Category: Magical Thinking
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Storytelling For Dummies (And America’s Main Stream News Media), Part 24: How Villains Work
Villains (and by villains I mean good villains) have to play by certain rules — or they can’t be good villains. For starters — villains must have a good reason to be villainous. There are plenty of mediocre villains — Bond level villains included — who seem to have no other purpose in life than…
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The Correct Answer Is Men Need To Get The Hell Out Of The Way So Women Can FIX What Men Have Done
Seems our biology has caught up to us. Men have abused female biology forever and that abuse has brought the human species to a moment of absolute peril. Yes, I absolutely believe that had women been running the course of human events instead of men, we would be in a far, far different place than…
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The Deep Down Dirty Secret Inside Every Evangelical: They All Think THEY Are “God”
Ask ten people what “God” is, you’ll get ten different answers. That’s because “God” didn’t invent us, we invented “him”. Ask ten Evangelicals what “God” is and they’ll draw you a word picture that, if you stripped it of all the larger-than-life puffery would look exactly like them. For reference-sake, let’s remind ourselves that Jesus…
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Why Is It So Much Easier To Sell People Bullshit Than It Is To Give Them The Truth?
Magic is sparkly bullshit. It’s no more real just because it glitters a little.
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Republicans & The Culture Of Ignorance
Republicans didn’t always used to be champions of ignorance. Funny irony? When the Republican Party was founded back in 1854 (Abraham Lincoln was among its founders), their anti-slavery mission statement spoke of their dedication to classical liberalism and real economic opportunity for all Americans not just the moneyed class. As Heather Cox Richardson points out…
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Republicans Have No Idea What “Integrity” Is — “Ditto” The Rule Of Law
Ever meet a guy with 96% of his integrity intact? “Yeah — he’s pretty honest most of the time… it’s that 4% where he’s a goddamned liar that’s the problem” is not a sentence one hears often. There’s a reason. Integrity either is or it isn’t. There’s no middle ground, no grey area. In fact,…
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Each & Every One Of Us Is Making It Up As We Go Along — Every Day; Why Not Own It?
I’ve told this story here before. Three days before Christmas 2016, I came within inches of bullshitting myself to death. That’s how I thought of it not long afterward — after driving straight to my doctor’s office and pretty much demanding that he write me a prescription for the mood stabilizer I had researched and…
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People Who Believe In Magic Can Never Be Trusted — Because They Believe In Magic
You’re lying on a gurney, about to be wheeled into emergency surgery. The surgeon appears — big smile on his face — just before they put you under. “Nothing to worry about,” he says (a little too loudly), “You’re gonna be fine — I just know it! I prayed as hard as I could and…
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From A Branding Point Of View, “Christian” Is Kinda Spent; Followers Of Jesus Need A New Name
I’ll own it — a born atheist has no business telling Christians anything about their brand. Except, Christianity — being a sales-based religion (“Hey, have ya heard the ‘good news’ style proselytizing started with Paul, the actual inventor of Christianity) — relies almost entirely on how it’s perceived by others. After all, isn’t the point…