Hannibal, Hancock and Hitler

February 18, 2021Thursday postsAdolph Hitler, Brian Williard, David Wilcock, George S. Patton, Hannibal, Reincarnation, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

I have chosen to keep the alliterative title for this post, though it proves mistaken. Below appears an e-mail exchange of August 20, 2013 between Brian Williard, O.B.M., and myself. In his original message, Brian copied, as he often did, the program summary of a segment on Coast to Coast, a nighttime radio talk show that often deals with UFOs and other strange subjects. The “imminent blog post” referred to appears to be “The New Age is a lot of hooey.”

Brian wrote:

I don’t know if he promotes this idea, but some believe this guy is the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce:

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Podcast – Loving All

February 16, 2021Bible, Podcast, The William Tell ShowAll, Darkness and light, Good and evil, Mohandas Gandhi, Satyagraha, TruthWilliam Tell

God is BOTH darkness and light.

Loving All

See Isaiah 45:7, Psalm 139:12.

Music: XTC, “Merely a man”

Change your diet, chapter 4

February 13, 2021BibleBlank verse, Change your diet, Choosing feelings, Choosing thoughts, Facebook, Milton, Paul, Public discourse, ShakespeareWilliam Tell

Bright and early, first thing in the morning,
do you seek out memes that insult your enemies?

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Is “grit” racist?

February 11, 2021National media, National news, Thursday postsAngela Duckworth, Autonomy, Education Week, Free Speech Handbook, Joan Walsh, Lacey Spears, Public schools, Race, Salon.com, self-esteem, Treatment-resistant, WisdomWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
Is “grit” racist? • Left-wing hate speech • Lacey Spears On Trial After Allegedly Poisoning Her Son With Sodium
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Closing one’s mind to toxicity

February 6, 2021National politics2020 Presidential election, Choosing feelings, Choosing thoughts, Donald Trump, Experimental religion, Methodism, Peace of mind, Steve Bannon, StopTheSteal, The big lieWilliam Tell

“It has to be dramatic. It has to be big. It has to be the Big Lie versus the Big Steal.”
— Steve Bannon

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As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris

February 4, 2021Science, Thursday postsAntibiotics, Atheism, C. S. Lewis, Cholesterol, Embracing what is, Galileo, Medicine, Newton, Owen Barfield, Srebrenica, Steve Siebold, What IsWilliam Tell

“Embracing what is,” a four-part series:
• As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris
• Belief: The unforgivable sin
• Rationalism cannot save us.
• Hell has an exit.

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The Khoisan have never left the Stone Age. Neither have we.

(I’m not happy with this audio, and will replace it in due course.)

This is the first installment in an anticipated four-part series for which the working title is, “Embracing what is.”

The title for this first installment could be, “As seen on TV: The new, improved hubris.”

It’s gluten-free.

All it needs now is an appearance on Dr. Oz.

How can any trendy, with-it person fail to be atheist?

Of the inertial prevalence of belief, Steve Siebold says, “This wouldn’t be surprising 2,000 or even 200 years ago, but in 2014 it’s almost unbelievable.”

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