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Name: Lewis
Interests: History, politics, religion, apologetics, controversies, web comics, Settlers-related games, diverse cuisines, wikipedia, and Switchfoot.
Expertise: Depends on who you ask.
Occupation: Administrative
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
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AIM:  LordBovyne
Member Since:
3/30/2004
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| Did I ever tell you that I like to read the Christian Science Monitor? Its probably my favorite source of news. No, it is not particularly espoused to a Christian Science worldview, which holds that physical reality is not real, so you don't need medication to heal yourself. Ok, once in a while there is an article that without fail shamelessly mentions the church's founder Mary Baker Eddy and her seminal book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
CSM features its own correspondents, so there aren't a bunch of AP articles in it. There are only a handful in each section of a given day's paper. Their selection of foreign news is pretty nice; they focus on democracy, human rights, and economic development, but not in a shrill or jaded tone. In domestic and foreign stories, they tend to look at things like religion from a different angle than other mainstream media like, say, Anderson Cooper. Overall, CSM is balanced, refreshing, and tasteful. No, it is not a new all-natural fruit beverage.
Sometimes, I perceive myself to be self-selecting when it comes to what I read, watch, or listen to. Do you relate? | | |
| A letter to the editor of The Times of London once read:
"Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G. K. Chesterton."
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| Last week I was watching the History Channel. Whoa, what a surprise, huh? Well they have this new show called "The Universe." Its like they're cheating; it pretty much is a science show, but they some how smuggled it onto the History channel. Maybe they realized they needed new content after they featured rubber bands on Modern Marvels. The first episode of this new show was about the sun. We never stop much to think about the sun, and how awesome it is. Its thousands if not millions of times bigger than the earth. Its super dense, and continuous nuclear fusion goes on in the center! The coolest thing I learned is that photons that are released from fusion in the core take hundreds of millions of years to escape the sun, because the star is so incredibly dense. The photons bounce around for all of that time, and when they finally escape, it only takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth. Consider that; chances are you are being bathed in those photons now. And if not, then let me advise you, "Go to bed!" | | |
| Unfortunately no inscrutable* meditations have made it onto this blog in a while, but I assure you, they still go on daily in my head. While I offer no provocative ponderings today, I will share with you a more trivial thought. You know those mortgage ads you see on websites, the ones with the dancing people? Yeah, those are really annoying. That's all. *This word brought to you by me studying for the GRE. | | |
| I put my headphones in the washing machine and they still work! | | |
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