My mother, in essence, doesn’t understand why I can’t leave well enough alone. Talking about religion makes people uncomfortable and defensive, so why bother them about it? It’s their right, after all. Yes, it is. But one must also consider why they believe what they believe, and what impact that will have on the world. […]
Edit: Oops! I got Genesis 38 confused with Numbers 22. The YouTuber I directed you to before also covers that tale in “The Most Bizarre Bible Story.” The end of 2019 was kind of rough for me. Things aren’t quite settled yet, but I’m trying to work on it. Reading, though–that’s something I’ve been doing […]
My paternal grandmother comes from the Philippines. Typical “met my grandfather while he was in the military, got married, moved to the States.” She has been extremely religious (Protestant, maybe Methodist specifically?) my entire life. Her daughter, now deceased, was the only one of her children who followed in that, and my uncle and cousins […]
A lot of my thoughts about the comfort of a higher power, you know God or Allah or Krishna or Vishnu or Buddha, whatever name you want to use, have until recently been focused on “Well, people want to think there’s a reward waiting for them in the next life and the bad guys will […]
Maybe it’s just me. But do you have people in your life who just try to add to the gender divide (religious divide, racial divide, etc.) rather than admit it’s only their own personal opinion? Now I’m one of those stereotypical millennials who has spent huge chunks of her adult life living with her parents, […]
As state after state in the United States fight to overturn a woman’s right to choose what to do with her body, one has to consider this simple thought: when will it end? Sure, the people say they’re fighting to get Roe vs. Wade brought up again before the Justices currently seated on the Supreme […]
As I was walking through a parking lot the other day, I spotted a bumper sticker on the tailgate of a large white truck. “Keep Christ in Christmas.” I mean, they have a point, right? Consider all those atheists passing out propaganda in malls and airports, encouraging people to abandon their religions in favor of […]
For the past week and change I’ve been trying to reach a happy medium between being pissed off enough to get my point across and too pissed off to write. I hate to jump on a bandwagon, but yes, I’m talking about abortion and women’s rights. I’ve talked about this before, but, as promised, this […]
Last weekend my mother had the delights of an unexpected cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal), and I spent much of it in the hospital room with her. Since she was still having pain due to gastritis and it was putting her blood pressure through the roof, they kept her a couple days. Anyway, my depressive lethargy of […]
Well. That was a grind. As a gamer, I can honestly say I’ve been through raid tiers that were less trying. Some of it was technical issues, so I can’t attribute it all to Dr. Peterson. If you weren’t here for part one, I am trying to give Jordan Peterson the benefit of the doubt […]
The Implied Spider 