Category: rant
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Selfish
I want more than I need. I’m pretty sure of it. Stephanie wants me to be my authentic self. That I think is my authentic self. She also wants us to be sustainable. I want to eat more than I need to eat. That is not sustainable. I don’t care. I want you to bring…
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Christmas Cynicism
If you’ve spent much time with me online you know that I have grave and growing concerns about Christianity. Today I watched A Muppet Christmas Carol. Near the end Scrooge wipes the snow off his own gravestone to reveal his name. He begs the ghost of Christmas future that it will not be so. But…
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Assassin
When I was about thirteen I walked home from school in a very dirty area. There were hundreds of bottles on the ground. I played D&D a lot at the time and so made up a game based on the levels for a player character assassin. Every bottle I broke I gave myself 100 experience…
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I Work for a Living
I had a short conversation with an ROTC cadet. He seemed competent so far as he’s been trained. Reminded me a little of myself 40 years ago. He called me sir at the end of the call and without thinking I said, “Don’t call me Sir. I work for a living.” The sergeants would tell…
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Building a better you
The worst advice Americans get on a regular basis is: Just be yourself. If a person believes they are the way they are and can’t do anything about it, that is a recipe for mental illness. Lack of self control is a great predictor of negative outcomes. We all tend to be selfish, ignorant, and…
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Disability Slurs
Stephanie and I have been arguing with a friend about the word retard. As someone who doesn’t believe in bad words just bad uses of all available words I find myself in a tough spot. I am convinced that the R word is almost universally a disability slur. Unless it’s being used in a musical…
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Losing Friends
I am argumentative and sometimes crude. I can also be very passionate about ideas that I can do nothing about. I worry about losing friends. It doesn’t happen often that someone just cuts me out of their life, but it does happen. And then I second guess myself for months as to whether I was…
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Radical Islam
Trigger Warning: This post may not be legal where you live. I believe that at its heart Islam is a religion of peace. But there are 7th century ideas that do not have a place in the modern world. Killing apostates is murder. Even if it is allowed where you are God will punish you…
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Unfocused
It snowed overnight last night. I started shoveling this afternoon and got about half of it done. Then I completely forgot because I’ve been unfocused. It’s dark now and I shouldn’t shovel at night. So instead I need to go to bed early and restart the shoveling at dawn. It needs to be done before…
Latter Day Sinner 