Posted on April 9, 2009 by Brittian Bullock
The devil and his friend were walking down the road when they noticed a passer by pick something up off the ground. The friend wondered aloud as to what the person had found. Satan replied that they had picked up a piece of Truth. His friend was chagrin, “You can’t just let people go around finding [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2009 by Brittian Bullock
There’s a story that I’ve become fond of recently:
A man was wandering through the famous Portobello Street in London taking in all the bizarre shops and sights when, hardly believing his eyes, he saw a sign over a door front that read: “Truth Shop“. Needless to say he decided it was best to investigate.
The saleswoman [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2009 by Brittian Bullock
Truth is a slippery thing these days.
Let’s take science for instance. Say you wanted to observe and reasonably understand with a level of predictability the collision of two air molecules. Air molecules are fairly simply, they’re relatively uncomplicated; the event of the collision will occur within a fourteen millionth of a second which means there’s [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2008 by Brittian Bullock
More people than I can number or name entrust me with their confession of (non)faith. Oh, it’s not exactly that they’re faithless. Actually they tend to be far more faith filled than the religions they are shedding. They are scared and uncertain, tired or bored, confused or distressed; they don’t readily see the final “vision”; [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Brittian Bullock
Longing for some other language, for some geometry or glossolalia or primal scream, sweeps over me. I have every intention of falling on my knees and speaking L O U D L Y!
There is a sense, as if I want to scream, “I’ve FOUND IT!!!” But of course what I really mean is that I have lost [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2008 by Brittian Bullock
Songs for me, and particularly the personal writing of songs, are a prophetic thing. I rarely know why I write what I do–they more or less flow out in built in rivers of word and melody. To be honest, I’ve never felt like I had much control over them; they are their own creatures and [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Brittian Bullock
Whenever people first learn basic concepts of post-modernism I imagine that they have the same type of reactions I’ve had…initial gut reaction against…desperately annoyed at the “relativistic” ooey gooey hippy all roads lead to right-ville sort of attitude…and then they go to the same extremes as I’ve done also–all roads really DO lead to right-ville…everything [...]
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