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In his book The Indelible Image, New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III reiterates a common piece of interpretive wisdom: "A text without a context is just a pretext for what we want it to mean.

The book of Revelation requires us to take a stand for the Lamb in this world. To read it well we must learn to think "theo-politically," or to say this another way, the entire book of Revelation is about public discipleship.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

the Egyptian capital remained a deeply exotic and mysterious place, unknowable in the way of all truly grand cities.

Second, emotivism is actually a theory of the use of moral language, not of its meaning.13 The emotivist has jumped from a theory of use to a theory of meaning without any justification for that leap.

A second appeal of relativism comes from the way it is presented. Frequently relativism is presented as though it and its opposite, absolutism, are the only two valid alternatives.

A third weakness of relativism is that cultural relativism as a normative system cannot be drawn from the observations of the cultural relativist.

It's not the fear of writing that blocks people, it's the fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Reflection is highly underrated as a decision-making tool. To reflect means to step back and allow all of the information you've been working with to sink

Books about the future of work make the same mistake: they fail to look back at the history of work or, more precisely, the history of books about the future of work and how wrong they were.

the saving question was always, "How will this impact the user experience?

A major reason it works at Automattic is belief in a counterintuitive philosophy: safeguards don't make you safe; they make you lazy.

While most software is copyrighted and closed, Cafelog had different rules. It did not have a copyright. Instead it had something called an open source license, or a copyleft.

Lame visions have no integrity: they don't offer a plan, and they don't express an opinion.

much of the boring machinery identified as management has more value for the manager's ego than the quality of work produced.

2. Write a launch announcement and a support page.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.

preventing riots depends less on reducing average levels of discontent than on appeasing people at the extreme.

I'm not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.

Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. "- Hello, you monstrous little necessity". "- Mrrrrwwwwww", said the monstrous little necessity.

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it.

Surely you realize," said Patience, "that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.