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some of it is right brainwashing, some of it is wrong brainwashing...
This is my own personal sound-off page. It's just a chance for me to
shoot my mouth off to the whole world. I'll be updating it from time to
time. It's unusally political, for me at least...
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May 1, 2010
Wow! It’s been a long time
since I last updated the site!
The completion of my 3rd CD
has been progressing slowly of late, due to my indulgence in my latest
passion, “video scratching”, or artistic video editing. I’ve been
tinkering with clips from a couple of my
favorite recent Disney cartoons (“Kim Possible” and “Phineas and
Ferb”---Yeah, I like cartoons...) as well
as working on a few more serious pieces. You will find the results of
my tinkerings slowly starting to show
up on Youtube shortly, and I’m going to include links to them here at
my web site.
July 24, 2009
With the release of "Me", my
free mini EP is complete. Go there
now, download it, do a "save as" and enjoy!
February 5, 2009
Once again, I feel the need to
put some kind of update here on the site so that people don’t think
that I’ve
died or gone away. Last time I promised that the final song of the free
mini-EP (“Me”) was coming, and
that is of course still true, but I’m almost wondering if my 3rd
full-length CD might be completed before
that! (Just kidding.) Nevertheless, “Me” has proven to be a problem
child, and I admit that I am less
motivated, for the time being, to work on it than the material for my
3rd CD. Hang in there... I really do
promise that it is all coming
soon enough.
November 9, 2008
For those who are waiting, the
final song (“Me”) from my free mini-EP (“Unburnt”) will be coming
soon...
I’ve spent most of the summer and early fall relaxing and working on
new material for my 3rd CD...
but the final song is coming.
June 10, 2008
Burn is done and shipped,
but
it’ll be a couple of weeks yet before it is up at CDBaby. It’s a bit
dark and
apocalyptic, and a little more artsy than Godforsaken. Hope you like it.
January 13, 2008
The completion of Burn has been delayed by a
series of events, some unfortunate, not the least of which
has been the death of an old friend; but it is coming.
October 5, 2007
“Burn”, for all intents and
purposes, is complete.
It won’t be available,
however, for another 6-8 weeks... I want to make my very last fine
adjustments
to the mix after I take a 2-3 week break, after I gain some
psychological distance from the music.
After that, It will take CDBaby 2-3 weeks to get the new CD into their
system. So we’re looking at a
month-and-a-half or so. Nevertheless, I’m ecstatic to have finally
completed it.
* * *
I have been asked many times
before, “What is your target audience?” and I tell you, the question
always kind of stumps me. It’s not that I’m ignorant of the music
business, and unaware of the fact
that most “artists” are in fact aiming for a particular crowd with the
aim of pleasing (and hence, selling.)
It’s that I hate the music business and simply write exactly what I
want with intentions of being true
and just letting the chips fall where they may. I’m sorry if this
sounds egotistical or arrogant, but I just
couldn’t stand to do it any other way... couldn’t stand to write music
that just isn’t me. Please don’t
get me wrong---I really, really want to make money... lots of it...
just not more than I want to write
music that I can be truly glad to say I wrote! I have to live with
myself, you know...
September 11, 2007
Never Forget...
April 28, 2007
I’m really exited about the
new CD, Burn, which
will be released sometime this summer. The vast
majority of it is tracked and the final mixing will begin in a month or
so. It’s pretty dark, even for me.
This website will also be completely redesigned at that time...
April 19, 2007
Let me make this perfectly
clear. I have absolutely no sympathy for Cho Seung Hui. None whatsoever.
I do not care how much he was abused or picked-on. This is not to say
that I think it is ok to abuse or
pick on people, not by a long shot, of course... The undeniable truth,
however, is that the world is full of
abused and picked-on people, most of whom never do things like this.
These people are good people.
Cho Seung Hui is not.
And please
don’t talk to me about his so-called mental illness; his mental illness
was a form of evil---
complete and total self-absorbtion. Pray for the guy, that he might
eventually “see the light” and get out of
“purgatory” or whatever serves for it in the next world.
