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I'm rather proud of this post this morning.

The chest cold has come back with a vengeance, and I fear that I am going to have to concede defeat and go see a doctor. Water, vitamin C, rest, and Robitussin kept it at bay yesterday, but I spent the night trying to sleep despite feeling fluid moving in my lungs with every breath. My ears are filling with fluid, too.

I must have had a fever for part of the night, too, as my dreams had that vivid/zany quality that fever dreams often have. They were populated with some of the stranger beasties from David Brin's "Uplift" novels, which I have been reading lately. (For those who are not familiar with this series, Brin's universe is populated with aliens that are very alien, biologically and conceptually remote from life as we know it.)

Anyone who's a fan of Sid Meier's Civilization games might find this amusing:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/civilizationiii/15580.html

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US Military action name generator.
Pick one word from each column to determine the name for your next civil or military action.

Enduring Desert Infinite

Freedom Shield Storm Justice Liberty Crusade

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Just posted this in jesusliberation, but wanted to post it here for posterity.

There seems to be an unending debate in progressive and liberal religious circles over whether to use male, female, or non-gendered names when refering to God.

In a conversation going on in another forum, it was suggested that we should follow the example Jesus set, which was to use masculine terms of familiarity like "Daddy."

In my opinion, what was most distinctive about the way Jesus spoke about God was that it was designed to shock its listeners out of complacency regarding their conceptions and visualizations of God. Addressing God with the familiar term "Daddy" was, in its day, a far break from the various formal names of God used by Jewish mystics of that day (many of which have been enshrined in the Kabbalah).

If so, then we defy the point Jesus tried to make if we stick too closely to his way of addressing God. I personally prefer to replace "Father" with "Root of All," but I wonder what other terms or addresses we might use.

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If it is your will, read my entry in freetobelieve about wrestling with scripture.