His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Into the Volcano (Wood 2008) holds out the promise of

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

Please don’t tell her I’m here,” the woman in the closet said, with a strange sort of desperation. Despite the cold outside, she was wearing a cropped white shirt and tight dark blue jeans that...

organized religion.” And it’s about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.

But here’s a critical point—more open decision making processes also typically require open information sharing. If you are going to involve more people in the process, they have to have the right information on which...

now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don’t want anything personal, let’s just do it, I don’t want to get involved, got it? she kicked off her high-heeled shoes… sure, he said,...

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he’s sincere. And once he’s sincere, all deception vanishes.

Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.

And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for...

Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of...

This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google...

That’s how you tell what a man’s really made of. It’s one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin’ after a woman when...

Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us...

joking and laughing as they headed off to their new life

Awake! and arise from the dust” (2 Nephi 1:14). In what ways do I need to wake up? How is it that I have been called to arise from the dust? (see D&C 113:7–10). 4....

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use.

Isaac Asimov’s remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: ‘Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.’ It...

I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

Seems to me-” Lee said, feeling for the words, “seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed….

you will be confident, and will do the job.

so I bought it.

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made...

He takes a hold of the back of my neck.

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009 Liberals are a useless lot.

Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft.

It has been observed that “none are free indeed but those whom Christ makes free.

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.

about: Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger.

It’s a lot harder to pull your head up and ask why.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

For most of the hours of the day—and most of the months of the year—the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned...

If you think about something for long enough,’ she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.’ She tapped her head. `It’s all in the mind.

A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time they’re invoked.

As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked...

Heschel calls the Sabbath a cathedral in time.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

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What is this damn thing about?” Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.

Why?” to find your subgoals. Keep asking why until you map up to your larger-level goals, at least two or three levels.

Services isolated on business logic can share data sources with other systems.