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See also Selections (Log
Files listed below)
Topics:
Computing
Religious
Economic
Science
Political/Social
Arts&Lit
Domestic/Other
2019+ Index, 2013 Index, 2009 Index
2018 December 31 -- Digital Forms
Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?
2018 December 28 -- AI (NNs) as Religion
They know and see the evidence, but they believe otherwise
2018 December 24 -- Why Religion Matters
Science is nurtured only in a culture that embraces moral absolutes
2018 December 18 -- Liars Lie
Once a liar, always a liar, nothing to be afraid of
2018 December 15 -- Progress
Nobody makes a phone smarter than the (stupid) Low
Grade
clamshell
2018 December 8 -- Atheist Pseudo-Science
Professors should leave their Darwinist religion out of the classroom
2018 December 3 -- It's Not About Love
It's about Jesus the Messiah
2018 November 28 -- Unclean Lips
We have met the enemy and he is us
2018 November 19 -- Guliuzza (sort of)
Repents
He didn't admit he was wrong, but he did change his tune
2018 November 12 -- Whence Dystopia
It's all that the atheists can see in their world
2018 November 10 -- Phonetics and Copy
Accuracy
God made us, and not we ourselves
2018 November 9 -- Voters Want Gridlock
The government is best that governs the least
2018 November 8 -- More Fiction Failures
Obviously more of the author writing what he knows (not much)
2018 October 29 -- Feminazi Backfires
(Again)
It only works correctly when it's true
2018 October 26 -- Vicissitudes
Better than mid-life crisis, but definitely entropic
2018 October 23 -- I Want a Smart Phone
Can't get a phone as smart as my "stupid" phone
2018 October 9 -- Writing What You know
Though he denies it, Joe Haldeman does
2018 September 26 -- Subscription not
Membership
Members have effects, I'm a zero
2018 September 22 -- Travel Is Broadening
Random thoughts on coming back
2018 September 20 -- Knocking It Out
of the Park (Again)
The students' autonomous car was Best of Show in Brussels
2018 September 17 -- Brussels
Random thoughts on going there
2018 September 15 -- Thinking: Work
or Audacity
Thinking is hard work, suitable for both God and man
2018 September 11 -- My "Religion"
The atheists have more religion than I do
2018 August 29 -- "Digital Sages"
Traditional values exist for a reason
2018 August 27 -- BAR Commits
Suicide
The new editor abandons what readers want to see
2018 August 21 -- Asimov's Religion
The atheists and the materialists don't dare look at the facts
2018 August 16 -- CO2
Cooling
Oregon has a lot of trees to burn, it keeps things cool here
2018 August 11 -- Was It Fun?
Yes, "fun" is making the world a better place, and I did
2018 August 8 -- Preferring Lies Over
Truth
But mostly just stupid
2018 August 7 -- Raging Against God
The girls self-select out, it's in their DNA
2018 August 6 -- "Net Neutrality" Isn't
The better arguments were left unsaid
2018 August 4 -- Consequences of Taking
the Bible Out of Schools
Women become unsafe to predation
2018 August 3 -- Spreading Lies Over
TruthWIRED
is now a political rag against Trump
2018 August 2 -- Financial Adventure
Vending machine didn't show prices
2018 July 31 -- Better Portland Food
Google is slower than yellow pages
2018 July 30 -- The Nature of Religion,
Part 2
Answering scientific facts with religious faith
2018 July 28 -- Free Speech Is "Hate
Speech"
