Here are your random thoughts for this week.
Another day of people trying to convince me guns have nothing to do with shootings.
From my Facebook feed:
Is ‘contestation’ a word?
We have fewer ways to communicate with teenagers. They don’t do e-mail or Facebook. I hear Twitter is on its way out. Are Snapchat and Instagram all we have left? What social medium is actually working? We have so many methods to communicate, but it gets harder to reach someone.
I googled “man laws” and got a bunch of sites about how men are supposed to back each other up with women, how to figure out who rides shotgun, and when your buddy’s ex-girlfriend is officially dateable. I googled “woman laws” and got a bunch of sites about equal pay for equal work and abortion. Are there woman laws in the same way we have man laws?
“The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne’s are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.” ― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
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