Letter to the Editor: Given that we're "Budgeting for Stupidity" and taking as tacit reality that incompetence likely outweighs malevolence—at least in the manifested reality of bureaucracy, ...
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Jesus No Moonshiner
“If the use of wine was sinful and problematic , then it would have been really problematic for Jesus to have made 160 gallons of it”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 26
Budgeting for Stupidity
Introduction: As it is quite obvious to the intelligent observer that our ruling elites are busily engaged in wrecking the country, the theories about why this is the case break into two schools of ...
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And a Healthy Salad Too
[Concerning Ps. 104:14-15] “And lest anyone’s heart leap for joy because it mentions herbs ‘for the service of man,’ it is talking about your salad, and not about your stash.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 25
Temptations Are Everywhere
On Not Dialing It In
“Take, for instance, the matter of preaching old sermons. It is not good. A new sermon, fresh from the brain, has always a life in it which an old sermon, though better in itself, must lack . . . the main objection which the people have to the preaching of old sermons is in the impression that it gives them of unfaithfulness and idleness”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 86
Because You Must Rule Yourself First
“The book of Proverbs is given to all God’s people. And the word that mean ‘to speak a proverb’ is also a word that mean ‘to rule.’ Learning to live in accordance with the proverbs God gave us is preparation for dominion”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 24
Placement Matters
“What these people have in common is that they are all engaged in a hedonistic pursuit of sensual pleasure. They all want to get laid and loaded. The name of the game is sensory overload. Now if I were looking for a place to shelve ‘stoned out of his gourd,” would I be more likely to put it after joy and before peace, or after excess of wine and before revelling?”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 20
Beware of Peru Rising!
Introduction: Suppose we were defending a city, and you and I and two other guys were sentries on the wall. You, of course, are a most reasonable fellow, as am I, so that's all good. But unbeknownst ...
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Clustered Vices
“Sins are like grapes, they come in bunches . . . Sins tend to cluster, and when you go down into the middle of that crowd, you are more likely to find a pot dealer there than, say, if you were at a quilting bee.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 20