I hope everyone who reads these words, no matter where you are at in your life, accepts that becoming what you dream to be will take a lot of effort. The question is, are you ready for that commitment? If your goal is to do just a satisfying job at what you are given then less effort is required. That’s OK, it just depends on … Continue reading GIVING 100%, IS IT WORTH IT TO YOU?
Before I get started on today’s list of predictions I want to admit that there are thousands of people who claim to know the future, but in reality there is no one that really knows. Yeah, we can look at what is happening today and try to project that into the future, but it is really just a guess. That being said, I enjoy looking … Continue reading Global Trends 2030
First I guess I need to explain who LMPI people are. LMPI stands for Lazy Minded Proudly Ignorant. That is only half the title the other is White Evangelical MAGA Cult. Put them all together my tolerance for these people is dangling by a thread. They seem to be under any rock I go by. I hope this pandemic ends soon before I lose any … Continue reading My Tolerance Of LMPI People Is Quickly Disappearing
I’m letting my fiscal conservative side reign on this post and talk about all the stuff going on with Amazon. I will declare that I am a frequent buyer from this company, I suspect that over half my discretionary money goes to them. I love the idea of going online to see a volume of choices that dwarfs what I see when I take that … Continue reading About Amazon
The very first blog I opened in 2008 was entitled InSearchOfAmerica or ISOA. It was about my portfolio of pictures I had taken on my travels around the country documenting historical sites. In those days the Internet was in its infancy so a dozen views a day was pretty good, but the blog just never grew as I had hoped. I have been trying to … Continue reading Seeking US History Buffs
I think I have probably spent too much time lately talking about the problems of modern Christianity. It’s time to concentrate on those who cling to the words of Jesus as I do. This post was originally made in February 2019. With the pandemic that seems like a lifetime ago now. It’s time to dust it off and maybe add a bit here and there … Continue reading What Does Being A Progressive Christian Mean?
I will admit here that many of the photos I have used on my blog come from an online digital library. I pay quite a bit for the monthly access, but I think it is worth it when I find just the right photo to use for a blog post. This is one of those rare times that I have discovered a photo that deserves … Continue reading What a Creative Imagination
Humans only make up 48% of users on the Internet. The other 52% of web traffic are bots Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know I don’t know what all those bots are doing, but I doubt that they are chatting with each other. Most are likely tracking me to see if they can get me to buy something from … Continue reading About The Internet Traffic
The obvious question to close off this series is “How can Sweden afford those benefits?” Of course a part of that answer it through relatively high taxes. But how high is that? Sweden does have the highest top marginal rate among OECD countries at about 56%. In The US The highest marginal tax rate in the US is about 35% but there are many tax … Continue reading InDepth – US vs Sweden Post #6 – Taxes & Closing Thoughts
LOM (Life on the Margins) is supposed to be about creativity among a few other things. So, I have been thinking of putting on a “Recipe Corner” as that has been a significant part of my creative life. I figured it out, and it looks like I have cooked or at least helped cook, about 1.5 million meals in my life. Most of those meals … Continue reading Cooking Is My Life (well sort of…)
At some time after the vaccine is available to everyone there has to come a point where we open everything back up and tell those who refuse to take the vaccine that they are on their own. If they won’t protect themselves then we won’t protect them. It should be as simple as that. We can’t go on with extreme measure to protect people who … Continue reading On The Path To Normal: What Happens After The Vaccines…
Sometimes I cling to the margins with my fingernails, and sometimes I stomp on them with both feet. I haven’t been in the mainstream for so long I don’t even realize what it is anymore. I have been deaf for going on thirty-five years now and believe me that requires some serious margin clinging. It just amazes me how the mainstream has no idea of … Continue reading Deaf People Cling To The Margins
Let’s start off with some evidence that high school just isn’t “high” anymore. The Labor experts in the US are constantly trying to project how many people will work in different fields in the coming years. Their post-pandemic projections show some alarming things, at least for those jobs requiring less education. Their latest assessment forecast a boom for epidemiologists and other health-science jobs that will … Continue reading High School Just Isn’t “High” Anymore…
One of the biggest complaints I hear about the pandemic is the isolation that many people feel because they are off by themselves. When you live on the margins having more time alone is most often just a fact of life, especially for those of us who have significant Aspie traits or are deaf and for me, that is both. Over the years I have … Continue reading Being on the Margins Makes Isolation More Tolerable
I know that Mondays is usually my day for discussing politics, but I kinda feel like a different direction. So, lets talk about saving our planet. 😎 I am hoping that we have now turned away from our dark side and sometime in near future environmental impact will be the overriding theme for our country and the world. We certainly have undeniable evidence that what … Continue reading Environmental Impact
Just a quick message for this Sunday. For those of us who follow the teachings of Jesus know that religion and spirituality can mean to very different things. When religion gets in the way of the messages of Jesus it’s time to find a new religion or maybe even none at all. And of course, Everyone on this earth is our neighbor Continue reading He Never Told Me To Love My Religion
Most of my spiritual life has existed between Catholicism and Evangelical Christians, with doses of agnosticism in between. I swung in and out of these three modes for almost seventy years before I discovered my true Spiritual home. The Catholic traditions tarnished my spirituality early on by declaring that almost all my childhood buddies, and everyone else for that matter, would not be joining me … Continue reading Progressive Christianity
Bamboo can grow up to thirty-five inches (ninety-one centimeters) in a single day. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know Some forward lookers see bamboo as being the primary building material for the not-too-distant future. It grows to full size in about 3 years whereas pine and other wood species take about 25 – 50 years. And it will grow … Continue reading Bamboo
