Rants Archive

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    Who am I when I am who I am online

    There has been a lot of talk recently about privacy on the internet, such as the recent Facebook privacy issues, even one of my favourite game companies has got in on it recently by implementing a feature which will force your real name to appear...

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  • Quick thoughts on a sermon…

    Quick thoughts on a sermon…

    This is post about a church sermon I saw online, so if thats not your thing be warned…

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  • Friendship… just some musings…

    Friendship… just some musings…

    What follows is nothing more than some musings on the nature of different types of friendships. Please do not think this is anything more than just me sorting out some thoughts and putting them “on paper” as it were. So forewarned, read on… Friendship is...

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  • Random Thoughts and Ideas…

    Random Thoughts and Ideas…

    The following is quite simply a series of short thoughts/ideas/musings that I have written at various points recently, they are of a religous nature and are meant to stimulate thought and discussion, please feel free to use them as you wish… are we losing our...

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  • The Blues they have come a callin’

    The Blues they have come a callin’

    What a day… I had the amazing blessing of attending the wedding of two friends, and what happens, I suddenly get hit by an extreme case of being self conscious combined with my general dislike of being in a crowd of strangers. Managed to suppress...

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  • Easter Rantage

    Easter Rantage

    Well its Easter again, the time of the Christian calender where we pause to reflect, remember, and rejoice in the events that took place about a couple decades short of 2000 years ago. To me there are only 3 major dates (yes, there are other...

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  • Rant – “this wouldn’t happen if it was…” (religious in nature)

    Rant – “this wouldn’t happen if it was…” (religious in nature)

    I have my fair share of opinions, all of which are almost guaranteed to annoy at least one person. I have strong opinions on religion, of course, and especially when it comes to perceived Christian persecution. Let me first set this straight, there IS persecution,...

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  • Spider-man – One More Day…

    Spider-man – One More Day…

    This is about comics, so please feel free to ignore… So the “One More Day” arc has just finished, I was going to rant at length about this but my feelings are covered by others out there, such as here in Bureau 42 and here...

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  • Sermon – Gorgie – A Misplaced Confidence

    Sermon – Gorgie – A Misplaced Confidence

    So this is the text of the sermon I gave tonight, well kinda, I added some bits and took away others but you can get the drift.

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  • Sorry for the delay…

    Sorry for the delay…

    …but welcome to 1984. (LINK) Its bad enough living in the country with the highest amount of CCTV per head in the world, in a nation so obsessed with celebrity over everything else that it makes tour guides, in a world where a statue gets...

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