April 18, 2007
On Cho Seung Hui
Hate-filled, Covetous, arrogant, and utterly self-absorbed...
April 2, 2007
On Rosie O’Donnell
This is a
perfect example of
how far-left elements are taking over the flow of information in this
country. Years ago a hateful wacko like this woman, who is obviously
ignorant, would never have
found a spot on a major T.V. network...
March 26, 2007
Have you seen “The Great
Global Warming Swindle” yet? You should...
I learned, during my
philosophical education at Illinois State, to think critically and
openly. One of the
important things I learned was to not only listen to
the position, but also the counterarguement, then the
counter-counterarguement, and so on back and forth. Only through such
an approach is anything like
truth approached!
* * *
Yet some more on Anna
Nicole Smith
...
March 25, 2007
This latest technique that
terrorists are using---using little kids as bombs---shows how important
it is to
succeed in our attempts to bring civility to the Middle East...
Stay the
course!
March 3, 2007
Real classy, Ms. Coulter. I
like a lot of the things you say, but “faggot” is not one of them.
* * *
Still more on Anna Nicole
Smith
...
February 26, 2007
James Cameron, what an
apparently dark individual.
It is amazing, how many people
in Hollywood (and throughout the entertainment industry) go to such
great lengths to try to harm people’s faith in Jesus. What a bunch of
bitter freaks.
* * *
More on Anna Nicole
Smith
...
February 18, 2007
To those who believe that Iraq
(or any other currently underdeveloped nation) cannot “civilize”, I
want to
point out (if you know anything about European history) that Europe was
once the most barbarous region
in the world... and look at their civility today. If Europe can do it, anybody can do it. Just a thought.
February 15, 2007
People who call our troops
“mercenaries” make me sick!
Granted, a few go in for free college and whatnot,
but there are many ways to get
ahead in life from a materialistic standpoint... There are pell grants
and student
loans, there are many
lucrative jobs, etc. etc. Most of our soldiers went in because they are
proud, brave people
who specifically want to
defend our nation; who understand (in ways their ignorant critics do
not) that liberty
didn’t just fall into the
hands of people, it was purchased... and defended to this day... with blood---the blood of
soldiers, and ordinary folks who picked up their guns to fight as
soldiers...
February 10, 2007
On Russian president Vladimir
Putin
This guy is
getting scarier every day! NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
said it best. “Who
can be worried that democracy and the rule of law is coming closer to
somebody’s border?”
February 9, 2007
On the death of Anna Nicole
Smith
...
* * *
People are still questioning
the need to have gone into Iraq (or Syria, or Yemen, or wherever, for
that matter.)
I wonder how long people have to think about something before the
obvious dawns on them...
Forget
about Bin Laden. Or rather, don’t forget about him, but understand that
“getting” him, while certainly
satisfying our (spiritually unhealthy) desire for vengeance, will not
make the Western World a bit more safe.
The only way to win against terrorism is to destroy his network and
others like it wherever they are, and liberate
the people held hostage by such groups, so that the veil of ignorance
can be lifted from those people... they need
education and prosperity, badly...
Stay The Course...
February 7, 2007
What is up with all these
stupid, ignorant punk kids at college campuses all over the country,
causing trouble
for military recruiters? Do they not know how their own freedom came
about, and how it has been maintained
against dictators and such over the history of Democracy?
Idiots!
* * *
I watched Prince’s half-time
show during the Super Bowl, including the part when he was behind the
sheet in
silhouette, and I have to say, it simply looked like a guy playing a
guitar to me... some people are just way too
oversensitive, I guess... or see what they want to see...
