"The main advantage of a matola lift is not that it is cheaper than a bus, but that you will get to your destination more quickly. In my opinion, this is outweighed by the reality that many private vehicles are in poor repair and minibuses in particular are frequently driven by drunken lunatics. Our policy in Malawi and elsewhere in Africa is to ( Read more... )

God's plan for the world does not end with you "being saved". It ends with His glorification through the restoration of all Good things. Your own life, even eternally, though it derives great importance by virtue of your importance to God, is relatively trivial in the scope of the Master Plan ( Read more... )

Philosophy can be used to engage reality, and can be used to escape reality ( Read more... )

Why does Mormonism get such a bad rap? Mormons have some questionable beliefs, sure, such as baptism of the dead. But at least they base it partly on the Bible (they believe it is referred to in 1 Corinthians 15:29), albeit through what I think is a rather bad interpretation of the text. And they find in the Bible no contradiction to this ( Read more... )

I am possessed of interesting thoughts relating to the recent university shooting in Virginia. I actually haven't followed it very closely, so my interesting thoughts may be far off base ( Read more... )

I don't actually have much to say this entry. My previous one was much more interesting. I will say that I am curious these days about how the wording of prayer affects the person who is praying. I am also curious what might be a good single word for "person who is praying". "Petitioner" only seems to cover one aspect of prayer, and obviously " ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what I want to say about them, but I want to describe them ( Read more... )

In the interests of informing all concerned parties about Arturo and my itinerary for walking to Moncton, I'm posting it here ( Read more... )

Well, after a bunch of prayer and a bit of scripture, and a game of pond hockey that seemed to clear my head out nicely, I still hadn't gotten any answers about Mormonism. So I remain unbaptized in that church. I do have two related "answers" though ( Read more... )

A lot of people didn't seem to understand this when I told them, so I'm going to broadcast it to the world and maybe that'll get all the ranting out of me. The world being the very limited subset of humans who read my livejournal. *cough* Moving on ( Read more... )