This doesn’t get examined much by the church, especially western churches in the US. Salvation, specifically the “acceptance” or “reception” of salvation, as it is taught in most churches in the west, is not a selfless or altruistic act. The individual undergoing this process of conversion is totally focused on [...]
Remember, companies in China pay workers in pennies to put shit together that you’re using. The rest of this stuff we’re seeing is an elaborate stroke-job.
I have put up with this crap since 1983. That’s 25 years. That’s over half my life at this point. All the time when I was attending certain churches the message was that part of me has to go to hell so the rest can go to heaven. The church [...]
The other names for this course is Econ 101-SP and Special Ed. Economics for Politicians. Economics is the one place where politicians show an ever unswerving lack of ability to get it. This is most recently evidenced with former Sen. Phil Gramm exiting the McCain campaign after saying that we [...]
You are surrounded by 1 Billion dots of roughly random sizes and at roughly random distances from one another. Your primary task is to connect them by traveling from dot to dot carrying a white silken thread. The dots are all related to one another. Your secondary task is to [...]
I was approaching a traffic light at an overpass. About five cars ahead of me a car slowed and the driver reached out to give the cornerwalker a dollar. As this car was slowing down the light turned to amber. When the cornerwalker took the money, the driver floored it [...]
It’s an understatement to say I’ve been a bit lax with the toothcare. I went to the dentist on Tuesday and it had been a year and two months. A couple of contributing factors…laziness, hating to floss and some other crap I was dealing with back when my six month [...]
A committee will hear what he has to say but impeaching President Bush is not part of it. At least he’ll be heard, assuming there are open ears present. Hat Tip: Fox News and Above Top Secret
We gotta get the phrase “…to American Citizens…” and “…on American soil…” out of our discourse. When the subject of torture and some of the more extreme actions authorized to the President in these post 9-11 documents come up, one or both of those phrases gets tacked on to it. [...]
One thing that ancient man had that we do not have is leisure. Now the common man of his day, whether he was a builder of pyramids or an agriculturist probably did not have much leisure but there was a very broad deep scholarly class particularly the priesthood, then the [...]