January 31, 2007
Over the past year or so, I
have become increasingly more pessimistic about the future of the
world. I watch
in amazement as nuts like Jane
Fonda, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Sean Penn (at that anti-war
rally
in Washington this past weekend) spout their hateful, myopic psychosis, and even greater
amazement as more
and more people follow after the likes of them in wonderment. I find myself
conjecturing as to how they
would feel if they had lived under Saddam Hussein, and dared to criticize him as they
are fearless to openly
declare George W. Bush a "war criminal"... What would they be thinking as they
stood before a giant hole filled
with 1000 other critics of Saddam, with the guns trained on them? I fancy that
in their final moments they would
finally understand what was different about their lives under George
Bush, and that their hatred would melt away,
and perhaps... their souls might be saved.
January 30, 2007
On animal rights
A single
penny spent to alleviate animal suffering while there is still so much
human suffering in the world
is not merely wasted; the very idea is perverse beyond belief!
January 22, 2007
Just thought I'd better put
something up here, so that a lot of people won't wind up thinking that
I've died or
gone away. I'm working very hard on my new CD, which is obviously
taking a lot longer than I had anticipated.
I should have known better; My first CD took a long time, too. As a
diehard independent recording artist, I do
not have an army of people to help me with it... in the future, I will
be more careful about announcing release
dates. I know I can say with confidence, however, that it definitely
will be coming out this year.
October 5, 2006
On the Westboro Baptist Church
What kind
of freaks, dear God, are these "people"? How can someone go
where their fellow human beings
are mourning their dead loved
ones, their loved ones who have just
passed away, and shout
insulting things?
What perverse form of
Christianity do they practice?
October 1, 2006
Just fixed the links to my
sample mp3s... I don't know exactly how long they've been down, but
they work
again.
September 20, 2006
On Hugo Chavez
Ugo the
Clown performed at the U.N. today. Yay! He’s funny...
He said he could smell the
sulfer of the devil... If that’s
what he smelled, I think perhaps he should try
some deodorant...
September 1, 2006
I do not understand the obsession to show a connection between Iraq and
Al Qaida in order to try to
justify the war in Iraq. How many people are so stupid and ignorant as
to be unaware that the problem
of Islama-fascism exists throughout
the Middle East, and that any situation where we are taking action
against murderous fanatics there is a good and necessary thing? Some
people hold the very naive position
that Bush Jr. is causing more
terrorism by his activities, but in reality, he has merely struck the
hornet
hive; a hive that has been gathering against us for a long time, with
growing intent to maim and kill. They
are not "freedom fighters",
of course; they fight to be able to force the people down their own narrow path,
not fight to allow the people
to choose their own path. At
any rate, we can’t delude ourselves into thinking
that the problem is one small thing in one small part of the world...
it’s a matter of bringing enlightenment and
prosperity to large populations in many countries in many places
throughout the world.
August 23, 2006
I like Senator John McCain, but he seems quite mistaken about
Georgie’s administration supposedly
misleading us about how difficult it would be in Iraq. I think a lot of
people misled themselves.
While guys
like Donald Rumsfeld carefully explained to the American public that it
would not be easy, but would be
more like our own
post-revolutionary period, many people apparently
didn’t pay attention... I can imagine
many people changing the channel or just zoning out, and thinking it
would be just another 6 or 8 week war
without really listening to
what was being said...
August 1, 2006
People are complex; just
because Mel Gibson says anti-semitic things doesn’t mean he’s
anti-semitic
through and through, or in any meaningful way.
* * *
That Jimmy Carter. He says the
most idealistic, noble, well-intentioned, stupidest, idiotic things.
July 23, 2006
The idea of agreeing to a
cease-fire with a terrorist group is ridiculous. A terrorist group by
definition
exists to attack...
Dummies.
July 9, 2006
“A victory for the right is
morally impossible”---Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
---Now that’s self-righteous!
July 8, 2006
The release date for the new
CD has been pushed back, till sometime in the fall. I bumped a couple of
songs in favor of newer ones I have been developing, as well as other
concerns getting in the way. Sorry.
