A vid take on MoF’s Sparks:
First up, Stuart Shepard, who I’d not heard of before today but is apparently a member of Focus on the Family’s activism arm, is encouraging everyone to encourage his God to rain on Obama’s acceptance speech. Which seems to me to be incredibly petty: pray for peace? pray for a […]

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Or, When Muslims Attack (with free copies of the Koran!).
Sorry I’ve been AWOL recently, I’m in the process of moving. I now have internet (yay!1!) but now need to unpack all the boxes of stuff. Then, I promise, real posts.

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it’s silly, i know, but in my attempts to attain the heavenly bliss of nirvana and non-attachment, apple is the tether that keeps me bound to this world, worshipping at adam smith’s altar. curse the ipod mini. in green. only $250::

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new year’s resolutions:
i am constantly making lists of unattainable self-improvement goals, but there is something significant in my mind about the new year. perhaps posting these to mindonfire will empower me in their ultimate attainment.
1. family: i will spend more time with my family this year–more date nights with jana, more walks and storytime with […]

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if this works (i.e. if you are reading this), this post will be the first one that i’ve written and submitted from the stall in the men’s room on the fifth floor of uci’s admin building (perhaps the very porcelain the chancellor sits upon, since his office is down the hall).
“but how is this possible,” […]

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it’s one of those early, godless, insomniac, see-your-breath-and-smell-your-coffee-getting-cold hours of the morning, and here i am again, sitting at the computer, seeking for comfort–for something–in the cold glow of the monitor.
usually the tickle of my cat’s attention-seeking whiskers on my nose is my first sensation of the day, but today it was a wasp crawling […]

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mindonfire.com will be on hiatus until september 30th, 2003.
i will be spending my non-work, non-sleep time either: a) spending quality summer time with my family, or b) working on: grad school applications, two research projects, japanese study, and trying to become an overnight expert in the history of japanese religions. i might post something on […]

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i feel like i’ve been hanging from an emotional bungee cord for the past few weeks: we are in the most idyllic living situation, but we will likely be kicked out in another month or so; i wrapped up an incredibly stressful week of work by basking in the glow of todd purgason of juxt […]

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i know it’s been a while since i’ve written. i’ve wanted to comment on a number of topics regarding the war in (or against, or for) iraq but it seems like as soon as i was ready to write about one topic, it was already obsolete, old news. i’m not sure why, but the pace […]

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i’ve been thinking about this quote from the hebrew bible (aka the old testament): “the spirit of man is the candle of the lord” (proverbs 20:27).
i like this imagery. i picture a small, fragile, but brightly burning flame within my heart. i think about my family, my friends, my coworkers, the people i bump into […]

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