Arguing in Circles
Here’s a fun one for you; the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God.
Here’s a fun one for you; the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God.
There used to be a cartoon on called “Pinky and the Brain.” They had a catch phrase. Pinky would ask Brain “What are we going to do today Brain?” and Brain would answer “The same thing we do every day Pinky; try to take over the world!”
Why is Hollywood socialist? I’ve been asking myself that for a long time now. Why is one of the largest capitalist organizations in the entire world so bent towards socialism? How is it possible that a business as large as the Hollywood movie machine so entrenched in the idea of spreading the wealth, when the entirety of their livelihoods are dependent upon the consumer mentality?
It never ceases to amuse and amaze when I hear, as I so constantly do, people trying to mold the world in their own image. I’ve been writing articles about this for three years and every time I turn around, and as I look back I see dozens of articles dancing around this very issue. People want to feel a sense of control, of ownership. We struggle day after day to mold a destiny for ourselves. We strive so hard for a roof, a marriage, a savings, a career… so much toiling for so little.
If you get email, then you get viral emails… you know those ones that get passed around that inevitably end up with some message at the end about passing them on, or keep it going. Sometimes they’re sappy, sometimes they’re disturbing and sometimes they’re actually thought provoking.
Everyone is looking for signs and wonders, answers to prayer. I wonder how many actually ask the right way, and then see the results? There’s an often abused passage in the Bible that teaches one key ingredient to the process of prayer:
Paul Zak is professor of Economics and Department Chair and director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He’s also trying to make a name for himself in the study of evolutionary mechanisms and their effect on human behavior.
The election news brings up some very complicated issues that we, as a people and that we, as a Christian people, really need to look at. Chief among those issues is the idea of interventionism versus isolationism.