Leaving the Path of Righteousness, For Your Sake

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It’s really not difficult to be skeptical. Most of us are about one thing or another. Think about it. I happen to be skeptical about one more think than the average person and for some reason, a lot of people want to set people that think the way I do, apart. I do not choose to defend that which, to me, indefensible. It doesn’t matter how much anyone attempts to interpret the ancient languages in which the belief was initially transmitted or how painfully the interpolation is made for an event completely out of context. No explicit meaning is just that and anything beyond nothing more than magical thinking.

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Star Snore

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$165 million. That’s what it cost to produce the latest Star Wars offering. Released over the long, 4 day Memorial Day weekend, I think the producers were expecting their blockbuster to well, bust some blocks. It didn’t. According to IMDB (Internet Movie Database) the movie registered just over $161 million worldwide. that excludes marketing of course which could add another $100 million to the total. If it holds true that a movie must make about 2.5 times the cost (with marketing) that means that this latest Star Wars chapter in it’s never-ending book needs to make close to $600 million to make a profit. Of course, it’s early yet but the numbers right now are not adding up. I think people are tired of Star Wars. It’s time to move on to something new, Hollywood.

Defending Your Belief

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I have this friend who just happens to be a christian pastor. Yes, he knows I’m an atheist and the one good thing about the both of us is that neither of us hold belief/non-belief against each other. I sometimes send him videos Find on Youtube that I think are compelling arguments for or against something with his belief. some of them delve into very complex ideas and try to make them understandable for we, the hoi-poli. One of the recent videos I emailed him concerns the idea of the Trinity in christianity and where it came from. This caused, how shall I say, a bit of consternation with my friend.

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When All Else Fails…

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I believe it’s time for all of us to begin being more skeptical of the i formation we consume daily. We can have an opinion, but that doesn’t blunt facts and opinion is like a wish, nothing else required. Sure, some will say their opinions are fact based, but I venture this: Those facts are harvested only to prove a preconceived notion. When all the facts are gathered and evaluated together, sometimes it’s discovered that nothing presupposed is true.

It’s Those Darned Atheists, Again!

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there’s a YouTube channel I watch on a semi-regular basis, Zach Costello. He’s an interesting guy, very opinionated, and for my entertainment, clearly a conspiracy theorist. He has been openly doubtful of the official story of Charlie Kirk’s murder last year and spends an inordinate amount of time on his channel, discussing the case directly, or the machinations of turning Point, Kirk’s company now run by his widow.

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