Best of Spirits

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Coming at you
Readiness is All

We cannot possibly be perfectly prepared for every possible contingency. But we can be ready.

Text added to Best of Spirits on 2011 Jun 25 readiness, consciousness, focus, bears, God, preparedness
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Pride (C.C. Beck's Captain Marvel)
Pride versus Progress

There's nothing wrong with being corrected to what's right.

Text added to Best of Spirits on 2011 Jun 16 pride, self, Ego, growth, learning, perfection, progress
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Hobbes
Determinism vs Free Will

When I began pondering the question of determinism and free will, I found myself, philosophically and theologically, going back and forth.

Text, Illustration, Cartoon by others, Remix added to Best of Spirits on 2011 Jun 10 philosophy, theology, determinism, free will, omniscience, family, Calvin, Hobbes
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Einstein
Discerning Compound Problems

Problems are sometimes simple. More often problems are compound and complex, and complicated.

Text added to Best of Spirits on 2011 May 20 problem solving, perception, awareness
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angry storm
Ill winds of April

Along with the physical weather damage there's been waves of what I've come to call "April madness," a seeming spike in random beat-downs, suicides, family murders, etc. Just my impression; I've not compiled statistics.

Text added to Best of Spirits on 2011 Apr 27 weather, April madness, tornadoes, emotions, SAD, Waco massacre, Columbine High School massacre, Oklahoma City Bombing
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Guy-rilla
Genesis 1 describes evolution

Jerry respected science and had to reconcile its facts with his belief in the Bible's — including Genesis's — inerrancy.

Text added to Best of Spirits on 2011 Feb 5 Jarrell Bairrington, Genesis 1, Biblical inerrancy, evolution
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Thumbing
The Mysterious Stranger

Picking up the phantom hitchhiker.

Verse added to Best of Spirits on 2007 May 20 friendship, wisdom, purpose, faith
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Quill and parchment
Sheer Poetry

The sheer poetry of it all is inarguable.

Verse added to Best of Spirits on 2007 Apr 5 poetry, illumination, awareness
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In a foxhole
Be Sure to Say "Thank You."
People turn to God in their hour of need. But what do they do when they get answered?
Text added to Best of Spirits on 2005 Mar 12 prayer, thankfulness, worship, faith, religion, God
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Heaven or Hell sign
Pain and Pleasure
Acknowledging behavioral stimuli
Verse added to Best of Spirits on 2001 Oct 26 love, conflict, choice, duty
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Hwy sign: Here & Now
Not Enough

To be or to become... What was the question?

Verse, Audio, MP3 added to Best of Spirits on 2001 Oct 26 Spirit, growth, meditation, service, balance, satisfaction
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Eying you
Attitudinal Morass

What leads you to believe judgments?

Cartoon added to Best of Spirits on 2001 Jan 5 judgment, righteousness, sanctimoniousness, irony
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Homer burns cereal
Murphy Slaw

It goes wronger every day!

Verse added to Best of Spirits on 2000 Mar 1 Murphy's Law, chance, trial and error, fail, catastrophe
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22 August Song
Cycles keep passing me by
Verse added to Best of Spirits on 1997 Nov 18 friendship, wisdom, purpose, faith
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Miracle on 34th
Imagicnation is Reality

Be on guard against sinister forces at work in the world.

Text added to Best of Spirits on 1997 Nov 13 imagination, doubt, cynicism, realism, hope, faith, Spirit, Santa Claus, Peter Pan, Hobbits
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anger, fear, smile
Suffering and Joy
Touching on the age-old question of partiality in a universe centered on a Perfect One, especially as relating to death
Text added to Best of Spirits on 1997 Oct 26 religion, theology, suffering evil, joy, faith, Spirit
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She is not smiling
Two Sides of a Coin

Sometimes you can't tell 'em apart

Verse, Audio, MP3 added to Best of Spirits on 1997 May 13 variety, differences, universe, fate, coin
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wild yin yang
Detached . . . Attached
Are we bodies, minds, or something more? A pair of parallel articles.
Text added to Best of Spirits on 1997 Apr 25 mindfulness, attachment, consciousness, awareness
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Walking
The Question of Cosmic Personality

That we are and we ask makes us the revelation of the I Am That I Am

Text added to Best of Spirits on 1997 Mar 22 Urantia, faith, reason, personality, philosophy, Spirit
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