Tag: internet
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House and Home
Growing up I was taught that a house was not necessarily a home and that a home wasn’t necessarily a house. But some of the things that make a good house are essential for a good home. A modern house has electricity, plumbing, refrigeration, and internet. I’m not saying you can’t have a home without…
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Who’s Christian?
I can’t go a day on the internet without running into a few people who try to declare definitively that Mormons aren’t Christians. To me that seems pretty hypocritical for someone who claims to follow Christ. It is ultimately up to Jesus whether he says “Well done good and faithful servant” or “Depart from me.…
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Personal Witness
I am occasionally asked online to give evidence of God. On a regular basis I am told that a personal witness does not count as evidence. With strangers on the internet this is absolutely true. Me sharing my visions doesn’t supersede another person’s witness. But the closer two people become the more their life and…
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Emotional Invested Arguing
There are people I care about that are wrong. I don’t think it matters how clearly or passionately I argue my case that they will see why they are wrong. Perhaps when I point the finger three fingers are pointing back at me. I am however convinced that truth exists and that I have better…
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Vampires
I’ve been thinking about Wendigos. They are foul spirits that wander the wasteland greedy for flesh and spirits. They are a very different kind of vampire from the ones I grew up fighting. There are some who will just suck the life out of you if you let them. It’s easy to understand how their…
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Turning the Car Around
I sometimes joke that Gen X should turn everyone’s internet off for a week and make the world survive like we are in the 80s again. I remember being in the backseat of my parents car and going somewhere we really wanted to go. If we acted up my parents would threaten to turn the…
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This blog is a mandala
This blog is a mandala. Beautiful for the few moments I am writing in it, then drown in the internet to be truly lost.
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Autism and the Internet
I have a pet peeve about poorly cropped and framed memes. The above meme took me about ten minutes to clean off the black and white lines all over it. This just looks much better than the original to me. You can still spot the places I’ve touched up if you had the original image,…
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Thanksgiving 24
It’s a relatively typical day at home. We don’t do turkey, but three of my four sons are here, and they are having a good afternoon. We have a lot of reasons to be thankful. The furnace works, the refrigerator is full of food, the plumbing is decent, the electricity is on, and I obviously…
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Humoring Trolls
I shouldn’t feed trolls on the internet. I shouldn’t give them the time of day. I shouldn’t humor them. But I’m also not afraid of anonymous accounts on the internet. People who hide behind fake names to bully and badger others are contemptible and sad. It’s my pity for the internet troll that makes it…
Latter Day Sinner 