Mar 03 2007
Posted by Mike West, NewStatesman.com, 07 March 2007 11:01 When Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’, he put his finger on a big issue. Many of us have been brought up with the belief that a thing can only be true if it can be proved scientifically. Even though post-modern philosophers have questioned assertions of …
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Dec 21 2006
Over the years, I’ve run into lots of people who passed through the artillery school at Ft. Sill. One of the most memorable was Jim Byrnes, at a small blues bar in Vancouver, BC. By the way, I made a grevious mistake in an earlier post. The official creed of the Church of Harmonic Convergence was “So, …
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Dec 21 2006
Several of you have have acquiesced to Thom Moore’s recent request for more details re. their academic credentials. I balked, because my first impression was that Thom’s initial angst (self-horror at the possibility of his own sense of elitism) reflected a basic reality: that there is, unfortunately, a certain degree of gravitas (that’s a nice way …
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Nov 15 2006
To my pastor: Here’s one more observation that I meant to include the other day, but it slipped away before I could write it down. This is an example of eschatology in action. Not mine, but I thought of you when I heard this… A few days before the election, an angry American preacher was interviewed on …
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Nov 12 2006
It’s been a while since I’ve written you directly. I’ve included you on a few other things that I thought you might be interested in, but I’ve fallen behind in rattling your cage. Or mine. It’s all a matter of perspective… First, I enjoyed the sermon today. Not often that you hear Darfur mentioned from …
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Nov 01 2006
My childhood friend Yusif Makhoul harvested his crop in Mieh-ou-Mieh, just east of Saida a couple of weeks ago. He said they had a bumper crop, but that they were small. They spent a week harvesting compared to the two days it took us when I was with them in ’97. (I guess olive trees …
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Oct 31 2006
I’ve been thinking about your theory lately, that the never-ending war in Iraq exists because GW needs/wants to avenge his father’s honor after Uncle Saddam tried to kill him (can’t imagine why, can you?)… It’s an interesting idea, but I just can’t accept that a US President can order the world’s most lethal military into action on …
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