Remember those who have fought with their most precious gift of all. Remember fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, cousins and friends who did not come back and have the precious time to cherish the freedoms we enjoy. Remember that our problems pale in comparison. Remember women and men who continue to defend ...
  4 days ago

• I dont even know how to title this one.

  
  I wonder as I wander — Authority: 111
  I recently (and by recently, I mean in the last five minutes) on another blog that essentially stated that God couldnt restore someones faith by a miracle, because then the person could no longer have faith. Instead, the person would essentially have knowledge that God existed, which wouldve removed the persons free ...
  5 days ago

• NOVEMBER 2009 = 11:11 – Part Two

  
  Creative Numerology — Authority: 112
  This article is presented in two parts. This is PART TWO.  It is recommended that you read PART ONE first. November = 11.             2+0+0+9= 11.            November 2009 = 11:11. * I am life that wills to live in the midst of life that wills to live. Albert Schweitzer * ...
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• Reasonable Enough: Why Reason Does Not Compel Acceptance

  
  DefendingGenesis.org — Authority: 412
  It is COMPLETELY WRONG to say that I think atheists or any other non-Christians would agree with me if they would just open up their eyes and see reason.  I do not believe reason could infect someone [profoundly affect someone] so as to compel them to see my position as truth. I don’t think that at [...]
  6 days ago

• Home Invasion

  
  Draining the Locks — Authority: 111
  "Shingles occurs when the virus that causes chickenpox starts up again in your body. After you get better from chickenpox, the virus "sleeps" (is dormant) in your nerve roots. In some people, it stays dormant forever. In others, the virus "wakes up" when disease, stress, or aging weakens the immune system. It is not ...
  6 days ago

• “No one is righteous”…metaphorically speaking

  
  Dominic Bnonn Tennant — Authority: 92
  Today I received an email from a reader named Ryan, who writes: I’m in a discussion with a guy regarding free will, and in our discussion, we’ve come to a point where he is asking how we know when to interpret Scripture literally or figuratively.  The reason he asks is because he utilizes the argument against ...
  1 week ago

• An Impermissible god

  
  Energetic Procession — Authority: 106
  “From other passages, in which God is said to draw or bend Satan himself, and all the reprobate, to his will, a more difficult question arises. For the carnal mind can scarcely comprehend how, when acting by their means, he contracts no taint from their impurity, nay, how, in a common operation, he is exempt [...]
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• Reasons debt to Freedom? Why Im skeptical

  
  dangerous idea — Authority: 430
  Aristophanes wrote: I have a question for Professor Reppert. Does anyone know where to direct it? It pertains to the argument Lewis gives against Naturalism in Miracles. Lewiss argument seems to me to be that determinism gives us a defeater for reason. Can anyone point out where to direct questions for Professor ...
  1 week ago

• Lets assume that we dont have free will...

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 127
  Herere some of the discussions that I had on Facebook with my friends. I pieced my fragmented replies together and thought it is good to have them posted here: " You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? ...
  1 week ago

• Keeping Torah: Examples of Faith

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 129
  This is the 3 rd blog in a series in which I am reflecting on St. Paul’s comment, “For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God”  (Galatians 2:19).   The first blog was entitled, “ Through the Law, I died to the Law: St. Paul and Torah .”  For St. Paul the failure of the Torah was that ...
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• Full Text of John Goodwin’s Puritan Defense of Arminianism and Polemic Against Calvinism Available at SEA

  
  Arminian Perspectives — Authority: 115
  Big thanks to SEA member John Wagner! John Goodwin (Redemption Redeemed)
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• Another Calvinist Who Isn’t Afraid to Tell it Like it Is

  
  Arminian Perspectives — Authority: 115
  In my previous post I drew attention to a person who called Jesus the Calvinist Messiah.  As it turned out, this person was really just making fun of the way that some Calvinists tend towards elitist attitudes and equate their system of theology with the gospel itself. But here is a guy who is quite for real.  In ...
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• weekly numerology – November 5

  
  Creative Numerology — Authority: 112
  CREATIVE NUMEROLOGY by Christine DeLorey The weekly forecasts are updated each THURSDAY The monthly forecasts are updated on the 1st of each month © Copyright Christine DeLorey 2009 – All rights reserved Your personal number for 2009 (you keep this number for the entire year) is obtained by adding 2009 to ...
  1 week ago

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