The freedom to criticize is also the freedom to be criticized
2018 July 24 -- Misandry
In her fiction she really hates men
2018 July 23 -- It's NOT "All About Relationship"
It's about Jesus as LORD
2018 July 20 -- APW, My Second Year
Not bad for the first week
2018 July 17 -- The Nature of Religion
Religion defines what is True
2018 July 9 -- Romeo and the Environmentalists
They are all hypocrites
2018 July 2 -- Turnabout Is Fair Play
Never criticize a Feeler
2018 June 25 -- InfoQuake
The author is ignorantly hostile towards religion, but cannot avoid it
2018 June 20 -- Drake's RCN
The whole feminazi thing is self-destructive
2018 June 14 -- "Open Source Isn't Secure"
You can be hacked
2018 June 4 -- World's Most Ethical?
If you need to tell us, it probably means you aren't
2018 June 2 -- Taking Out the Bad Guys
It's what civilized people do
2018 May 29 -- Poverty and the Golden Rule
The Golden Rule is a rising tide that lifts all boats (Africa)
2018 May 25 -- Blame the Church
For wife abuse
2018 May 23 -- Christianity [Yesterday]
They seem to be getting tired of Truth
2018 May 22 -- Pagan Theology in Church?
I want to worship the Creator, not the creation
2018 May 16 -- Bible-Thumping Liars
& Thieves
They have their reward
2018 May 15 -- Like Naaman the Leper
Bowing at the government altar doesn't mean you pray to their gods
2018 May 10 -- No Lions Are Dandy
And I'm likely to become Thor
2018 May 7 -- Women Are Different from
Men
The director understood that and said so
2018 May 5 -- Writing What They Don't Know
Look at the evidence
2018 April 30 -- Journalistic Innumeracy
If they don't always tell the truth, you can never believe what they say
2018 April 28 -- Artificial Immortality
Just scripts, not alive enough to qualify as "immortality"
2018 April 20 -- People Who Look Like
Me
Sci-fi is a guy genre, so write for us guys
2018 March 20 -- Manly Gurlz
Evidence that women cannot compete against men on a level playing field
2018 March 19 -- Providence
The Hebrew verb translated "provide" means to "see" (no miracle needed)
2018 March 14 -- Rise and
Fall of D.O.D.O.
There's better sci-fi and better Stephenson
2018 March 10 -- Blue State Taxes the
Poor More
Left-wingers lie about who pays their new taxes
2018 March 6 -- Eunuchs Losing the CyberWar
Maybe they really are all idiots, but I don't believe it
2018 February 22 -- Unsafe At Any Speed
Oregon is not a state you are likely to grow old in
2018 February 14 -- Repealing the Laws
of Nature
It's called "entropy" when scientists understand it, otherwise "global
warming"
2018 February 5 -- Thanking God for Hardship
It brings me closer to God
2018 February 1 -- Only Evil Continually
Every imagination of their heart is only evil all the time
2018 January 25 -- Expired
I'm on a see-food diet
2018 January 19 -- Do [Not] Call List
Liars & Thieves won't get my business
2018 January 9 -- Control
God controls the universe and we do not (but we try)
2018 January 8 -- Oregon Special Election
I'm still a zero
2018 January 2 -- ICR Ups and Downs
The quality of periodical articles varies up and down
2018 January 1 -- Random Thoughts at
the End of the Day
When I'm too tired to work
2017 December 26 -- Sermon Notes
Flights of fancy
2017 December 15 -- Ellery Queen
A Hebrew clue in an American detective story
2017 November 18 -- Racing vs Driving
It's way harder, in autonomous cars as in real life
2017 November 11 -- Re-Using Software
Programmers must conform to the God-given laws of the universe
2017 November 6 -- Story of Your Life
Credible linguistics made a good story
2017 October 16 -- Predicting Movie
Outcomes
Men have a God-given duty to protect the women and children
2017 October 13 -- More Unintended Consequences
I wish the lawmakers would just go home
2017 October 4 -- Stealing PizzaThey
are all liars and thieves
2017 October 2 -- Forced Conversion
The cruelty of our opponents is all the "force" we need to make converts
