solidreasons.com

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: Down The Rabbit Hole: On Caitlyn and Culture

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015/06/down-rabbit-hole-on-caitlyn-and-culture.html

Sunday, June 7, 2015. Down The Rabbit Hole: On Caitlyn and Culture. 8220;Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. I don't much care where -' said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. So long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”. 8213; Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. I hope that Caitlyn finds them.

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-ocean-at-end-of-lane.html

Sunday, July 21, 2013. The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.". This review will look at The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The latest from best-selling author Neil Gaiman. The film rights were optioned. But, as Chesterton said, happiness is a hard taskmaster.

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: The Best Stories

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-best-stories.html

Saturday, July 25, 2015. What good are fairy tales if we can't find our way? Ransom Riggs, Hollow City. As the peculiar children in Ransom Rigg's series are desperately trying to find a way to save someone they love, several of the children keep reading a book of fairy tales that apparently contain important truth. One of the children complains that the tales are useless. As far as he can see, they are lost; they need concrete truth, not fanciful stories. A woman with ten silver coins lost one. I would a...

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: The 'Ick Factor' And The Planned Parenthood Videos

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-ick-factor-and-planned-parenthood.html

Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The 'Ick Factor' And The Planned Parenthood Videos. That's true. Something is not wrong because it makes me squeamish any more than it is right because it doesn't. Make someone else feel the same. So is this a legitimate argument? Am I and other pro-life advocates simply wanting to create a moral framework to support our weak stomachs? Obviously, I don't think that's the case. The presence of the ‘ick factor’ has no bearing on an argument's merits. Maybe some people have an 'ick' ...

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: June 2015

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html

Thursday, June 25, 2015. Neil Gaiman's Interworld Trilogy: Heroes And Cautionary Tales. I was first introduced to the writings of Neil Gaiman through  Neverwhere. A dark, moving, parallel universe fantasy that takes place beneath the streets of London. As I further explored his writing, I found him to be constantly creative, often profound, and entirely capable of writing books for both adult and youth audiences (American Gods and  The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Sunday, June 7, 2015. The Bruce/Caitlyn...

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: May 2015

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html

Thursday, May 7, 2015. Age of Ultron: Human Visions, Second Chances and Filled Gaps. The Avengers have invaded your local theaters - and the public consciousness.   Critics like it and audiences love it. . Im not going to rehash all the (appropriately) congratulatory things others are saying about the quality of the film. If we can grant that Joss Whedon knows what hes doing, we can move on to issues that go beyond the artistic merits of Age of Ultron. Where is our salvation? Saturday, May 2, 2015. If yo...

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: March 2015

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html

Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Golden Son (Red Rising). 8220;I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There’s something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.” . The second book in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising. Trilogy, is garnering even better reviews than its excellent predecessor. Mr. Brown deftly blends Greek and Roman mythology,. Put simply,  Red Rising. 160;begins several years after the events in  Red Rising.

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: A Response To “Planned Parenthood is Not Selling Baby Parts, You F****** Idiots.”

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-response-to-planned-parenthood-is-not.html

Thursday, August 6, 2015. A Response To “Planned Parenthood is Not Selling Baby Parts, You F* * * Idiots.”. When Skepchick Rebecca Watson wrote her now viral post on the Planned Parenthood scandal, no one had to guess which side she was defending or what she thought of the pro-life crowd. The article is worth considering – not because she's right, but because what is presented as fact is so woefully wrong in so many ways. First, the Center for Medical Progress. We don’t want to get called on…...8220;If y...

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: TV Shows

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/p/tv-shows.html

Wayward Pines gives the best a humanist approach to life has to offer - we are the answer to the problem of ourselves if we can commit together to saving ourselves. It identifies the problem clearly (broken human nature), then offers an oddly incongruous solution – human nature. Humanity is devolving – until it’s not. How do we save ourselves from ourselves? By being…ourselves, just better? From Terminus to Alexandria (The Walking Dead, Season 5):. From Game of Thrones and Philosophy. You Win or You Die.

empiresandmangers.blogspot.com

Empires and Mangers: August 2015

http://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2015_08_01_archive.html

Monday, August 31, 2015. Visiting Heaven and Hell: A Look At "Heavenly Tourism". Heavenly tourism books are serious business. Don Piper’s 90 Minutes In Heaven has sold 6.5 million copies in 46 languages; Heaven is For Real has been on the Evangelical Christian Publishers Associations bestseller list every month since it hit the shelves in 2010;  23 Minutes In Hell (which I guess falls under the category of hellish tourism? That it’s hard to deny that people experience something. Saturday, August 29, 2015.