This picture I took yesterday of an Actual Living Bird proves, yet again, that fairy tales lie. Clearly, the Ugly Duckling grew up to be … well, you can see the dismaying truth for yourself.
9 Jul
Where Hobbits Picnic
I hope the Hobbits don’t sneak into my house at night and murder me for showing you this picture I took near my house of where they recreate. (And see that trash can to the right? They never use it. They leave their empty cans of Vienna sausages and ginger ale everywhere.)
Related post o’ mine: Threatening Leprechauns Respond!
7 Jul
Pretty, Crazy, Smart, Prickly, Talk-Showy: 5 Pros & Cons About Sarah P.
1. Sarah is extremely good-looking.
Pro: People automatically attribute all kinds of winning and noble personal characteristics (intelligence, wisdom, maverickyness, etc.) to the exceptionally good-looking.
Con: It’s too easy for the exceptionally good-looking to automatically attribute such qualities to themselves.
2. Sarah is highly intelligent.
Pro: Brains are good.
Con: Highly intelligent people who don’t apply themselves to any sort of formal or deeply systematic education always think they’re smarter than they are, and tend to lack humility.
3. Sarah seems extremely easy to offend.
Pro: Who isn’t?
Con: Overly reactive + unceasing media attention = Not Good.
4. Sarah’s resignation speech (and subsequent CNN interview) made her seem crazy.
Pro: Crazy is interesting.
Con: Right after “interesting,” crazy becomes scary. Then sad. Then boring.
5. Odds are Sarah will get her own radio talk show.
Pro: She’ll be great at it!
Con: She’ll be great at it!
3 Jul
From Budweiser to Hardee’s–And Beyond!
Remember this guy, young Timothy Hornor, whom I interviewed in Interview With an Actor in an Upcoming Bud Superbowl Commercial ?:
But of course you remember. You have a mind like a steel trap. That’s why I love you.
I said then that Tim would become wildly famous—and (as always) I’m right. At the absolute bare minimum, Tim’s fast becoming That Guy You Saw in That Commercial. Check out his riveting star turn in this Major (if, it must said, childishly crude) National Ad Campaign.
Boy’s gettin’ paid! (Tim: If you read/see this, stop by and say hello. Your fans need you, Tim. Need!)
2 Jul
How to Believe in God: Brain First, THEN Emotion
God designed us with absolute and inviolate free will so that we could choose to be in relationship with him; the fidelity of a person who has no choice but to give it is worthless. God desires a real relationship with us, not one of zombie automaton to controlling master.
Granting us absolute and inviolate free will means granting us absolute and inviolate autonomy. That’s why God arranged for us to come into this world from nothing, and to leave it again into nothing (that we know of). That’s the only way for us to remain truly, permanently, organically autonomous.
It’s also why God doesn’t ever, in any objective, empirically verifiable way, “prove” he exists to anyone. Because then whomever he proved that to would have no choice but to believe in him—meaning their free will had been severely compromised. Which would render them unsuitable for a relationship.
Again, we’re meant to choose to be in relationship with God.
People are forever getting their relationship with God backwards. It’s supposed to be brain first, and then emotion.
1 Jul
Proof That God Litters
You would think, with all the attention the environment’s been getting lately, that God wouldn’t just fling huge wads of junk out of heaven. But as I was walking through San Diego’s Balboa Park the other day, I found this disturbing proof that that’s exactly what he’s done.
Doesn’t God care about us??
30 Jun
The Fear That Feeds Our Discontent
We all struggle with too often or habitually doing or thinking things that we know are bad for us and/or those around us.
Our dysfunctional behavior is fueled by anger and resentment deeply rooted within us. We are angry at the fact that, somewhere along the line of our lives, our core emotional needs were not met.
Like so much anger we manifest, that which fuels our dysfunctional behavior is a reaction to fears we hold.
What we fear is that our core emotional needs cannot be met.
That enduring, fundamental human fear is two-fold: that God (or something/someone like it) is not in control of things, and that we are not lovable.
Those two fears—the one which looks to the outside world, and the other which looks to the inside—are complementary aspects of the same fear: That we and the world at large are not grounded in love.
The deep and abiding fear that the system in which they live and operate is not ultimately defined by love has always made everyone, in one way or another, crazily insecure.
The conditions necessary for the reality of human free will—being mainly our absolute autonomy—means that it always will, too. The cost of our ineradicable uncertainty is our free will.
(Note: While its assertion that God is love automatically renders Christianity a perfectly comprehensive answer to the one great human fear, being Christian does not inure anyone from the acute, ongoing angst of existential doubt. Every Christian remains, after all, a human—free will and all.)
28 Jun
Proof That Bees Make Water Meter Honey
Mmmmmm … delicious water meter honey.
I came across this extremely busy hive (bees were zooming in and out of there like it was Christmas at O’Hare) in an alley running between some businesses and homes in downtown Encinitas, CA.
Did the bees think, “Who cares if it’s a cement hole in the middle of the street? It looks just like a hive! Let’s do it!”?
25 Jun
Proof That God is Creating a Race of Rock People
Here’s a picture I took this weekend in some mountains four miles from our home. I haven’t slept since.
Be afraid.
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