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Sweating the Petty vs. Petting the Sweaty: Two ways to play the game of life
“Life is a game.” People interpret the parallel between life and games in two ways. The most common implies...
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Poetry as Revelation of Human Nature
Whether it is the joy or the despair of love, the celebration of life or the gloom of...
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Careful Caring: We can’t always care, so why feel guilty when called uncaring?
“Don’t say I don’t care. I do care.” Like many words, care means different kinds of things. It has...
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Poetic Visions
Among the many capacities of the human brain are imagination and creativity. The two are not unrelated. If imagination...
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Exempt By Contempt: “I’ve checked with me and we both agree you’re inferior”
“I can’t believe how closed-minded he is.” We might conclude that the person who says this is pretty open-minded....
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Scientific Biogenesis and Some Religious Reaction
From the perspective of traditional religions, life-forms were invariably created very soon after the creation of the physical world....
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Coherence: Making our ideas consistent with each other
“You’re wrong; it’s not the same thing at all.” You press a friend on an inconsistency, some double standard...
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Human Origins and Religious Awareness: In Search of Human Uniqueness
As a Christian theologian interested in human origins, the origin of religion, and the controversial issue of human ‘uniqueness’,...
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Shalom/Salaam: The Untold Story of a Mystical Entanglement
(Click each for information and full size image) ©2007 Tom Block Shalom/Salaam: The Untold Story of a Mystical Entanglement...
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Co-Satisficing: Squeaky wheels and vicious cycles
“Darling, you’re absolutely right. I haven’t been paying you much attention, but from now on things are going to...