Every once in a while, someone inquires about my “world view”. Here it is:
I hate that I’m missing my 30-year reunion today, it being 2,136 miles away and coming at a time when I just can’t break away from work. But it’s had me thinking for several weeks now:
How was high school? What was I like? What were my friends like and where are they now? How much have they changed? How much have I changed? Are my memories and impressions accurate? What was the point of it all? Continue reading
You can read my latest essay on its own website here: http://www.whyamericafell.com
The activist’s curse lies in the following rhetorical question:
If I can change my mind, and if you can change your mind, who are you and I to unilaterally declare that it is too late for the rest of our society to change it’s mind, too?
Because it is obviously possible, no matter how improbable it may be, the honest activist may not excuse himself from the cause by pretending that it is impossible to succeed in changing the minds of others. Rather, he or she must face the reality that if he opts not to try, it is because he or she does not care enough to expend the energy necessary to determine whether it is possible or not.
The very possibility of reform is like the proverbial carrot being dangled in front of the horse’s nose to coax him ever forward. So forward I go, as if on parade by those who would rather lie about the possibility.
The encroachments of government against liberty, decency, and justice in the United States seem to be accelerating. Spying on the citizens in various ways, forcing us to buy insurance, forcing us to vaccinate our kids with toxic drugs, making ammunition unavailable, protecting megacorporations who are poisoning the food chain with their inventions, robbing our pockets with the inflation of our money, positioning to take our guns away, positioning to take ownership of our kids, giving away our treasury in “aid” to foreign nations, protecting government officials from prosecution for illegal acts…..
All these things and more seem to be happening in increasing measure, and I fear that they are pushing the public farther and faster than the public will long bear. What happens then is that the public (finally) begins to push back. And then, no matter who fires the first shot, the shooting will start. And at that point, the Federal Government of the United States will consider itself to be under attack. Continue reading
It is my observation that the bulk of human evils lies in the taking of that which does not really belong to the taker. Let me count the ways:
Earlier today I posted an article and video about a non-Christian scientist who finds some problems with Darwinian Evolution. I also posted a link to my article on a Facebook discussion, where the following noteworthy discussion ensued between a friend of a friend and me. I have added blue color highlights here and there to what the statements I found most worthy of comment, and have made my own comment in red for clarification.
Tony: His [the scientist who disagrees with Darwin] background is mathematics and he’s never practiced in the biological sciences other than some post-doc work. Not exactly the right person to criticize evolution. Continue reading
Whooda thunkit, but I learned some invaluable life lessons from a solitaire card game that came preloaded on my computer!
The game is Spider Solitaire (advanced 4-suit version) and if you don’t know it, don’t worry; I won’t bore you with the details. But here’s the gist of it:
Two decks of cards are dealt in a certain pattern of 10 columns. The player then rearranges the cards as per a few rules, in hopes of aligning them from King to Ace in each suit. Once aligned in this fashion, that particular set of 13 cards is removed from the board, allowing the player more space to work the remaining cards. When all the cards have been so removed, the game is won. Continue reading
NEVADA DESERT, 9 June 2013 –Leaving his exhausted family in the safety of the broken-down car, former Navy SEAL Brian Schad humps it across the desert at sundown, certain that he can be back with a warm McDonald’s breakfast for everyone by first light. The nearest town is only 31 klicks out and Schad figures that while he would normally make that run in only two hours, he’ll have to slow down on the return trip to keep from sloshing the coffee.
When asked why he didn’t do what any normal SEAL would do and simply push the lifeless vehicle into town with his family steering safely from inside, Schad replied that he had thought of that, but was concerned about exceeding the speed limit.
OohRah!
What follows is a discussion that arose as an offshoot of a Facebook discussion regarding recent violent events in the USA. I engaged a participant who made an assertion in support of the inherited sin model of Christian doctrine.
Note that the poster seems to have copied and pasted other materiel into her post:
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Original Poster (OP):There are several lines of biblical evidence for the historic Christian doctrine that we are all born into the world with sinful natures, due to the sin of Adam.
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