Today I didn't get around to doing more reading into different branches of Christianity, but I did finish reading Harry Potter. (I've been writing reviews on goodreads.)
I can't experience these books with a completely "open mind" because I've been trained to think about different genres and other meta literature …
read moreToday I spent some time watching Roosh V (Roosh Hour #48 on current events—but more importantly on Christianity. Roosh V is (in)famous for previously teaching techniques as a "Pick Up Artist" but has henceforth continued his authoring and podcasting journey as a Christian. For his ability to do …
read moreThis morning I got the pleasant surprise of a new video in Luke Smith's Not Related podcast series—"Against Method and For 'Pseudoscience'". Once again, Luke Senpai was a year or so ahead of my investigations into various issues related to linguistics, history of science, and the like etc. It …
read moreLast post I discussed some ways to do "digital prepping"—basically getting your computers/devices to be useful to you even when you are offline. 1 Being prepared to move and work in different environments is a way to transcend being locked into any one particular arrangement that can compromise …
read moreToday at work, I found that even my software documentation had political messaging featured front and center. I retreat to my ivory tower.
Now is a time to study, to work, to write... ...to pray.
Yesterday, I didn't post my blog to social media. Today, I don't think I will …
read moreOn my morning walk I see the replacing of "WEAR A MASK" signs/banners with new content. Narratives are swapped like pairs of sneakers.
Talk of "COVID-19" is rapidly replaced by other impending matters—in Sacramento, California with looting and rioting nearby by suburb (though relatively peaceful, compared with other …
read moreThere is escalating civil unrest across many cities in America today. Cities—as have been mentioned on this blog—are sites where the intoxication of words and the influence of mass media are strongest. Cities are where people are free to live in abstractions, not answering to the challenges (and …
read moreOver the past decade or so with the rise of big tech and social media, we're seeing arbitrary standard being put into place about what we can and cannot say. I will not belabor the point of tech censorship, but instead I will focus on how groups in power are …
read moreCivil unrest escalates in the United States. In many quiet corners of the country, no change is visible. But in other areas—particularly those with large numbers of urban poor people—things are looking increasingly bad.
COVID-19 is still in the news, but it is more and more often backgrounded …
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