Tag: identity

• 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…

  Mark

  December 8, 2025

  rant, witness

  Child of God, identity, Islam, liberty, murder, rape, repent

• Case of Mistaken Identity

  My wife has been telling me about a person in her childhood for years. He was kind of a jerk to her. A guy with the same name from around the same period in her life married her best friend. But she didn’t realize that they were two different guys. Now she is having an…

  Mark

  July 6, 2025

  collaboration

  friends, identity, married, mistaken, Stephanie, uncomfortable conversation, wife

• The New Puritans

  A lot has been said about the concept of woke. It is nebulous enough that those who oppose it and those who embrace it have different assessments of what it actually means to be woke. To me it seems like a new puritanism. Woke things are looked through the lenses of critical race and gender…

  Mark

  December 2, 2024

  Uncategorized

  DWM, equality, history, identity, intersectionality, merit, misogyny, new puritans, oppressors, racism, Reed College, social engineering, woke

• Association and Identity

  What brands do you associate with? There are brands that I like. My pants are mostly Dickies. I usually have some SPAM in the cupboard. I print my art with CafePress. My Moto G Pure cell phone is decent and I’d consider going with Moto for my next upgrade. But I don’t know that I…

  Mark

  September 27, 2023

  Uncategorized

  association, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2071, humans, identity, people, things, use, work