2017 September 8 -- Summer Videos
From my work with NWAPW Year 2
2017 September 4 -- Entropy, aka
The Fall
Only God can push things up away from doom
2017 August 28 -- OSX Is Soooo Broken
I probably need to port my tools to Windoze or Linux, where they might
work
2017 August 21 -- It's a Mystery to
Me
Some things cannot be understood
2017 August 18 -- Unforgivable
Nothing is unforgivable unless God says so
2017 August 12 -- Home Again
I did what I went there for: the kids had fun and did good work
2017 August 10 -- End ZoneWIRED
predictions are often nonsense
2017 August 8 -- Google Knows Nothing
They are bigoted, intolerant, and anti-diversity (self-identify
"native American")
2017 August 7 -- Still Reading
So-called "Biblical Scholarship" at Risk
2017 August 5 -- Only in Oregon
Miscellaneous unrelated comments
2017 August 3 -- One Week (+ One Day)
Left
Portland is very left-wing eco-centric bigoted
2017 August 1 -- Going Beyond the Spec
Kids get pressure in school to write C and do neural nets
2017 July 31 -- Weekend
Getting to, and visiting in Washington (on Dispensationalism)
2017 July 27 -- Doing Well
Doing what I went to Portland to do
2017 July 26 -- MontezumaAKA
TMI
2017 July 25 -- Porting Over Land
The first weekend's woes
2017 July 22 -- One Week
The end of the first week
2017 July 18 -- Portland
The beginning of 4 weeks out of town
2017 July 7 -- Love Is Selfish
Explaining the Bible means something different does not clear up the confusion
2017 July 5 -- God of Yin & Yang
Unlike the song, God is Good and never evil (collected CCMusic posts) (music=emotion)
2017 June 27 -- Relationship, Not Inference
Everything I know is by inference
2017 June 20 -- Neural Nets and Darwinism
Accumulating random variations cannot give rise to intelligent behavior
2017 June 19 -- Ararat
"When they came for me, there was no one left"
2017 June 10 -- Tutoring Math
Ace the math test without doing much math
2017 June 1 -- Zen Sci-Fi
In Zen true Reality is incomprehensible; so's the book
2017 May 29 -- Forgetting Anger Management
The problem doesn't want to be fixed
2017 May 23 -- MoonSeed
Reading this nonsense is too much like work
2017 May 12 -- Flash Point
The Crusades were a defensive action against 300 years of Islamic conquest
2017 May 6 -- Thinking about the Future
I gotta fish or cut bait
2017 May 1 -- Sunday Drive
The GPS device is less reliable than a map
2017 April 29 -- Fighting Against God
God didn't get the message that WalMart had abolished cold mornings
2017 April 15 -- Air Pollution
The neighbor is pounding on my window from inside his house
2017 April 7 -- Moses
Only Moses himself could have written Exodus 6
2017 April 3 -- Crypto-Fantasy
More effort went into "cool" than science
2017 March 29 -- Feminazi Coming-of-Age
Avoid female authors, even when linked with a guy co-author
2017 March 18 -- Self-Flagellation
I try (but sometimes fail) to avoid PC computers and PC books
2017 March 15 -- Self-Defeating Ideology
You cannot argue against what you depend on for your argument
2017 March 13 -- Nazis Are Like Zombies
A "safe" way to indulge anti-Christian (and anti-Semitic) feelings
2017 March 10 -- Blood Flag
No difference between the Good Guys hating and the Bad Guys hating
2017 March 6 -- Done Shopping
The church didn't turn me away
2017 February 25 -- Very "Christian"
Fiction
His "love" is neither manly nor credible nor even Biblical
2017 February 21 -- Choosing a Church
I don't go to church for what I can get out of it
2017 February 8 -- SciFi as Religion
Total fantasy about 85 children growing up without adult supervision
2017 February 7 -- Fearing the Future
God is in control, so do not be afraid
2017 January 7 -- Winter
Keeping the water going
2017 January 4 -- 144,000 Women
Another fatal blow against the so-called "gender-accurate" translations
2016 December 31 -- PC Trumps Science
I need to be more careful when reading the cover blurb
2016 December 29 -- "Prince of Peace"
= Czar?
