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Amicus

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About Me

I'm really into God. I love to write philosophy, namely, theology with a mystical twist. I like music...especially punk and blues. My wife and two children mean everything to me, and I basically exist for them.

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I can't really think of anyone. Most people I would have liked to have met are dead. Bummer, huh?

My Blog

Transference, Conflict, and Perspectives

On Transference, Conflict, and Perspectives  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />....What do you mean by transference?  And what is meant by the freedom t...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:21:00 GMT

Doubt, Distrust, and Sublimation

On Doubt, Distrust, And Sublimation <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />....What is doubt and where does it come from?            Psychologically speaking...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Wholeness and Dialectical Inquiry

What is dialectical examination?            Essentially, dialectical examination involves asking critical questions of key propositions, and attempting to answer those questions as a test for certaint...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:02:00 GMT

God And Temptation

A temptation, pure and simple, is the presentation to do something that will offend God and/or cause you to leave God's presence.  Being tempted is not the same thing as sinning.  If you wer...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:52:00 GMT

If God Love Us, Why Is There So Much Pain In The World?

God loves us enough to have given us free will. He didn't want automatons, blindly doing his will. God does intervene with us at times. Like sending Jesus here to help guide us. But, for the most part...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Is Sin A Myth

Sin means to "miss the mark, and the mark it misses is typically virtue.  But is sin a myth?  No.  Perhaps there are sins in the Bible that have outdated themselves, like having to sacr...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:03:00 GMT

God’s Love

God's love is a motion of unity that pulls us into the Presence.  The problems are though that we have obstacles and resistances to being pulled into unity with God.  We are pained greatly t...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:44:00 GMT

Trusting in God

Trusting in God comes down to having faith, to having devotion, to being loyal, and allowing God to be the center of self.  Here, faith is the inner certainty that God actually directs our paths ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:51:00 GMT

Leading a life that pleases God

More than anything, Jesus believed that pleasing God was first and foremost about love and compassion.  When the men of a town brought the prostitute before Jesus to stone her to death, they aske...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Why Bad Things Happen To Good People

We exist in opposites and are constantly experiencing shifts between them. This goes for good and bad. Good people will have their shares of the bad and bad people will have their fill of the good. Al...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:59:00 GMT