WE’RE ALL MAD HERE!!!

Lewis Carroll once wrote about a topsy-turvy world called “Wonderland,” where critical thinking, sanity, societal norms and human decency were in short supply. Alice was a young, naive, impressionable girl who one fine day curiously followed a strangely adorned white rabbit down its hole and from that point on, she seemed completely disoriented and lost her bearings. There, in Wonderland, she met such strange creatures as the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. She...

Has the next world war already begun?

HAS THE NEXT WORLD WAR ALREADY BEGUN?

Many of us are following the news from Ukraine. Routinely, it is pushed aside by reports of devastating hurricanes, wildfires, drought, rampant crime, inflation, and so on. Most Americans are likely aware that Russia invaded Ukraine last February. Americans also know that the U.S. and our allies are sending massive amounts of aid to Ukraine, both in humanitarian and in military assistance. The fact that Russia has repeatedly reminded the West that Russia has nuclear weapons in its arsenal which...

My favorite websites

SOME OF MY FAVORITE WEBSITES

JPL Asteroid Watch Dashboard. After 2021 SG, a football field-sized asteroid “snuck up” on us coming from the direction of the Sun on September 17th, I decided to start this post, so next time we can all freak out together. I’ve added to that single link and decided to call it “Some of my favorite websites.” According the EarthSky, “The Chelyabinsk meteor that did so much damage and caused so much consternation in 2013 also came, unexpectedly, from the sun’s...

THE CALL

God loves us. Don’t ask me why. But not only did Jesus die for us in the past, God personally reaches out to many people in order to make His love known to them today. It’s not always a matter of a person stumbling over a Bible and reading a passage in Scripture, or coming forward at the end of a church service. There are millions of examples of this. Of course, God doesn’t call us on our cellphones. Instead,...

DEADLY HARVEST: AGENT ORANGE & OUR VETS

On Thursday, January 18, 1962, I was in seventh grade. Chubby Checker had the Number 1 song in America, called “The Twist.” Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, the largest black university in the U.S. was shut down over civil rights demonstrations, and President John F. Kennedy gave final approval for the U.S. Military Assistance Command to proceed with Operation Ranch Hand, which was a “a massive effort to defoliate the forests of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with an herbicide known as...

The Coming Storm

THE COMING STORM

This past summer, the elusive Q returned (or not, depending on who you ask.) If you missed his return, you might be excused, because a lot has happened to his community since December 2020 when he first disappeared. But Q’s presence is beginning to coalesce and gain critical mass once again thanks to the 45th President of the United States and his recent rally in Pennsylvania. Prepare for the coming storm. The illustration below is a rudimentary representation of the...

Men were born free

“MAN IS BORN FREE; AND EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS.”

These are the famous words of the great Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) writing in his best known book The Social Contract. And today, more than ever, these words are true. Rousseau, like other humanists of the eighteenth century envisioned the concept of a “noble savage,” though I’m not sure Rousseau ever used that particular term. But he pictured early man as wandering the earth free from all constraints (borders and fences, indentures and allegiances, taxes and so on) taking...

Archbishop of Canterbury warns against political partisanship

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY WARNS AGAINST POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP

The Archbishop of Canterbury warned against political partisanship last week. Speaking at the August Lambeth Conference of Anglican bushops held at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England, Archbishop Justin Welby warned that Christians must not allow themselves to be “sucked in to supporting governments”  Emphasizing the sacred role of the Church, the Archbishop went further to note “Our approach springs from scripture. This is not the church getting involved in politics, it’s the church getting involved in God.” “In...

Some thoughts on my new theme

The Psalms are my “go to” book in the Bible when I develop my blog.  Psalm 102 was my devotional last week, and as I read it, I thought many possibilities to develop. I wondered if it was not “too bleak” in content. After all, aren’t Christians supposed to be joyful?  But then, my blog is not intended primarily for Christians but for those among us who are still searching, or not searching at all.  People who have never encountered God’s love through...

Nineteenth Century American flag

WHERE DID THE DOMAIN NAME “WATCH-FIRE” COME FROM?

Where did the domain name watch-fire come from? The domain name watch-fire comes from the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” which was written by Julia Ward Howe on the eve of the Civil War. It is specifically taken from the verse: “I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling campsThey have builded him an altar in the evening dews and dampsI have read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lampsHis truth is marching on.” Watch...

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