* * *
“It is better to be Socrates
dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.” ---John Stuart Mill
---It is better to be a fool
who loves than Socrates full of hate. ---Greg Lycar
* * *
“The unexamined life is not
worth living”---Socrates
---Speak for yourself! ---Greg
Lycar
June 19, 2006
Of course the President’s plan
(“Stay the Course”) is working. It is the only strategy that could ever
work
for a situation like this. This is a war of spirit, of morale. If the
unconscious part of this country came to it’s
senses, put their hatred for conservatism aside and backed it--- we
could be showing the enemy what we are
(or once were) made of, and the whole War on Terror would probably have
been over by now.
* * *
You get on my nerves, too
Iraq war
protesters;
authorities
who always gotta be “hard guys”;
Global
warming alarmists (calm down);
People who
can’t handle personal responsibility;
High and
mighty college students...
May 21, 2006
Of course all people who come
here (to reside) should learn english. The idea that this expectation is
bigoted is either a lie given for political reasons or displays the
grotesque ignorance of the person who
thinks it. At a job I worked years ago, I overheard a Mexican guy say
to a Vietnamese girl, “Here
they want you to learn english, but If I ever get rich, I am going to
have a party, and all languages are
invited.” I didn’t butt in and argue with the fool, but perhaps I
should have---to explain the obvious to
him, that such a party would be quite lame when no one would be able to
speak to or understand hardly
anyone else, that the only reason the two of them were able to have the
conversation they were having
was due to their having a common language they both knew.
The
important thing to remember is this---It’s very hard to become friends
with someone you can’t
talk to. When you hear someone say that it undermines our civilization
to allow people to flow in
without learning the language, that person is not being overly
dramatic; they are speaking truth, a vital
truth which often gets subverted by political correctness. Remember the
biblical lesson... a common
language unites, but a multiplicity of languages (without a common
language) fragments and divides.
The truly troubling thing to me is that I wonder if that is exactly
what some people (who are pushing
for separate languages here in the U.S.) want---a fragmented America.
* * *
I have heard many atheists and
some agnostics refer to religion as “divisive”. They say that religion
results in clannishness, separatism, war, etc. I wholeheartedly disagree. I say human nature is divisive,
and what the “God-given” religions do is draw all this negative energy
up into a framework of
compassion and mercy where we are less likely to act in a hateful
manner toward others of different
belief than we would otherwise.
May 14, 2006
My new CD will be out soon, I
expect around the Fourth of July. The working title is “Burn”, and
I’m thinking that I’ll stick with that...
* * *
Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... Three guys who would do the earth a lot more
good below its surface than above. Our enemies predict our doom, but I
think it is likely to turn out the
other way---the way it did 2000 years ago, in A.D. 70 and again in A.D.
144... Rome will crush the terrorists
and zealots once again, I believe. If it’s one thing God likes less
than Babylon, it’s those who murder in His
name, who have the self-righteousness to try to force His hand, who
believe that lust and greed and gluttony
are worse than hatred...
* * *
Yeah, I’m seething with rage
over the idea of the NSA collecting phone records. It’s one
thing if you’re a
cop trying to catch someone for fraud or embezzlement,
but how dare President Bush think he has a right
to keep terrorists from blowing us up?
April 30, 2006
Beware of the power of
tears; sometimes tears can have tremendous power to sway us to do the
wrong thing.
April 6, 2006
A thought on Communism...
Why would I
want our lives to be crappier and poorer so we can be exploited by the
government
rather than by a private
citizen?
* * *
Jesus did not teach us to break secular law, as some have implied
during this debate on illegal immigration...
March 22, 2006
The interesting exchange
between Helen Thomas and the president the other day demonstrates
one reason why I could never be president (as well
as showing that I am not as good of a Christian
as I should be.) Georgie was
his usual inarticulate self (his "Achilles heel") but he was also very
gracious, despite Ms. Thomas'
insulting question. I would have responded "Look, you 200 year-old
bag, I gave two reasons for
going to war in Iraq every time I spoke about it. Now I know that your
senility must be getting
pretty advanced by now, but I spoke of them often enough that even you
should remember. First and
foremost: Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction, which, thank God,
the whole world was wrong
about him still possessing; and secondly, the liberation of the Iraqi
people and the bringing of
Democracy and freedom to them. This was actually the more important
reason for the long term in
the War on Terror, as we can never win it if we cannot change the
tyranny-and-one-sided-propaganda dynamic of the Middle East."
