Books / Current Events / Quote

Dune redux

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I last mentioned Dune several years ago. It’s said history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme (like so many quotes, erroneously attributed to Twain), and here we are nine years later. Dune 3 is coming out later this fall, and that prompted me to reread Dune Messiah that I last read in college, which in turn led to Children of Dune, the next in the series, from where this comes.

A large population held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers—
One: When they find a leader.

Spiritual Journey / Television

Enough

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Several years ago our pastor recommended a movie he and his wife had seen over the weekend. He told us it was a movie with a Christian theme, filmed by a Christian studio, that they had really enjoyed it, and we should go see it. So, being the compliant, obedient rule-followers that we are, my wife and I went to see it.

It was not great.

It was not good.

Family / Life

Twenty-Five

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The school where our son-in-law works bought a 3D-printer so they could print various things around the school that they needed and couldn’t get elsewhere. While we were visiting them for Christmas, he asked my wife and I if there was anything small we would like printed for us. My wife chose a pencil cup that looks great in the multi-colored filament he used to print it. I chose something in black-and-white, for … reasons.Three 3D printed white elephants, a male, female, and baby, sitting on a black base.

Church / Life

Nobody Cares About God’s Holiness

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We’d almost made it out the door of church on Sunday when I was pulled into a conversation by a friend who was engaged in a discussion with someone I didn’t know. The discussion concerned a “short answer” for those whose response to “God loves us” was to ask where God’s love was when He told Israel to kill all the Canaanites (as one example). According to the person asking the question, this is a common attack point on TikTok, and he wanted a quick comeback that was also TikTok-sized (short).