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March 2016 entries

Big Brave And Hissing

# 2 Son and his gal dropped a couple of tickets for the Sunn O))) show in Chicago this coming June on me. Was very surprised and appreciative. Pretty sure I can get #1 Son to tag along. I've heard their shows are quite visceral and intense. Horns up!!

Posted by Metal Dad on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 in Family, Music | Permalink | Comments (0)

It's Easy To Die A Good Death

It's harder to live a good life.

A quote from Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City.

Posted by Metal Dad on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 in Film, Inspirational Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

No Dog In This Fight

Regarding the upcoming presidential election, I don't think it will make much difference who gets elected. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." And since I refuse to participate in the farce and sham of elections I watch the dog and pony show for entertainment certainly not useful information.

But I would like to see Trump win merely to watch the exploding heads of the political and media elites the morning after.

Posted by Metal Dad on Thursday, March 03, 2016 in Current Events, Liars and Thieves, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0)

Useful Quotes

The contribution of Christian philosopher Cornelius Van Til to twentieth-century Christian thought has centered on the fact that there is no such thing as neutrality in the debate between those who are for and those who are against the Christian faith. All thought inescapably rests on certain presuppositions, meaning assumptions that are taken for granted before organized thought can even begin. Even the skeptic’s claim that ‘we can’t be sure about anything” is a contradiction, in that it rests on the premise that we can be sure about this much, at least. To deny the existence of presuppositions is to denigrate human reason. It is to omit one of the most basic facts of existence. In addition, all presuppositions which do not take the God of Scripture as the ultimate reference point end in making human reason impossible. “Nothing is known unless there is first the presupposition of knowledge, and on no other ground is such a presupposition possible than the Christian theistic one. We know a real world because we believe by faith that God created it. From our first breath as a babe, we assume the reality of that world and the trustworthiness of our knowledge and experience.” In his rebellion against the Creator, man will deny all knowledge just to deny that one basic inescapable fact: the existence of God.