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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I saw Avengers: Endgame yesterday. Don’t worry, this is a spoiler-free zone. But it made me think about the power of the Time Stone. I mean, there has to be a reason it had been in the possession of the students of the mystic arts, the sorcerers we met in Doctor Strange. Ideally, these people, based on their […]
I had never heard of Dr. Jordan B Peterson until, well, this video: Jordan Peterson’s Most Pseudoscientific Claim Ever. We’ve been over this, I live under a rock, and I’m okay with it. In the video, Genetically Modified Skeptic takes a look at Dr. Peterson’s claim that the abundance of intertwined serpent imagery in ancient […]
My computer’s been on the fritz lately. I had to do some rebuilding when my power supply went out and fried my motherboard and processor, but ever since then, it seems like my GPU and processor need couple’s counseling. When I wake up my computer from sleep, my GPU shuts down and I have to […]
I’ve always had this hypothesis on how Christianity came about. So Jesus is crucified. The apostles are sitting around somewhere, possibly in hiding, depending on if any hate got sent their way. You know, Peter and the whole “You’ve got the wrong man, Lady, I don’t know him,” as the musical goes. Some slumps his […]
This past week, a report came out from the Associated Press: “Church Membership in US Plummets Over Past 20 Years.” A fascinating phenomenon, right? Reason is triumphing! The activists are winning! But wait. It’s not time to place any laurel wreaths just yet. “Church membership,” it says, my friend, church membership—not necessarily religious beliefs. The […]
The Implied Spider 