A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.-Finley Peter DunneA fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.-Winston ChurchillFanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.-George SantayanaFanatic is often the name given … Continue reading Fanatics
Author: Bob Goodnough
The self-important self
The dictionary pictured above lists 80 hyphenated words beginning with self; the Canadian Oxford Dictionary lists 200. What a bunch of self-centred, self-satisfied, self-important bores we have become!We think that good self-esteem is essential for happiness. We study self-help books to help us attain self-fulfillment, self-actualization and self-realization. There is a little problem though — … Continue reading The self-important self
Broken paradigms
Sixty years ago, when I was twelve years old, I did not know any child my age who had not had the same father and a mother from the time they were born. One neighbour boy was being raised by his grandmother; there was a highly publicized fund raisng effort every year for the orphange in … Continue reading Broken paradigms
Paradigms – effective and defective
Paradigm (pronounced pair-a-dime) means model, pattern, example. The word was first popluarized by Thomas S Kuhn to describe a framework for scientific research. He wrote: "Men whose research is based on shared paradigms are committed to the same rules and standards for scientific practice." ¹ Paradigm then escaped from this narrowly scientific application to become … Continue reading Paradigms – effective and defective
Paradise
This is Crescent Park in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Not really paradise, just a pretty nice spot to find smack dab in the downtown of a city on the arid prairies. The first home of mankind was in a true earthly paradise, the Garden of Eden. As a consequence of their sin, Adam and Eve were … Continue reading Paradise
The great and terrible God
In order to reduce Christianity to moralistic, therapeutic deism, we must reduce God to a warm fuzzy, namby-pamby therapist whose only desire is to help us find relief from the emotional and existential complexes that befuddle our lives. That is not the way that the Bible describes Him. Nehemiah twice speaks of God as being … Continue reading The great and terrible God
Lumosity better than Prozac?
A recent study of elderly persons suffering from depression compared the effects of playing cognitive training games on a computer to taking a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI). The cognitive training games were found to work faster and better than the SSRI. I grant that my headline is a bit misleading. The games were not … Continue reading Lumosity better than Prozac?
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
There are two ways of reading the Bible. One way is to see it as a repository of morally edifying stories. One can label that the pietistic approach or the moralistic, therapeutic deism approach. The other approach is to see the Bible as a history of how God revealed, step by step, the redemption story. … Continue reading Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
Canada Geese can tell time!
Jack Miner was effusive in his praise of the intelligence and faithfulness of Canada Geese. But he may not have been aware of their ability to tell time. Our last visit to the Jack Miner Migratory Bird Sanctuary took place about 25 years ago. The sanctuary is located on the original Miner farm on the … Continue reading Canada Geese can tell time!
Health vs Wealth
When we are young we spend our health to gain wealth And when we are old we spend our wealth to gain health. -Author unknown This is a wall motto we saw in the Miner house at the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary many years ago.
