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I just saw a preacher quote on Facebook: “Salvation is not a reward for the righteous; it is a gift for the guilty.” Adrian Rogers My response was this: “Is there no reward, then, for the righteous?”

He was glad his friend had stepped out to observe with him. “It’s always so interesting,” he mused, “to listen whenever the humans talk about death, because by their very nature, they can hardly know anything about what they’re talking … Continue reading →

I would learn in timeThat it was your policyTo handle me with Tatemae.

It is generally our human privilegeTo create new babiesPassing along our heritage on the EarthAnd making a name for ourselves—For a time at least. And I suppose we don’t think enoughAbout either the import of thatOr the honor of it. … Continue reading →

If you would wrestle with meYou might win sometimesAnd that would beA huge victory for meIn a world in which so fewWill dare to stand toe to toeTo plead their caseAnd would rather assumeThat I would not listen.

Once fake money is introduced into an economy, the people who print it have nearly-unlimited power to do whatever they’d like to remake the society as they want it to be. And this leaves few easily-traceable footprints other than inflation—and … Continue reading →