Linguistically and etymologically unrelated
2016 December 28 -- Being the Expert
It's a lot of work getting there
2016 December 19 -- A (Rare) Sunny Sunday
A drive in the hills after a sad church
2016 December 14 -- I Hate Gmail
No computer is smarter than I am
2016 December 12 -- New Town Woes
Random thoughts while getting settled (Ghostwriter
farce)
2016 December 1 -- DIY Recovery
My nephew is the expert, thank God
2016 November 28 -- "Low-Flow" Taps
Waste Water
Google fails to find Oregon laws
2016 November 26 -- Stupid Left-Wing
Gummit Regulators
They gum up everything they touch
2016 November 19 -- Eunuchs
Staying safe in America
2016 November 18 -- After the Flood
Genesis vindicated
2016 November 17 -- Why None-of-the-Above
Nobody to vote for
2016 November 15 -- Gooey Apple
No longer easy to use
2016 November 11 -- Netflix Not
Entropy strikes again (things get worse)
2016 November 10 -- None-of-the-Above
Voters
Hard figures show voter distaste for both
2016 November 9 -- Childish Left-Wing
Tantrums
You won last time, now it's the other half of the country's turn
2016 November 8 -- Oregon Blue
Thoughts while awaiting election results
2016 October 26 -- Going Off-Line Again
Up to 6 weeks of no email...
2016 October 25 -- Helping People
Not "isolated" but also not pushy
2016 October 24 -- Transmission Is Not
Creation
Farms and factories create wealth, organized religions only move it around
2016 October 11 -- Recycling
Returning dead trees and metals to the ground from which they came
2016 September 28 -- Twisted
Moral: God is not mocked with impunity
2016 September 23 -- Media Woes
Sony refused to promise not to plant viruses in your computer
2016 September 14 -- I Hate OSX Even
More
The (classic) MacOS still outshines all it successors
2016 September 13 -- Politics vs Science
Seeing Global Warming and ObamaCare from a leftist perspective ("IF" idiot)
2016 September 9 -- In Oregon
Miscellaneous observations at jet-lagged 4 in the morning
2016 September 2 -- Travel
More reasons to drive
2016 August 27 -- Cognitive Burden
Driving takes less hard thinking than flying
2016 August 22 -- On Alcoholic Beverages
It is drunkenness, not alcohol, that is forbidden
2016 August 6 -- Relationship &
Trust
Trust must be based on character, not wishful thinking
2016 August 1 -- The Husband
It's better than fantasy or magic
2016 July 30 -- Anarchy As Freedom
The law is there for your protection
2016 July 27 -- Politics In Fiction
Not what the novelist is good at
2016 July 23 -- Feminazi Blunders
Good novelists cannot live the government-imposed religion
2016 July 22 -- Follow the Rules
The crime boss is God. Rule #1: Don't muck with God
2016 July 13 -- Visions in the Night
My eyes inventing things for me to see in the dark
2016 July 11 -- 1st-Century Women
Same as today, some leadership jobs are better done by women
2016 July 8 -- Cowboy
The cowboy must ride into town to get his horse shod and the bullet cut
out
2016 July 7 -- Feeling Old
You know you're getting old when your friends are all dead
2016 July 6 -- Politics in Fiction
Most everybody is out there to the left of me, Thor excepted
2016 July 4 -- Liars Lie
When people lie all the time, it poisons the whole culture
2016 June 27 -- The Bible and Religious Violence
Professor Hendel is unqualified to condemn cherem
2016 June 25 -- The Sin of Witchcraft
Living the Golden Rule is really hard
2016 June 21 -- The Elephant in the Room
A robot can't think for itself until it has a "self" to think for
2016 June 20 -- Liars
Not only Cretans, but also Christian preachers today
2016 June 17 -- Neal Stephenson
and Religion
Christian religion still stands
2016 June 13 -- (Not) Being Afraid of
the Dark
Bad Things Happen, but God is Good
2016 June 11 -- Moby Dick
Ishmael is closer to God than most moderns
2016 June 9 -- Cashless
Don't visit Sweden
