For the last five years I have been in flux. It began when, after 30 years around Jehovah’s Witnesses, my faith shattered and I became a freethinker, humanist and secular Buddhist. I reprogrammed myself, or more accurately, re-educated myself. I studied more broad than deep. My goal wasn’t to become [...]
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Infinite Jest
The day before yesterday I started in on David Foster Wallace’s book Infinite Jest. I can already see that it is going to be an Illuminatus! Trilogy sort of book, one that warps my brain and kicks it up and down the block a little. This is good.
I’m sitting in my car, in [...]
Doubt
“It is proper to doubt. Do not be led by holy scriptures, or by mere logic or inference, or by appearances, or by the authority of religious leaders. But when you realize that something is unwholesome and bad for you, give it up. And when you realize that something is wholesome and good for you, [...]
I shouldn’t be surprised…
Last Friday the report on Sarah Palin’s “Troopergate” abuse of power incident was released by the Alaska legislature and it’s findings weren’t good for Caribou Barbie:
Page 8, Finding Number One of the report – “I find that Governor
Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a)
of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”
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The Historical Jesus Puzzle – Part 1
I mentioned in a post last week that I had been in a conversation about the historicity of Jesus that I was considered turning into a blog post. Instead I went into introspection mode and talked about my childhood neuroses. That’s the kind of variety you get here at RyanSutter.net, you lucky reader [...]
Potluck
Yesterday I started the following blog entry…
Some f***ing motherf***er made caffeinated coffee in the decaf pot yesterday at work. I know this because a) the coffee tasted better than usual and b) my head feels like 1000 jackbooted thugs are holding marching drills on the backs of my eyeballs. I wish I could [...]
Ars Technica Breakdown of Loopholes in FISA Legislation and Repercussions
These are some of the actual problems with the FISA legislation, the nuts and bolts, as broken down by Ars Technica:
Under current law, the government must obtain court approval to tap a phone line or fiber optic cable in the United States even if the other end of the communication is abroad. An application [...]
1 Thessalonians
I have a strange hobby. I really get into Biblical textual criticism. Is that weird? Maybe so…
Today I was listening to a podcast discussion about whether there was evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. I was finding the whole discussion moderately absurd because it seemed to be based on the idea that the Gospel accounts [...]
God As I Knew Him – Part 1
This week there has been a lot of time in my life spent on the subject of God. I went to the American Atheists convention where I met Richard Dawkins and spent a lot of time with a lot of people who don’t believe in God. While there I bought a book called [...]
The Secret Museum of Mankind
“Published in 1935, the Secret Museum is a mystery book. It has no author or credits, no copyright, no date, no page numbers, no index. Published by “Manhattan House” and sold by “Metro Publications”, both of New York, its “Five Volumes in One” was pure hype: it had never been released in any other [...]
