Brian’s nonsensical ravings
Full disclosure – I don’t use my thumbs to text or do other things on my phone. My stubby thumbs are too fat to precisely manipulate even the gigantic key buttons on my old-folks’ virtual keyboard. But I digress… Reticent to Post This I’ve been struggling over the last week or so trying to decide … Read more
There are many new changes to The Surly Curmudgeon which took nearly a year to complete. Most are “under the hood,” but some of the cosmetic changes and performance enhancements will be apparent to website visitors as will the new contact and subscription functionality.
As I do research for my Bible Studies and other writing, I frequently find notices such as the one below attached to the Wikipedia article about Rephidim – mentioned in Exodus 17:1-7 as the location of the Israelites’ rebellion against God and Moses because they had not found any water to drink there. This article … Read more
I realized today when I tried to add a comment to one of the Bible Studies that comments have been broken since forever. There was a setting in the All-In-One WordPress Security plugin that was blocking them silently. I apologize to anyone who may have tried to comment on a post or Bible Study, but … Read more
I recently received a post purporting to be a new “correct” translation of the Lord’s Prayer taken directly from “the original Aramaic.” Regardless of the content of the “prayer,” the provenance of its origins is utterly bogus.
Our church like so many others has lost our first love and is now on the path toward being a zombie church – dead but with a reputation for being alive. What can/should be done?
Think the 2020 presidential election was a disaster? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! Think the Biden presidency is a travesty? Get ready for worse to come. For the time being, former President Donald Trump is the clear leader in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Despite The Donald’s obvious shortcomings, most of the … Read more
Regardless of one’s political leanings, it is blatantly obvious that the “information” purveyors of the mainstream media never put out the straight poop.
Modern society has raised calling one thing something else to a fine art. We do this for two reasons – to avoid facing facts ourselves, and to mislead or distract our listeners.