The Happy Moron

If you live in Connecticut, the answer is yes.
They have a law against “injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children.”
I think this law is fantastic. It’s exactly the kind of law that should exist – the law that simply says, “Don’t do wrong.” This is the best law – it’s simple, [...]

I don’t remember the name of my Grade 7 Social Studies teacher. Does that make me a bad person?
Well, I don’t remember much of her class, either
But there was one fantastic lesson in that class, and I sincerely wish that, at the time, I’d recognized what she was really saying. It went something [...]

What does the word ‘is’ mean?
The simple answer is that it means, “exists”. To say that something is, is to say that something exists. “Is” is a conjugation of the verb to be, meaning existence. I am, you are, he is, she is, they are.
But this is a false answer, because we haven’t defined anything, [...]

A Riddle
What do these descriptions have in common?

Struck with pace inside the intersection of post and bar
Contains no salt
Deploys coherent packages of software functionality as loosely coupled, coarse-grained services

Answer?
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They all describe good.

A good penalty kick
A good glass of drinking water
A good enterprise architecture ( It delivers dramatically improved application flexibility, allowing enterprises to continuously adapt constellations [...]

Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?… God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells. — Job 28:20,23 (NIV)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. — Proverbs 1:7 (NIV)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, [...]

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. — Michelangelo

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at [...]

Today’s Non Sequitur
The Kingdom of God is such a departure from life as we know it that we can’t even conceive of what it’s like.
That’s one of the reasons that we can’t build such a thing ourselves.
It’s also the reason that “It doesn’t make sense to me” or “I don’t understand how it could possible [...]

At first, Godblock upset me.
It left me feeling hurt and sad, so much so that I had to put a link to it and see what others thought.
Looking at the site a second time, it could be a joke. Certainly it’s vaporware, because if you try and download it, you get a message saying that [...]

How does this make you feel?
Thoughts? Comments? Feelings?

What?
Then
Now
Winner

Clothes
Animal skins, horsehair
Fuzzy fleeces, blue jeans
NOW

Houses
Caves, huts, villas
Villas, condos, skyscrapers
NOW

Weapons
Clubs,swords,bows
Tanks, satellite defence systems
NOW

Science
Humours, Flat Earth, Alchemy
Relativity, String Theory
NOW

Philosophy
Aristotle
Wittgenstein
THEN

Being Good
Men were pretty awful
Men are pretty awful
Everybody loses

People are amazing and we’ve advanced in close to everything we do. But why is it that we fail miserably when it comes to the single most important thing we [...]