Bruce Charlton’s latest post made me wiser than I was. It is as pithy as it is true. (In it, he is also, if I may so so, at his most JG).
We want significance in our lives; but we fear it too. Significance implies that what we think, say and do have permanence and universality; but that clashes with a sinful desire that we can act without consequences, avoid responsibility.
-thus Bruce Charlton. (more…)
Time is always included in any ultimate analysis, which means (to jump a few steps) that every ‘thing’ is ‘defined’ as a lineage, extending through-time.
-thus Bruce Charlton
One of the themes of this blog is something we call “integration.” It is a real insight (though we now only perceive through a glass darkly, and though the word ‘insight’ falsely implies its our genius, instead of the work of the Holy Ghost).
Let me explain.
This should make MC smile. I saw a stack of these on a table in the foyer of a neighboring stake center. They are a robust bunch in that stake. Three years ago, I wrangled an invitation for my son and myself to join with them for the 184 and a half mile bike ride of the C&O canal towpath that their young men do every four years.
THE ART OF WAR
Strategies for Overcoming Adversity in Your Life
Seneca Stake High Adventure
Aug. 1-3, 2019
THURSDAY
How do you get there from here?
Can you counsel with your “presidency” to accomplish a task?
The Spirit – The greatest weapon in your arsenal
REMEMBER THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS
FRIDAY
Target practice
Can you work as a team to achieve your goal?
Will you become a casualty of the Adversary?
“Every battle is won BEFORE it is fought.” Sun Tzu
SATURDAY
Service – Immunization techniques against the tools of the Adversary
(Click on the photo for a larger picture.)
From the Daily Universe: https://universe.byu.edu/2019/07/30/the-church-and-byu-an-evolution-of-evolution/
The only claim they made is that Adam was the first man.
I like how these articles are less about building a bridge of faith between science and religion, but about rubbing the putative “losers” nose in it. This isn’t about evolution. It’s about creating a narrative where church leaders used to be mildly retarded and now we’re just so much more advanced.
Although I’m not sure that bothers me as much as the smug “anti-science” epithet thrown out by a journalism major. She probably didn’t even mean it as an insult, its just completely obvious to her that the old white guys were anti-science and now we know better.
I believe in evolution, but I like people who don’t believe in it more.