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June LEGO Haul
When someone asks how I’m doing I should probably just show them a picture of me standing in front of a LEGO store. If they understand, cool 👍, if not, too bad for them. I keep remembering my former administrator, during my exit interview, saying that I was going to be bored (not teaching). Not even close. LEGO. had a huge product release today and the guy checking out my purchases said that…
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Video Fridays: You’ve Got a Friend by Sara Niemietz
I’m working on a post that has had me almost pull two all-nighters in a row… That’s not healthy. In the meantime I needed something to get me through the project and this Sara Niemeitz video popped. Love her voice and spirit. Have a great weekend, y’all and tell those in your life that you love them. It’s important. Sources: You’ve Got a Friend – Carole King (Live Cover by Sara Niemietz and…
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Video Wednesdays: Visual Explorations in Intelligence, Consciousness & A.I
To keep yesterday’s post about consciousness going… while I was researching the Consciousness (and whether human individualism was a bug) I found the following three videos that explored consciousness, intelligence and A.I. What follows follows a much more accepted understanding of the evolutionary processes that brought about what we call consciousness.. and it’s very visual. These videos take a…
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Meditations On: Consciousness As A Fundamental Part of Existence & The Possibility that Human Consciousness is a Bug
Consciousness is “More like gravity and less like high levels of computation.” I just finished reading The Idea of the Holy and apparently I remembered the book differently than the book I just read. It was very much an academic discussion on religious experiences and the part of religion that is something different from religion as understood via dogma and theology, as I remember. But I’m going…
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Video Mondays: Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary
I heard about this documentary on NPR’s Fresh Air podcast last week and happened to see that it was playing at my favorite local indie theater, The Beverly Theater, and decided to spend part of my Saturday afternoon revisiting the music scene of the 1960s and onwards. And actually, unlike the recent Led Zeppelin documentary, that cut their story a bit short, only covering from the band’s…
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Video Thursdays: Secret Mall Apartment: More Than an Illegal Art Project
It’s probably paradoxical that I’ve always lived in suburban settings but have aspired to living in higher density walkable neighborhoods where one can exist without driving everywhere. When I first moved to Las Vegas I looked for places in the Arts District, but it looked too much like converted motel spaces with under-powered wall mounted A/C units and too unsafe against break-ins. So I rented…
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Crash Course Religions #6: Life, the Universe, and the Buddha
In the past, how did they explain Samsara without the “getting stuck at a certain level in a video game” analogy? When I was turning away from my Christian heritage I briefly thought about Buddhism and how one lives one life would be fed into future lives, like generational trauma, only with one person. But the idea of repeating ones existence, paying for flaws from previous efforts but without…
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Meditations On The Idea of the Holy, Understanding Religious Encounter(s) & Re-Exploring a 50-Year-Old LMU Course
Forty-nine years ago I was a freshman Religious Studies major at Jesuit-run Loyola Marymount University and my very first class was Exploring Christian Mysticism, expertly taught by Father Herbert Ryan, S.J. Up to this point in my journey I was teenager who had spent two-years studying my bible as best I could, with my source of religious instruction being whatever home bible study I could attend…
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Video Mondays: Kiki’s Delivery Service: What’s Your Gift
For whatever reason I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Kiki’s Delivery Service before, even though I apparently have it in my physical media collection. I’m not sure why I haven’t seen the film before. My best guess is that the others like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro are so iconic, that this one never attracted my attention (though as some point I must have planned to…
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Video Fridays: Thunderbolts*: Or The Next Stories
One thing that I’ve love so much about Marvel’s storytelling over the years is that these “heroes” suffer the consequences of their actions and/or experiences, and don’t just get up and walk away like nothing effects them. After the Battle of New York Tony Stark had crippling panic attacks and Hawkeye suffered severe hearing loss. WandaVision was all about Wanda’s inability to deal with the loss…
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600 Days Journal Writing Streak
Yesterday, 2025-05-13, was my 600th day writing in my personal journal. Some time ago I decided that I needed to get away from my habit of scrolling through social media as soon as I woke up, which generally did not put me in a good mood, and chose instead that I would try to write down whatever I had just been dreaming or thinking about. Besides being good for exercising my ability to remember…
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Difficult Conversations: Israeli settlements & Not Learning from History
This one popped up in my feeds a little bit ago and wondered whether I should post it. I tried to verify its content (and listed links to the person quoted below). The quote spoke volumes to me about a lot of the binary thinking regarding Israel and the Palestinians. Centuries of ethnic hatred and bloodshed between peoples recorded in our earliest written stories, still deafen and cripple…
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Video Mondays: Sam Phillips: A Voice During My Desert Sojourn
This one popped up in my feeds and I thought I’d share it with y’all. When I left Christianity many years ago, one of the things that I took with me was a love and appreciation for the music of Sam Phillips and Mark Heard. I met Phillips when she was an up and coming “contemporary” Christian musician and went under a different moniker. All I remember is that she seemed to quickly outgrow her…
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BSA: New Obsession Confirmed
On January 1st I recognized, as I drove to my local LEGO store, that there wasn’t anything else in my life except LEGO that would compel me to wake up and drive across town at 10AM. This morning as I sat down at 9AM for a second 4-hour day of Biblical Studies with Dr. Bart Ehrman, I discovered that there was now a second thing in my life that I’d be willing to wake up and spend a full day doing……
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Video Fridays: Good Bye DoE - I Hardly Knew Ye
I read the Education section of the Project 2O25 Document. My first thoughts were that this document, or this part of this document, was not written by someone or an organization who spent their career in a public school classroom teaching students. At best, this document looked like it was written by someone who felt like whatever was going on in the classroom doesn’t make sense to them or what…
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Video Wednesdays: Malia J - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Black Widow Soundtrack)
Before seeing the new Marvel Thunderbolts* movie I watched the whole Hawkeye series because I knew it would end with Yelena confronting Hawkeye about the death of her sister, Natasha Romanov. It was a long way to go just for that interaction, but it’s a big part of where Yelena’s head is at for the beginning of the new movie. Then friends at The Morning Stream podcast shared this song that was…
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