erictb's observations, ideas and opinions on various subjects
We ve been hearing a lot obout Iran lately, and it has often figured prominently in world news. In 10th grade, Itook notice of the waves of Caucasian tribes that began moving down toward the Mediterranian from the Caucasus Mountains. Before the Romans (Latins, Etruscans, etc.) and the Greeks (Ionians, Dorians, etc.) It was actually the [ ]
https://share.google/aimode/Q0cUPjS8YxcIDo8kh Growing up in North America, nearly all non-school buses and some trucks (especially oil tankers, and some garbage trucks, especially in the 80 s and 90 s) had these distinct sounded engines, with two main voices (or timbres). In New York, city buses (GM fisbowls and the similar Flxibles) all had one sound, which was distinct [ ]
One curiosity growing up was why there was no Channel 1 on TV. What I was told was that the frequency was used for other things. (We had a TV, likely JCPenney, had an extra channel on the dial between U and 2 marked by a • and which just showed a blank channel; not [ ]
I always identified with Virginia, because it was the first state other than Massachusetts (which carried negative connotations for me because of my difficult grandmother) that I would visit (about every five years), and represented hope and change . We would pass through Richmond (which looked somewhat old, like a northern city), and the only other [ ]
Why many conservative Christians believe it’s right to be ‘offensive’, and why pleading ‘peace and love’ will not move them Short version: Behind Christian Intolerance Responses to “fundamentalism” and other “tough” “old-time” conservative churches have generally been simple “that’s mean”, “don’t judge”, “God is love”, “I believe in giving to the orphan and the homeless like [ ]
Tim AlbertaThe Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremismhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BTYWH2YP Perhaps the greatest treatment of conservative Christianity since Horton s Beyond Culture Wars Kingdom , Power and Glory make up the three parts of the book, and contain seven chapters each. Each chapter is a city, where he meets the person he [ ]
Here s my conundrum: Being autistic, (but high functioning , and as such, not recognized), which placed me in situations with people, where I clearly felt the power imbalance in the world:The world demands a lot from you, with often severe consequences , but people in power, from the tough kids or criminal on the street, to big [ ]
There needs to be a biblical conservative response to religio-political conservativism (especially fundamentalism ) They have long claimed to be biblical , and that any opposition to them is anti-Bible Even in the Civil Rights era, the segregation-holding religious conservatives were allowed to turn the issue into one of fidelity to the Bible . It was basically the [ ]
1994, the middle of the 90 s, and the height of anti-government and economic rhetoric on the Right, with Newt Gingrich shutting the government down, and conservatives placing a steady focus on big government spending (of our too high taxes ), with the loudest decried expense being social programs . (This as two brand spanking new federal courthouses [ ]
In June of this year, when I heard they were doing what amounts to a sort of two year-behind 50th anniversary special for Scooby, I decided to contact WB (which can be a rather difficult task, of trying to contact big business empires these days), finding the Twitter DM to be the best looking shot, [ ]