Well, lol, tomorrow’s supposed to be “the Rapture.” Are you Rapture Ready™? Those of us who grew up in fundamentalist/evangelical confines can probably readily remember the phrase “Rapture Ready.” We’d get asked that a lot: “If the rapture were to happen today, would you be ready? Would you be [cough] Rapture Ready?” I still have a ton of internalized anxiety about the so-called Rapture. It’s such a thing, a cursory search let me know it even has a Wikipedia page. I’m at point where I absolutely know it’s not real, never going to happen, is totally made...
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Emails
Instead of writing a post tonight I wrote an email to a friend. Remember that? Writing an email to a friend? It was like letters that you would send, through the post office. “Remember me when I am killed at war,” I imagine them seeming like. It was a long time ago, but before email, people would literally put pen to paper to compose a letter to a friend. Eh, maybe I’m being too stupidly nostalgic. But times are weird, man. It always feels good to be thought of, and the opposite of fascism is community. Write...
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Okay, everybody open up your bibles (or whatever you call them) to Psalm (or whatever you call it) one. Not One Psalms (there aren’t multiple books of Psalms that I know of*), but the first psalm (the capitalization here is getting confusing). I guess before we get going, though, I should note that I know this particular psalm well. And to tell you why would require quite a bit of backstory. But this is my blog, so let’s do a backstory. The church I guess you could say I largely grew up in was a fundamentalist Christian...
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