I wish it weren’t so, but I’m going to have to go to a weekly posting schedule for the foreseeable future. Starting this week expect to see a new post on Fridays and for the site to remain quiet the rest of the week.
So I started to tell you about my conversation with God where she asked me what I thought about Harry Potter, but then I got sidetracked on the issue of magic versus miracles.
Most of the conversation isn’t really worth repeating but I had one insight that I’d like to share. One of the most […]
So out of the blue today, God asked me what I thought about Harry Potter. Now I’ve seen all the movies and I’ve read all the books, but I’ve very much avoided bringing them up in my conversations with God. After all, there’s an awful lot of religious folks out there who have […]
Today I saw the movie The 11th Hour, so that was what God and I talked about. At the risk of grossly over-simplifying, the movie is a documentary that makes the case that “global warming” is not the problem, it is just a symptom. The problem is that we are not living sustainably, […]
One of the widely discussed incentives that are provided to Islamist terrorists to help convince them to blow themselves up for their cause, is that when they get to Heaven, as martyrs, God will give them seventy-two virgins.
God told me that this doesn’t work for the simple reason that it assumes either she is making […]
God was ribbing me the other day about my grumpiness on the subject of George W. Bush. We were watching a clip from an old speech, one of the many where Bush was spouting the nonsense that the terrorists “hate us for our freedom.”
God asked me to think about it like I was a […]
Once again last night, I noticed a pickup truck with some “in loving memory” message stenciled onto its rear window.
This goes along with all the little roadside memorials you see on the highways these days and with the impromptu shrines that spring up whenever a celebrity is killed or a school is shot up by […]
Okay, two posts in a row were about L.A. traffic, and now I’m going to make it three. Today God asked me how HOV lanes figured into my theories about what lanes to drive in. Recall that my revised theory is that while traffic is heavy, but not too heavy, the number two […]
So in my last post I was talking over with God my theories about why the number two lane seems to make better time than the “fast” lane. Today God was pointing out to me that there’s a certain “confirmation bias,” not to mention selective memory, in my theory and explanation. She pointed […]
I’ve got an observation about driving on the freeways in L.A. It’s not earth shattering, but it is slightly counter-intuitive. Not always but fairly often, on a freeway with at least four lanes in each direction, the number two lane is the one to be in.
In case you don’t know, in California the […]
Sometimes you overhear something that just sticks in your mind. For Lewis Black it was the sentence, “If it hadn’t of been for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”
I was having dinner last night and sitting near the salsa bar I overheard one woman say to another, “Where are the […]
So God and I went out to a movie tonight. This is not a normal thing and certainly wouldn’t work if we were going to a sold out show, since God sits in a seat that technically is not taken.
So why did this happen? Well, I go to a lot of movies but […]
Well, it’s October first. I’ve been talking to God and posting about it for one year now. We’ve covered a lot of subjects. We started out talking mostly about religion, because, well… because that’s what I thought of when I thought of God. But we’ve gone on to talk about all […]