This is a personal rebuttal to some websites I’ve seen from apostates recently that denigrated my religion with regard to raising children in Scientology. Here’s how I see this issue:

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My parents divorced when I was an infant, back in 1953. I grew up in a series of broken homes, attended 17 schools before graduating high school in 1970, and had 3 stepmoms and 7 step-dads at various times, as well as foster parents. I can remember living in 52 different houses in 6 states as a child. My parents were alcoholics, whose lives spun out of control in …

I recently read a book called “The Great Influenza” which I picked up at Costco, I think. The author, John M. Barry, makes very human the doctors who tried to figure out what happened during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919. They didn’t figure it out at the time, of course, but they were trying. If it had been a bacterium, they probably would have figured it out. But it was a virus, the H1N1 virus strain. History has mostly forgotten the Great Influenza — I know we only read a paragraph or two about it when I was going to …

Been a long time – a reader scolded me today for not posting more often, so I’m going to give it a go. Had some major computer problems in January that put me way behind. Basically I bought a new computer from pieces and had it assembled – it then proceeded to crash for the next month until we discovered the memory had been placed into the wrong slots and we had to slow down the bus speed a hair. It’s a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 – really nice and fast now that it is working properly.

And Google …

Impatiently awaiting the release of “Matrix Reloaded” tomorrow. It irks me that I won’t be able to see it until the weekend. Was it really necessary to spend $300 Million on making these two sequel movies? The original “The Matrix” movie raised the bar on special effects, but will the 2nd and 3rd do the same? We’ll see…

Found some new quotes I like in the latest issue of “The Federalist”, a conservative newsletter that comes out two or three times a week and has clips, explanations, and commentary worth reading. I learned that WMD have been found …

I have reserved tickets to my daughter’s wedding in Florida. Should be fun, although taking a week off in May will be tough with my current workload. Feels good to have posted four stories today.