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Deciding

potential paths reveal themselves glittering in the summer sun converging prospects to be taken or denied till at last a culmination and just one path before you lies — 3/31/10 – 130 #poetry

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On Fear and Identity

I’ve been a Christian since 1984, growing up in a loving home with two amazing parents. For as long as I could remember God was as real to me as the sun and the moon. That changed six years ago, when I went through a crisis of faith followed by a series of severe anxiety attacks. Those anxiety attacks taught me some valuable lessons and I wanted to take some time to talk about what happened, to explain some of what I learned about fear, about identity and purpose and how God intends for us to live in relationship with Him

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Life Is Like a Sinus Rhythm

life is like a sinus rhythm its ups and downs beat in, beat out the problem is the frequency too fast, too slow we complain, we exult but what we really want is proper length and amplitude — 12/21/09 – 21 #favorite

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Ten Things I Have Learned Milton Glaser makes several very insightful observations.

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It Is Not Certain That All Is Uncertain

Lately I’ve had a lot to say. Quite paradoxically, this means I’ve spoken less. Words, like many things in life, need context to have meaning. That context doesn’t end with its typographic neighbors, but extends to the time of day, the place, the number and particulars of the persons to…

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Social scientists adopt one of four main ontological approaches: realism (the idea that facts are out there just waiting to be discovered), empiricism (the idea that we can observe the world and evaluate those observations in relation to facts), positivism (which focuses on the observations themselves, attentive more to claims…

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The Language of Thought Hypothesis Also regarding how language and thought are related.

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Mental Imagery The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Mental Imagery, which I would like to read later