I just discovered something rather creepy. It seems everybody’s favorite cult/punching-bag, Scientology, has been engaging in what amounts to a faith-based initiative to help prisoners for at least the past 15 years, if not longer. Their program is called Criminon. Supposedly it is a “secular arm” of Scientology though, although I don’t quite understand how […]

I like to think of myself as a pretty creative guy. Whether or not it’s always gold, I at least get a lot of stuff done. It wasn’t always like this though. There used to be a lot more starts and stops, and the overall quality of my work was much much lower. In fact, […]

I get a lot of good search engine referrals, since I have a pretty diverse amount of content on my website. But this is one of the funniest ones I’ve gotten in quite some time:

How to draw cartoon boobs

Too bad I don’t have an article on this. Maybe I should put one together. But then, […]

There’s this one scene in a Simpson’s episode that I’ve always loved. It features Snake, the stereotypical criminal, in the exercise yard at a minimum security prison. Homer drives by in Snake’s old sports-car, which he bought at a police auction, and which he’s now abusing quite badly. Hearing this, Snake decides to escape and […]

Every so often I come across a quote or a concept which just sticks with me for a really long time. It will spin and bounce around inside me, trying to attach to any and everything it comes across until something finally sticks.
This article entitled “Luring teenagers to religion” contains just such a quote. […]

Joseph Campbell stressed the importance of reading myths from other cultures. The reason he gave was that the myths of your own culture sometimes escape your notice, because you’re too accustomed to believing them as facts. Foreign myths though become a doorway revealing universal patterns which apply even to your own culturally-significant stories.
For that […]

I had one of those dreams this morning that goes on and on, and that you can return to even after waking up. It was a “quest” dream - a type which I often have. In this one, I uncovered a startling secret. It involved the Knights Templar who had gone to the New […]

I want to follow up on a few ideas from my article, The Trans-Temporal Kingdom of God, while the topic is still fresh in my mind. The main thing I actually want to talk about is the so-called Y2K situation that we faced. I have a really silly book I bought a few years ago […]

ReligiousTolerance.org has a page about Jesus and St. Paul’s predictions about the end of the world that is worthwhile reading for a couple reasons.
First of all, we see an unusual flip-flop between liberal and conservative interpreters of the Bible. Ordinarily, we are accustomed to more conservative (Fundamentalist) Christians adhering to a literal interpretation of […]