Will the funky sun stuff make all our other problems irrelevant?
Friday, March 31, 2023
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Reality
What if we live inside a black hole? That would explain the Holographic Universe principal. It might explain Dr. Emerson's error correction code. It may even explain the Fermi paradox.
What if each black hole is another universe? What if the event horizon is a portal? 🤷♂️
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
I read the wrong psalm
I think last night's psalm reading was supposed to be 135, but I read 35 by mistake from the BAS. I got to a part that sounded an awful lot like evil will destroy the wicked. 🤔
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
We sure are society's whipping boy
I'll open with a quote from Thomas Sowell:
"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."
Although what I want to talk about today is actually Third Wave Feminism, they are very closely related subjects. They use the same line of discriminatory thinking.
My dad believed that women couldn't do the work of a man; an old Cold Warrior, he believed that women couldn't be soldiers and pilots. Hormones and a menstrual cycle and bla bla bla, they were the weaker sex. I argued with him passionately, because I was a modern man. I fought for equal treatment, equality under the law, equality. Now, I'm a sexist, because I don't want special treatment for women. Third Wave feminism fights for something they call equity, not equality.
Wokness has invaded my workplace. Where, we recently celebrated Women's Day, talked about the pay gap, and where stereotypical harassing misandrist comments happen right in front of my face daily with impunity. It's really quite ignorant, actually. For me, however, sexist statements are verboten. Some animals are more equal than others.
On the trail, as I run, I've noticed of late that women don't move over. Men generally do. Has it always been this way? I'm expected, it seems, to run through the deep snow or mud. Two weekends ago, as I ran the trail, two women were approaching me on skis. The snow fall had made the trail of packed snow very narrow, about 18" wide. They didn't move over, making me run around them through the snow that was mid shin deep...while they were on skis! Skis! Made for snow. So, it seems as though it's equality when they want it, as Pearl Davis says on YouTube. If you think I'm being harsh, then you're no better than the chauvinists who consider themselves women's betters.
Women are privileged. Lets look at some facts:
- 51% of the population is female, and we live in a democracy, so if things suck...
- Men are the minority, not women
- Over 100 000 men are raped in prisons in North America each year, far more than the number of women raped
- The majority of prison populations are men, and
- Women serve far lighter sentences for the same crimes as men; systemic discrimination?
- Women still get the children the majority of the time in the court's awarding of sole custody cases
- Men are more likely to die as combatants in conflict, over 90% of casualties
- Men make up the majority of workplace deaths
- Women collect more old age pension than men and work for a shorter period of their lives than men do
- Men make up the majority of suicides
- Men are more likely to be murdered
- Men are the majority of the homeless, and
- Men have fewer resources and shelters available to them
There are many more stats like these. Women are so privileged in society that we're actually having serious conversations about comparing T4 slips and giving more money to people who work fewer hours and also who chose work in lower paying jobs as compensation for their life choices and work ethic. Socialism, taking from the hard working and giving to the hardly working.
My wife likes to leave the TV on these stupid reality shows. The other day, there was a couple arguing. The wife--with the husband off screen--exclaimed to the producer that we wasn't going to put up with the patriarchy. And, she continued, the penis is a thinking tool and men cannot make logical decisions. Can you imagine--for a moment--if I went on YouTube and said that women are emotional and having a vagina keeps you from being able to make rational decisions? (Not a belief of mine, btw). People would be screaming for me to be cancelled. More, they would be contacting my employer to get me fired, putting public pressure on them to issue a statement that said something like we do not condone the actions and conduct of Mr. Ramier at ABC Inc., and furthermore bla bla bla as they booted my ass out the door. We have taken steps to bla bla bla something something values something reflects our bla bal and he is no no longer employed here at ABC Inc.
This week, we were invited for Supper to the house of a friend, a young couple. The after Supper conversation got heavy and dark. The topic of the Residential Schools came up. I gave my candid raw honest opinion on the subject. My host, an intelligent and insightful young woman, proclaimed that what I had to say was logical, but that nobody would ever let me speak. In a world where the woke censors the critical thinkers, there is no tolerance for diversity of opinion nor freedom of speech.
