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In Defense of WTF

on December 13th, 2009

I’ve never been a fan of the F-bomb. It goes back to my roots. Not only was I raised a middle-class evangelical fundamentalist, but also I’m now a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. It’s named after Plymouth Rock. I’m a direct decendent of the Puritans. But it’s not like I’m unaquainted with the F-bomb, either. When [...]

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In Defense of WTF

on December 13th, 2009

I’ve never been a fan of the F-bomb. It goes back to my roots. Not only was I raised a middle-class evangelical fundamentalist, but also I’m now a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. It’s named after Plymouth Rock. I’m a direct decendent of the Puritans. But it’s not like I’m unaquainted with the F-bomb, either. When [...]

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In Defense of WTF

on December 13th, 2009

I’ve never been a fan of the F-bomb. It goes back to my roots. Not only was I raised a middle-class evangelical fundamentalist, but also I’m now a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. It’s named after Plymouth Rock. I’m a direct decendent of the Puritans. But it’s not like I’m unaquainted with the F-bomb, either. When [...]

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In Defense of WTF

on December 13th, 2009

I’ve never been a fan of the F-bomb. It goes back to my roots. Not only was I raised a middle-class evangelical fundamentalist, but also I’m now a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. It’s named after Plymouth Rock. I’m a direct decendent of the Puritans. But it’s not like I’m unaquainted with the F-bomb, either. When [...]

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Sensory Perception

on December 13th, 2009

Human beings have five basic senses, which means that writers who are trying to make readers experience their novels have five basic senses to work with. But the senses aren’t equal. We weigh them differently. Seeing is believing. The sense of sight is all about knowing truth, knowing what really happened. “I saw what you [...]

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Sensory Perception

on December 13th, 2009

Human beings have five basic senses, which means that writers who are trying to make readers experience their novels have five basic senses to work with. But the senses aren’t equal. We weigh them differently. Seeing is believing. The sense of sight is all about knowing truth, knowing what really happened. “I saw what you [...]

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Sensory Perception

on December 13th, 2009

Human beings have five basic senses, which means that writers who are trying to make readers experience their novels have five basic senses to work with. But the senses aren’t equal. We weigh them differently. Seeing is believing. The sense of sight is all about knowing truth, knowing what really happened. “I saw what you [...]

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Sensory Perception

on December 13th, 2009

Human beings have five basic senses, which means that writers who are trying to make readers experience their novels have five basic senses to work with. But the senses aren’t equal. We weigh them differently. Seeing is believing. The sense of sight is all about knowing truth, knowing what really happened. “I saw what you [...]

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Nothing to Sneeze At

on December 13th, 2009

I should point out, I’m not an epidemiologist. (You don’t know how many of my conversations start this way.) All right, so I’m not an epidemiologist, but I’ve got a new theory about the sneeze. For years, we’ve all been told that the sneeze is the body’s attempt to rid itself of something foreign–to get [...]

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The Terror of Scale

on December 13th, 2009

Once upon a time, the ancients believed there were the heavens (the atmosphere), the earth (the crust), and hell (the magma). They can be forgiven, because that is as far as their eyes could see. We can see much farther. We cannot be forgiven for this world view. That view was geocentric. The earth was [...]

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