A while back, I posted some journal entries from when I was a believer and promised I’d post more. Well, I found more… and they make me cringe to read them. I was one of them; the ones we get so maddeningly frustrated with. But, at the same time, I was on to something… and [...]

You know when they talk about self-fulfilling prophesies? And you know how the Christians believe the End is just around the corner, as well as the Muslims, and the people who think the Mayan Calendar names the very day and year the End will be upon us? And you see how we’re all going to [...]

Last Christmas, I rode with my roommate from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Nashville, TN for part of our Christmas holiday (after that, we went to Mississippi… yeehaw!). Her family lives there, and I’ve known them all since I was 11. My roommate’s sister (we shall call her P) has lived there for perhaps 8 years [...]

I think the most insulting accusation a person could make against me would be to say that I’m easily influenced. At a young age, I had a pretty keen sense of self-awareness that most of my peers seemed to lack. Justice and truth were important precepts to me, though I wouldn’t have been able to [...]

I have, yet again, been drawn into a futile debate with my mother in regards to religion. It started in a fairly tame manner; we were making points and conceding points. I was happy that she admitted she often had a knee-jerk reaction to certain shows on TV, such as NatGeo or Discovery, and that [...]

Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (as quoted from the character, John Galt):
“Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders’ attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you [...]