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Month: August 2016

Don’t Fall For the Okey-Doke

August 25, 2016November 23, 2016 Chris SunamiPolitics

Cartoonist Scott Adams originated, and briefly wrote one of the best comic strips in the United States, Dilbert.  Today, twenty-five years later, he continues to write it, but it’s far from one of the best. […]

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Chaos Monkey

August 17, 2016August 15, 2016 Chris SunamiPsychology

Recently I attended a talk by a IT industry guru where he discussed Netflix’ trouble-making semi-autonomous software program, Chaos Monkey.  Basically, this is a program they unleash on their production servers that randomly shuts down[…]

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History of Humanism

August 11, 2016August 10, 2016 Chris SunamiHistory

As a Christian Humanist, a categorization far too many people see as a contradiction in terms, I find the identification of the term “humanism” with modern secular humanism far too confining.  If we take humanism[…]

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Stopping Terrorism and Mass Violence

August 4, 2016August 9, 2016 Chris SunamiChristianity

Our current conception of terrorism and mass violence, is that it’s a huge anomaly, a bizarre occurrence, and that it somehow spreads, like a virus, through a mysterious radicalization process. That may be true, as[…]

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