Because I’m so full of myself and love to hear myself babble, I’m reposting a comment I made on Mark’s blog (http://newsojourn.blogspot.com/2005/06/certain-uncertainty.html), here. Enjoy. (ROTFL. God, I’m so conceited!) ———— Hi, Mark! Great to see you back! Glad to see the new blog and new direction. Well, as a somewhat believer of that syllogism, I [...]
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Hey Kettle, I’m Pot. You’re Black!
A CNN article that mentiones Tom Cruise’s belief in aliens, http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/29/cruise.aliens.reut/index.html reiterates his belief that “psychology is a pseudoscience.” A reminder: Tom Cruise is a Scientologist. Among other interesting things, Scientologists believe we evolved from clams, that our souls are reincarnated victems of an evil space overlord, and founder L. R. Hubbard has visited Mars [...]
READ MORE »Trilemma Dilemma
(Note: An additional link added at the bottom.) After writing my last blog, I started looking around for info on C.S. Lewis. I only really know a smattering about him. Was a Christian, became atheist and well known as a skeptic, then converted to Anglican after years of research and discussions with close friend JRR [...]
READ MORE »The Return of the King! er, opposite blogger…same thing. *g*
It was a terrible irony back a few months ago that the very same day I blogged a suggestion for people to go visit and positively partake in a friend’s blog, he has to close it down. Well, he’s back up and with a new theme and perhaps a new mission. http://newsojourn.blogspot.com/. As was with [...]
READ MORE »Zombie Dreams
OK, so this is weird. Last night I had epic dreams of zombies. What’s weird is that I haven’t really been thinking about zombies lately. I haven’t even seen that new movie “Land of the Dead.” It started with a political thriller dream. (I think that’s a first for me.) Being chased by shadowy agents [...]
READ MORE »Goodbye 5th Amendment and Liberty
First, mandatory federal ID’s and now lack of sovereignty of land ownership: High court OKs personal property seizures The 5th Amendment: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment05/ No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval [...]
READ MORE »Must be Christian to be Moral?
So I’m within hearing distance of a recording of preaching by Beth Moore, in her very expensive set of lessons called “The Patriarchs,” and she said that one thing that drives me crazy: “I would sink into the depths of depravity if not for God.” And I thought “How sad is that.” And it started [...]
READ MORE »Games and Violence
Interesting info regarding the lack of connection between video games and youth violence. http://www.theesa.com/facts/games_youth_violence.php
READ MORE »There IS Productivity In Iraq, If You’re a Terrorist
From CNN.com this afternoon: CIA report on Iraq A new classified report by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iraq could be an even more effective training ground for Islamic terrorists than Afghanistan was under the Taliban, U.S. officials told CNN’s David Ensor on Wednesday. The report says would-be terrorists are flocking to Iraq and gaining [...]
READ MORE »Biblical Blast From The Blog’s Past
I was doing a search on my Blog for some past article, and found this one from Feb’ 04. http://blog.celticbear.com/archives/000061.html Boy have I been discussing this topic WAY too much! Anyway, interesting to see how little my opinions have changed despite many months of angst-ridden soul-searching. =) Something struck me reading this: The commenter mentioned [...]
READ MORE »More Deism and Christianity
Here’s a Christian’s take on Deism: http://www.gotquestions.org/deism.html I have a couple of problems with that. It says: “Deism pictures God as ambivalent, uncaring, and uninvolved.” That’s not totally true. While there are many Deists who do believe that, there are just as many who believe that God IS caring, but uninvolved. There are many others [...]
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Found an interesting site: http://www.sullivan-county.com/deism.htm The author raves a bit, and I disagree here and there…but he does say straight out that many Deists disagree on various specifics of Deism, and that’s OK. So, it’s still a very interesting and informative read for more info and thought on Deism. There’s this: A response to a [...]
READ MORE »PETA
CNN.com – PETA employees charged with animal cruelty – Jun 17, 2005 Oh, I think I’m going to cry; that’s just way too funny. In a sad and tragic way, but funny none-the-less. As my brother says, “Irony, thou art my bitch.” =)
READ MORE »A Striking Discovery Regarding Social Inability
As a “gamer” (that is relating to role-playing and strategic board and miniatures games,) here’s something I found very interesting, and I think may affect the gaming population to a slightly higher degree than the average population: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger’s_Syndrome I think I very well may have met several people with this. I can think of one [...]
READ MORE »Need To KNOW What God Is!
So I’ve been obsessing over my questioning the nature of God lately. I’d been going on for about a year or so pretty secure in my Deism. And well, I still am a Deist, still…but what TYPE of Deism? What about Pantheism? Transcendentalism? Or any of the other -isms that fall under the “Universist” domain? [...]
READ MORE »The End of the Schaivo Drama
The indipendant autopsy report came out today regarding Terri Schaivo (remember, the brain damaged woman who was the center of an embarassing political/religious storm months ago.) http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/15/schiavo.autopsy.ap/index.html And what did they find? Exactly what every respected neurologist had said: She was irreversibly brain damaged and would never have been able to recover any brain function. [...]
READ MORE »How Do You KNOW God?
The following is something I posted recently at Universist.org. I thought, since it’s something important and foremost in my mind right now, I’d post it here too. It may come as a surprise to the two of you who read my blog, that underneith the arrogant ranting and unseemly certainty, I do deal with lack [...]
READ MORE »Crick, and the Chance of Life on Earth
A couple of days ago someone commented in my blog about how belief in evolution is somehow related to running away from God. I posit that belief in religious dogma is running away from reason and logic. He snatched a quote out of context by Francis Crick (co-discoverer of DNA, the buildingblock of life,) : [...]
READ MORE »The History of The Bible
Someone on the Universist.org Web board had a link that I found fantastic: The Bible and Christianity – The Historical Origins It’s long, but I simply could not stop reading it until the end. It’s a well written, comprehensive, educated, thought-provoking, near encyclopedic essay on the history of Judaism and Christianity as it follows the [...]
READ MORE »My Promise Keepers Experience and How To Fill Spiritual Void?
This last weekend my Father-in-Law invited me to a Promise Keepers Rally in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Well, he invited me weeks ago, and I’ve been on pins and needles about it since. On the one hand I want to earn the respect and friendship of my Father-in-Law and participate in something very important to him, but [...]
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