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Digital roots massage
My genealogy hobby hasn't gotten a lot of attention. I've been trying to do something at least once a week, looking for matching trees and relevant data for the folks I have documented. Ancestry.com has made this almost like a game, which is good, but it doesn't take away the tedium of plucking through one name after another ( Read more... ) -
The Hole
Today was a watershed day. What started as a lark, a fun weekend idea, turned into a horrible, week long embarrassment. I was going to give it up today, if plan "N" hadn't worked. The worst part was that it wasn't technology that nearly stopped me: it was a hole ( Read more... ) -
Institutional Purpose
Something that's been getting on my nerves has been reading or hearing pronouncements about the purpose of Christianity, generally in the context of folks badmouthing other people's execution of their faith. "Thats not Christian!" they exclaim, "Jesus said to do this other thing!" The sad part is that the one defining purpose is usually wrong ( Read more... ) -
The Magic Lantern
Imagine a magic lantern that, when rubbed, would deposit a million dollars in your bank account, but would in exchange kill a child in the Southern Hemisphere. How many times is is okay to rub that lantern? Is once enough? Maybe ten times? What if you need a billion dollars? Aren't the lives of 1000 people you don't know worth a billion dollars? ( Read more... ) -
The Bonus
My contract came up for renewal, and with it came an addendum: a big fat bonus for finishing something by a specific date, one month in the future. It left me feeling insulted and belittled ( Read more... ) -
The Heat of Summer
My habit of writing that I had years ago has been refocused into a variety of other endeavors, and it hasn't resurfaced in the form of blogging so much. It's a little disappointing to me, as I enjoy seeing what I was thinking and talking about months and years ago. So I do keep trying to keep up some level of this sort of writing. I also think ( Read more... ) -
Caesar's Messiah (pt 2)
I just finished Joseph Atwill's book, Caesar's Messiah. I didn't really take me a month to read, I just put it down several times to play video games and be a dad. It's a well-written book that kept me mostly enthralled throughout. But it's also bringing forward some tremendous ideas that frankly take a little time to digest -- and this is coming ( Read more... ) -
Godless America
http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/
This particular link to an article about the study on “Bible Mindedness” from Time magazine was specifically chosen to highlight a really nasty choice these editors made. By calling the cities selected as being the least Biblically minded as “godless” is a spectacular dig against all forms ( Read more... ) -
Caesar's Messiah (pt 1)
For the holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, I received Joseph Atwill's book that claims the Gospels were a deliberate fiction created by the Flavians (who were the Roman dynasty after Nero). At this point, I'm about a third of the way in, but I've already got a few things to say. (Warning: if you like your Jesus all hippie and new-agey, ( Read more... ) -
Reflections on "Ancient Confession"
I've seen this article going around on FB and noticed that it has stirred up some strong reactions. Here's my take ( Read more... )