Tag: bible
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Human vs. Higher Exchange
The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 calls on us to avoid hypocrisy, love our neighbors as ourselves, and do not return hate for hate or blow for blow. We’re to offer hospitality even to our enemies and avoid making a show of charity. We’re to cut out things in life that cause us…
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Angels and Aliens
Shabbat shalom. A lot of Biblical exegesis is spent on trying to understand the meaning of certain liminal figures in the Bible such as angels (lit. “messenges” in Hebrew), cherubim, nephalim (lit. “fallen”), dragons, and other such things. It seems as though most such imagery comes from the Elohist framents of the Torah, those pieces…
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My Myth Is Not Your Myth
I’m reading Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols at the same time as another YouTuber. It’s not my first foray into Jung’s thinking; I read through Hall and Nordby’s A Primer of Jungian Psychology while living in a hotel in India, which was almost 7 years ago, but I filled it with notes, mostly stuff…
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Abram, the Last Matriarch
In Genesis 16 there’s a fragment that caught my attention, which might support the hypothesis that Abram came from a matrilineal society in the middle east. His wife, who is his half-sister Sarai, is marriageable because they have different mothers. Different mothers means different clans and this is therefore a legal union. Marrying Sarai was…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – A Stuntman’s Take
Many spoilers ahead. Robert Pirsig’s first book tells of the author’s cross-country motorcycle journey with his son Chris in the 70s. Their companions are a couple of technophobes who maintain their motorcycle despire their intense dislike of technological society. They’re the kind who just want to get away from “it all.” This “it all” fuels…
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Death Grip Picture Complete – DVD Work Continues
After a 13-hour day syncing sound and putting the finishing touches on the final product, Death Grip is done. Here is the cover art for the DVD and Blu Ray that you can buy in the next few weeks. Stay tuned! DVD – Special edition with bonus features Blu Ray – 1080p with a couple…
