I’ve been blogging about spirituality for quite a while, and the things I write are obviously from my own point of view — biased by my own perspective and experiences. Yet, the fundamental principle of spirituality as I see it is that it crosses boundaries in every way and is a primary part of [...]
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- Oct 6: Pope Benedict Taking Notes from One Higher Power?
- Sep 29: Top 10 Reasons to Not Be A Suicide Bomber
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Spirituality
Bloom Where You Are Planted
I’m not sure exactly where this saying originated, but the philosophy behind it seems pretty straight-forward — the advice is to be who you are, where you are, and flourish as best as you can. As metaphors go, it has a wide breadth of application to individual circumstances. People can be born into [...]
Diversions
Top 10 Reasons to Not Be A Suicide Bomber
#10. - Do you want to be married to 72 women all wondering if you are “the one?”
#9. - Living to be 100 is far more impressive than killing yourself at 24.
#8. - Sweater vests are soooo last year.
Obsession: Religion is Its Own Worst Enemy
I was one of the “lucky” individuals to receive a propaganda DVD in the mail regarding radical Islam and its war against western culture. The film, titled Obsession, was produced in 2006, and without going into detail basically highlights the real and present danger posed by fundamentalist whack-job extremists — the focus being on [...]
News
Devil’s in the Details
A concept I’ve long held and had reinforced recently is that the concept of “Satan,” or the “devil,” which according to common religious theology is some overlord of an altnernate universe composed of utter defection from goodness and civility, is complete and utter bunk — only to the point that: it isn’t some demonic entity [...]
Spam Relief, Momentarily
Oddly enough, with all the legislation going on the USA and around the globe aimed at combating “spam,” it took an industrious investigative journalist, Brian Krebs, to actually dig up dirt and expose the illicit activities of one of the world’s major spammers to put a stop to it — not only was it a [...]
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