This is part 5 of a 6 part series trying to see what we might learn for Sweden. Unemployment Benefits In the USBenefits varies depending on the State you live in. Most States allow you to collect up to 26 weeks of benefits and then you are on your own. Collecting benefits requires weekly check-ins with an agency representative to make sure you are actually … Continue reading InDepth – US vs Sweden Post #5 – Unemployment & Income Equality
This blog is primarily about a celebration of life Outside The Mainstream. It is about: Living life on your own terms, and dealing with adversities along the way Choosing your own path instead of following the herd Lessons you might learn from personal stories of success and failures. Thinking for yourself and finding your path Being Unique, Exceptional, Extraordinary, and yes even Eccentric Celebrating creativity … Continue reading About This Blog
Here I am in my eighth decade on this earth but I still have an insatiable appetite for learning. There is just so much I still want to know about the world and I likely don’t have the time to accomplish even a small part of my dreams in that area. But, I also love to dream about what the future will be like for … Continue reading An Insatiable Appetite For Learning
I know the old saying that “Ignorance is Bliss” but I would kinda like finding bliss without going that far. We are in some pretty serious times but, let’s face it, ignorance can be down right dangerous right now. Bliss is supposedly a state of perfect happiness. I don’t think I, or anyone else for that matter, have ever been there, so maybe I’ll just … Continue reading Seeking Bliss
In looking back on my life I don’t think I have ever thought of myself as part of the mainstream. When I was a kid I guess I liked comic books just like most others my age, but that seems to be about it. As mentioned in my About page above, my Aspie traits make speaking my mind an absolute necessity for me. It seems … Continue reading My View Of The Mainstream…
I am fascinated by all the opportunities that technology will provide us as a result of the pandemic. I certainly realize the suffering we have gone through as a result of the last year, but I kinda think when we look back on it as a higher level we will see it as the beginning of a technology renaissance that allowed us to evolve to … Continue reading Technology – After The Pandemic
I have to admit up front that I don’t know much about Ruth Bader Ginsburg but that she was a progressively minded Supreme Court Justice. I know she is an idol to many women who are still attempting to break through the glass ceiling. They use her as an example of a hero to be emulated. All that may be true but I see her … Continue reading The RGB Legacy – About Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I seem to always be in the re-formatting mode here on RJsCorner and most other areas of my life for that matter. I know my Aspie traits have a lot to do with that, but I think it is also that I want to make sure I spend my remaining years as fruitfully as possible. Since I now have daily reviews of my other two … Continue reading Reformat Again…
When I came across the book with the quote below in 2013 it solidified my belief that, for the most part, the church has tragically drifted from the words of Jesus to the words of man. I had been pondering that thought for a couple of years; I didn’t know that it was thoroughly thought out by such a powerful person as Tolstoy. It is … Continue reading Terrible To Think What Churches Do To Men…
In the year 2020, there will be approximately forty billion gadgets connected to the Internet. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know 40Billion!! Let’s see, there are 7.9 billions people on this earth right now. That 5+ gadgets for each on of us. I personally have about 10 of them. Continue reading 40 Billion??
I’ve been around politics for more than 50 years now, so I have seen a lot of sneaky tricks and such that governments use to manipulate their citizens. The first thing was as a young man eligible for the draft was how the US military was grossly over-counting the Vietnamese casualties in the 1960s. That would not be the last time that strategy would be … Continue reading The Pot Calling The Kettle Black…
One of the hardest things to do in today’s world is to get people to change their minds about almost anything. Of course I am a contrarian when it come to this topic. I have changed my mind about a lot of things in my life. Maybe the most significant has to do with my spiritual life. But that is a story for another post. … Continue reading Changing Minds
I think almost everyone in the country knows that we have some pretty serious problems and are in need of some serious answers. I usually spend my first hour each morning browsing all my news feeds for info to keep me informed and for fodder for my blogs. It seems that at least in my feeds that everyone has at least an idea on how … Continue reading How To Fix America… Solution #96
To keep from getting the bends from rising too abruptly from the ugly Trump depths, I have been in a decompression mode, and that is a good thing. I have been letting life pass me up for a little while. I am avoiding getting into the new political arena too early. I know that it continued without me because I have occasionally dipped my toes … Continue reading Decompression – A Welcomed State
First, let’s finish off the title of this post Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder I am going to spend the coming Sundays showing you what I consider as beauty. I have always been fascinated by Navajo artistry and I found it in spades at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque NM. Continue reading Beauty Is…
This post is an expanded response to a comment to last week’s post about Christian giving. I gave the person commenting a short answer, but I think this topic deserves more attention. Here is the comment on which the post is primarily based: Plainly speaking, Christian giving is almost always overstated by most Christians. In reality what they give at best covers about 1% of … Continue reading Christian Giving
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do Bob Dylan If there is one life lesson that all of us should learn, this is it. Doing what you love to do is, in the end, what life is all about. That’s what makes starving … Continue reading Doing What You Want To do…
I came across this hot rod with an airplane engine at a Oskhosh EAA Air Show a few years ago and it got my attention, along with many others. This might be the most creative custom hot rod ever built. Continue reading Look Up In The Sky… It’s A Car!
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