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11 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
Christianity is for the underdogs. It's for people who have the odds stacked against them. Christianity is actually for everybody, of course, but only the underdogs ever receive it. Being an underdog doesn't necessitate your participation in Chris...
8 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
While traveling in Latin America, it can become necessary to paint on the wall of a cracked-out taqueria to communicate effectively. If you're not fluent in the local language, whether it be Spanish or loathing, it is often expedient to scrawl your...
5 May 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
I believed in Santa Claus for over 30 years. In spite of this belief, not one time did a guy named Santa Claus actually climb down the chimney to deliver me presents. My faith was true, but the object of my faith was not. It was a hard awakening,...
4 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
I've noticed a fair amount of frustration with American leftists by people who disagree with them. This frustration expresses itself by using derogatory terms such as "libtard," etc. This reaction is only natural, but it is the equivalent of a Navy...
30 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
When Se7en was released in 1995, I went to see it with some friends. We all went to The Red Lion Pub in Chicago afterward and "discussed the movie" over pints of Guinness, because that's what we went to movies to do: Learn and/or discover something...
20 Apr 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
Listening to this song by a group of singers from the west coast of Colombia, it occurred to me, the reason for the coming hell. Tonight was the first time I've ever heard this song, so it has that glow that songs only ever have the first time you d...
19 Apr 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.26
Remember in the 90s, when Bill Clinton was going through the Monica Lewinsky scandal, how everybody said they "don't care" about his personal life, as long as it doesn't interfere with his ability to do his job? Remember Chris Rock (was it Chris Roc...
11 Apr 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
I was watching a documentary about "Narcocorridos" (drug ballads) a couple years ago, a phenomenon in Mexico where the artist is commissioned by the cartel to write songs about their exploits. In an age in which no artists can make an independent li...
7 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
I just watched a part of a video called "Why 99% of movies today are garbage," and was amazed to listen to the middle-aged guy with grey hair talk about how "dropping the ball" with some comic book or Star Wars franchise is an act of "malpractice." ...
4 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
I've been aware of it for awhile, but writing this post over the last hour or so, and then deleting everything I wrote, it has become obvious why my focus is slowly veering away from art and music, and towards Christianity and salvation issues. Not...
