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Tag Archives: Jon Gruber

2014 End Notes, Part One: The Battle of Wits; “To The Pain”

I finally realized after all this time that the cartoon character Jon Gruber is based on-the Vizzini character in Princess Bride! I also realized this year, that even though “marriage is a dream within a dream” Americans are now wedded to Obamacare! Dealing with the Jon Grubers and Paul Krugmans of the world brings one to…

December 31, 2014 in economics, Political commentary.

Be Wary of Progressives in Finance Article Clothing or Down Where the Tax Meets the Bone

Let’s talk taxes. Be wary of Progressives in finance article clothing.  The illustrative article/video, “Income taxes are lower than you think” posted on the Yahoo! Finance webpage uses the good finance cop/bad finance cop ploy to get the reader to come around to their terms. This type of social manipulation could be one reason why…

November 15, 2014 in economics, politics.

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A follower of the Way and American & Henri, the parrotlet.

~~Praeparatio evangelica~~

Like Albert Einstein “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.“
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G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."
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“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” C.S. Lewis

What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye

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Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion...The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in story and music and art and philosophy and education and poetry and politics and theology and even--heaven help us--Biblical studies, a worldview that will mount the historically-rooted Christian challenge to both modernity and postmodernity, leading the way...with joy and humor and gentleness and good judgment and true wisdom. I believe if we face the question, "if not now, then when?" if we are grasped by this vision we may also hear the question, "if not us, then who?" And if the gospel of Jesus is not the key to this task, then what is? The Challenge of Jesus, N.T. Wright ***** "We have entered, as I see it, a spiritual limbo. Our educational institutions are no longer the bearers of high culture, and public life has been deliberately moronised. But here and there, sheltered from the noise and glare of the media, the old spiritual forces are at work" Roger Scruton

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