A while back, a post in a group I'm in, and an article linked to (purportedly linking importance of religion to lower IQ) got me thinking about the ideas and stereotypes associated with Christianity and what people consider it to mean, and what extra impressions they have about what being a Christian is. Even a lot of Christians are guilty of ( Read more... )

A while back, an artist whose blog I follow posted about wanting to rent studio space, not because she needs the space, but to be around other artists. I can understand. I have very little contact with other artists in person, I hardly ever *see* another artist, much less get to talk about art. Two artist guys and I used to talk about art at ( Read more... )

Some art developments recently. Last week or the week before it sunk in that since I'm using a tablet now, *and* have gotten the hang of it, I no longer need to make everything vague. I also visited Elfwood again and spent some time looking around. The range of quality there is striking. I'd forgotten just how much varience there was in skill ( Read more... )

I have lost track of where it is, but in the comments of another journal, someone was talking about Narnia being bad because it portrayed Christianity as good, when it really means (list of awful traits). I thought about replying, it's probably just as well that I can't because it's hard to without being really snarky. But, it does make me sad ( Read more... )

I've seen a lot of talk online lately about artistic egos, and how good people think they are at art. People compare themselves to other artists. Some say they're the greatest, some say everything they do is awful, pretty much begging for someone to tell them it's not as bad as all that. Someone (I don't remember who right now) made a very ( Read more... )

I would like to state, for the record, that I am a Christian.

Yes, this means that I believe that God himself suffered, even the pains of death to rescue us.

no, really.

This was prompted by an entry by a friend a while ago about the ACLU fighting to have old plaques that refer to religion taken town, and by a thing I saw (again) last week about the anti-cult law in France, and how the people reporting it feared that it would be used to come down on anybody sharing their religion. And I remembered the idea of " ( Read more... )

You're probably familiar with the filter battle. You make filters to block out junk e-mail, and spammers try to find ways to get around them ( Read more... )