Posts by sarcozona
Special snowflakes sure do kill a lot of innocent people
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The Jews have often been criticized for their belief that they are the Chosen People, but their critics have often been guilty of the same kind of denial that fueled the diatribes against idolatry in biblical times. … Western Christians […]
What I’ve been listening to
Apart from watching this video over and over and playing so much Christmas music over Thanksgiving break that even I’m sick of it now, these are some of the most awesome songs I’ve listened to in the last few weeks: <A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fgravsrain-20%2F8014%2Fca86f721-814c-47d7-962f-1a8a63a3c13a&Operation=NoScript” mce_HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fgravsrain-20%2F8014%2Fca86f721-814c-47d7-962f-1a8a63a3c13a&amp;Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> Melanie Horsnell – Tomorrow Ezekial Honig – Slojam
Celebrity crush
Except for a secret crush on Annie Lennox in middle school that played not a small part in the realization that I was a big queer, I’ve never been the type to become infatuated with people I haven’t met. That might have changed.
Just a shoe
Sleep & migraines
Pressure changes are just one of many things that give me migraines. I went to bed with a migraine at 2pm yesterday and am about to go back to bed now just 30 minutes after waking up since it hasn’t gone away. Here’s what the pressure looks like: Small, slow changes and almost flat in […]
Genius Fail
I really wish there was a way to use pandora with my own music. Today I used itunes’ genius to make a list of songs based on Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt. The third song on the list was Martina McBride’s rendition of Silver Bells.
But that didn’t stop murder in the name of God
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Despite it’s otherworldliness, religion is highly pragmatic. We shall see that it is far more important for a particular idea of God to work than for it to be logically or scientifically sound. As soon as it ceases to be […]