Archive For The “The Journey” Category
I hate spiders. I hate spiders in a religious inquisition, burn first ask questions later, hunt them all down and make them feel lots and lots of pain sort of way. With a little thinking I can tell you every single movie or television episode I’ve ever seen that had spiders in it – the [...]
If someone asks what I believe, I’ll answer depending on the context with everything from recovering Catholic to humanist to cautious believer in the sometimes great is. Or flying spaghetti monster higher power thingy that cannot be intuited whatever. If they ask if I’ve accepted Jesus Christ into my heart as my lord and savior, [...]
Inevitably, someone will ask about the word “gay”. Or queer. Or dyke or fag. I tag on the words lame, tranny, spaz, retard, gypped, and so on. They ask “Why is it not okay to say these words?” I respond that they are hurtful, because they are almost always used in a denigrating context: “That’s [...]
I love thinking about and trying to find better ways to communicate about tolerance, and what it means. Following are my latest ramblings around the word. From Merriam Webster, the word tolerance is defined as follows (I have only added the first two definitions, as they are the most relevant to this conversation): Main Entry: [...]
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