Note: If Ms. Thomas is indeed suffering from senility or Altzeimers to
any degree, than I deeply
and sincerely apologize for the above tirade, because Altzeimers and
senility are not funny. I only
make such a joke based on the fact that Ms. Thomas seems clearly not
to be suffering from such
an ailment.
March 8, 2006
So, "Brokeback Mountain"
didn't win. That is surprising to me. Not that I thought it was a good
movie; I wouldn't know,
not having seen it. I would have thought, however, that leftist
Hollywood
would have been more
interested in ramming their agenda down our throats. Maybe they are
catching on to the fact
that we the people are catching on to the fact that
they are (more or less) a
liberal propaganda machine, and they are afraid of losing even more
credibility with the American
public. I don't hate homosexuals, but I do take umbrage at being looked
down upon and being
thought of as needing "enlightenment", especially by people who could
use a little enlightenment
themselves (I refer, not to gay people, but to arrogant left-wing
crusaders.)
* * *
George W. Bush a war criminal?
It would be funny, if it wasn't so scary. What would such
accusers in our own country
call the Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Worse than Hitler?
To me, they are of the same
mold---they are both great men, determined to defend Liberty.
* * *
The Iranian people cry out
that they have a right to nuclear energy...
They sure do, and they have a
lot more rights, too, like genuine Democracy...
Problem is: the Mullahs and
that greasy-looking Nazi vermin of an (unelected) president of theirs...
February 18, 2006
Amazing.
I was just at iTunes and
noticed the free download of George W’s State of the Union address...
but before I downloaded, I started reading some of the reviews out of
curiosity... and I was
amazed. Amazed at the hatred. Amazed at the ignorance. Amazed at the
delusional self-
deception of the modern liberal mind... Amazed at the willingness to
believe any lie pumped
out by the left-wing spin doctors, such as the idea that Georgie lied
about WMDs, the idea that
he was not elected (this persists even into his second term), that he
is spying on you and me,
etc. etc. etc. Not that I haven’t heard it all before, but I found
myself suddenly inspired to write
this.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll
say it again--- The left wing of this country has changed. They are
no longer about love or concern for the poor and middle class... they
are about hatred of the
rich (and the traditional religious, for that matter). The left wing
has become the home of the
extremely hateful and ignorant. There was once a time when I was proud
to call myself a liberal,
mainly because I feel so sympathetic toward racial minorities, the
poor, and the working class
(it comes with being a Christian, as well as being working class
myself), but I can no longer
associate myself with the Left and their psychosis. I do not walk, but
rather run in horror, from
the Left.
* * *
So, I read in the news that
some cleric in Pakistan has offered a one million dollar bounty on the
head of the cartoonist(s) who drew the offensive Muhammad cartoons. The
guy, living and
working in his own free country here in the Western World, is in
hiding... and will be, probably
for the rest of his life, having been raped of his rights and freedoms
by fanatics living in far-off
barbaric lands. If this isn’t the best argument for the invasion of the
Middle East, I don’t know
what is. The people there display such a crying need for freedom and
prosperity---civilization
---that I don’t know how anyone can oppose the war in Iraq. As an
artist, I must tell you, I am
very worried... I can have my freedom here in my own country taken away
by freaks thousands
of miles away. This cannot be
allowed.
* * *
I was just watching the Winter Olympics---the downhill slalom---and
something sprang to mind:
Bryant Gumbal is an idiot.
February 14, 2006
All these people in the
left-leaning press going nuts over not being told immediately about Dick
Cheney accidentally
shooting someone... Who says that they (we) have a right to know
something
like that? I see this
as an incident from his personal life, and only the families involved
have a right
to decide when, where, and how (and if)
the incident is to be reported.
