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Consider Your Destiny

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Consider Your Destiny

Consider Your Destiny

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe often wonder about “fate,” or a predetermined outcome that we can’t escape. Does it exist?

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McConnell Says in Lieu of Extra COVID Relief, He Will Let Americans Smell His Pay Stub

McConnell Says in Lieu of Extra COVID Relief, He Will Let Americans Smell His Pay Stub

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute“Look, I know that people think money grows on trees, but we have to face the fact that it doesn’t. Congress has to work very hard to tax that money from you, and we can’t just go giving it back,” McConnell said.

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Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn an age that seeks to force you into mental compliance, because surely you alone are left, do not give in, no matter how the temptation is packaged. Live Not by Lies.

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Live Not by Lies: Do Not Abandon Sense-Making

Live Not by Lies: Do Not Abandon Sense-Making

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is part 2 in a series. One thing that I learned from Dr. J. Lennox of Oxford is that it’s imperative to test the premises and data of assertions, no matter the credentials and subject mastery of the person making the assertion. We don’t just need good reasoning, but also good logic. Logic is the fundamental rules that we apply to reasoning to “reason from A to B.” It’s…

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Congress Says Stimulus 3.0 is Fun Carnival Games But Warns, “They are hard to win.”

Congress Says Stimulus 3.0 is Fun Carnival Games But Warns, “They are hard to win.”

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“I get it, I get it. 2.0 had some problems. It wasn’t much fun for people. Americans want fun. Reading 5500-page stimulus bills isn’t fun at all, now is it? So we didn’t bother doing that, which is our way of leading by example. And here’s our next show of leadership,” Nadler said as he tossed a BB-gun to a confused reporter.

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Live Not by Lies

Live Not by Lies

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat does it mean to “live not by lies?” People will soon either come to find out, or they will live by lies.

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Instead of Praying by Repetition, be Curious Like a Cat

Instead of Praying by Repetition, be Curious Like a Cat

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesSome thoughts on thoughtful prayer. Also cats.

The Hospital Crisis Strikes Again

The Hospital Crisis Strikes Again

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s disappointing to see that we are back in the “media scare stories about hospitals” stage. The good news is that, just like last time, this is simply not the case. The corporate press, which I believe is the enemy of the people, either has no idea what they are saying or are seeking to mislead. Let’s look into it all. Here we have: Hospitals in Idaho, Pennsylvania, Texas overwhelmed…

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Prison Officials Drip Water on Ghislaine Maxwell Every 90 Seconds to Make Sure She Doesn’t Commit Suicide

Prison Officials Drip Water on Ghislaine Maxwell Every 90 Seconds to Make Sure She Doesn’t Commit Suicide

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWaking her up every 15 minutes might not work, so prison officials have gotten serious.

Americans Select Their Victors in 46th Quarter Quell

Americans Select Their Victors in 46th Quarter Quell

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Look, listen here,” Democrat, former Games volunteer Bernie Sanders told reporters. “Hey you, yah schmuck! We’ve had a lot of problems in this country, ain’t got enough bread lines, no joke. If we, mark my words, do not win the Games tonight, there will be hell to pay! We must embrace Cuban-style government. Great literacy program and some of the world’s best swimmers!”

The Soul-Shattering Sound of Silence

The Soul-Shattering Sound of Silence

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is hard to be thankful for pain when you consider all the moments you got to hold you kid and listen to her floating laugh echoing in the halls, which now ring only with the high-pitched, tinny whine that your ears pick up when there is only silence. It’s hard to be thankful for the times your mom cooked you your favorite dinner as you stand in the kitchen, now empty forever, helping load boxes of items you have to do, well, something with. It’s hard to be thankful for the pain as you tell your best friend and confidant, “I finally got rid of his toothbrush today. I guess this makes it real.”

Pedophilia and Atheism

Pedophilia and Atheism

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the stranger things about atheism is that pedophilia isn’t a choice under it. Why? Because the laws of cause and effect outside of the head don’t stop in the inside of the head.

CA Mandates Halloween Candy be Dispensensed via Potato Cannon to Prevent Illness

CA Mandates Halloween Candy be Dispensensed via Potato Cannon to Prevent Illness

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesAll candy will have to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine prior to consumption, unless it is used in peaceful protests during the November 3rd evening riots, in which case it is to be considered decontaminated via moral and ethical virtue washing.

