What About Your Terrible Future
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn atheism, there are not actually various possible futures. That is to say, there is actually only one future that is ever possible. And there is little difference between you and a rock.
In Their Greed They Will Exploit You with False Words
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople will always find ways to extract money from others by telling them what they’d like to hear. For many, the “health, wealth, and happiness” message is very appealing.
Improving Your Relationship with God
Reading Time: 7 minutesImagine being married and not really knowing your spouse at all—in fact, imagine if the only thing you knew about your spouse was what others told you about them. Would that be healthy?
Three Looks at the Trinity
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree different thoughts on the Trinity and God, from three different angles.
An Area I Need to Work On: My Dope Addiction
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe sweet, addicting dopamine drip of performative moralizing is a hard habit to kick, and one that I need to work on. Here’s why.
How to Change the World
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough “bringing people to Christ” sounds great, it is much better and more challenging to bring Christ (in us) to people.
Kamala Gently Walks Back Claim that Biden a Racist Sexual Predator
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving just been selected to be Joe Biden’s running mate, newly-minted VP candidate Kamala Harris is being forced to walk back claims that she made last year.
When It’s Your Time to Get Coronavirus
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Philippines have had universal mask wear AND a strict lockdown, yet cases are surging and now exceed 6k a day. This is much worse than it looks because they barely test at all. It’s 0.27/1000 pop/day. Per capita per test, it’s over 3X the US. Let’s run through the (rough) math: 6277 cases/day. testing is 0.27 vs 2.3 in the US, so multiply by 8.51. The population is 107mm…
Assault vs Leadership
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
Love and Respect
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I just want to be loved and valued. I want to be number one in his life. Unconditional love…that’s what I want.” We understand this. She needs his love. She needs love when she’s firing on all cylinders, and she needs it even more when she’s worn down—the kids are going full-barbarian, the water heater’s out, and the stir-fry dinner just got complicated by a lack of rice. “I need…
How to be Happy
Reading Time: 2 minutesGive me enough of what I want so that I’ll be happy!
Pressing Out Blood
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes I don’t realize how serious my sins are, and there’s probably a reason for that.
Biden Transition Team to Reverse-Lock, Camouflage Exits in White House
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlready anticipating a landslide victory just like they had with Hillary Clinton, the Democrats are busy preparing for a Biden administration.
Intentional Confusion and Deconstructing Words: Don’t Play Rhetorical Calvinball
Reading Time: 11 minutesIs your mind or the mind of a loved one being parasitized by bad ideas?
Christians: Netflix and Your Children
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe should be nice to everyone, treating them with gentleness and respect, PERIOD. However, we also need to stand firm against moral decay. Netflix recently posted this thread about the damage of misgendering pre-pubescent kids:
General Advice on Picking a Quality Mate
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome advice I was given on picking a mate.
The Sound of Silence
Reading Time: 2 minutesTruth dies in darkness; hope dies in silence.
Bizarre Fibs and WHO Told Them
Reading Time: 6 minutesNotable analysis of some WHO commentary.
An Invulnerable Christian Man
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my friends told me how she was concerned that I wasn’t vulnerable. We listened to Brene Brown’s “The Power of Vulnerability” together so that I could understand her better.
Communicating with Christians
Reading Time: 2 minutesCommunication is the lifeblood of relationships. Do you know what a “phatic” communication is?
Man Arrested After Peaceful Spousal Abuse Intensified
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 32-year old Portland man was arrested and released Saturday after a peaceful demonstration against spaghetti for dinner resulted in the hospitalization of his wife.
Trump Caves on PDX, Gives Antifa City-Size Autonomous Zone at 46.253, -124.117
Reading Time: 2 minutesTrump Caves on PDX, Gives Antifa City-Size Autonomous Zone at 46.253, -124.117
Me Trying to Comfort People Awkwardly
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI feel so awkward trying to comfort people and I just don’t seem to know the right things to say.
Underwater Society of Racists Found
Reading Time: 2 minutesRachel Hicks is just about to earn her PhD in marine biology, but a recent feat might be the peak of her academic career. In between gender-balancing her bookshelf and signing petitions to decolonize mathematics (or really anything), Hicks made a shocking discovery: beneath the waves, clandestine meetings of racists are being held.
Little Children and Sin—A Knowledge of Good and Evil
Reading Time: 3 minutesAre little kids born sinful?