Love Is NOT Keeping the Commandments!

“Mommy Sandwich” Photo credit: ~PhotograTree~ via photopin cc 10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be…

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Science, Fallibility and Love

Harry Harlow with a “wire mother” surrogate nurse and a rhesus monkey subject Hard as it is to believe, during the early Twentieth Century, a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible thing to give a child. The government printed pamphlets warning mothers against…

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Can Cognitive Dissonance Explain the False Equating of Keeping the Commandments to Love?

“Moses with the Ten Commandments” Original painting by Rembrandt Is a car an automobile?  Careful how you answer. I like to think about things and put them in logical categories, but there is always a danger in doing so.  A few months back, Seth Godin wrote “Your first mistake might…

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What You Haven’t Been Told: Why Were You Born? What Is the Purpose of Your Life?

Earth, as seen from Apollo 17 (click on photo for full resolution) 3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job spoke, and said: 3 “May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said,…

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