His Point of View

FastCompany has a project under way to show the amount of influence we have as individuals online.  I am quite interested to see how much influence I have relative to the other few thousand participants.  So I need you to follow this link fcinf.com/v/bkbr then re-Tweet this link, re-Post this link to all of your social media sites, post this link to Facebook and any other method that you can think of to legally spread my influence around the net I would appreciate it.  I wish there were (continue reading…)

For a long while, I have been interested in the discussions regarding interpretations and translations of the bible.  This topic is quite complicated, and I think that it is one of the issues that will likely never be resolved.  This past week I came across an article about a researcher who claims that there is a high likely hood that Jesus Christ was not killed while nailed to a cross.  This is one thing that I had never questioned, and I had never heard anyone argue this point until now.  This particular researcher did an analysis on the words crucifix and crucify(and their variations).  Apparently it was found that the words “crucifix” and “crucify” had nothing to do with the word “cross”, what the word crucifix actually meant thousands of years ago was “suspension device” or what we would call a pole or maybe even a tree in some cases.  According to the researcher at the time of Christ the word “crucify” simply meant “to suspend”. (continue reading…)

Why is it that some ladies want to keep their ex-husband’s last name after a divorce?  This is something that I do not understand.  If you no longer want to be with that man, why would you want to keep his name attached to yours?  Today I watched two television shows starring woman who are divorced and I spoke to a woman that I know personally who all are divorced yet have kept their ex-husband’s last name.  I have heard a couple of arguments of why a woman would want to do such a thing including: to have the same last name as her children and to maintain her name recognition (in the case of celebrities or well know business women).  I don’t think that either of those are really valid reasons to keep the name of a person you no longer wish to share your life with.  I think that these women simply do not want to endure administrative hassle of changing their name, or they are purposely attempting to keep a link to their ex-husband for some reason (e.g. spite, residual emotional feelings, marketplace name recognition, etc.) If you are attempting to keep the same last name as your children, what happens when you re-marry?  At some point these women are likely to have a different last name than their children, I do not know of any man who would be satisfied if his wife (continue reading…)

Do women(not all women of course) really feel as if they are doing men a favor when they decide to participate in sexual intercourse?  I ask this question because of the things that I hear people say.  I have heard women say that they should not have sex with a man unless they get “something” out of it.  That “something” is usually money or gifts.  I have also heard comments about how men “use” women for sex.  Both of those lines of thinking make me wonder how personal accountability was removed from the equation.  No one is forcing women to have sex, except in the case of a rape, which is a whole nother issue. If a woman chooses to have sex with a man it is either because she (continue reading…)

“What you know cannot really hurt you” That is a quote from a book I started reading this morning. The strange things is that I was trying to write this post last night but I tossed it in the recycle bin as I lost interest half way through writing it. I was surprised to open a new book to be greeted on page xx(page 20) of the prologue by almost the same words I wrote last night. I suppose that means I need to finish composing my thoughts on this subject.

The post I was attempting to write last night was about how the course of one’s life can and does change unexpectedly. I would bet that if you think about the series of events that brought you to your current position in life you would have only a handful of critical decisions or a handful of days that  didn’t unfold as planned, for better or worse. Most of the things we plan tend to fade into obscurity (continue reading…)

I was browsing blogland, when I came across this absolutely useless blog post.

Step one of this blog post about how to clean a Duvet cover is below:

“1) Read the care label. If the duvet is dry clean only, take it to your dry cleaners! Washing a dry clean-only duvet can result in shrinkage, and it will no longer fit over your existing comforter.“

I know that we bloggers should update our blogs daily, but c’mon if you have nothing to type about just sit back and take a loss for the day.  This is the primary reason I don’t post every day and the other is that I am often too busy.  For all of you who are not familiar with how blogging works (continue reading…)

I came across the video below of Scott Dunbar singing what appears to be a “freestyle” song about a timber mill in Canada which was destroyed by a suspicious fire.

We all have day jobs, and we all have bills to pay. But those things should not stop us from growing.  We must all find time, even if only half an hour a day to spend on self improvement.  If you work for someone else for 8-12 hours a day, you should make time to work for yourself 30-60 minutes a day as well.  Family is important, but you will be of more value to your family when (continue reading…)

2009, has been the year of infidelity: ministers, politicians, athletes, singers, and pretty much every other type of celebrity has been exposed as having cheated on their spouse this year alone.  Is marriage as important as it used to be?  Do people value the concept of marriage as they did decades ago?  I am not saying that people have not cheated since the idea of monogamy sprouted… but it seems as if it were handled in a more civilized manner in years gone by.   The other man/woman stayed in their lane, and families were not as disposable.   It might be true that in the past women stayed with a cheating husband because they were less educated and unemployed, or maybe it was because the milkman was delivering

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It has come to my attention that some women are making a conscious effort to avoid doing any thing that might be considered ‘woman’s work’…by this I mean cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, etc.  I have even been told by some women that their refusal to do housework is the result of their mother’s teachings.  Apparently some mothers have taught their daughters that they do not have to do housework…. or at least that’s what these young ladies interpreted their mother’s message to mean.  Although I understand the intent of a mother teaching a daughter that there is no such thing as ‘woman’s work’ I do not think that lesson was meant to teach young ladies to be filthy creatures.

Why am I discussing this issue?  Do I want women to be barefoot and pregnant?  Do I expect women to cook and clean for me while I lay around and drink beer and watch football? If you asked me any of those questions I would say (continue reading…)