Month: May 2024
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Say No To Fundamentalists
What public figure do you disagree with the most? As anyone who has been following along knows, I have a wide range of spiritual interests and influences. So just in general fundamentalism bugs me. There is, and I am sure of it, wisdom outside of Christianity and Mormonism. I find fundamentalism within Mormonism most egregious…
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Executive Functioning
What is your career plan? My brain is good at absorbing information. It is also good at retaining information. What it is not good at is putting all that information to good use. In the course of discovering what autism meant in my children and understanding how much of that they got from me, I…
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Backstage Pass
What was the last live performance you saw? I have a buddy named Danny who is a professional musician. He occasionally takes me to his gigs for free. My wife and I went to see him in a local bar a few years back. That is probably the last live performance I’ve seen. There might…
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Randomness in Art
Very often when I do a digital design I do not have an end in mind. I try to make at least one every day and the process is very often the same. I start with a kernel of an idea, try to execute it, and decide if the execution was successful. If it was…
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Discovering The Watchmaker
My sense of the supernatural is a personal one. I think that to have a testimony of anything at all one must rely on a sort of private gnosis. Even people who aim to be hyper logical have to base their logic on some axioms that seem fitting. That choice of axioms goes back to…
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Hard Dirty Jobs
What’s a job you would like to do for just one day? I’m probably kind of old to be an oil rigger, or a deep sea fisherman, or a lumberjack. Even in my prime I don’t imagine I could have done any of those jobs very well. I’m just not that tough. But if I…
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Directions in Morrowind
My son shared a video with me that joked if people get Alzheimer’s they will be able to play Skyrim again for the first time. My favorite Elder Scrolls game is Morrowind and I told him that I couldn’t play it if I got Alzheimer’s. He asked me why and this was my response. Directions…
Latter Day Sinner 