Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Change: Theory and Practice
It may be best as this point to continue onward, having hopefully established an underlying philosophy to the counseling task.[1] In terms of counseling theory, it should be noted that at the bottom of every counseling theory is a theory of personality, and at the bottom of every personality theory is a theory of motivation.[2]…
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So here’s the story…Part II
If that wasn’t a long enough intro, I’m not sure what will satisfy you. I suppose you can rest in the fact that at this point all we’ve done is met each other, so obviously there’s a little more to the story than love at first sight. In fact quite far from it, but at…
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Change: The Arena
[This post is part of the Change series] I know for the most part, this probably looked like another dead end blog idea. Something of the sort that picked up speed, clarified some issues, but then ultimately failed to connect it all back to anything of practical value. Indeed, it has been a while since…
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So here’s the story…Part I
I suppose a bit of an explanation is in order. “In order to what?” you might well ask. In order to assuage your curiosity and to facilitate my memory enhancement program, and because it’s fun to tell stories, especially geographically challenging ones with convoluted plotlines and numerous twists and turns. I bet now you are…
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34 Days
So I realized today that I’m a water snob now. Being a coffee snob comes with the whole black apron deal at working for Starbucks, but little did I know that the water would come with it as well. Apparently, a cup of coffee is 90% water (its the other 10% that has all the…
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Change: Moving from God to Man
[This post is part of the Change series] This particular entry comes directly from a paper I just finished entitled “A Christian Philosophy of Change.” And you thought I just blogged for the fun of it. Actually, to the contrary I do blog for the fun of it, but I also blog wisely and pick…
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Change: The Beginning and Source
[This post is part of the Change series] I suppose if we are going to discuss God in formal terms, I could just send you here and you could wade through a rather dense one page “definition” of God. However you want to look at it though, because of the nature of the assignment for…
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A Glass Can Only Spill What it Contains…
Every morning I wake up to a seventh story view of the eastern Dallas skyline against the early morning darkness. My perspective of course is enhanced by the fact I sleep in the top bunk of a bunk bed. And I wake up facing the skyline because that’s the direction of my vibrating phone come…
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Change: An extended background
[This post is part of the Change series] I know we ended the last post stating that our discussion of change would start with the Gospel, and indeed, that is a good place to start. Unfortunately, do to my recent reflection on just the idea of change generally as well as how that relates to…
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Meditations on the Heart
Commute. Work. Commute. Sleep. I’ve gotta car at home to feed. Oh we’re so quite and comfortable in our A –> B lives. But our complacency won’t last much longer. Although its rather easy to drift into that mode even here at seminary. Maybe if I didn’t have to actually live a semi-normal life and…
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