Sure, I'm bitter. I'm just so tired of always being responsible for everything that has ever gone wrong personally.
I'll close with a statement on a related topic that is closely related to something once said by a great man. I share a dream, that one day people will be judged by the content of their character.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
What if they feed my bad wolf?
It has been said that the wolf you feed is the wolf that grows. You know, there are two wolves inside us all?
I am not ignorant to the fact that I have much anger inside me, as we approach IWD. I'm just tired of being at fault for others' suffering by virtue of the fact that I am a man. Judge me by the content of my character and not by the colour of my penis?
The Day Allelujah Ended
We're not supposed to say it in Lent. I've already sung it twice by accident. Lent is to be a time of solemn prayer and fasting, abstinence. So, Ash Wednesday can be viewed each year as the day that allelujah ended.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Hippies
My Hippies are liberals, for sure. I have no doubt. That’s why I could never be a member of the clergy; I would find it very difficult to be all things to all people. It causes me enough grief as I even try to witness.
Jesus Revolution
I went to watch a movie with Cindy and some friends last night. It was about a story about a spiritual awakening in the 60s. There was a lot for me to unpack in that movie.
Originally, I didn't want to see it. The actor that plays the Hippy pastor is the very same man who plays Jesus in The Chosen. For me, he'd been typecast, and I didn't want to see him in this role.
Also, I went with some evangelical friends. And, they were overly excited about this movie before it even arrived in the Stratford Cinaplex. I had my reservations.
It was very good. Cindy loved it. She plans to go back and see it again. The scene with the first baptism, the baptism at the cove in scene with the young skeptic main character, was moving for me. And, there was a lot about human nature in this movie, good and bad.
We all have our Hippies
My evangelical friends would no doubt have seen the original state of Calvary Chapel as the rigidly judgemental Catholic or Anglican traditional Church. But, in truth, we all have our Hippies, each of us and every denomination.
The current traditional Anglican Church's Hippies are the conservative, the traditionalist. For the evangelical Churches, their Hippies are the LGBT+ crowds.
We all have our Hippies. I've said it many times: One thing that humans have gotten excellent at over the last 10 thousand years is forcing others how to think. And, we practice the heard mentality, going after those who are different. Chasing off the slow, old, weak, sick buffalo lest it infect the rest of the heard, spread it's thoughts and change minds. They're not like us.
Like the Pharisees, we judge, exclude, and push people away from Him too. We're good at it, even when we've convinced ourselves otherwise.
It's not 1969
My friends longingly yearn for a contemporary awakening. Can it happen now? I mean, with God all things are possible. So, yes is the short answer. But, it's not the 60s. Most people are not Christian anymore. Sure, the Hippies were mostly un-Churched; it's true. But, America was Christian around them. We're an increasingly immigrant nation. Islam is growing. To the uninitiated, which is more true? Which is more compelling, more evangelical? Who even cares about Christianity? And, who are we to tell God how to work? The Hippies were looking for truth, and Christianity was there to fill the void with the Jesus People. It's a much different world than it was in the 60s.
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Bad Words
Bad words that were taboo and could get you in trouble were once of a religious nature, taking the Lord's name in vain, Jesus Christ, God damn it, etc... Once, bad words were vulgar too, sh1t, fvck, p1ss, c0ck, cvn+, etc...
We still have bad words that are taboo today, although the above are all acceptable in general conversation. Bad words are now female, male, freedom, profit, freemarket, fiscal responsibility, individual liberty, individual responsibility, equality, self defense, property, pro life, Christian, conservative, etc...
Bad Person
I already know I'm a bad person, that's why I need Jesus. But, I can get into a religious monologue on another occasion.
So, I went to the Rotary Complex to run today. On the track, on the third lap, a hockey game started. They began with the singing of Oh Canada. I was the only person in the arena who didn't stop, which would have wrecked my workout. Does that make me a bad person?
