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skipper wrote a new post, Wow! A real religion debate 3 months ago
Salvation versus Grace. Both are defended by the Bible – Grace especially by Father Brown on PBS when he’s hearing confession from a murderer. The idea of Grace traces back to Cyrus The Great, King of Persia from […]
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skipper commented on the post, Judgment Day 3 months ago
Only Marty could turn mariner’s premise of self-earned salvation into the opposite theology that only God can grant grace! Well done!
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skipper wrote a new post, Judgment Day 3 months ago
Everyone talks about the day when Jesus will return to gather his deserving flock. Most of today’s Christians have a ‘good deed’ savings account to make sure they will be included. But mariner has a sugge […]
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It is true that we in the pews do not always represent the best of Jesus’s teaching. However, that is a very high bar. Who among us can achieve Christian perfection? I, for one, am counting on grace!
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Only Marty could turn mariner’s premise of self-earned salvation into the opposite theology that only God can grant grace! Well done!
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skipper wrote a new post, Tuvalu 3 months ago
A fascinating report in the AOL news strip gives an insight into the future of nationalism. Within this century, the Island nation of Tuvalu (9 coral atolls in the Pacific) is about to go under the ocean and […]
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skipper commented on the post, The deep side of knots 3 months, 1 week ago
Wow! You are a knot expert. Does it take a lot of knots to fly an airplane – rope knots, not door knots.
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skipper wrote a new post, The deep side of knots 3 months, 1 week ago
As mariner is wont to do, he fills empty time exploring the world of abstruse subjects. If one wants to get lost in a giant maze with no exit, check out quantum mechanics; or perhaps the process by which ions […]
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Unless you’re sailing a tall ship there isn’t much that can’t be done with a slipknot, bowline, two (or 3 or 4) half hitches, or a bunch of overhand knots jammed together. Bonus points for sheepshanks and Turks’-heads I guess. Splicing and ropemaking are for people who get paid to do it.
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Wow! You are a knot expert. Does it take a lot of knots to fly an airplane – rope knots, not door knots.
Thanks for responding.
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skipper wrote a new post, Jobs threatened by AI 3 months, 1 week ago
On the CBS website, mariner found a detailed analysis of what types of jobs may be most threatened by automation. An easy way to understand the impact is to consider how the Internet has changed the reader’s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The new job market 3 months, 1 week ago
There seems to be increasing news coverage about the job market, especially when comparing past, present and future markets as presented by government figures. The presumption from the White House is that the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A genuine news 'capsule' 3 months, 1 week ago
Greetings readers, noting a change in weather patterns in the Midwest. In this morning’s email, mariner found an unusually brief but profound news wrap up from the Associated Press:
“In the news today: The […]
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skipper wrote a new post, We need a culture map 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Every generation has its own lifestyles, a combination of habits, behavioral perceptions and historical benchmarks. For example, how many of us use pen and paper to write long letters? How many of us realize how […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Handle it, handle it 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Does the reader remember the TV show Carter Country (aired in the 1970s)? One of the characters was a chubby character named Mayor Burnside who managed all his duties by saying “Handle it, handle it” . Well, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Ode to Nature 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Mariner is pleased that in addition to his three alter egos, he has a wife who is the world’s best poet but doesn’t make any money because she refuses to publish her excellent works. Nevertheless, she is willing […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A legitimate view of the future with AI 3 months, 4 weeks ago
It is true that the planet is in a stage of re-creation. And, to use a metaphor, you can’t drive a car the way you drive a horse. How do you drive AI?
In mariner’s most urgent voice, he recommends to readers […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The lost sheep of Christianity 4 months ago
As many know, Christianity is having a tough time in the new century. 80% of the problem began when Alexander made Christianity a function of government during his reign as Emperor of Rome. This political […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Dog et al 4 months ago
Another indoor today because as much as two inches of rain is due. Out his front window, mariner saw a man walking his dog on a leash down the street. For those who own dogs, it is a large, life-affecting […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Kiss me, Joaquin 4 months, 1 week ago
Axios reported today on a recreation of Joaquin Oliver (school murder victim) as a fully functioning deepfake. His father has recreated his son’s likeness, behavior and voice as a tool to advocate against gun […]
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skipper commented on the post, Have a moment? 4 months, 1 week ago
Do you think a sheep could say “Bahrain”?
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skipper wrote a new post, Have a moment? 4 months, 1 week ago
If you plan to have a birthday party, would you have it in a yard or a yard?
Confused? One or the other means a measurement; the other means a contained area.
What’s the same about these words? rain, rein, […]
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I would rather have a birthday party in a garden or a garden, I replied sheepishly.
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Do you think a sheep could say “Bahrain”?
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skipper wrote a new post, Deming 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Mariner has pulled another book from his library to review while multiple inches of rain continue to fall. It is the book that set mariner’s style of management during his career. Adam Smith is credited for […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Monomyth 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Readers want a clearer definition of where the monomyth was in the Native American experience cited by Chief Seattle. The monomyth was the completely accepted reality that all existence was anthropomorphically […]
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Thank you for the clearer definition of the Native American monomyth and the comparison with the world view of the developing Western civilization. It is more clear than Joseph Campbell’s explanation! It also makes me realize that that primitive world view which lasted for thousands of years cannot be sustained with the advent of science and reason. “Knowledge grows from more to more, it cannot grow from more to less.” I think that is Tennyson’s response to Chief Seattle.
However, I may be wrong. Maybe lots of people live perfectly adequate lives without benefit of science or reason.
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