Implement

Implement, don't imitate.

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Apricots, Spring 2013

Data

The incorporation of data leads to congruity with reality.

Ice (Glück)

Time passed, turning everything to ice.
Under the ice, the future stirred.
If you fell into it, you died.

Louise Glück, from "Landscape"

Appropriateness

Appropriateness is a far more difficult calculation than accuracy.

Rebel

Rebel, surely, and be judged by that against which you choose rebellion.

Contentment

Contentment motivates poorly.

Punishing error

Shall we punish error, which may lead to correction and improvement, or ignorance of error, which can be instructed, or love of error, which results in long-term harm to self and others?

Carrying

Be sure to carry what you carry
not as weapons but as tools.

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Particulars (Stafford)

There never was a particular he couldn't understand,
but there were too many in too long a row,
and like many another he was overwhelmed.

William Stafford, from "Parentage"

Incompatible

Christianity is incompatible with self-esteem.

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Existence

Existence is experience.

The resisters

Some resist relinquishing ignorance, for with understanding comes responsibility.

Punishment

No punishment is appropriate, only pleasing.

From the Gospel of Michael

He who hath not the instinct (if not the capacity) to judge God hath not the instinct to do right, nor the conviction that it should be done, and shall be cast aside as coward and hypocrite.

Promotion

The heresy of self-sovereignty
promotes the blasphemy of love.

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