Month: August 2021

After yesterday’s heavy post, I decided to make a list of things that I like. I thought that that would help any potential readers to understand who I am. I filled up two pages of lined paper and I’m on to page three. Obviously this will not be a comprehensive list and I’m not saying…

I hated Donald Trump. I don’t know if I have ever hated anybody so fully and passionately. When he was replaced with a president who I think is more “good” than “bad” (a post on values and how I define these terms is forthcoming!), I experienced a kind of personal renaissance. No longer do I…

When I was a twenty-something and still Christian, I once made friends with a woman who belonged to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I was passionate about unity within Christianity at the time because of verses like these: Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so…

In December of 2019, I was networking on the interwebs and made what I thought was a friend in Bolivia. We were both happy to practice one another’s languages so we mostly each wrote in our own native tongue and it worked out. Unfortunately, despite getting past the language barrier, we found a more serious…

It’s been a tough couple of days so I’m planning to keep it a bit light today. I had a difficult conversation with my doctor yesterday that left me hating myself until we met again today. Now I’m better. It is a function of my case of C-PTSD that once I begin to value somebody’s…

I was watching a video today which was made by somebody who was “coming out” by making that exact video. I wasn’t quite so brave as to “come out” as an apostate on YouTube; I did it on Facebook instead. Now, it probably would have been a bit better decision to pick another day to…

Hi everyone, I’m working on a pretty long post right now so I know that you’re all on the edges of your seats waiting for me to post every day (ok ok I might not have that huge of a following yet…) but I have a limited amount of electronics time so right now I’m…

I’ve still been reading through The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, and it is definitely a good read. Today I read a chapter about things that make people happy. I don’t want to give away too much but social connections was pretty close to the top, obviously. Some other things in there were a sense…

This video appears like it was designed to be “preaching to the choir” of people who are already atheists, who are frustrated after dealing with the majority of our countrymen being theists, and who are looking for a place to decompress after a long day. However, that is pretty much the audience that I’m picturing…