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Confessions Of A Bibliophile
I have a confession to make. And, judging from the title of this entry, I am sure you can guess what it is. I love books. But when I say I love them, I mean, I really, really, really love books. I own a small library, yet I am pretty certain that, outside an actual library, my book collection would probably rival most of those held by private citizens not blessed with family legacies stretching back to the Virginia plantations. I haven't counted my books, nor have I catalogued them. However, after spending most of today packing up my books, I have realised that this is going to be a major product that I will undertake in August. I want to have a list of all the books I own. I am strongly considering sorting them according to the Dewey Decimal System. However, I don't know if I will actually label them accordingly. Possibly on the inside cover. We'll see. I lay blame for my bibliphilia squarely on my parents. Mum read to me when I was very young. I remember her reading The C...
Two Years And Counting
Two years ago today Gretch and I were married according to the laws of man and sealed to one other for time and all eternity according to the laws of God. The decision to marry Gretchen ranks as the best decision I have ever made. In the couple of weeks before our anniversary, Gretch and I had the honour to be present for both of our sisters' weddings. Amanda and Cameron got married on the 5th. Erin and Sam just got married yesterday (the 19th). All of these weddings have had my thoughts focused on what marriage means to me. I spent some time recently tweeting a few of those thoughts. This was by no means an exhaustive list of what I believe about marriage. Rather, it was just a few of the thoughts that came to me. Seeing as so many of you don't use Twitter, I thought I'd share them here, in no particular order: "If a man cannot tell his wife about his hopes, his dreams, his worries, and his frustrations, then who can he tell?" Although some of my friends jokingly...
Why We Believe What We Believe
Alternate Title: Why Belief In The Flying Spaghetti Monster (aka Pastafarianism) Isn't All That Unreasonable Belief is a funny thing when you think about it. We believe what we are exposed to, what we experience, what we are told, and what we understand to be true. As Christof in the movie The Truman Show so succinctly put it, "We accept the reality of the world in which we live." To put it another way, we believe what we think is reality, and we will continue to believe such until there is a reason for us to change our belief. In a way, I imagine we can apply Newton's First Law of Motion to our mental movement: "Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it." Likewise, every person in a state of belief tends to remain in that state of belief unless an external force is applied to it. In psychology, one hears a lot about cognitive dissonance. This is the notion that we will regula...
