Jeremy Thompson

Author: Jeremy

  • Happy Birthday Katherine!

    My youngest daughter turns two today. Hear her sing “Happy Birthday!”: Related: If We Had Known Our Daughter’s Hair Was Going to Look Like This … The Reaction of My Daughters to Jim West’s Recent Lambasting of Dora

  • Be Nice or Leave

    Here’s a sign at the place I’m having some work done on our vehicle. If you can’t see it very well it says “BE NICE OR LEAVE”:

  • Black and Gold Kindergarten

    Black and Gold Day at my Kindergartener’s school … Well, for everybody in Louisiana really …

  • Kudos to Apple Customer Service

    Short story … Well, my iPhone went on the blink last night.  So, I took it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store.  The “genius” plugged it in one time to try to restore it.  Didn’t work.  He handed me a brand new iPhone.  Signed a paper and I was gone.  Nice. Related: Cool…

  • Roman Catholic Understanding of Faith (QOD)

    Here is a quote of the day from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.  It is in response to the question of  how Roman Catholics define faith, which I get from time to time: Faith is a personal act – the free response of the human person to the initiative of God who reveals himself.…

  • Apparently a Complete Idiot Can Write a "Complete Idiot's Guide"

    Don’t believe me?  Just watch for yourself: Related: Barack Obama is not the Antichrist … I am Why Bible Codes are Ridiculous

  • "Where do bad folks go when they die?" …

    Well, here’s a positively medieval view of hell in (semi) modern song (it’s sad when the stuff you listened to in high school will soon be what is termed “classic rock”): Related: “I Believe” (i.e. Saints are going to the SuperBowl) – Cowboy Mouth U2 “40” – The Absolute BEST Modern Version of a Psalm…

  • War in the Bible & Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century Review

    My friend Karyn has written a very thorough review of the book War in the Bible and Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century.  It is in three parts here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.  Violence in scripture is a topic that preoccupies my mind a great deal as I am sure that it does…

  • Game Theorist Interpretation of Genesis 2

    I’ve been reading The Art of Strategy by Dixit and Nalebuff mainly because I have a side interest in Game Theory.  I just think it’s fascinating, especially some of the examples from the field of study.  Anyway, I’m reading along and then they discuss in a very short manner Genesis 2.  The context  is a…

  • "A God about whose existence or non-existence you can argue …" (QOD)

    Here’s a quote of the day from Paul Tillich from his Theology of Culture: A God about whose existence or non-existence you can argue is a thing beside others within the universe of existing things.  And the question is quite justified whether such a thing does exist, and the answer is equally justified that it…