February 13, 2006
I don’t think Saddam can get a
fair trial (in the way in which we ordinarily think of a fair trial)
and why should that bother anyone? The point of the “fair trial” is to
present evidence to a
group of previously uninformed people so they can render an impartial
verdict. This is the right
way to do things with the vast majority of crimes, where the crimes
were committed in relative
secrecy; but with a dictator, who committed his crimes before the eyes
of the whole world, whose
crimes are already well documented by groups like Amnesty International
ad nausium, a demand
for a “fair trial” seems to be nothing more than the vermin’s last and
only defense. The only “fair
trial” for Saddam in my eyes would be one where he is led to his
execution as speedily as possible.
* * *
On Al Gore
Another
reason I left the Democrats. After his visit to the Saudis, he should
visit a padded room.
When I saw him step away from his podium to stand in George W. Bush’s
face (to try to rattle
Bush Jr.) during that debate years ago, I was appalled. This guy who
wanted to be
president was
acting like a spoiled punk kid... I’ll never forget that. His
pretentious sighing
got on my nerves, too...
February 8, 2006
One of the disturbing things
about all these riots throughout the Muslim world is that they exhibit
the kind of behavior that causes
someone in the West to draw a cartoon depicting Muhammad
with a bomb for a turban. It's not fair, but...
I try not to insult other religions (I am a Christian) and frankly, I
find myself bothered even
when another religion is insulted... deep down, I am disturbed by the
"slap in the face" to
anything holy and sacred more than anything else in particular about
the insult... but I just can't
see violence over speech or art, no matter how crude or blasphemous.
February 7, 2006
So, these Danish artists are
now afraid for their lives. They won’t again make the mistake of
criticizing Islam.
This is why I support the war
in Iraq.
The key to any hope of winning
the War on Terror (in the long-term) lies, of course, in the
flourishing of free speech in the Middle East. If hateful, murderous
rhetoric can’t be countered
with the truth, you won’t be able to turn the flow of bodies (for
suicidal-homicide) down to a
trickle.
How can infringement of our
freedom of speech here in the West by foreign threats be tolerated?
* * *
A survey is not a scientific study! Science is done
with empirical evidence derived from sense-
data. A survey is just opinions...
February 2, 2006
Ever notice how you always
hear about the Crusades, but you never hear about what caused them?
January 24, 2006
Congratulations, Canada! Now
if you could only see your way to supporting the whole War on
Terror...
* * *
So Judge Alito has passed the
first hurdle...
I must admit, I am somewhat on
the fence concerning abortion (leaning toward the pro-choice side.)
I don't want to be wishy-washy, but I can't help but see both sides of the
arguement. On the one
hand, I feel that the vast majority of abortions that are actually
performed are immoral, that most of
them result from the callous and anti-spiritual philosophy of
considering abortion to be just another
form of birth control, of considering a human fetus to be no more than
a piece of meat. On the other
hand, I am deeply troubled by the idea of putting women and doctors
into a position where a woman
might not be able to get the abortion she needs because
the doctor, caught in what (s)he may feel is
a gray area, is afraid to Ok it.
Let me sum up my feelings this way... The problem of so many abortions
being performed is a
spiritual one, not a legal one. I am not bothered by the fact that the
practice is legal... I'm bothered
by the fact that so many women (and their men, who try to influence
them) are willing to choose
this course of events for reasons other than a woman's health.
January 23, 2006
Harry Belafonte a traitor?
Nonsense! Don't you people recognize advanced, crippling senility when
you see it?
* * *
Recent Canadian polls seem to indicate a flicker of brainwave
activity in their national consciousness.
* * *
"We need a revolution, there is no justice!" he cried, as he
prepared to shirk Jury Duty.
* * *
Note to Pakistani protesters:
People who host Al Qaida for dinner (with children present, no less) are
anything but innocent. It's
sad that the children wound up as collateral damage, but part of the
point of
such attacks is, ultimately, to rescue the vast majority of such
children from the clutches of the
poverty-and-ignorance-exploiting, murder-and-propaganda machine they
are currently enslaved to.
