We live NOW in the best of all possible worlds. Some things will never change, part 2 Related: 7. Mooring oneself in What Is Is-Ought Problem | Wikipedia Music: Gustav Holst, "Jupiter," from The Planets https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/53bfe5_92da9340e9224ae4a3203fb5ee00d7db.mp3 Script: It's The William Tell Show. I call myself William Tell; you can call me Bill. Thank you for including me in your world. A lot of the 2016 Presidential election had to do with who was and wh

Making life difficult.

Raheem sacrificed his life to destroy the “Wall of Fame.” It worked. Was it worth it? Related: “Do the Right Thing,” part 2

At least, not for people like me.

“Embracing what is,” a four-part series: • As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris • Belief: The unforgivable sin • Rationalism cannot save us. • Hell has an exit.

Teddy is an old man. He wears a rosary around his neck, and never fails to “testify” in chapel. “I talk to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost every day,” he says. Every time there’s an altar call, he runs right up there to get born-again — again. Five times a week, he’ll do that. He got barred out a year ago for selling someone oxycontin. Friday night 09/07/12, he came back. He insists to everyone that he’s never been here before, and said he wants to get into the program. Aside

Here is the third chapter of The Way of Peace. The first two chapters appeared Friday and yesterday. APPLICATION We are considering the human being as having, so to speak, three intimately interconnected “bodies:” (a) a material, physical body of flesh, that engages in behavior and acts on other material objects; (b) a body that thinks, is composed of and acts on ideas (ideation), which we may call the “mind;” and (c) a body of emotions, or feelings or “affects” (all the sam

Here is the second portion of the book The Way of Peace, the first portion of which appeared yesterday. ———— ♦ ———— MEDITATION Meditation is not the whole of the Way, any more than flour is the whole of cookies. If you want cookies, you must also have butter, sugar, and perhaps eggs, in addition to flour. Flour is essential, however. Likewise as to the Way, meditation is so essential, as to move me to say this: if you have any interest in learning the Way, and do not now have

In 2010, I set out to write a little book that would set forth exactly what I believe Jesus really taught. I entitled it The Way of Peace. Here is the first section of that text, entitled “ABOUT THIS BOOK.” ———— ♦ ———— Matthew 11:28-30: Jesus said, Come to me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; … and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. All my life, I have been co

Thursday, May 1, 2014. For several days, I’ve sought a sign as to whether presence is, indeed, the way to go. No answer could be clearer than my experience this afternoon.