2016 June 8 -- Cessationism
Leads to all sorts of goofy misinterpretations
2016 June 4 -- Rising Sun
No better the second time
2016 June 1 -- Warm Fuzzies
Better to read an unintelligible KJV than no Bible
at all
2016 May 31 -- Anger
Random thoughts on other people's lack of self-control
2016 May 26 -- "The End of Code"
Programmers are still needed to tell the AI what to look for
2016 May 18 -- Public Utilities
I'm glad I'm out of there
2016 May 16 -- Movie Insights
Not much, but mildly interesting
2016 May 14 -- Neither Arminian nor
Calvinist
Preachers don't like to be told they got it wrong
2016 May 13 -- Being a Hero
Requires doing heroic things, not just saying so
2016 May 11 -- I Wish I knew, But I
Don't
God protects me from dangerous knowledge
2016 May 9 -- One Woman At a Time
Do not add to Scripture
2016 May 7 -- Fischer
People good enough to overcome obstacles are better than jerks and bullies
2016 May 5 -- Historical Fiction
Much harder to write than "alternative history" or even true sci-fi
2016 April 27 -- Inventing Fiction
Rising sliver moon and a totally corrupt Catholic church
2016 April 25 -- Nowhere in Africa
Grabbed me three different ways
2016 April 18 -- Nullifying God's Word
Praising God for the futility of sermons
2016 April 12 -- PC-ness
The movie tries to laugh at home-schoolers
2016 April 7 -- Lettuce Prey
Justice will happen
2016 March 31 -- Technology in Fiction
Novelists need help to go beyond their own specialty
2016 March 30 -- Entertaining
Conflating two senses to give pleasure
2016 March 25 -- Bullies vs Violence
Bad Guys do Bad Things, don't risk it
2016 March 22 -- Is Crowdfunding Evil?
Not unless you are a socialist trying to destroy what made America great
2016 March 19 -- Thor
Second-tier, but not chick-lit
2016 March 14 -- Last Knights
Low quality marred an otherwise good story
2016 March 8 -- Liars Lie
If you want me to believe you, you need to tell the truth all the time
2016 March 7 -- Kite Runner
A Thinker story, uncorrupted by the Feeler moviemakers
2016 February 29 -- Double Feature
Two movies, two insights, no joy
2016 February 27 -- Imprecation
A pox on all of them
2016 February 25 -- Biblical Confirmation
My experience explains Scripture to me
2016 February 19 -- Dystopia
A horrible experience, both in-story and for the reader
2016 February 13 -- Robot Cars & Law
No "Get out of jail free" card
2016 February 12 -- Hyperion
Both depressing and incomplete
2016 February 9 -- The Imitation Game
A good portrayal of a computer geek
2016 February 8 -- "Wrote" vs Wrote
Using an amanuensis does not detract from its authority
2016 February 6 -- Cars Are Not Going
Away
They are too liberating
2016 February 5 -- Which Day Is "That" Day?I'm
a pan-millennialist
2016 February 3 -- Democracy, the Worst
Possible Government
except everything else that has been tried
2016 February 1 -- Half a Computer
My first computer had 4-bit data
2016 January 27 -- Whitewash
"Woe is me, for I live in a land of unclean lips"
2016 January 22 -- Spiritual Blindness
There is none so blind as those who will not see
2016 January 20 -- Determinism in Video
Games and Life
It's an interesting metaphor
2016 January 13 -- Eyewitness Accounts
Some things to consider
2016 January 5 -- Religion Has Consequences
Doing Good creates wealth, jihad destroys it
2016 January 1 -- I Really Want to Know
But I don't get everything I wish
2015 December 31 -- Lessons I Learned
This Year
Not many: I'm still confused about what happened
2015 December 30 -- It's FictionNot
physics
2015 December 28 -- Chick Lit
I need a reality check, not more unresolved inner turmoil
2015 December 21 -- Disrespect
The movie was a metaphor for me, both as agent and victim
2015 December 19 -- Rollins
Not the best author
2015 December 16 -- How to Win
Don't fight a "TP" on the facts, You. Will. Lose.
