Three Pillars
This post is in response to some thought-provoking questions/comments posted by Mary regarding the translation of “The Three Pillars of Economics” on the Higher Law blog. I’m not trying to speak for the author of the blog, but I think Mary raises some interesting questions and makes some important observations. Since I’m never at a [...]
Samuel and Nephi
Samuel and Nephi
My daily Book of Mormon reading is currently in the book of Helaman. This morning I was effectively slapped in the face by one of the most obvious examples we have in scripture illustrating the difference between prophets who are called and given the gift of prophecy for the delivering of important instructions [...]
Why Not?
I’ve been following a blog called The Higher Law recently. There has been much commentary on it by members of the LDS church regarding the intent of the blog and the movement behind it, and specifically regarding the author. Their contention is that the kind of revelatory direction claimed by the author, if it were [...]
The New World Order
Mark my words, this is a more important story than it looks.
On the surface, this is a big story because it potentially hails the end of the lengendary privacy of Swiss banking. That would be fairly big news in and of itself; but when you consider the other alarming trends in the world, a more [...]
Socialism: The Engine of Economic Entropy
Even by my grossly over-simplified definition, entropy is the measure of the useless energy found in a system, useless energy being energy that is not available for doing work.
One of the great contributions that Newton provided for the world of science–the world in general, really–was the presentation of the Laws of Thermodynamics. The second of [...]