I felt bad, felt the stares, so I started to sing as I ran. Another runner stopped, stood ramrod straight, and faced the flag. He was not necessarily a new Canadian, but was of a darker skin pigmentation. Leading me to wonder, did he feel he would be harrassed for his lack of attention due to race? Or, maybe, he was very patriotic. New Canadians tend to be, often. My family has been here since the late 1700s, and I prioritized running.
Free Speech is the cornerstone of Western Civilization
FBI Director Makes Stunning Admission About COVID-19 So why did #Facebook censor my post about the lab? Isn't that a prime example of #Censorship of #FreeSpeech that suppressed the actual truth of what was going on? Isn't that THE reason that Free Speech is ao important and must be protected from the government? Tell me that they weren't in collusion with the government, leftist woke mob. #plandemic https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2023/02/682541/?utm_source=mcotr#lepk2qd0376uptwkvjn
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1477622430238248964
Friday, March 3, 2023
Pointless, less than having a point
I like to link things. Lots of times, I find videos, articles, or posts that articulate one of my points really well. The problem with posting links like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pskIQVjAzdw&t=475s in my blog is that eventually they will do dead. Videos are deleted, web pages disappear, etc... Still, the temptation is there to use them. In the moment, they are fantastic. Years later, they make for a pointless post. As a post: Subject line reading, "Check this out," with a body of only http://www.deadpage.edu/reallycoolresearch for the reader is pretty friggen pointless.
Typographical Errors
I've written about typos before. Iij hate them. With large fingers and small keyboards, it's hard. Sometimes autocorrect catches them. Often, it causes them. It's been said that autocorrect is my enemas.
When they happen, often the reader will know what the writer intended. There are times, however, where it changes or obscures the meaning. Plus, it looks sloppy and unprofessional. So, typos are bad.
Proofreading my own work doesn't help. My brain reads what I meant, not what I wrote, in many cases.
Is it just my imagination, or is this something that's getting worse? Literate people of antiquity didn't have this issue, nor Victorian age scribes. It doesn't help me that my spelling is atrocious or that my writing is near illegible, not that they even teach cursive anymore.
Schools may own more of the blame than we realize. Napoleonic era grammar school students can spell much better than the majority of people today. Do we rely too heavily on spellcheck? Have we gotten "lazy" and complacent?
The unprofessional appearance of the typo gets to me the most. Although, logically, the lost intent should bother me more.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
A kind and merciful God
I was reading Psalm 10 tonight. It made me think of the age old philosophical question: Why do bad things happen to good people. And, where is God in all of it.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Office
I was reading Philippians 3 tonight, and was struck by a truth; it's a truth that my evangelical friends--and to be fair, my Anglican clergy friend has--espoused to me before. When my evangelical friends complain about "pageantry" and about "praying by rote", they're really complaining about--to some extent--putting faith in ceremonies (and also "not worshipping from the heart").
So, as I read this during The Office--oh the irony--I contemplated this truth. But, it's not the ceremonies that I put my faith in. I put my trust in God.
I committed to praying more, praying The Office during Lent. The Office doesn't save me. God does.
Sometimes, often, I don't want to pray The Office. In my valleys, I don't enjoy it. I don't feel like it.
But, it grows, waxes my faith. I want it. It deepens my relationship with Him.
Unlike St. Paul, I don't want to throw away my past. It's actually relatively new to me, within the last 25 years; so, it's not that much the past.
Putting my faith in The Office would be wrong. And, through The Office, I sing His praises, pray for those in need and in suffering, read His word, strengthen my faith, and grow in relationship. He does so much good for me.
St. Paul threw away his pharisee ways. Like my evangelical friends, he just "freestyled".
But, can't you pray The Office from the heart? What was Nathaniel doing under the tree? When Christ Himself prayed in the garden for hours, was it just The Lord's Prayer?
I don't need to pray The Office to be saved. I don't need to do it to pray. I don't need to do it to be Christian or to be in relationship with God.
Do I still need to throw it away?
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