Emotional Learnings, Artificial Life, and the Curse/Blessing of Homeostasis
[While back in my old college town for BioIT Boston]
I am visiting my son’s high school.
It is both like and unlike the one he attends in the waking world.
Continue readingThis is the truth that sets me free:
I don’t care if you hate me
As long as you know that I love thee
Enough to make me trustworthy
So you dare share the grace I see
And trade self for eternity
Continued from Sex 302: Wordless Angst
Earnest, Lecher, and Ang trudge stolidly through a blizzard.
Well, mostly stolid.
Lecher: Are we there yet? I think something important is about to freeze and drop off.
Earnest: Is that all you think about? You don’t hear Ang complaining, do you?
They both stop and stare at the hulking, red-skinned Russian who is relentlessly plowing a path for them through the drifted snow.
As if sensing their gaze, he turns back and speaks.
Ang: No stop now. You stop, you die. Be strong. End is near.
Continue readingChrist did not just come
To up-end
Corrupt human authority
[Not what you (or I) expected. From the same series as Sex 202. Loving Terrorsaur]
I walk into the office and pull out the Elf on a Shelf that has been there since Christmas two years ago. I set it on a chair and sit down across from it.
Me: I feel ridiculous talking to a stuffed toy.
Him: Hey, you do this all the time with Greek Gods and animal totems.
Continue readingA Dis-curse in Three Parts
Eli: Noah! Noah, where are you?
Moe: Eli, I don’t think this is a very good idea.
Eli: Shut up, Moe. He’s gonna love this.
Moe: Fine, it’s your funeral. You never did get one, did you?
Eli: No more than you. Ah, there he is!
Continue readingThe Rogue Dialogues (aka “Diarogues“) are a series of stream-of-consciousness narratives I wrote while alone in my room from July 3-6, 2022, unemployed and quarantined with COVID-19. This was my attempt to make peace with the “part” of me that had an unfortunate history of sabotaging my relationships with authority figures.
Continue readingJohn the Baptist was a Messenger.
Christ was The Message.
We… are Messagers.
Apathy
Is a lack of passion
In a particular direction
Relative
To what someone
Perhaps even myself
Wants
If we are Path-y
We won’t have Apathy
Ernie, roll away the stone!
Um, what? Jesus, surely you didn’t mean what I thought you said.
Yes, I did. Roll away the stone!
Continue readingOur church may need to move.
Continue readingIt is World War II. Sort of. (They have web forms.)
The old lady is a Jew, as are most of the orphans she cares for.
I am the commando assigned to get them out.
Continue readingPilate wanted us to behold Jesus
Perhaps hoping he could free Jesus
Or free himself
Of the responsibility
Of seeing more
Than he wanted
Than he could handle
Than he was free to believe
Historically, the Body of Christ has relied on three interdependent roles:
• Infants, who receive what they are taught
• Mystics, who seek their own truth
• Paternalists, who create the context for Infants
Matthew 23:9 And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Continue readingI am on a people-mover
Like a train of roller-coaster cars
But we are stopped on level ground
At least for a moment
Each car represents a different level of leadership
I am in the third or fourth
Perhaps moving from third to fourth Continue reading
[A 12-week class I might build. Feedback welcome!]
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“We have forgotten — or perhaps never really understood — what it means to trust that God is in control.
Politics matters.
But we have forgotten that good political leaders were supposed to be our gift to the world.
Now we think they are something the world has to give us, so we can truly practice our faith — or feel good about ourselves.
So whenever we see a leader — inside or outside the church — who doesn’t seem to honor our truth, we are filled with anguish; and act like God has abandoned us… ”
Music Playlist: The Agony of Hope
I am at another startup
We have just gotten a new interim CEO
Everyone is skeptical
Especially the Engineers
Because the CEO
is actually the (former?) mayor
Of a nearby town
(Small but with a large population)
Everyone is expecting him
To be a slick extrovert
With no substance
Or Intellectual depth
It is a hot day.
I leave my dog in the car.
Radically Happy 
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