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Just a few quick words about some changes that have taken place here at Loki Listens.
First off, the names of a couple of the secondary pages have changed. Look up for the links. “If you like it, support it” is now titled simply, “Show Support.” The “Developmental Theology 089 Archive” page is [...]

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“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”.
-The White Queen to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass
-Loki.
Developmental Theology 089
Lesson #26

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“Do not believe anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and [...]

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“There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is.”
-Albert Einstein

-Loki.
Developmental Theology 089
Lesson #24

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“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
-Aldous Huxley

-Loki.
Developmental Theology 089
Lesson #23

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“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel [New York Journal-American, April 5, 1963]
-Loki.
Developmental Theology 089
Lesson #22

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Every now and then
I get it all together again
I’ve lost my way
Help me to stay
I can’t find my way
home….
I look back at the past
Nothing seems to last
All these dreams will fade
some day. I hope, I know.
I hope, I know.
Every now and then
It all falls apart again
I can’t relate,
I know my fate
Help me escape.
Hold me [...]

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Broken glass litters
the city street.
I crawl out of the gutter
and wonder where I was last night.
I can see the quad-bridges from here.
The echo in the distance
calls out my name.
Jack, come home.
I am home.
This is my city.
These are my streets.
I walk across the bridge
and grab a bite to eat.
Hot coffee and cold eggs
can help just about [...]

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Good things take time. Great things happen all at once.
-Loki.
Developmental Theology 089
Lesson #21

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