Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.
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Thoughts on Recent News Stories in the Middle East
(Photo: Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah) I read a story this week where a group of people from a foreign country invaded their neighbors and started killing the infants and children because they felt God had commanded them to do so, for no other reason than they had an opposing religion. It’s was widely posted all over the…
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Guns, Flags, and Sacred Texts
So this stupid picture has made rounds on the ol’ social media feeds lately and I can’t help but look at the sheer stupidity of it all. I’m your average mostly libertarian Christian with HEAVY gnostic and deist leanings. I stress this because I don’t want anyone to think this is going to be the…
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Blood Moons! End of The World! Oh No!
I’ve been posting a lot of sort of religious stuff here lately and for those who read my blog and are a bit turned off by this, I apologize. Book reviews forthcoming! I am kind of a religion nerd especially where traditions, ritual and odd beliefs are concerned. I find it endlessly fascinating. Sometimes, something…
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Katy Perry – Satanic Grammy Performance?
So Katy Perry stirred up a storm of crap at the Grammy’s with her “Dark Horse” performance. There have been a lot of accusations about it being a “Satanic Ritual” and so forth and so on. I watched the video because as someone who gets a good laugh when the fundamentalists go off on things…
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Resetting the Maintenance Required Light On a 2007 Toyota Corolla S
Not really a computer tech subject but something I had to deal with recently. The maintenance required light came on my car and I was about to take it to the mechanic. Luckily I did not and decided to check it out on the internet to make sure it didn’t mean something else first. Apparently…
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Examples of Halloween Nonsense From Jack Chick
Was doing some research to prove a few of my points for my Halloween articles. Here’s one of the worst offenders for the demonization of all things entertaining and fun. Good old Jack Chick. I used to love this guy’s stuff, but it’s so full of misinformation, fabrication and outright lies you can’t really see…
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Origins of Christian Holidays – Halloween and Lemuria – Part 4 of Several
The Real Depaganization – Lemuria Note 10-11-2024: I’m going to leave the post as is for the moment as it was mostly speculation based on facts on my part anyway. It occurred to me though that there might not have been a Western Roman Empire in 609 A.D. It actually fell about two hundred years…
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Origins of Christian Holidays – Halloween and Samhain – Part 3 of Several
Samhain – The Myth, The Truth and the Bullcrap So one of the big things we’re all told about Halloween is that it’s just a thinly veiled pagan holiday called “Samhain” that takes place on October 31st. The thought is that’s because that’s when the pagan Celts who did all kinds of horrible things thought…
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Origin of Christian Holidays – Halloween – Part 2 of Several
A Brief History of The Origins of Halloween, or more properly Hallowmas Hallowmas as the more or less Christian tradition is definitively traced to May 13th, 609 A.D. when Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon in Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs. According to Wikipedia there is evidence that May 13th was celebrated…
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Origins of Christian Holidays – Halloween – Pilot Article
I wrote a few articles on Easter a few months ago that hopefully served to debunk some of the ridiculous myths that get passed around during these holidays. It seems that most holidays get bashed by various denominations and sects because of scare-mongering people who are just out to make money with lectures like to…
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