End of the Golden Age

We are leaving the third and entering the fourth cycle. And I pray that it is a short cycle.

Priorities

Featured Image by freestocks.org. Follow the link for more images. The new year has come and gone, and we now have a new administration that says it is focused on “shutting down the virus.” They won their election on the assumption that Trump didn’t have a plan, and promised “100 million vaccines in 100 days.” […]

Why religion Matters

Featured image by Uttam Sheth. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I’m not an evangelical. I don’t personally believe in going out and spreading the Gospel. I would much rather live a good life and pray that God uses me. Living a good life, treating others with respect, and working on myself […]

Tools

Watch closely friends, the party is just getting started.

Unplugging

Featured image by frankieleon. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I think it’s time to unplug, to get off the constant input of insanity that is pumped into our digital world through the windows of the computer and the fun-house mirrors of social media. Technology is a funny thing, helping to make […]

The Shielding Approach

Featured image by Gary Todd. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I generally am skeptical of conspiracy theories. When someone tells me about this thing being connected to some larger group of people that are given near god-like powers, I tend to disbelieve. Real-life tends to be much more boring than the […]

Not so different after all

Featured image from Wikipedia. Follow the link for more info. I’ve been listening to the audio books for Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game saga over the last few months as I try and keep what sanity remains from the craziness that was 2020, the elections, pandemic, and all of the general anxiety and discord being […]

The Social Media Black Hole

Featured image by Daniel Steelman. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Real life is an amazing thing. Of course, right now with all the COVID restrictions in my state, life is a bit challenging at the moment. And depending on how the vaccine rolls out, it may never really be the same […]

Prelude to an inquisition

Featured image from Britannica.com. Follow the link for more information. Historians are going to look back at the early 2020’s with profound amazement, wondering how and why the people living in that time didn’t recognize the rise of new authoritarian, and if things are left unchecked, totalitarian rules and systems. There is historical precedent for […]

How Dystopia Begins

Featured image by Colton Vond. Follow for more of this artist’s work. For all the flash and flare that a dystopian cyberpunk world seems to get, the reality is that the descent into dystopia is both sudden and subtle. The banning of a president while still in office, the purging of social media accounts for […]