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Seventy
About five weeks ago, when it became clear that Donald Trump will be elected president next Monday, a lot of my friends freaked. I didn't see it on Facebook, because I was already gone, but I got more phone calls than is usual for an autistic geezer like me, and I read some blog posts, and I'm aware that folks fear what's coming and despair of ( Read more... ) -
Repentance
"When they said, 'Repent!' I wondered what they meant ( Read more... ) -
Our second Christmas burglary
It's Christmastime again, and people need presents for their families and friends. Last night one of them tried to get ours, which we didn't have anyway, because we don't do Christmas. At about 10:50 PM, we heard our kitchen window break, followed by the follow-on sounds of the attempted entry. We grabbed our guns and headed for the kitchen, ( Read more... ) -
A Portrait of the Artist as Oscar the Grouch
People whom I've encouraged here in cyberspace might not easily imagine it, but often when _wind_spirit_ and I are alone, I act all gloom and doom while she's all sweetness and light. It's what Eric Berne called a pastime. It keeps us entertained, and today we manufactured a conversation that seems worth sharing ( Read more... ) -
Future shock
I make a lot of purchases from Amazon and I rent a lot of cars from Hertz. I pay for both with an American Express card. The card was due to expire in about three years. In today's mail I received a replacement with an embedded microchip and an expiration date further into the future. I activated the new card, cut the old one into little pieces ( Read more... ) -
A dissertation upon Spiritual Work in general and Karma in particular, by Crash
It's been a long time since I wrote anything about spiritual work, except insofar as it's all spiritual work. I've quit encouraging people because I've discovered that if you pursue the path of knowledge, impeccably and with perfect diligence, regardless of where it leads, sooner or later you're going to get the horrors. You'd be better off on a ( Read more... ) -
Making sure that everything is working
We hiked the Upper Bristlecone Trail today, and followed the Bonanza Trail up to the top of the ridge that delimits the Pahrump Valley. It was easier than it's been. I suppose we're ready for our midsummer expedition. We'll do that in a couple of weeks, God willing. -
Musing on my theology
Early on, God created the niche and the migration path.
I suppose that would make me an atheist in the eyes of the creationists and a creationist in the eyes of the atheists. -
As expected…
I'm posting this from the municipal bus enroute from my apartment to the Strip. It's been a week of trips upon trips, following so fast that the variation among them has to serve in place of sleep. Which it does passably well, for a while. This pace will continue until Sunday night, when we begin our sabbath. Allah be praised for the sabbath!