The night of the 2016 United States Presidential election, I was a tech working the graveyard shift at the psychiatric hospital where I used to be employed. I was discretely checking my phone for the news, watching the reports roll in as each state’s electoral colleges lobbied their votes with the popular tally. Finally, Clinton […]
I’m not writing here so much on my own behalf because I’m very much a small fish in the ocean at this point with my blog. Not even a small fish, I’m a piece of plankton. But I watch my favorite YouTubers, for instance, get a lot of hate for “attacking” ideas. Not just religion, […]
Yesterday morning, I took my dog to the vet. It was early and happened to be rather crowded. The book in my bag happened to be a copy of God is Not Great by the late, lamented Christopher Hitchens. I let my dog choose where to sit, and she selected a bench between an older […]
I’ve lived in the state of Arizona most of my life. Sometimes, I’m really proud of that. For instance, we just elected Kyrsten Sinema to the US Senate. Not only is she the first Democratic senator elected from Arizona since the eighties, she’s the first openly bisexual member of Congress and the second LGBT member […]
Something short-circuited my brain today. Having grown up in a secular fashion, and attended a church in my early teenage years that was not particularly enlightening, I decided to look up why exactly Christians believe Jesus fulfilled Mosaic Law–or, in other words, made it no longer apply to them. Now I’m not just referring to […]
My old copy of The Nag Hammadi Library from university, including an old reading assignment still on a Post-It in the front cover. It’s been through some adventures! Ignore the background, the only thing convenient was my unmade bed, so you get my slightly-wrinkled burgundy sheet. And, another image for the sake of amusement, my […]
As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I am an akiosexual. What this means, in short, is that I am asexual, but I can feel sexual attraction. However, I have no intention to act upon this sexual attraction, and it will fade the better I know a person. What this boils down to is I […]
I’m not one for jumping on bandwagons. I didn’t start reading the Harry Potter books until just before the fifth one was published, purely on the grounds they were popular. Hey, I was a jaded, angst-ridden teenager. I thought anything that was popular couldn’t be good. But since today is #TDOV, I do want to […]
I’d like to take a step back…no, forward. I’d like to take a step forward in time with the thus far linear narrative of my history to talk about the evening I spent with members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. ISKCON, better known as the Hare Krishnas, better known as the folk in […]
The best class I took in university, hands down, was Gnosticism and Manichaeism. To be fair, I remember very little about the teachings of Mani after all this time, but Gnosticism…I still have my extremely beaten-up copy of the Nag Hammadi Gospels. It’s on the bookshelf behind me, so I can easily consult the spine […]
The Implied Spider 