2015 December 15 -- Sum of All Fears
The suitably scary end made up for a bogus beginning
2015 December 12 -- Starting Over
If it cannot be fixed, throw it away and start over
2015 December 11 -- Messiah Sing
More fun than I've had in a long time
2015 December 5 -- Israelis + Palestinians:
No Deal
Two novels with the same back-story
2015 November 27 -- Where the Rubber
Hits the Road
I chase them off before they can rear-end me. It works
2015 November 23 -- Progress (aka
Entropy)
Things get worse (not better) when the net-bigots take over
2015 November 21 -- On Bullying
The best way for a Judger to not be a bully is to avoid being a leader
2015 November 20 -- Friday the 13th
+ 1 Week
Fiction taking the place of lost friendship
2015 November 16 -- Shopping
Two acceptable churches to choose from
2015 November 13 -- Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th must be my lucky day
2015 November 3 -- Empathy
Seeing my experience in other presentations
2015 November 2 -- Cowardly Face-to-face
Judgers are cowardly bullies, unwilling to face an equal opponent
2015 October 26 -- Tired Voice
Voice recognition won't solve complexity hurdles
2015 October 21 -- Winners and Losers
Don't fight a Thinker-Perceiver on facts, You. Will. Lose.
2015 October 16 -- Chocolat
Fiction (partly) resonates with reality
2015 October 14 -- Watermark Revisited
The pastor is not training his subordinates
2015 October 12 -- Personality & Biblical
Values
Thinkers and Perceivers are more "equal" than Feelers and Judgers
2015 October 5 -- My Blind Spot
Prove it to me, otherwise I won't believe you
2015 September 21 -- His "Lies" Are
a Lie
At best they are badly stated
2015 September 17 -- Politics As Usual
Truth doesn't matter, only ratings
2015 September 15 -- I Worship Me
Count the pronouns to see who the song is about (CCMusic)
2015 September 9 -- The Atheist Does Not Exist
Or else he's a hypocrite, either way, insignificant
2015 August 24 -- Only a Lawyer
Texas speed law is more restrictive than other states, not less (but unenforced)
2015 August 18 -- Reasons vs "Rope"
My life is not unexamined
2015 August 13 -- Argo
True stories make better movies
2015 August 11 -- The State of Taxes
It's a different health risk than in the State of Misery
2015 August 7 -- Alternative History
What if there were another (secret) Apollo mission? Not a credible telling
2015 July 31 -- InterNOT
Still got lousy net service
2015 July 22 -- Asking God for Wisdom
We still can, but the pagans must take pot-luck
2015 July 18 -- Swing-Bar (un)Security
device
You don't want it, it will lock you out
2015 July 15 -- The Vision ThingA
lot of processing happens to make it smooth
2015 July 11 -- All God's Texas Creatures,
Part 2
I must be closer to the tropics here
2015 July 1 -- All God's Creatures,
Texas Style
You'd think this was the wild west
2015 June 30 -- The Video Game Method
Modern problem-solving, ancient problems
2015 June 29 -- Internet Back up, Texas
Style
And other (non)benefits of being in Texas
2015 June 17 -- Internet ShutdownThe
providers all want to be in the identity theft business
2015 June 8 -- KJV vs Greek
You can tell from the sermon what the preacher studied
2015 June 6 -- The "Sin" of Unbelief
If unbelief were sin, then faith would be works, which couldn't save us
2015 June 5 -- Auditions for 7th Hell
Texas "Christians" who think Jesus lied about how to get to Heaven
2015 May 25 -- The Story About Stories
Not worth much for reaching people who disagree with your premises
2015 May 7 -- Religious Bigots and Civil
Rights
The LGB-whatevers are the oppressors, not the victims
(Cardinal quote)
2015 May 2 -- Non-News
Comments on magazine editorials
2015 April 30 -- Eclipse = Failure
The sun or moon failed to give light, the mp3 player just failed
2015 April 20 -- Something Old and Something
New
Sermons are mostly old, except yesterday
2015 April 11 -- Politics in Fiction
Those who can't [do], write about it with a left-wing slant
2015 April 8 -- "One" = "Us, Not You"
"OneWheaton" are hypocrites
2015 March 26 -- The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly
Self-promoters usually don't deserve honest praise
2015 March 23 -- Values in Fiction
It often comes through in ways the author probably didn't intend
2015 March 11 -- "Love" in Fiction
American culture understands it as women making demands on men (Transformers)
