Blogaround

The tomb is empty. Image source.

Happy Easter! He is risen!

I didn't make Easter eggs this year because in lockdown there is NO WAY I'll be "wasting" perfectly good eggs on that. So that's kinda sad.

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1. Cracking The Cryptic: The Movie (posted 2020) Here's an hour-and-twenty-eight-minute video of Simon Anthony solving a sudoku puzzle, and WOWWWWW this is INCREDIBLE. This had got to be one of my favorites on that youtube channel. This sudoku is SO HARD it's astounding.

2. Gilbert Gottfried, iconic comedian, dies at 67 after long illness (posted April 13)

3. Concordance-ism means the Golden Rule is never sufficient (posted April 2) "'Preying on the poor is Bad' is not a shared moral premise and won’t be received as one." 

(Do take a look at the "Anti-Gambling Sunday" document he links to- it is indeed not very good.)

4. The argument against God from sporadic miracles (posted March 28) "God cherry-picked this person, one disadvantaged person out of perhaps millions or billions, and sort of healed them." YES THIS. This is basically the reason I stopped praying for God to do things, years ago- it's just not right for God to help some people and not others. If it is true that "God answers prayer", that raises a lot of very awkward questions about why God answered this prayer and not that one, and why God allowed those bad things to happen in the first place. 

I do believe in God (and uhhh feel a little awkward posting this link on Easter- I do believe in resurrection) but I don't believe that They actively intervene in the world. I don't believe "God answers prayer"... honestly, a God that would do that, that would decide who gets healed and who doesn't according to who followed the guidelines about how to pray correctly- that God is disgusting and not worthy of worship.

I believe God is with us (I believe in incarnation). They feel the same emotions we feel, and the same pain and suffering and trauma. They "rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn." If that sounds useless to you because it doesn't involve actually doing anything tangible, well, yeah, I get that, so you don't have to believe it if you don't want.

5. Were ‘Extinct’ Species Found Alive in ‘Lost City’ in Honduran Rainforest? (posted April 4) This is so cool!

6. Britney Spears announces she's pregnant (posted April 11) Congratulations :)