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Jo Jorgensen Has Strange, Animal/Smith-Focused Interview with Dr. Bret Weinstein

Jo Jorgensen Has Strange, Animal/Smith-Focused Interview with Dr. Bret Weinstein

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesMoments after the interview ended, Libertarian VP candidate Spike Cohen burst through the door shouting, “We’re not hyper-illiberals; she didn’t mean to say that! Comedian Dave Smith doesn’t exist, forget about the Part of the Problem Podcast; quick go add Nicholas Sarwark on your social media platforms!”

Mike Pence to Undergo Brief Downtime for Personality Upgrade

Mike Pence to Undergo Brief Downtime for Personality Upgrade

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Reading Time: 2 minutesVice President Mike Pence is scheduled to have a brief downtime on Thursday as White House IT personnel install a personality app into his operating system.

California Mandates Restaurant-Goers Wear Horse Feeding Bags

California Mandates Restaurant-Goers Wear Horse Feeding Bags

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“We’ve almost beaten this disease, and by wearing your feeding bags, I’m certain that we’ll have coronavirus crushed within the next five years or so,” Governor Newsom told reporters. “Just wear your mask into the restaurant, and when your food is brought out in your nose bag, make the exchange as quickly as possible and without breathing.”

Ancient Writings: Has Christianity Changed Views on Baptism Over Time?

Ancient Writings: Has Christianity Changed Views on Baptism Over Time?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 14 minutesAlthough I’d known the various views on immersion that churches today tend to hold, I was curious about what Christians closer to the time of Jesus thought. In this post I explore a number of their early writings, and then offer my own conclusions.

Twin Category-5 Megariots Forecast if Trump Wins

Twin Category-5 Megariots Forecast if Trump Wins

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesRegardless of Biden and Harris’s landfall intensity, life-threatening highway stoppages and strong arson are likely over a large portion of the east coast, the west coast, and Chicago, as well as unsurvivable, rapidly-intensifying peaceful protests in Denver, CO and other metropolitan areas.

What Saves Man? A List, But Not a Checklist

What Saves Man? A List, But Not a Checklist

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesSaved by faith alone? A little more? What’s the answer?

A Series on Prophecies (Incipient Draft/Working)

A Series on Prophecies (Incipient Draft/Working)

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Bible tells of salvation through family trees, explaining events that were to come and which then came. Leaving out the parts before this (which were blessing to generation, blessing to generation, etc.),  I can focus on  Jacob, who had 12 sons. His sons became the 12 tribes of Israel, each tribe being named after one of the sons. When he was about to die, Jacob told his son Judah,…

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Democrats Counter-Nominate New, Improved Ruth Vader Ginsburg

Democrats Counter-Nominate New, Improved Ruth Vader Ginsburg

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer plan to bring back Ruth Bader Ginsburg, claiming Darth Vader was mostly machine, and the new Ruth Vader Ginsburg will have “very similar features.”

Appealing to Liberals, Trump Says He Fought the Trump Administration by Not Paying Taxes

Appealing to Liberals, Trump Says He Fought the Trump Administration by Not Paying Taxes

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWashington, DC—President Donald Trump, long-suspected of not being an actual billionaire but rather just a poor person with a personal Boeing 757, has come under fire recently for paying taxes at the rate of a poor person.

Trump Says in Lieu of Taxes, He Got Mike Bloomberg to Inject $1B into US Economy

Trump Says in Lieu of Taxes, He Got Mike Bloomberg to Inject $1B into US Economy

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute As people have rightfully pointed out, all Americans gleefully pay the legal maximum in taxes, and most even donate to the US government above and beyond.

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Trump Says He Should Get “Underprecedented” Third Term

Trump Says He Should Get “Underprecedented” Third Term

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTrump has promised that he will use his third term to walk among the ashes of California. His second term, which starts in 2021, will “probably be used to attend Ancient Joe’s funeral, he is old, very old, maybe the oldest, even ever.”

Should You Behead Those Who Insult You?

Should You Behead Those Who Insult You?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the past I’ve run into unexpected cruddy behavior and found myself asking, “What in the world do I do now, and how can I make it as painful for them as possible?”

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