Category: Origins

Knocking On Death’s Door

Although the death scenes in these two well-produced tubes were selected for their cinematic qualities,  they can still set the mood for a more serious contemplation of your own mortality. Check’m out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh2drbzZs&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtm06DYhBo&feature=related[/youtube] I don’t need to tell you how large the idea of death looms in our collective consciousness, in our daily lives.  After all, people are dying …

What It Means To Be Human

ADAM and EVE   by Ernst Fuchs Our friend Sherry at A Feather Adrift has written another thought provoking essay on a range of religious issues. I’ve winnowed out several of her interesting questions for comment here. You will enjoy reading it  before you read this response. Is God fully omniscient in time and space? It is literally true that God …

ELITIST OBAMA EATS POT ROASTED AND JELLO MOLDED

Barack Obama told reporters of the MSM Mouse Circus he ate a lot of pot roasts and Jello molds growing up. Stunned reporters asked why an elitist would ever admit to “eating pot roasted and jello molded.” Atienne, a resident of a small town in Northwestern PA, responded to their stupidity this way: This is the problem with the MSM. …

THE AMERICAN TERRORISTS

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misdeeds of mankind. — Edward Gibbon 1737 — 1794 IN THE LUSTY DAYS. . . when the surge of civilization pushed onward to broader horizons. . . and a mighty breed of man wrested new life from the wilderness. . . But close on the pioneer trail …

WHO ARE YOU, REALLY?

There’s a fascinating article by Amanda Marcotte at PANDAGON, “My hands are mine, but my feet are my sister,” which recounts a most unusual anomaly among the naturally occurring vagaries of human gene blending. In the process of unfolding that amazing story, she somewhat tangentially observes: I don’t truck with the more superstitious need to have individuality strongly defined in …

A Selective Look at Breaking News. . .

Mmmmm. Let’s see.   • Oliver North is still a free man, as is Bush Senior, and Junior. • Several thousand little ones are making their way through warm canals, headed for the light of their first day. • Billions upon billions of waves are breaking their way onshore. • New fires are being set in the Amazon.   • …

Secular Science: As Backward As Fundamentalist Religion

The emerging mantra of the secular man-in-the-street is that ALL religious views are dangerous, not just the extreme ones.   The supposedly enlightened-by-science secular tools of modern arrogance and stupidity, are a lethal brew every bit as backward as antiquated fundamentalist religion. The arrogant assumptions of secular science and subsequently the thoughtless secularism of the man in the street pretend …