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(Mis)readings

(Mis)readings

http://karlomongaya.wordpress.com

(Mis)readings is a blog featuring counterobservations on events and texts from the vantage point of an eccentric, optically inconvenienced, and culturally dispossessed resident from the Southern Philippines. It is in short nothing more than the conce

60 Second Blog

60 Second Blog

http://www.60SecondBlog.com

Welcome to my somewhat cranky, yet gregarious and optimistic, 60 Second Blog, which will offer my unique takes on anything and everything that I care about, which can be a lot. So, look for posts on Birmingham, Detroit, Michigan, the Great Lakes and

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The Cost Of Following Christ

The Christian Journey | 1 day ago by Christopher May

J.C. Ryle writes in his classic work Holiness that there are four things a person must be ready to give up if they wish to become a Christian.1. Our Self RighteousnessIt will cost him his self-righteousness. He must cast away all pride and high thougread more

A Beautiful Person

Best Poetry (Puisi Pilihan) | 2 days ago by Kang Jibrat

She has little money to enjoy or spend She has little money to enjoy or spend But to other people she is a good friend To help out her poverty line neighbours she goes out of her way And for her assistance she never asks for pay. A very good person read more

Nozick in the News

Cato @ Liberty | 3 days ago

By David BoazCharles Krauthammer writes about “liberal expressions of disdain for the intelligence and emotional maturity of the electorate” and the conceit that “Liberals act in the public interest, while conservatives think only oread more

Is Popular Religion Derived from Egotism?

Atheist News - The Global Edition | 4 days ago by Being Human

Read more at: http://atheism.about.com/od/sciencereligion/a/Science-Religion-Ego.htm?nl=1 Walter Lippman on Scientific vs. Religious Attitudes Towards the Universe By Austin Cline, About.com Guide --- "People pray for hurricanes to turn away and read more

Infographic of the Day: An Apocalyptic Short Story, Told in Chart…

atmosphere thus atmospheric geological | 4 days ago by seagership

Sumedicina is an experimental work of fiction that scraps words, and replaces them with infographics. Our Infographics of the Day are all about how data and charts reveal stories in the broader world. So it's only natural that charts could be used fread more

All that’s been picked is the fight

Eat The Yard | 4 days ago by Jason Williams

So, the earliest of the spring-blooming perennials have barely had a chance to bud, let alone bloom and fruit and ripen — and the pests have already nibbled.  It feels unsportsmanlike, and I know sportsmanlike conduct is a human ambition, even furread more

CULT MOVIE REVIEW: The Final Destination (2009)

John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV | 5 days ago

Truth be told, I've often enjoyed the Final Destination horror franchise. For one thing, I appreciate the idea of Death as a formless, relentless predator...and one with an aggressive quota to meet.Even more than that, I enjoy the conceit of Death asread more

God’s Employee Handbook

Get Up With God | 5 days ago by Basement

It’s GOD @ WORK WEEK here on GUWG, where we’ve been examining what the Bible says about the wonderful world of work. The following is an updated version of our employee handbook. Print it out. Post it in your cube. Pray through it daily. read more

This Radio Is Hard To Tune, Easy To Look At

radio antique | 6 days ago by eko priyono

Radio Active, a project by industrial design student Erez Bar Am, is a wall-mounted analog radio. That's all good and well. The frustration begins when you realize you have to rearrange it every time you want to change the station. Radio Active consiread more

Dho ‘l-Nun, A Saint | His Saying

Insights and Resourceful Thinking | 6 days ago

The great muslim writer Fariduddin Attar believes that the words of the Saints are profitable even to those who cannot put them into practice, inasmuch as they strengthen aspiration and destroy self-conceit.The Great Jonaid (or Al-Jonaid) of Baghdad,read more

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