التاملات المورمونية Mormon Meditations

The personal explorations of ideas and meaning by one Mormon. I will explore the intersection of my faith and my life with my interests in history, religion, language, philosophy, history, cultures, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, and whatever else comes into my head.

Monday, January 25, 2010

On Hope

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The following is the text of a talk I gave in church on Hope. I stole a little bit of the introduction and the conclusion from a previous t...

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Eloquence of Silence

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I have been told many times that I have a certain eloquence, the reward of a lifetime of reading and observation of language and its uses. B...

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

I See America

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I can see America. It is a ceaseless striving for something else. From points east in little colonies they came, some for freedom, many for ...

Truth Will Out

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I have been vindicated ... or at least affirmed/supported, etc. This week in the New York Times there appeared an article entitled " T...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Dating, Career Choices, and Personal Defects

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Different jobs attract different kinds of flawed specimens of humanity. We are all flawed, of course, beset with our own neuroses, but we f...

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Pearl: Chapter One

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The following is the first chapter of a novel I am writing. I'm offering it as a serial while I write both to stoke my ego and to get f...

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Writing as Meditation and Prayer

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I have lately found it very difficult to write. Every word has been a chore and my once verbose fluidity has run dry. There was a time whe...

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Jonathan Barney: Takoma Park, Maryland, United States; I am a muddling sort of a lad working at the Library of Congress where I wield my considerable linguistic prowess to do battle with the demons of stodgy bureaucracy and general institutional malaise. I love every aspect of the written word as well as camping, exploring new places, long peripatetic meditations, and, of course, popcorn.

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