Well, not really Mickey Mouse or Disney, but Lucasfilms: As of now, the official Star Wars canon consists of the six existing movies and the recent Clone Wars TV series. “These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align,” explained the announcement on … Mickey Mouse Has Force-Choked the Star Wars Expanded Universe
Chad Whitacre at Gittip posted about Julie Ann Horvath’s departure from GitHub*, and he invokes, with all the richness of proper proggy vocabulary, the secularized original sin so beloved by wealthy, white, leftoid man-dorks: Speaking personally as someone who ticks all the standard boxes of privilege (straight white male, etc.), knowing that my conversations and … Gittip On Horvath
My pastor’s sermon on Easter introduced a nice bit of new information concerning Jesus’ claims of divinity. He did make other, more verbal claims to Godhood but this one is more powerful if you understand the context. During the Last Supper, the seder meal* that He shared with His disciples: While they were eating, Jesus … Jesus and the Afikomen Bread
Enjoy! Embodyment – Golgotha Crucifixion up on the cross Dying for sins fulfilling prophecy Beaten for his faith Praying for enemies upon sacrifice Forsaken in the eyes of God Sins of man to Him were taken Innocent and blameless Death without purity Place of the skull Golgotha Death of the Son Descend into misery His … Happy Good Friday and Easter
Again from The World’s Last Night, Lewis, in a roundabout way, addresses the “all the jobs, everywhere, all the time, for everyone, forever” angle heard during election season nationwide. Such would seem to be the inevitable result of a society which depends predominantly on buying and selling. In a rational world, things would be made … C.S. Lewis On Full Employment Fetishism
Years ago, during the Myspace era, there was a study done on the empirical effects of prayer on sick people. The results showed that prayer made no difference in the health of the patient*. I thought the experiment silly since, as God is a person who decides things (not quite like humans do, but I … C.S. Lewis On Scientific Experiments On Prayer
Some blunt thoughts from Christopher Cantwell’s post, “Top 10 Reasons Libertarians Aren’t Nice To You” (emphasis his): 6. All those “what ifs” you’re so concerned about, they’re called choices. …. You have become so used to the State being the arbiter of all things, that you seem to panic at every uncertainty. The funny part … Governments Are Leprosy, Speeding Drivers Are Acne
I was debating doing a post on this in the past, but it popped up on theChristian Libertarians group on Facebook: how does the God-commanded genocide of the Canaanites in Joshua 6:20-21 square if you’re a libertarian and Christian? The first commenter offered a good start with 5 options: 1. They deserved it. The Canaanites … Justification for Divinely-Directed Genocide
I’m posting this video because I’ve just finished a playthrough of this game. I had played it on the original SNES system twenty years ago and could “sense” how good of a game it was. Since it was pre-Internet days I was pretty much he only person I knew who really got into RPGs. It … Final Fantasy 6 Final Battle and Ending
I’ve had the problem with my 2007 Macbook described here in the video, to the point where the screen didn’t light up at all. The customer service guy at the Apple store said I probably needed a new LCD lamp when in fact it’s just the inverter cable. The stores don’t carry the parts for … How To Fix A Macbook Inverter Cable, Sort Of