2:15 on a Saturday afternoon is probably as good a time for reflection as any. I’ve just turned 30, and that’s kind of a milestone.
As I see it, my 20’s were my “checklist years”. The decade started out like a scavenger hunt. I had a list of things I wanted to do. Some were big [...]
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A New Decade
Posted in Musings, Uncategorized, tagged 20s, 30s, moving ahead, priorities on August 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Reverence
Posted in Church, Musings, tagged beauty, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, reverence, truth on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I received an email today, entitled “Reverence is more than just quietly sitting…”, that included the following quote on reverence:
Reverence has more to do with politics than with religion. We can easily imagine religion without reverence; we see it, for example, wherever religion leads people into aggressive war or violence. But power without reverence — [...]
Why Is It So Hard to Give Up Ignorance?
Posted in Musings, tagged change, choices, education, happiness, repentance on August 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are certain fields that I love — church history, psychology, game design, etc. — but refuse to study in depth.
The problem is, I have my own opinions and beliefs in each of those fields. I’m afraid that if I start studying, I’ll discover (a) how wrong I am, and (b) how much I’d have [...]
The Mart of Nations
Posted in Musings, tagged artisans, businesspeople, children, engineers, geeks, teachers on June 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Imagine a very long hallway with doors running down both sides, kind of like this:
Behind each door is some kind of pleasant diversion. If you could, you might spend your whole life traveling the hallway and discovering the hidden joys behind each door.
Of course, you have physical needs, so the hallway would need to be [...]
What Does Righteousness Look Like?
Posted in Musings on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Joseph Smith once said, “I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm, yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the smooth-faced hypocrite.” This raises the question of what indicators do we use to identify righteousness. Clean language, honesty, or something else? [...]
Agency and Pepperoni Muffins
Posted in Musings, tagged choice, default choice on April 27, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I believe that people have free agency. Of course there are limits to that agency. The classic example is pepperoni muffins. Could you have made pepperoni muffins yesterday? Nope. The idea of making them didn’t even enter your mind. It doesn’t matter that you have an oven and know how to cook muffins. Until the [...]
The Character Triangle Revisited
Posted in Musings, tagged character triangle, clarification on April 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My friend Toby/ias wrote a comment on the Character Triangle post that I wanted to respond to. Originally I was going put my response down in the comments, but as I started writing more I decided to write my thoughts here as a separate post.
Toby said:
Anyways, So I’m a little confused. Red is driven by [...]
Many Salvations
Posted in Church, Musings, tagged bulletproof monk, salvation on April 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last night Heather and I watched the movie Bulletproof Monk. I enjoyed it as a fun action flick, but it had a sub-theme of enlightenment that stuck out to me. Just before the movie, I had been reading 3 Nephi 14, wherein Jesus says,
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto [...]
Key of Wisdom
Posted in Musings, tagged quest, questing, questions, seeking truth on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I apologize for the pretentious title of this post. It implies that I’ve discovered some deep secret to discovering hidden truths, when, in fact, I’m just talking about a little conversational technique I’ve found useful in making sense of the world. I’ve never heard it addressed anywhere else, so I’ll share it here: Ask questions you [...]