January 22, 2006
Usama Bin Laden is so
transparent. This latest tape is as much of a joke as the one he
released
right before the U.S. election in November 2004. The American President
has been a terrible
wrench thrown into his works, and Bin Laden is deeply concerned. He did
not expect this steadfast
courage to come out of America.
* * *
More on "relativism"
Is Luke
Skywalker to be considered evil because he single-handedly killed
thousands of people
when he blew up the Death Star?
* * *
"Useless" tax cuts
"Useless"
is the last word an intelligent, educated person uses to refer to tax
cuts specifically
for businesses. Especially big
businesses. Nancy Palosi and her "comrades" are neither stupid
nor ignorant concerning how
the economy works... they know that letting "the pie" get bigger
results in higher tax revenues than without the tax cuts; yet it is
almost as if they would prefer
that everyone were worse off as long as they get to stick it to those
"evil rich guys". This is
one of the reasons I left the Democrat Party. They seem to be more interested in manipulating
the
emotions of (and controlling) the common folk than they are in helping
them to have
richer
and more dignified lives.
* * *
"Meat is murder," I heard
from the left.
"Then what do you call
abortion?" I asked.
* * *
I find it alarming that so
many people seem willing to trust whatever a scientist says. Their
word is taken by many people in our age as indisputable fact, the same way
the word of the
Church was taken in the dark ages. At first this may seem rational and
proper... until one
thinks a little bit more about the history of science and scientists.
Scientists are generally no
more free of bias and subjectivity than any of us. That is why there
are differing "schools of
thought" on every scientific subject... the same evidence rests before
the eyes of every scientist
of a given field of study, but they come to different conclusions
because they start from
different presuppositions and assumptions (Biases). Always, always remember: Scientists are
people, too.
January 18, 2006
NSA wiretaps
I sure as
hell hope someone is
listening to suspected Al Qaida conversations, wherever
those conversations are
occurring in the world, whenever
we can.
November 16, 2005
Isn’t the criticism of President Bush, concerning the so-called
“misleading” of the people
about Saddam’s WMD capabilities, one of the silliest things you’ve ever
heard? Everyone
thought there were such weapons in Iraq. Now move on, and let’s do what is best
for the
people over there... and the people over here... which means to support democracy in the
Middle East.
October 2, 2005
For a person to seriously believe in “relativism” is a form of
insanity, I tell you...
* * *
I do not mind at all if
someone wants to burn a copy of my disc (or individual songs)
to give to their friend. I ferociously
object to someone burning copies
(particularly
larger numbers of them) to sell for themselves or for someone else.
Growing up somewhat
poor, I rarely had the money to buy albums, so I mostly taped them off
of other people.
Artists who object to someone making a copy for their needy friend are
not worth spending
your hard-earned dollars on.
* * *
Hey, Jesus was not a hippie,
you know...”do not judge” means essentially “do not act as a
judge over them and pass sentence” (such as bombarding them with stones
until they are
dead), not “do not make moral evaluations of other people”...
Obviously, He expects us to
judge the moral character of people, that was the central theme of his
ministry. He even told
us how: “...you can tell the tree by its fruit.” (Matthew, 12, 33-37)
More on this another
time... much more.
* * *
Clearly, any thinking person
can see that nicotine is not addictive; Or rather, if it is so, then
it
is mildly so, and not the
reason people continue smoking. If it were,
nicotine gum and
nicotine patches would work consistently for everyone,
not just a few. The smoking habit
is just that--- a habit. The problem
is essentially in their minds. That’s why “the gum” and
“the patch”
work for a few people---because they believe
it will work. It’s called
the placebo
effect, folks. There is one way and one way only to
quit---one must believe one can quit,
and resolve to do so.
August 5, 2005
"It is better to praise the light than to curse the dark"
---Perhaps it is better to praise the light... but
it's still good to curse the
dark.
