A Thought on Lord of the Rings
A very interesting observation regarding the end of the Lord of the Rings from reddit. I wish I could find the original author or thread, alas. “While Tolkien has been accused of basing the Lord of the Rings on the …
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Willful Ignorance
I will never understand the willful and loud ignorance of athletic sports, usually by people immersed in ‘modern geek culture’. If sports aren’t your thing, that’s ok. But to revel in and be proud of it by telling anyone …
Notes from the Chiefs vs Texans Game
Both teams set a NFL Playoff record with 52 points in the 1st half. The Chiefs scored 41 unanswered points, first team to do so in the playoffs since the 2002 Jets, and outscored the Texans 28-3 in the second quarter. …
Monster Energy Drinks are Evil?
I pulled this from a post I made on Facebook a year or so ago because I think I’m going to pull all my noteworthy posts from there as part of my efforts to eventually drop the site entirely. I’ve been around ultra …
Christopher Columbus and Presentism
Presentism: uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts. Probably something people should remember when looking back at past …
Some Clocks Were Cleaned NFL Week 1
Here are my thoughts as of the end of Sunday, September 9, in regards to the NFL. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens put on an absolute beat down of the Miami Dolphins, to the point some Dolphins players reportedly contacting …
A Rant. Mostly About Game of Thrones
Having now caught up on Game of Thrones in preparation for it ending tonight, let me just state that if I were in charge of the forces at Winterfell fighting off the undead hordes, I could have done so for as long as the …
A Religion of Science
From an old facebook post I figured that it would be good to preserve here. Science tells us what the world is doing and why (to the best of our knowledge, and it may be proven totally wrong later). It does not tell us …
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Pawns and Pints
We went down to Pawns and Pints today to see what it was all about, and to try to hop into an Adventurer’s League D&D game. Unfortunately all the seats for the D&D game were full. However, my wife and I had some great …
Philosophical Approach to Gun Control
This post on reddit is one of the better and definitely unique reasons to be against gun control in the United States. Not written by me, but merely reposted here for posterity: “I won’t give the expected answers of self …