Posted on April 2, 2009 by erincita33
I love to ponder, learn, share, and discuss. I love when people challenge my beliefs in a way that stretches me to seek more deeply for understanding and helps me gain a greater vision of the possibilities and the truth.
I have always been this way and I know it is part of why I discovered [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2008 by Dennis
I have long thought that Mormon culture lingo sounds stupid and is off-putting and degrading.
Which is wonderfully exemplified by the poem “RULDS?” by Joel Hardy (which I found in a comment at this Splendid Sun post in 2006).
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by Dennis
We’ve moved!
For the purposes of a better domain name and a better server, we have moved from Blogger to WordPress.
I’ll be sorting through some of the bugs in the next little while. But please start using this site and change your bookmarks to it.
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by Dennis
One feature I would like to add to this blog is to periodically report on blogs that I think would be of interest to our readers.
The first blog I would like to highlight is Towards an LDS Cinema, which I stumbled upon a few weeks ago. I discovered, in my stumbling, that it is authored [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by Dennis
In one of my favorite poems, “A Prayer for Old Age,” W.B. Yeats writes:
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.
Here Yeats makes the provocative claim that thinking is not restricted to the mind, and that the wise person is the one who is [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2008 by Dennis
One week ago, I started this blog thinking that maybe a few of my friends would visit now and then.
To my surprise, there have been over 1000 unique visitors, none of which came directly from search engines. (Only since yesterday has the blog been searchable by Google and Yahoo.)
It’s made me think that this really [...]
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