1. panentheism — tenet that God is the entirety of the universe and yet somehow transcends the universe as well The author claims Rumi as a believer in panentheism because the Sufi poet finds God to be both transcendent and immanent, but then again, this is also the view held in most Catholic orthodoxy. …
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Friday Vocabulary
1. confute — prove someone or something to be wrong But why should we waste so much time confuting this obviously fallacious argument, when the refutation is all around us in the natural world? 2. fiduciary — of a relationship in which one person holds property on behalf of another Naturally he agreed to …
One Hundred and Seven Thousand Songs (107,000)
I was so excited to schedule last Friday’s vocabulary for auto-publication that I neglected to note that I crossed another fictional milestone on Saturday, when I listened to my 107,000th unique iTunes track, a sad little number called “Atomic Watch” from a sad album given away to those who donated blood at this year’s Comic-Con, …
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400 Days
Yet another glorious achievement, as I have now listened to just over 400 solid days of tracks in my iTunes collection. The song I heard which put me over the 400-day top was “Peace Train” by the quondam Cat Stevens. 400 days of tracks make up 106,902 items totaling 791.47 GB of files. There remain …
One Hundred and Six Thousand Songs
Last night I listened to my 106,000th unique iTunes track, a middle-aged radio show entitled “The New Man at the Yard” from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This particular episode dramatizes a ‘ride-along’ with Scotland Yard by the author Charles Dickens — sort of a 19th-century version of Castle — and originally aired on March …
Appendix: This Meme Is Bogus
Exercise: Prove the following meme is bogus Given: The meme consists of text superimposed upon a yellow background with a image to right. The text reads: Declaring to be an emerging economy the U.S. refused to recognize international copyrights for the first 100 years of its existence. No other emerging economy has been granted this …
Medication Guide
PDF copy of this document for your records MEDICATION GUIDE HOPE [hohp] (sperolatior) Read this Medication Guide before you start taking HOPE and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. Could be. This information does not take the place of talking to your physician about your condition or your treatment. …
Brief Glance at Religious Devastation
Recently I read yet another statement decrying religion, blaming religion for most of the assorted atrocities and ills of mankind. It did not help that the quote was attributed to Bill Maher, who has the tactful subtlety of pancreatitis, nor that the person promulgating same was someone I respect very much, and whose good opinion …
Airport Security
Made it through Atlanta security without getting the obligatory lecture about the safety of the full-body millimeter wave scan system that the TSA guy in San Diego told was now ‘mandatory’ to say to any one choosing to “opt out” of the aforementioned security screening. The woman at ATL just shouted “Male assist!” And told …
Toast
(On the occasion of Dad and Lynn’s wedding) May your love flow like the patient river, Channeling through life’s difficult terrain. May it bring sweetness and slow delight To make gentle the inevitable rain. May a power beyond yourselves be stirred From this merging of individual streams, And the waters of your love run cool …