Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.

I was feeling a little bit of nostalgia over the weekend. Recently, I got into painting miniatures, a hobby I’d actively avoided for a long time. I found out that not only am I fairly decent at it, it’s something I enjoy much more than I thought I would. Got me thinking about little moments…

Here are some of the other reasons that people use to try and disprove the December 25th date. Most of these try to conflate Christian practice with ancient Pagan practices. The argument is usually something along the lines of “Christmas is a pagan holiday and by celebrating it you’re worshipping the devil. Here’s where all…

The Practical Arguments Against December 25th. I’ll start with some of the more rational arguments against December 25th being the date of Jesus birth. These are all very good points and do generally point to the fact that we don’t actually know what time of year Jesus was born in. What isn’t obvious is that…

This is one of those projects that’s been on my mind since I initially published about Halloween many years ago, and then Easter. The difficulty with Christmas, is that it’s a more complex issue than either Halloween or Easter. Most of the stuff you’ll hear hinges either on the date, or various specific Christmas traditions…

I ran across and interesting theory on social media a few weeks ago. A Jehovah’s Witness was defending the idea of not celebrating holidays because of their pagan origins. Inevitably the Easter Bunny came up as a point of contention. The normal Easter Bunny being associated with Ishtar, blood sacrifice, and other “Two Babylons” nonsense…

01/27/2023 – I’m writing this about five days after it happened. Just noting the day I started writing to give context. I also understand Instagram doesn’t typically give reasons why they do anything. Just wish I’d got a warning so I could remedy whatever was wrong before they just suspended my account. As the title…

I haven’t written about video games in a while. Probably because I’ve been playing video games. A lot. My experience with the Total War franchise goes back to Medieval: Total War back in 2003 or so. Huge fan. I’ve played all the main Total War games except the Shogun games. When I found out Games…

I’ve been a Rocketbook user for a couple of years now. I bought the small notepad and the executive size notebook back in 2020, and have added a few more notebooks to my collection since. The notebooks have digitizable pages that you write on with erasable Pilot Frixion pens. The best part about them is…

Halloween is not a Pagan Holiday Saw a great article today about Halloween’s origins and whether it is a pagan holiday or not. The article is by Tim O’Neill over at History For Atheists. Here’s a link: https://historyforatheists.com/2021/10/is-halloween-pagan/ He goes into a lot more detail than I do in the blog posts I wrote back…