...inspiration...

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired."
~ Robert F. Kennedy

A real crisis is when you can't say "let's just forget the whole thing"?

A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.






"Irregardless" is NOT a word?

"Faith becomes an ideology when some collective fear or hatred becomes political."
~ Self

...reflections...

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
~ Jonathan Swift



9:01 ~ One Minute before the World Changed, Oklahoma City National Memorial (June 2010).
Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy
(Paperback)

Does freedom of religion also mean freedom from religion?

"Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations."
~ Russell M. Nelson

Buddhist Temple, Seoul, R.O.K. (July 2009)

The rumors that Former Congressman Weiner is undergoing SEXUAL addiction therapy at Charlie Sheen's house are untrue?

Sometime during the late summer of 1981, I was driving my wooden bumper 1962 VW Bug from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. Walking alone alongside the highway was this young, bearded man dressed like Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments.



He was wearing a simple white linen robe, non-leather sandals and carrying a long polished wooden staff. After picking him up, he stated that President Ronald (6) Wilson (6) Reagan (6) was the Anti-Christ & the world was going to end on Christmas Eve. He said he left home when Reagan was elected President and traveled the country with ZERO money in his pocket. He trusted in God to guide his destiny. While I could have laughed, in many ways, I admired his courage of faith.

Anti-Christ Update: 
Evidently, a small segment of America's Evangelical community has passed the end-of-the-world baton to President Obama. First, the Tea Party accused this President of being a Muslim (which he's not). Then, Donald Trump stirred up the whole birth certificate controversy to score cheap political points. It backfired. Yes, President Obama was born in Hawaii and Senator John McCain was born in Panama. Yesterday, at a fundraising event in Los Angeles, a heckler accused the President of being the "Anti-Christ":

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Monty Python's Life of Brian

10th Anniversary of 9/11 ~ I Am An American

e pluribus unum ~ "Out of many, one."


American Passage: The History of Ellis Island (Paperback)

...view from inside a HMMV...

Photo taken by Peter Rimar on the highway to Baghdad, Iraq (March 2005).
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Invisible Judgment Day?

Radio evangelist Harold Camping says May 21st was "invisible judgment day". Updated "Rapture" now set for October 21st, 2011.

This blogger feels SOMEWHAT bad for the 60-year old, NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority RETIREE who spent $140,000s of his life savings on "Judgement Day" subway posters & "Rapture" bus shelter advertisements. Now, he can only imagine how he WOULD HAVE felt POST-Apocalypse if he had ACTUALLY spent the money rebuilding a school in Haiti.

Scene from Peter's Bathroom 

two-minutes AFTER "The CRAPture"

May 21st, 2011 (6:02 P.M. ET)

“Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.” ~ Oscar Wilde
Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial (DVD)

Judgment Day Update:
I'm still here?

Buddhist Nun, Angkor Wat, Cambodia (January 2005).

Today is a New Day?

Short video of morning sunrise, Las Cruces, New Mexico (September 2009).