(cross-posting) My testimony against the people of the United States
To the best of my knowledge a collection of medical professionals have not brought a lawsuit against RFK, Jr.. This is not to be surprised given they are people who get wealthy off the back of the suffering. Nobody will stop RFK, Jr. from kidnapping the sick and disabled. I learned a long time ago …
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This is not a good time to start writing a new book
This is not a good time to start writing a new book. You have already invested so much time and resources on the book you were already writing. Now, with the political consequences of what it means to be a writer and what it means to be a writer who discusses social issues in one …
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(cross-posting) Note: Continuing humanities teaching and research after the discontinuation of grants
I do not think individual humanities work needs to stop with the removal of grants. Yes, clearly communities and community culture will be hurt. However, individuals can continue privately, to the best of their ability, and budget, share openly in the spirit of Open Access and the common good. We are called to be stewards …
Now is not the time to attempt to appeal to reason. God said now is the time for upheaval.
I have been giving some serious thought to the myriad different ways we could collectively overcome the authoritarian front that we are facing. My thoughts traveled through my brainwashed conceptions of Abrahamic-evolved ideas of judgment. But God told me She would not be that Judge. She reminded me that I was thinking of my old …
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Bringing this site out of retirement
This website and others I retired are still getting an unusual amount of web traffic. I sort of feel obligated to keep them active. After all, it is not like I was updating them extremely often anyways. I had been preparing to focus on https://www.blog.towardspostviolencesocieties.com/ and also just continue https://subspacewagon.systems/ as normal. I will say …
The importance of a singular leader (cross posting)
This is not a popular opinion, but I have come to believe that social movements do not ultimately bring systematic change. Not be a contrarian, but I think it takes the right individual that sparks the final measure that brings about real, fundamental change. Let me give some examples. Martin Luther King, Jr. I know …
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Short Memo: (Expanding a repost) – Considerations for Seeing an Unseen God
I miss praying. It was very centering. Very calming. But I now follow a God who has never been seen or written about. Any attempt to create a spoken prayer would be misguided. It would certainly be influenced by one’s culture and previous exposure to other religions. There is no escaping influence. And there are …
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Note: A Truism from Trek about Theology
This just a short note based on my own experiences and my strong interest in Star Trek. There is a line of dialogue that a brilliant writer, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, probably didn’t know he was getting correct. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season one episode, “In the Hands of the Prophets” (1993). Vedek …
Reposting: Clarification of a poem
Lots on wordplay in the poem I wrote this morning. I suppose it helps to know that “love-in-idleness” is just another phrase for heartsease, which is a flower, a pansy, the type that most hybrids come from, Viola tricolor, / family Violacease. Play on heart /mix of/ word refrain (musical), symphonies, lecture halls, decry, shifting …
Memo: Avoid autobiographical fiction
I just found two story outlines, both about 10 pages of notes, that I exerted a great deal of effort into trying to flesh out for potential novels. I hadn’t reviewed them for a while and now with fresh eyes I see they could not possibly be anymore autobiographical. For most of us, this should …