Welcome to the blog page. Here's all the articles. Like the tag line for the web site says, I write about a lot of different subjects. Well, at least, when I write at all. It still haven't gotten over being disheartened by losing years and years of content to WordPress hackers. I guess I still need to work that out. In any event, here's what I've managed to slap together so far.
Articles
The Book Age is Over
July 11, 2023
We live in weird times. In fact we're living in times we haven't experienced since the 15th century. Since 1450, we've lived in the Book Age, which followed the creation of the movable type printing press.
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A Theory of Secular Morality
July 1, 2022
One of the most common objections---perhaps the most common objection---that religious people have towards Secularism is that, without God, there can be be no basis for morality. Essentially, this argument means that there can be no moral system that humans can create and live by that is derived from a rational set of principles, and, thus, a moral system can only be imposed from outside of the human experience by a god. Which, by the way, proves that there is a god that exists.
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I Don't Beleive
June 1, 2022
I was raised in a conservative, fundamentalist, Pentecostal home. My great-grandfathers were founding ministers of the Assemblies Of God Pentecostal denomination. Both of my grandfathers and one of my grandmothers was an ordained minister in it.
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The Illusion of Control
June 15, 2019
OK, this post is gonna have a lot of typos, because I’m writing it from a hospital bed at 02:00 hours, at the start of my fifth full day in the hospital. So deal with it. I'll clean it up later.
Read More »The Fall of BioWare: The Movie
April 17, 2019
I converted my essay from last week into a YouTube video for people who hate reading.
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Creating a New Alphabet
April 15, 2019
When I was a kid, my friends and I used to pass notes in class. Sometimes, to prevent the teachers from reading the notes, we used a a simple letter substitution cipher. A=Z, B=Y...you know, that sort of thing.
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The Fall of BioWare
April 11, 2019
BioWare is, perhaps more than any other game developer, famed for fantastic writing and storytelling. Games like 2003's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) and 2007's Mass Effect (ME1) cemented that status. Those were nearly legendary games that, while perhaps falling short in the combat/gameplay departments, told such great stories, and gave us such richly-developed characters, that we simply didn't care.
Read More »Microtransactions Suck in Star Wars: Battlefront II Beta
October 9, 2017
Electronic Arts released a public beta for Star Wars: Battlefront II this weekend, and I played it. There are some things about it that are nice. The gameplay, for example, seems solid, and the graphics—as much as you can tell with a very limited number of maps, anyway—seem nice.
Read More »Political Realism
September 25, 2017
This is not a political web site. Nor do I want it to be. But the things that are happening in the country right now certainly have me thinking about politics.
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