2015 February 28 -- Smarter Fridge?
"Global warming" makes my veggies freeze and my ice cream melt
2015 February 27 -- Somebody in Hollywood
Gets It
A TV series with credible gender roles
2015 February 10 -- Knowing vs Knowing
About
It's a difference in degree, not kind
2015 February 9 -- My Sister the Movie
Star
I didn't recognize her until I saw her name in the credits
2015 February 2 -- Sexist TV Serials
Pea-brained writers have no imagination
2015 January 31 -- On Timothy Zahn
He writes classic sci-fi, which (mostly) obeys the rules of physics
2015 January 26 -- Two Flix, Two Pointers
to Decay
The beginning of the new Dark Ages
2015 January 9 -- Reading MaterialAnother
Christian novel ("Four P's" link)
2015 January 5 -- NCIS Follow-Up
It's Very Fiction
2014 December 23 -- Thanking God that
Nobody Cares
I have no enemies
2014 December 20 -- Lethal CO2:
5000 ppm?
No good author has time to know all the science
2014 December 18 -- She's in Ministry,
He's a "None"
Almost never the other way around
2014 December 13 -- NCIS, Round 2
They almost lost the guy that kept me coming back
2014 December 3 -- Relationship, the
Third Great Commandment
But not in the Bible
2014 December 1 -- Baptismal Regeneration
It's in the Bible, but unclearly
2014 November 28 -- Trusting God
...and not trusting people
2014 November 25 -- Tradition
Everybody has their own
2014 November 22 -- Church Shopping
It's hard to find a church that "preaches the Word"
2014 October 31 -- True Love
Making the other guy give up everything, so that you don't have to
2014 October 27 -- How Babies Were Made
Same as now, and they knew it 2000 years ago
2014 October 25 -- Disinvited
Social clubs are not for learning
2014 October 20 -- Why This Church (Not
That One)
