Tag: truth
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Killing in the name of
Several years ago, during the anti-abortion groundswell by radical Christian activists, I got into an argument with a relative. A prominent abortion care doctor had been murdered. My relative had the rather monotone position that “at least there’s one less abortion doctor left.” I remember being floored by that. It was clear in the sentiment…
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American Conspiracist
I heard a fantastic podcast recently on the history of conspiracies in America. Throughout our country’s political life, there have been struggles with truth and facts, and how they are disseminated. That hasn’t changed today. And yet in the Trump era, our national disconnect with reality has been accelerated, particularly with the advent of social…
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Electoral Epistemology
I was speaking with someone recently about tomorrow’s election and they brought up a very good point that I want to explore in myself.
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Hygiene quiz
Ok, as my lovely wife has stolen my thunder, I’m in need of your help.
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Breckenridge Film Festival, 2005
A few weekends ago, I drove up into the mountains of Colorado. Was I going camping, you ask?
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Here I raise my Ebenezer!
A friend recently asked me if I named my cat Ebenezer after Dickens’ miserly character, or the 18th century hymn.
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Meme Therapy
“You hear what you want to hear.”
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Herofication
Remember a few years ago when Chris Columbus was going through the retroactive wringer? The historians were brutal to the man.
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Epistemology
It’s funny to me how the mind works. How we can know something with our heads epistemologically, but not really comprehend or internalize the truth of it.