The crazy lady strikes again

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Talk about a major gaffe!

I realize that I committed a major gaffe the other day when I was talking about the concept of deathbed conversions. (I may have been talking about this concept in From Death Into Life; I forget exactly which blog contains this discussion.) In that particular blog entry, I mentioned by implication that I thought many fundamentalist Protestants were misguided when they failed to acknowledge the possibility that a person of genuine faith can "fall away" on his or her deathbed, just as one can... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Attack of the killer mannequns

This was too funny not to share. A woman is suing JC Penney because a mannequin allegedly attacked her. The only outfit of its type and size - a size apparently shared by the plaintiff in this case - was on a mannequin. When a sales clerk attempted to take the outfit off the mannequin, the arm of this statuette "flew off" (an exact quote from the story I just read) and hit the plaintiff in the head. Oh, brother. In my opinion, this is just as bad as the lawsuit against McDonald's years ago,... Sign in to see full entry.

Christian health-care resources

I've been doing a bit of Web surfing on this topic, and I found a website of interest. The organization hosting the website is called CINAM - Christians Investigating New Age Medicine. The founders of this organization and I share the implicit opinion that scientifically-based conventional medicine is the only licit "alternative" out there for us Christians. My own experience seems to be shared by the CINAM folk. In addition, they do a creditable job of summarizing the fact that most... Sign in to see full entry.

Rabbit season - no, goose season

All right - so I shamelessly stole from Looney Tunes. But it's warranted here in Chicagoland. Evidently, the city fathers have banned restaurants' sale of dishes containing foie gras, a goose-liver or duck-liver dish formed by doing disgusting things to geese and ducks to fatten their livers, then selling said livers to restaurants which prepare same for "foodies" and gourmets. (I've seen programs which used to be on Food Network and are currently running on the Travel Channel - I forget the... Sign in to see full entry.

We now return to our regularly-scheduled hot-air blowing

Yesterday, I spent a great deal of time in this blog talking about the sexual abuse of adolescent boys by adult women. I was inspired to write about this topic because I'd seen a summary of this topic on a listing for the Oprah show - a show which was preempted by the Bush press conference. I will share further observations on this topic in I am here and I am not silent, because I know this is a form of abuse, and that blog is ultimately about abuse. Yes, I originally wrote about various forms... Sign in to see full entry.

Do you hear mental gears grinding?

My success from yesterday - the fact that I got a great number of unique page views when I talked about the abuse of adolescent boys at the hands of adult women - gave me an idea. I think I'd like, finally, to go back and post regularly to I am here and I am not silent. The topic of abuse in all its forms (child molestation included) seems to be a popular one here on Blogit, and it does deserve special attention. After all, it really is a significant social problem. You, the readers of this... Sign in to see full entry.

Musical molestation

Since my last post last night, I thought of an entire genre of popular music which was basically devoted to the glorification of sexual abuse. These popular songs in this genre were about the sexual abuse of young boys by older women, written from the perspective of the now-grown young men. Every single song I could remember romanticized this abuse, portraying the young boy's first sexual encounter as an initiation into the world of adult sexuality rather than what it really was (the molestation... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 21, 2006

It was a very good day

I had originally been scheduled to go see my psychiatrist today, but instead, I stayed home - and had one of my most productive days since I was last released from rehab in June. It will certainly look good on my Sept. 1 paycheck when my final Blogit earnings are calculated - and September hasn't even started yet. Beyond that, I won't get more specific. I know how some people feel about discussions of money, and I want to respect their views (unless I get another day similar to the one when I... Sign in to see full entry.

Christianity and alternative medicine

Earlier this morning, before President Bush preempted an important episode of Oprah, I wrote some entries about alternative medicine and the Christian. In one of those entries, I mentioned a book I'd read many years ago, about the New Age movement and health care. In an early edition of that book, as I mentioned in my earlier entry, the author (herself a physician practicing conventional medicine) mentioned that many Christians go to alternative health care providers (like naturopaths and... Sign in to see full entry.

Fishing expeditions

When the space shuttle Discovery was launched recently, I remembered the tribute I'd written when Columbia disintegrated in 2003. I'd forgotten where I'd placed that entry, and I was racking my brains trying to figure this mystery out. Well, I discovered just where I'd put it - in Thanks, Dad, on the very last page of that blog. (For those of you new to blogging, Blogit is like other blogging services in the sense that the newest posts or entries always show up on the front page. Older posts... Sign in to see full entry.

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