God has spent all of human history revealing more and more of himself to humanity. It is time to recognize those cycles and endeavors for what they were and for what we were. The metaphors and symbolisms were appropriate for the stage of human civilization and human cognition. But we are in a different stage today and it is time to recognize the past revelations for what they were and it is time to look beyond those metaphors and conceive of something new today.Show more ›
Pensamientos sueltos
¿Cómo puedo dejar que mis pensamientos sueltos caigan en otro asunto cuando tengo el señor todopoderoso rey de reyes soberano del universo aquí a mi alcance? ¿Cómo puede ser que aquél no ocupe toda mi mente y toda mi conciencia?
Officer Friendly’s Evolution
This is what “defunding” targets: the excess of cash leads to purchasing toys which menace rather than serve.
Meme: Police state
Forty-Three Years Taken
Johnny Gates before and after losing forty-three years of his life. He was nearly executed as well.
Alan Miller Execution
Alabama is set to extinguish a second life by suffocation. Clinically it is nitrogen asphyxiation. It is supposed to be done by slowly replacing oxygen with nitrogen. Our terrestrial atmosphere is roughly 78% nitrogen (N2) and 21% oxygen (O2). These diatomic gases coexist without binding to anything. Slowly decreasing the oxygen induces a buzz. It should be like huffing paint or receiving laughing gas (nitrous oxide) except that oxygen drops so low that unconsciousness ensues followed by brain death and cardiac death.
Earlier this year, Alabama strapped a mask on Kenneth Smith and hit him with straight 100% nitrogen. He struggled and writhed as if drowning or being smothered with a pillow. Any straight gas causes the same sensation. Try breathing into a paper bag—it quickly becomes all nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2).Show more ›
Women Agree: Let men enjoy skirts
Hawk Nelson: Faithful
RADIOLAB: Match Made In Marrow
SnappyDragon: History is full of men in skirts and dresses
“Menswear worldwide and all through men’s fashion history was full of men in skirts, from medieval tunics to kilts, dhoti, kimono, and more. Men’s skirts today are gender nonconforming clothing, but fashion history is full of skirts and dresses that were definitely mens fashion! It’s often said that the ancient Romans considered trousers barbaric, Show more ›
Adam, Eve, and the Creation of Everything
Five years ago I observed that Scripture arguably describes a simultaneous creation of Adam and Eve. Read literally, woman was extracted from man. Extraction means the woman was already within the man at creation. Did God sort a comingled bag of jellybeans into pinks and blues, or did God change one-half of only-blue jellybeans into pink jellybeans? If the former, then Adam and Even co-existed ab initio.Show more ›
God is not…
God is not what we think God is, neither is God what we imagine God to be. We are blind (wo)men trying to describe colors. Everything that we articulate is conscripted by our limited vocabulary. We who are finite cannot actually understand what it is to be infinite. Our weak articulations describe the infinite as being everything that the finite is not. But we cannot actually predict the infinite. Every word that we use to describe God Most High has zero useful meaning. God is not what we think God is because we cannot think beyond the capabilities of our thought. God is more than we can imagine. Perhaos we are but one percent accurate in our understanding of God, incapable of comprehending the remaining ninety-nine percent.