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Names in the news • Markese Reese, Marqua Wilson • Continue reading Names with issues; Issues with names
Interspecies friendships
I’m not sure how I’ll do this. Most of these videos come from FaceBook, and it’s difficult to download or link them.
No safe space for little boys
“Dancing with a stranger”
Sunday 04/16/23: Everything changed this morning.
Why Christians believe
A new thread at Messiah Truth.
This is most emphatically not Jewish teaching. I expect it correctly to be condemned as not-Jewish. I also expect it to be condemned, correctly or not, as just plain wrong.
The point is to facilitate understanding of what motivates belief in the Christian myth.
Sunday was Palm Sunday. The appointed “Gospel” text this year was Luke 22:14-23:56, which covers from the beginning of the Last Supper up to Jesus’ burial.
The pastor normally reads the “Gospel” lesson. Pastor’s voice quavered throughout this reading, which I found hard to figure since his beliefs are similar enough to mine. We waded through all the problems in the text, e.g. the impossible trial at the High Priest’s house on Pesach. But I also got re-acquainted with why Christians believe so fervently in this text.
Podcast — Still paused.
I have not had the Net access I need to record an episode this month.
My laptop got damaged. Then it got repaired. Then it got stolen.
Strange cosmology
Archbishop: Catholics must do penance after Proposal 3 approved (freep.com)
That’s not exactly what he said.
Papa John, Antichrist?
Reigns of terror
Infinite darkness, infinite light
ADVISORY: INCLUDES CONTENT THAT MAY DISTRESS SOME READERS.
Orthodoxy
White Americans are nearly as blind to their racism as ever before
An orthodoxy is a system of ideas that adherents insist one must accept without question. In other words, a set of dogmas.
Every media outlet has one. It may be implied or explicit; flexible or rigid; narrow or broad; but it’s there. It defines what ideas that media outlet will allow to be expressed. In publishing media, it determines what will and won’t get published.
An obstacle facing me in my hopes of getting published, is that I seem somehow always to run afoul of a given media outlet’s orthodoxy.
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