Obedience

In an attempt to provide a counter-example to someone (you know who you are) I give the barest bones argument on obedience as it occurred to me.
1 God exists? a: yes b: no
if b forget the whole thing, if a continue
2 God has a will? a: yes b: no
if b go back [...]

More poor reasoning from those who should know better

Ah yes. More goodness from the blog of Fumans asserem. These boys have hit the nail on the head again. Previously, for those with better taste than myself (or perhaps don’t read stupid shit just to get pissed off) who don’t read this crap regularly, they referred to a woman disagreeing with anything they say [...]

Rate your friends on the VELAWIG scale

Okay, I hear a lot about the Fatima proclamation that most souls go to hell for sins of the flesh. Reasonable. But what bothers me is that the common interpretation (at least in the circles where I hear an interpretation of this) is that these sins of the flesh are confined solely to modesty. Now [...]

The Numerology of Birthdays

As my birthday is fast approaching, I realized that we celebrate the oddest dates in our culture as “special”. Thirty. Who cares about thirty? Three decades – big deal. Me, I’m going to be twenty-eight. That is important. It is the second perfect number, and the highest perfect number I will live to see. (Twenty-eight [...]

Modern War

Modern warfare is terrorism. This alarms me. What, in point of fact, is the difference between a terrorist walking into a crowded bus stop and blowing himself up, and everyone else around, and a pilot of a U.S. bomber dropping a large explosive on some part of a city? Oh, I forgot, there is intention. [...]