Gunner Q on the Olympics

Gunner Q has posted a fantastic article: “An Olympic-Sized Victory Lap For Christ.” Please read it. I just want to highlight one thing (emphasis added): Amen! My response to the Olympics is not to fight back but to walk away. I have previously written about this topic in “Fighting Evil …

Watching the Olympics

Since my kids were very young, I would make a tradition of watching the Olympics. This generally involved unplugging a TV and moving it to the kitchen where it would be on for most of the day for two weeks. It has always been a major time commitment, but I’ve …

Divine Judgment?

On July 7, 2024, Catacomb Resident said: On July 13, 2024 a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump. A couple days later Ed Hurst posted this (emphasis added): Meanwhile, one of my favorite bloggers wrote this: I wrote about my thoughts back in April of 2023 in “Fighting Evil or …

Hobbies and Experiences

I only occasionally write about my personal interests, and even when I do it is usually made applicable to something more profound (or pretentiously profound). But since I have nothing else to write about while the blog is on auto-pilot, I thought I’d talk about this. Recently, over a course of …

Eschatology Notes

This is the follow up to “A Decree to Rebuild.” In case it wasn’t clear enough at the time, I found Ed Hurst’s viewpoint to be quite interesting. I disagreed on parts of it, but was surprised to find that I largely agreed with his eschatological conclusions. My response was …

Elegance or Simplicity?

I want to illustrate something with some comments that you might have seen. The first set is here from Jack @ Sigma Frame (emphasis added): The second is from a commenter here on this blog (emphasis added): Both of these are answered in this comment: Simple and elegant. Irony.

Eschatology Q&A

This is the follow up to “A Decree to Rebuild.” I read a lot of Bruce Charlton’s writings and frequently quote his work. He’s very good at getting at the root of problems, rather than dealing with the surface-level distractions. I apologize in advance for this lengthy quote, but it …

Nothing Works Anymore

The Death Cult I’ve been writing about bureaucracy for years. I have an index of this in “The Decline of Society.” Indeed, in December, 2019, I wrote this: The point of this comment is that the institutions—all of them—are not there to help us, but that inherent evil that is …