J-M's History Corner

It’s not quite 2021 yet – as I type this, it’s 10:35 PM here – but here’s some photos and videos I took from the New Year’s Eve fireworks tonight at the Whyalla Foreshore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb5nyEZJOso   https://youtu.be/UkLwOvFcnn0   Plus 2020’s final sunset! https://youtu.be/YQtg1v4JJbo   That’s me in the last two photos. Notice the divine aura around my head…?

  J-M's History Corner Well, today (in Australia) is Christmas Day.  Quite possibly THE most popular holiday in the world (although the media’s trying to make horrid  Halloween  more and more popular). For those of you who celebrate it, I hope you’re having/have a great day.  For those of you (like me) for whom it’s just another normal day (and no, that’s not “legalistic”), I hope you’re having/have a great day. Although it’s become lost in modern consumerism, Christmas is claimed to be a celebration of Christ’s birthday – although it’s generally agreed that He wasn’t born on that day. Some of you might remember my post  Christmas , in which I argued that it is an appropriated pagan festival (see  Deuteronomy  12:30-31,  Matthew  5, and  Does the Torah Still Apply? ).  However, I have since discovered that some of the claims are false. “False” as in I’m seriously questioning my view of Christmas… View original post   1,265 more words

Welcome to the 44th edition of My Fortnightly Movie/TV Thoughts! Last fortnight,  I reviewed  Black Panther  (2018) and  Avengers: Infinity War  (2018) . This fortnight, I’m reviewing: Ant-Man and the Wasp  (2018), rated PG for mild science fiction violence and coarse language Captain Marvel  (2019), rated M for action violence Those of course are the Australian ratings; in the United States, the movies are rated: Ant-Man and the Wasp  – PG-13 for some sci-fi action violence Captain Marvel  – PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and brief suggestive language. As usual, I’ll give the trailers at the end, and a clip each. And as usual, just to be safe, I offer the following disclaimer: WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD. PROCEED AT OWN RISK. Ant-Man and the Wasp Ant-Man  was the very first MCU movie I ever watched, so naturally I quite looked forward to seeing the sequel. And I think it’s one of those sequels that is even better than the original! Two years after Scott Lang/

  Skip The following is from the ABC (the Australian ABC, not the American one). Having personally witnessed the effects of teaching and/or believing that wives are meant to be submissive, that the man is the head of the house or is meant to have authority, that only men should hold certain (or all) offices, etc – and having read testimonies like this, I simply don’t have any respect for the belief. Some will respond that complementarianism teaches that the genders are equal and that the ideology doesn’t always lead to abuse and that they’re separate from patriarchy. I’m sorry, but a gender hierarchy is inherently opposite to equality – the two are mutually exclusive. It is inherently patriarchal. The most successful/healthy complementarian marriages are NEVER complementarian – they are ALWAYS egalitarian, despite giving lip service to the “righteousness” of complementarianism and the “evil” of egalitarianism. Complementarianism – the soft form of patriarchy – doesn’t always lead to ab