Monthly Archives: April 2014

A perfect marriage? No risk of divorce? Yours FREE with this business card-sized pre-nuptial agreement.

The Business Card Pre-Nup: If one or both of you does not want to make this strong of a commitment, you’re not ready to be married to each other.Click the image to download a printable PDF copy of the agreement.A … Continue reading

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What makes a good marriage so good? Simple: A man in charge.

What does a happy marriage look like? That’s easy: It looks like a man in charge.Marriage is the man’s relationship from the outset, and it fails, when it does, when he stops wanting it enough to drive it. Repeat that: … Continue reading

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The Church of Splendor: There is a crack in everything.

If a lion can stalk the earth as lord of all he surveys, why can’t you? While our Christian friends are celebrating Easter, let’s talk about resurrecting the god you’ve been trying and failing to crucify since you were a … Continue reading

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What’s “good” #conservative #art? Ars gratia libertatis – art for #freedom’s sake.

There is nothing in a good “conservative” story that should repel a liberal reader.cindiann / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Clearly I’ve hit a nerve in my discussions of a more-ideal kind of “conservative” art: … Continue reading

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@LibertyIsleMag made #conservative #art into just another Dairy Queen disappointment for me.

Unless you have a boat of your own, there is no liberty on an island…It’s late in the day. You’re hot, tired, cranky. Up ahead on the right there’s a Dairy Queen, and for every reason you should not go … Continue reading

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Reunion.

They stood looking at each other, the boy and the man, and neither knew quite what to do. They didn’t hug, they didn’t even shake hands, and neither of them could decide where to fix their eyes. Finally Tim’s father … Continue reading

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Let’s have a real writing contest: Take a sad song and make it better.

How do you make a family whole when everyone in it is broken? Hollywood will pay big bucks for a compelling answer to that question.The PIX-JOCKEY (visual fantasist) / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) Officious … Continue reading

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Rearranging the universe the way you want it is #egoism in action, not self-sacrifice.

This is egoism in action, remaking your world the way you want it. The video illustrates pellucidly why the idea of agape as self-sacrifice is incorrect. The love expressed this way is entirely egoistic: I am rearranging the universe to … Continue reading

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When you do as you know you shouldn’t and don’t do as you know you should – you’re living selflessly.

I like to personify my thinking. I do this anyway, in the silence of my own mind, playing out my conjectures like a 4D movie – like the set of long-term transactions that human relationships are. But I like to … Continue reading

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A short take on The Dancing Bear Fallacy: Humans #reason and #choose. Animals don’t. Get used to it.

Another short clip from the interview I did last August with Anthony Johnson of The21Convention: Mind what goes into your mind: What animals (and ‘artificially-intelligent’ software) do is not intelligence but pattern-matching, a cargo-cult-like analogue to inference with respect to … Continue reading

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My first quarter: #Love, #sex, #death, #chastity and a brand new #atheist, #egoist #church.

Poetry is leadership is dance, and they will prove that to you if it takes them all afternoon.Prabhu B Doss / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND I had a killer first quarter, secular arguments about marriage, chastity, life and death — … Continue reading

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