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guarding capitals
capitalization as an attempt to establish and maintain magnitudes and minitudes
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Final Exams
And if in this world of our lives there are in reality no answers, but the test?
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The Embarrassments of Men

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Ignorants and the US Constitution
The US Constitution may be inadequate for gregarious stupidity.
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Consolation of the Inexplicable
“We don’t know how why these things happen, but we know God is in control.” Joel Osteen, Sunday, February 11, 2024.
After a shooting at Osteen’s Houston megachurch.
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An Unexpected Journey
A plane crash in March 1965, age 12, plus an unprepared frightening experience in a black night fireside talk on a mountainside in southcentral Colorado in August 74, age 21, set me irreversibly on an unexpected uncommon life… too irregular to say career… journey.
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Cribs of History
Periodizations of History as protective crib sheets against the realities and ambiguities of Life and it’s History in time?
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Proud Vulgarity

In the original sense of the word, the vulgar like their hero.
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Arjuna, Verdun, Madman’s Dead God
[August 2008]
Hi Robert.
Please, if you have some thoughts (maybe after some reflection), I would be very grateful… can we in our time accept the conversation and conclusions of Arjuna and Krishna… at Verdun? Normandy? Auschwitz? the Khmer Rouge rice fields? Rwanda? (even if the content is true!?)Had an idea the other day: “sinners in the hands of an absent God.”
And writing to you it occurs to me that Nietzsche’s madman described death in absentia! (pretty damn good, if I may be immodest a bit!)
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“Damnation!”
What in known(able) historical fact is the deepest personal and/or scriptural basis for Augustine’s claim only few are saved?
Also for such belief pervades that which passes for Christianity onto today.