Category Archives: religion

Staying Stoic

The dichotomy of control of the Stoics is what a modern psychologist might refer to as an “internal locus of control”. Here is an illustration: A more popular form of The Dichotomy of Control is Reinhold Neibuhr’s Prayer of Serenity: … Continue reading

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Mainline in Decline

On most recent Wednesday evenings I have shared on my Facebook profile some remembrance from the past. After dutifully applying the #grangerthings and #ThrowbackThursday hashtags, I decide whether a post should be public or instead restricted to my over 1,900 … Continue reading

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Bible Belt

We Oklahomans often say we live in the Bible Belt, and this map proves the point. We are at one end of the belt, if you define it as states where more than half of the population identifies as an … Continue reading

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