It’s an old joke to be sure. “Am I fat?” You’re not supposed to be honest and say yes, yet if that’s the truthful answer, why wouldn’t you? You’re not saying it maliciously, you’re trying to save someone you care about from an uncomfortable fact when they still have time to do something about it.
At least that’s how I’ve always looked at it. Yet today, the world has gone entirely off of the rails and there are plenty of people who are only looking for validation from strangers and they don’t want the honest truth.
Well, too bad. Continue reading If You Don’t Want to Know, Don’t Ask!
It isn’t often that I agree with anyone on the left, but here, I do. It’s been a couple of years now, since the whining leftist mob has been trying to end support for Hogwarts Legacy, just because J.K. Rowling said something they didn’t like. She agrees with 99,9999% of everything else the far-left says, it’s just on this single issue that she happens to agree with the overwhelming majority of everyone else.
I’ve said, in a couple of recent videos, that some of my religious and religious-adjacent books have gone “missing” since we’ve moved. There are still a bunch of boxes out in the garage that have never been unpacked and I’m sure that’s where they are. Some that I know are misplaced include things like my Qur’an, my Book of Mormon and, until recently, some of these!
I’ve been seeing a lot of atheists online saying this lately and, sadly, they’re just wrong. Culture doesn’t matter. Just because you grow up in a particular culture, that doesn’t make that culture magically true, relevant, or anything else. Just because you’re emotionally comforted by your culture, that doesn’t matter, any more than being emotionally comforted by your religion does.
So the FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation) came out with a video after the Super Bowl, talking about the “Jesus Gets Us” ads. Generally speaking, when they’re talking about the ads themselves, they’re fine, but unfortunately, they took the opportunity to attack conservatism./cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69731297/106742083.0.jpg)
So I came across this video today over on Nerdrotic where they were showing a video of Bill Maher making fun of the woke leftist mob, comparing them to Mao’s Cultural Revolution. It’s a worthwhile watch, the video is below the fold, but the one thing that I wanted to point out is that all of this sounds an awful lot like something else we’re familiar with around here.
This came up on Facebook earlier today, where someone in a writing group asked if you would rather “go back to age 6, with all of your current knowledge intact” or “have ten million dollars”?
I see so many people getting this wrong that I thought I’d write a quick post on it. Lots of people misunderstand what the burden of proof is and when they actually have to trot their proof out. It’s really not that hard, but I’ve seen lots of people giving bad information, or at least suggesting bad information.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and frankly, I’m not at all convinced about some of the claims that we’re seeing. Recently, I heard that hate crimes were up year over year and they tried to blame Trump and the conservative right.
A couple of weeks ago, we went to a memorial service for my father-in-law. He’s been dead for a number of months, but his friends wanted to get together and have a ceremony for him and we sat there, up front.