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do elephants remember?

posted by adam on 08.07.2007

A friend emailed this story to me. I normally hate that sort of thing, email stories, but this one appealed to me. (If I knew who to credit for it, I would happily share.)
“In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he […]

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fear of God

posted by adam on 07.31.2007

I’ve said it before, even right here on this blog, but I’ll say it again. At some point in your life, if you claim to really believe all this crazy stuff about Jesus, you have to actually face it. In facing it, you will be unable to avoid this simple truth: either Jesus was who […]

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to end all bad things

posted by adam on 07.26.2007

Read about John Edwards’ plan to end all bad things.

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condition

posted by adam on 06.20.2007

This is a condition
That you’re living in
You’ve been living in
And this is a condition
That you’re living in
And you won’t win so
Turn it off and start it up again.
—”Condition” by Bleach
The nature of our condition is a strange thing, stuck here in this world, our experiences primarily physical with the faint promise, the quiet whisper of […]

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existential question

posted by adam on 06.18.2007

Dippin’ Dots has been “the ice cream of the future” for twenty years now. When does it become “the ice cream of now”?

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misread

posted by adam on 03.14.2007

“A very bad (and all too common) way to misread a newspaper: To see whatever supports your point of view as fact, and anything that contradicts your point of view as bias,” (Daniel Okrent, first ombudsman of The New York Times).
I fear a great many people read (or misread) the Bible this way, too. Oh, […]

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the road has no end

posted by adam on 01.17.2007

Consider the scope of it, what it might mean, what it surely must mean if it’s true. My mind can hardly fathom that. I half expect it to be like one of those short dreams I sometimes have just as I’m falling asleep. My whole body is overcome with the sensation of weightlessness and, all […]

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