Prologue The MacGuffin is a literary device that moves the plot and characters forward until the story's culmination. The ring in Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings is an obvious example. Alfred Hitchcock originally coined the term, which appears essential for great storytelling. Yet, the MacGuffin may...
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Curiosity's Contribution Of all the words used in everyday Christian life, I find "Grace" the most compelling. I believe its true meaning to be abstract—possibly as abstract as an ethereal and immaterial God. As a result, this hurts the just cause of Grace. I think it...
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The story of Job is the Biblical warning for truth idolatry. Satan, standing before God, claimed that the faithful and pious are this way because it benefits them. God and Satan thus make a bet that Job, an apparently good and pious person, would forfeit...
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That is a qualified no. Emotionally immature people, unable to reason, are tribal. This is the source of the divisiveness humanity sometimes encounters within civilization. Religion does not make emotionally immature people. Instead, they are born that way. Religion, in fact, exists to move people to...
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Dysrational Movements Are The Adult Face Of Emotional Immaturity The anti-rational (i.e., dysrational) movements Marxism, Nazism, and "wokeism" are dysrationalAn irrational person is not thinking rationally, but they can. A dysrational person is pathologically unable to think rationally. movements. Each shares a common and fundamental cause for...
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Victim and victimizer, oppressed and oppressor, these two sentences are equivalent. When a person or tribe (ideological or identity group) feels that their views are out of step with the world around them or that they are not successful with their views, they reflexively assume...
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Individuals who do not practice free will (SELF-control) may become thought hoarders. If these thoughts/ideas are not reconciled with one another, mental illness likely results. This concept may be difficult to understand, yet it happens. AI can offer a real-world demonstration of the problem. The following...
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There are two kinds of capitalism. One sharpens the mind; the other dulls it (in truth, just keeps it dull). We are immersed in the latter one now: Evidence for the latter capitalistic approach is DEI. I have learned through "learningframework.com" (my avocation) that FREE WILL...
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ME: Instead, I think where Bible-centered individuals go wrong is that they conclude they can know these rules of reality absolutely. This is Bible-centered irrationality (IMAGE Quadrant 2). Under the right circumstances, Biblical thinking is fine. However, the Bible will only be the objective truth...
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This is going to sound gratuitously derogatory towards atheists. I do not mean it to be. Nevertheless, please recognize that I see atheism as THE most serious problem for civilization (truly Matthew 10: 33). TO WIT, I shame on purpose, but I never intentionally shame the...
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