* * *
You may ask why a spiritual guy like me would be into bands that come
across
as having more of a materialist bent (if you've read my "bio"). The
answer
is simple---
I don’t
know.
* * *
The earth, and life in general, has survived cataclysmic changes of all
kinds, from
super-eruptions to impacts from meteors and whatnot. This is no excuse
to trample
and devour, of course; aside from descendants to think about, I imagine
you also
wouldn't want the carelessness and greed on
your
soul, but... remember:
the earth is not
fragile; we are fragile... freedom is
fragile...
* * *
"Spread democracy by the sword?"
Yes, obviously. That is how the founders of America
did it... it is the
only way it can
be done with tyrants. You can’t talk
them into letting go of their
total power. Of course,
you’re not really spreading anything; you are simply releasing the
people from their bonds.
Liberty is the natural choice of free, informed
people, regardless of what kind of food they
eat, clothes they wear, deities they worship, or
music they make. The reason some people
around the globe appear not to want freedom is
because they are kept
ignorant and/or afraid
by their tyrant masters. Like most people, I would like to keep war to
a minimum; but I
do not delude myself. Sometimes war is a good thing, the right choice. We must remember
that to choose not to bring down a mass-murdering dictator or group is
a choice
to allow
that mass-murdering behavior to continue.
* * *
On Pope John-Paul II
The only pope I ever remember, frankly. Like many
people, I didn't agree with him on everything;
but I agreed with him a lot. He was unduly unsettling to some people, I
think, because to them he
represented an older, darker, more cruel age. I think they
misunderstood
him, and I think they
misunderstand or underestimate the importance of the idea that humanity
reconciles unto
God,
not the other (satanic) way around.
Faith. Courage. Love. These are the words that come
to my mind when I think of John Paul II.
We have been privileged and blessed to have
witnessed his papacy.
* * *
The most important lesson I learned from college is that there are a
lot of educated idiots out there.
* * *
On Terry Shiavo
Although I certainly respect a person's “right to
die” (legally speaking) I would have thought
you would have needed more proof than that (just someone’s word that
this is what a person wanted?)
before you could take a life...
* * *
I disagree with those who have moral objections to movies, video games
and the like because
they are violent and gory. Violence has always been in the movies, so I
assume that the issue is
the graphic nature of it that
is objected to. Let me say this:
Emergency Room doctors and nurses
everywhere are exposed
to gory things all the time... and they don’t become less moral as a
result... they will
develop stronger stomachs. If I am bothered (in a moral sense) by a
movie or
whatever, it is
because the story is morally ambiguous or sends a bad message, not
because it
shows a soldier getting
his leg blown off or a horrible monster ripping someone in half.
* * *
Just because God loves
everyone doesn't mean He likes
everyone...
* * *
An amendment to the constitution banning flag-burning? Bad Idea! You've
heard it a million
times from as many people, and now I'm
going to say it. This
is not going to prevent those
who hate the country from insulting not only all those who serve
and have served in our
armed forces, but every one of us who loves it. No, there are other
symbols and many other
ways of achieving essentially the same effect, and jerks will always
find a way...
* * *
Oh! Let me share a joke with you...
France.
* * *
You get on my nerves---
People who have childishly inordinate problems with
authority.
People with the “entitlement mentality” (see below).
People who are mean.
People who hate George W. Bush.
People who specifically dislike Christianity.
Christians who show disrespect to other faiths.
People who dislike and disrespect religion in
general, for that matter.
Control freaks. Micromanagers.
People with little or no sense of humor and/or who
rarely if ever smile.
"Animal Rights" advocates (for the love of God, please).
Vegetarians who carry themselves, in speech and
manner, with a sense of superiority...
* * *
I don’t care for the “Entitlement Mentality”. I’m not referring to the
idea of supporting government programs;
I’m talking about a habitual tendency in a person’s thinking to feel an
overly strong sense that they “deserve”
this or that, such that they become thoughtless and inconsiderate (or,
in the worst case scenario, criminal.)
It draws them closer to damnation, I think...
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