a work in progress
Today is the one year celebration of marriage with my beautiful wife. It has been a hectic but ultimately awesome year, which in all honesty, I was not expecting. I only say this because I have always been told that the first years of marriage can be extremely challenging. Well, since Kristina is thirty-nine weeks […]
I have updated my previously posted article “Nietzsche within LaVey’s Satanism” with a short clip from the mouth of LaVey himself. You can find the YouTube clip at the bottom of the article, it is worth checking out.
Note that I do not promote LaVey’s Satanism. If you are a Satanist (or a “Nietzchean” for that […]
Every Gospel, that is, biography or recording of Jesus the one called Christ, portrays its subject in a unique perspective. Each perspective may have a different bias and purpose, but there is still a common narrative being told. Examples of this can be seen in the individual narratives that consummates the different Gospel accounts of […]
The concept of the bodhisattva in Mahāyāna text reads in such a way that may be confusing to many western readers. The bodhisattva is presented as an unidentifiable being as a result of ethical and cosmological necessities. The necessary attributes of the bodhisattva, however, demand the bodhisattva to be a master of paradox, often reconciling […]
Go see “Death of a President”. If you are a Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, radical, fascist. Go see this film. I prefer not to give film reviews because I think it they ruin films. I can only tell you to see it. I have never seen so many people been so foolish in their ignorant […]
This last week has certainly been a historic one for Americans and the rest of the world. The futility of democracy is proving true. Security trumps freedom, and the Republicans in power have fully taken advantage of this. They have been taking advantage of this ever since September 11, 2001. Authors of history books, however, […]
A new book by David Kuo, a former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, affirms what many political scientists, religious scholars and critical-thinking Christians suspect: the Republican party plays religion into politics to such an extent that they do not have to believe what they preach. The book, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story […]
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination - John Dewey
In October of 2005 a man named Semir Osmanagić announced that the 213-meter high Visočica Hill in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina is actually a pyramid. Despite almost universal criticism among the scientific community, Osmanagić continues to hold fast his belief in […]
No, not Myspace Tom. I saw “Man of the Year” last night. In my humble opinion, Robin Williams pulled of a great balance between humour and politics, never dousing us with too much of either (although people who hate politics would probably argue otherwise). Sure, the film could have been better, could have been more […]
The Ark of the Covenant, like many artifacts sought after because of Biblical speculation, is shrouded in mystery. According to the Book of Exodus, God commanded Moses to have the Hebrews build the ark as a communication device between God and Moses (Ex. 25:9-10). Contemporary references such as in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) […]