Category Archives: Culture

You Give and Wife Walks

Please support my wife as does the 2010 Walk Now for Autism Speaks.

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In which I ramble and maybe have a point

Over all, I don't know much about making peace with God, or our concept of who "god" is. Mostly because I'm not very good at making peace with my self. I can't seem to reconcile my emotions, fears, dreams and hopes with how I live in the every day. I'm not who I want to be. ...

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Making Peace…But With Whom?

I told my therapist this week that I wanted to make peace with god. The god I believe in, and the god of my youth. I've thought about it for quite some time, and I am filled with trepidation  to say the least. I don't know if I can do it, hell, I don't know if it's ...

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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Dude, I love George Carlin. So sad when he died. Fear as a motivation to believe is horse shit. All it leads to is people that are terrified of anything that may crack, question, or challenge their way of thinking (hence your experience in the classroom) and a notion that I can somehow make myself more ...

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You Believe In God? Yep. You Believe In MY God? Nope. BANG, YA DEAD

(thanks to the great atheist George Carlin for the title) God is love. God is love. God is love? Not the god I know. The god I know is cruel, and punishing, and watches all the time, judging, always judging, and condemning. This is what was taught to me. This is what is still seared into my brain. This ...

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