Are we forever at the end of the Know-It-All? You know the sort of person I’m describing, right? The kind who always know the right answer to everything when asked and, if not asked, will offer up blind bits of trivia on their own accord from the dark recesses of history while simultaneously adding living citations and quotes from books, politicians and serving up sharp shards of microinformation that only encyclopedia writers need to know.
Miep Gies died Monday night. She was 100-years-old, and while we will miss her spirit, we must not weep for her. Miep’s life life was filled with good deeds and her legacy in the arc of human suffering is evergreen and must never be forgotten; she was one of those rare, grand, people, who live a proper and righteous life. Without Miep Gies, we would not have Anne Frank.
The danger in being self-sufficient is in thinking you know enough when, in reality, you understand just enough to make a terrible mess.
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If our moral duty is to help prepare our children to live in the future without us — how are we able to sustain that teaching without a place in that world?
The Greeks had a way of constructing the character of a person on stage in a dramatic presentation: Ethical Habit of Action. You learn to understand a person based not on what they say, but rather on how they behave. Don’t believe what you’re told. Believe only what you see. It is the bundled experience of the form — the habit of action — that defines us… and not the brittle persona many believe is the true and ethical morality of the person.
Attention spans are in a growing deficit. That means we listen to each other less. We read less. We pay less attention in social learning circles like schools, business meetings and church sermons.
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Walgreens — the largest drugstore chain in America — announced this week that they are selling over-the-counter DNA home paternity tests.
Is it possible to really know God’s wants — especially when we have so many Gods roaming the universe around us? We can pretend we know God’s wants. We can interpret text to try to give us direction — but any human knowing of an immortal’s internal intention is folly at best and heresy in the worst.
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