Preaching against a guy might affect his willingness to return
2014 October 17 -- Learning...
Faithfulness to Scripture is not terribly important
2014 October 13 -- 131 Degrees North
There ain't no such place
2014 October 10 -- Blame
Useful only for enabling and evaluating repentance
2014 October 9 -- FJ's
I don't do well with them and the feeling is mutual
2014 October 3 -- Relationshipistic
Communication
Pure affirmation, content is irrelevant
2014 September 29 -- Feminazi Flops
Relationshipism without the Christian veneer
2014 September 13 -- Scary Novel
I dislike getting jerked around
2014 September 11 -- Catching Up
Thoughts while reading old magazines
2014 September 8 -- Anachronism Ruins
an Otherwise Good Flick
Untruth in today's misandrous anti-tech climate
2014 August 25 -- Atheist Folly
Atheists are not the brightest birds on the planet
2014 August 14 -- Music & EmotionsThat
is the nature of music from every age
2014 August 13 -- Gold Bug
Edgar Allan Poe was a good story teller, not a mathematician
2014 August 12 -- Incrementalism
Drinking the Darwinist Kool-Aid makes bad design
2014 August 8 -- Blurry Fonts
Lazy developers produce sub-optimal results
2014 August 6 -- Dizzy Flicks
Their lies are no longer worth the hassle
2014 August 2 -- Knowing That You Know
I'm not so arrogant
2014 July 30 -- On Being Late
Vince Flynn named three types, none of which fit me
2014 July 18 -- OSX: Not Good UnixA
link to an essay by that name
2014 July 12 -- I've Been Busy
I haven't had this much fun in years
2014 June 16 -- Dancing in the Flicks
Synchrony and harmony is more fun to watch than random noise
2014 June 10 -- Androids Are Not Human
At least not like the Mac was
2014 June 7 -- End of the Chess SeriesGetting
to be too much like "Christian fiction"
2014 May 31 -- 12 Years a Slave
My 12 years is just starting this year
2014 May 29 -- "Secure" Websites
There ain't no such thing (Schneier)
2014 May 28 -- Incompetents in High
Places
McGovern learned what left-wing government does to a business
2014 May 19 -- Religious Clue Deficit
Disorder, As Usual
The atheists do not understand what religion is all about
2014 May 15 -- Fiction Diverges from
Reality
Dystopia is like fantasy, only worse
2014 May 14 -- Queen of Heaven
It was "4-P's" "Christian fiction" after all
2014 May 13 -- Being Good At What One
DoesFor
me it's programming, not writing fiction
2014 May 5 -- Religion in the Movies
Hollywood hates the Church
2014 May 2 -- Earning the Preacher's
Pay
Preaching the Bible is OK if inscrutable
2014 April 19 -- Sentimentalism, Another
Name for Relationshipism
Nobody see it as a personality thing
2014 April 17 -- Ponzi Mentality
Why I'm not on Social Security
2014 April 16 -- The Unforgivable Sin, and Other
Fictions
It's not dying in unbelief
2014 April 12 -- Disaffirming Affirmation
The Relationshipist failed to hide his true (disaffirming) disinterest
2014 April 7 -- Faith Is Doing (Religion), Not
Relationship
The Relationshipists can't preach "the Faith chapter"
2014 April 4 -- Relationshipism Gone
Bad
They call it "love" but it's very selfish and demanding
2014 April 2 -- Free Speech vs Heterophobia
Free speech wins, freedom of religion loses
2014 March 27 -- Violent FictionI
don't do it, so it's not a fun read
2014 March 18 -- Relating to the Bad
Guy
We can be polite while not affirming their sin
2014 March 12 -- Race and Service
Two flicks on domestic service, one much better than the other
2014 March 11 -- Writing What They Don't
KnowThe
"scholars" weren't there when the Bible was written
2014 March 7 -- Writing What You KnowFiction
must conform to the real world, which the author needs to know
2014 March 3 -- Technological Devolution
The movie makers want you to watch their commercials, not the movies
2014 February 24 -- "Theology in Story"
Heavy on theology, weak on story
2014 February 18 -- The Nature of Fiction
If nothing goes wrong, it's boring
2014 February 11 -- The Sky Is Falling
The NSA data collection is a zero
2014 February 10 -- Fudging Scripture
They all do it, because Scripture is bigger than our minds (E.coli link)
2014 February 5 -- God Is Good for You
Protestant missionaries in Africa created a legacy of education and democracy
2014 January 29 -- Piper's Pickle
Guilt by association is bad manners; hypocrisy is worse
2014 January 28 -- (Not) Living the Atheist
Lie
Truth is a Christian virtue, not atheist
2014 January 21 -- Global Warming, NOT
More carbon in the air makes more trees and more Antarctic ice
2014 January 20 -- The Money Masters
Greedy bankers push socialism (against the Federal Reserve)
2014 January 18 -- Term Limits
It's hard to find good fiction
2014 January 14 -- Food inc
Another pack of political lies
2014 January 6 -- unChurch
Not the same as being there
2014 January 4 -- Doctor's Orders
His patient died, I'm still alive
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