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0 x 0 = 0

Several years ago I set myself the task of writing an essay without using the letter “e.”  It was more daunting than I thought it would be.  It became a real challenge.  I had to read and reread my drafts over and over.  Those pesky little critters (“e’s,” that is) kept creeping in everywhere.  I  would be sure that I had expunged them all.  “Out, you varmints!”  And then, lo and behold, another one!  It took a while to finish that piece.

After that experience, I wanted to again do something difficult.  So I decided I would challenge myself again.  But how?  Then I hit upon an idea.  I would write about nothing.  Hmmmmm!  Here are the results of my meanderings in the realm of nothingness. Continue reading

Evil = Okay!?

We live in a day when everything is relative.  According to the popular mythology, nothing is absolute.  (How popular mythologists get by with this absolute I will never understand.)  Truth and morality are situational, personal, relational and relative.  The all-too common thinking runs something like this: “If I think it is okay, then it is okay.  If I perceive it as moral and good, then it must be moral and good.”  Usually what such thinkers actually mean is “if what I am doing is something I want to do—that makes me happy—then it must be good.” Continue reading