The Hand of a Crystal God: Ten Sentence Story #132
Robert awoke to find the crystal hand of God had shattered between his fingers overnight.
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How Not to Faint
The faith of waking is important to covet when you are faced with a life-threatening injury. An EMT first responder buddy of mine told me about the “fainting effect” that happens when they first arrive on scene.
Ten Sixty-Eight
City on a hill starring a demon in the depths.
Moral Indoctrination and the Church
The Greeks made a bold move and removed the question of morality from the secular world and replaced that mandate with the universal ideal of ethical behavior governed by laws. We became a people of rules and laws and ethics in the state — making us completely unique in the world — because no other competing species for our time and space is able to cognitively think, make value judgments and create a standard, equitable, criteria for living as citizens that requires we help each other instead of trying to kill each other. We are ruled by our minds and not our emotional instincts. We have patterns of written expectation we agree to adhere to in order to get along with each other — and the role of the historic Church in antiquity was to mediate the meticulous, and sometimes tenuous, dyad between a people and their state — and to help regulate an effervescent values system and to negotiate a context for living a moral life in a shapeshifting world.
The Real Face of War
This horrific image — a true Urban Semiotic — is making the rounds of the Internets today along with lots of breast-beating and self-immolation over the appropriateness of showing this child killed in a car-bomb explosion in Baquba, Iraq yesterday. 15 people were killed, including seven policemen. Twenty others were wounded.
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