PhD Twitter quote 119/Bonus semi-satirical grooming tips

PhD Twitter quote 119/Bonus semi-satirical grooming tips

Image 1: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR, SOFIA April 22

Image 2: Me joking around with my friend John on WhatsApp. I only joined that because he begged me. I have too many apps...

PhD Twitter quote 119

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

Footnote 1403

1403 There is the danger of assuming that God’s allowance of sin means a person that sins in a situation is not as guilty as perhaps they are in reality. The idea that ‘God made me do it’, or for that matter, ‘The devil made me do it’ is an intellectual cop-out.

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There is the danger of assuming God’s allowance of sin means a person that sins in a situation is not as guilty as perhaps they are in reality. 'The devil made me do it’ is an intellectual cop-out.

AUGUSTINE (388-395)(1964) On Free Choice of the Will, Translated by Anna S.Benjamin and L.H. Hackstaff, Upper Saddle River, N.J., Prentice Hall. 

AUGUSTINE (398-399)(1992) Confessions, Translated by Henry Chadwick, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 

AUGUSTINE (400-416)(1987)(2004) On the Trinity, Translated by Reverend Arthur West Haddan, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series One, Volume 3, Denver, The Catholic Encyclopedia. 

AUGUSTINE (421)(1998) Enchiridion, Translated by J.F. Shaw, Denver, The Catholic Encyclopedia. 

AUGUSTINE (426)(1958) The City of God, Translated by Gerald G. Walsh, Garden City, New York, Image Books. 

AUGUSTINE (427)(1997) On Christian Doctrine, Translated by D.W. Robertson Jr., Upper Saddle River, N.J., Prentice Hall. 

AUGUSTINE (427b)(1997) On Christian Teaching, Translated by R.P.H. Green, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1986) Predestination and Free Will, in David Basinger and Randall Basinger (eds.), Downers Grove, Illinois, InterVarsity Press. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (2001) No One Like Him, John S. Feinberg (gen.ed.), Wheaton, Illinois, Crossway Books.

GREER, ROWAN A. (1996) ‘Augustine’s Transformation of The Free Will Defence’, in Faith and Philosophy, Volume 13, Number 4, October, pp. 471-486. Wilmore, Kentucky, Asbury College.

Bonus semi-satirical grooming tips

My former, much less professional, unnamed facial parts trimmer, stopped working on Friday. We cannot have me showing up in public (especially church) without me making use of that product, can we?  So, I thought as I walked to the downtown London Drugs, that this time I was going to buy a better trimmer that would last for years instead of a year or so. Therefore, I spent a little more and bought an actual facial trimmer. 

Now, there are philosophical dilemmas in every life, not just in formal philosophy. 

Philosophical dilemma (a)

Back when I was the Regional Director of Canadian Bible Society, at a downtown event, a good friend's wife, that is slightly younger than me, told me I looked 'bummy' unshaven. I really took that to heart. Once she had left, with my friend, I asked a collogue at work in her early twenties of age, if I looked better with the facial hair or not. She told me to keep the facial hair.

So, I went with what the younger woman stated...

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Philosophical dilemma (b)

I was heavier before the implementation of my permanent low carbohydrates, low sugar diet. My face was 'fatter' looking, but not that bad, do not get the wrong idea. Back then, if I did what my friend's wife stated I would not be 'bummy', but I would be 'fatty'.

So, I chose 'bummy'...

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Now that my face is looking thinner, as a person that identifies as 'non-fatty', I thought that I would buy this Braun trimmer and neither be barefaced or 'bummy'. So far so good.

However, as I usually have a pretty thick facial hair, while I was experimenting with my new German designed, toy, I experienced the following...

I cut my lip slightly. Bleeding for the cause of not looking 'monstery'.

I wondered how well this Braun trimmer was actually working on my face, but I looked better. I asked my Dad, that lives downstairs if I looked better, he said yes.

But being unsure of how well it actually worked, I tried it on unnecessary and quickly gone, chest hair. Dedicated to all those bodybuilders out there. Recently, I had watched a video from years ago where an 'older man' from Australia, that dated young women, advised older men to wax off any gray chest hair for the cause. Never an issue for me. Thankfully, I have only a little gray on the head and that is it. I have a Facebook friend that recently highlighted his gray chest hair, but just as I often do, I shut up and stated nothing.

I am thinking some good friends like the Red Dome, and The Rage should consider buying and using a Braun for maintaining those reddish domes.

You are welcome...