“The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.”

“When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.”

“It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.”

“The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait while the world's ethicists work out some centuries-long paradigm shift in moral thought.”

“You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote.”

“I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.”