All in Ideas
How do you know what you know is true. You don’t. You can’t. No one can. The reality is that we can never know that anything is absolutely, no doubt about it, 100% true. That does not stop us from believing something is absolutely, no doubt about it, 100% true.
The truck was loaded, the gas tank full, and the morning sun breaking. We left out of Clyde Back & Sons, headed for the big highway that ran from Des Moines to the Mississippi, then on to southern Indiana.
“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you”
(Calvin Coolidge, President, 1923-1929)
They do it in slow-motion, one pinpoint strike drawing one drop of blood per peck.
Remember the toy of pegs & holes? The game was to tap round pegs; square pegs; and triangular pegs into their proper holes? It taught us all, early on, to think of disparate things as components of categories.
A man living in the Province of Northumbria returned from the dead to tell what he saw. His story was recorded by Bede in his 731 A.D. book, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
The motes of dust dance in the light, gracefully swirling inside the beam that reveals what the darkness hides.
We are obsessed by time. We never have enough of it. We’d like to save it, but we can’t avoid spending it.
That’s the title of Alexander King’s autobiography. The enemy he refers to is himself.
Birth, Growth, Fullness, Decay, Dissolution, Death; the inevitable progress of all things created -
including us.
The basic idea of neoteny is simple: infant characteristics are extended into adulthood.
What do they have in common? Neither itch nor impulse is generated by our will.
Three little words that stick in the craw. Even when we know that we don’t know, we are reluctant to say so.
Remember the toy of pegs & holes? The game was to tap round pegs; square pegs; and triangular pegs into their proper holes? It taught us all, early on, to think of disparate things as components of categories.
It’s a very old question. II Peter 3:11–18 asks, “What manner of persons ought yea to be”, then instructs, ”Grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord”.
One evening, not too long after the History of Mt. Moriah book arrived in the mail, my Dad and I were casually leafing through it – checking out all the photos.