Future Tense

My blog on Futures, Strategic Foresight, COIN, and more UA-17179703-2

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Because, yk, witchcraft

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Dear me,

You were the person who broke your own heart. You will do it again. You will hurt yourself again. You were okay. You will be okay again. You will be more balanced. You will love yourself. You will accept yourself. You won’t regret being more honest and less dishonest with yourself. You won’t regret being too kind to people who didn’t deserve and appreciate it. You will be more selfish in a good way from now on. You won’t over analyzing or thinking too much as you used to. You know you are better than that. These bad days won’t destroy you. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Put yourself together and become a priority in your own life. You’re not a kid anymore. Stop act like one. Go ahead. Live better.

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Words to live by.

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Best way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

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FW190 

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Formation flight Sunday. Warhawk and Thunderbolt P-43 Lancer

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whoa. my favorite Artist knocked it out of the park this morning.

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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭1-4‬ NIV)

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Australian soldiers from the Special Operations Task Group during a counter-narcotics mission in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan. December 3, 2012.

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Charisms

A thought I had while eating hot dogs with friends today: What if Christian colleges and universities were to think of educating their students into distinctive charisms? And took as their models some of the charisms of the Roman Catholic religious orders?

Students called primarily to service would explore a Franciscan charism

Those called to preach and teach: a Dominican charism

Those called to live out their faith in commitment to a particular place: a Benedictine charism

Those called to a scholarly life, with its inherent cosmopolitanism and pursuit of intellectual communities wherever they can be found: a Jesuit charism

Each of these paths could be pursued within a single institution, if its faculty and curriculum were flexible enough. In an ideal world — which we do not live in, mind you — a structure like this could replace, or at least complement, the more typical pursuit of a “major.”

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I would, I suppose, be a Jesuit in this scheme…

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