Opinion: Defining Gender

Note from author: The following post is a rant, a ramble, a brain dump, entirely an opinion piece and not meant to be a study or a research article. This is as much a journey to improve my own understanding as it is to try to bring some understanding to you and others. So while […]

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Why? Arg. (A rant and ramble) – Love Anyway Blog

Almost 21 months of this. Fast approaching 2 years. All this time with all this shit. ARG! Trolls. So many f’ing trolls, on the internet and in real life and just everywhere. Like in inauguration day someone gave out licenses to be an assbutt to everyone all the time. I must have missed the memo. […]

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On many things – Love Anyway Blog

I fell out of the habit I was trying to foster of writing every day, hoping to spark my creative impulses to actually start writing on more serious topics. And while I have some ideas, I just can’t quite get things going. So, for now, I’ll continue to just rant and ramble in this corner […]

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Another Sunday At Home (Love Anyway Blog)

It’s been a year and almost a half since I’ve been to a church service. And now I don’t know if I can go back to ‘my’ church. I mean I know the leaders will welcome me with hugs and my spot as a deacon would be waiting for me if I asked and there […]

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Fight Like A Girl – And Mean It (Love Anyway Blog)

“Act like a lady…” I may at some point in my life as a parent have said that to my daughters. Now I regret it. Many see “being a lady” as being polite. But that’s rubbish because boys can be polite too and not ‘be a lady’.  Being decent to other people isn’t a ‘lady’ […]

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Thoughts And Prayers. Again. And Again. And… (Love Anyway Blog)

Every time children die, it comes up. Thoughts and prayers. And we spend a lot of time talking about thoughts and prayers. So much time talking about thoughts and prayers that we stop talking about dead children to support/ridicule anyone that says “thoughts and prayers”. I believe in prayer. “Thoughts” and “positive vibes” and things […]

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A Rambley Ranty Post During A Weeklong+ Migraine (Love Anyway Blog)

It’s been – wow – 12 years now since I started having chronic migraines (and other issues). As the doctors like telling me, “adult men don’t just start having migraines in their late 30s” (and now I’m 50). And we still don’t have a diagnosis as to “what is wrong with Allen”. So we manage […]

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Dern Liberals and other such insults (Love Anyway Blog)

I had to boot a troll from the facebook community today. I had made a post that said six words “How many more? #GunControlNow”. From those 6 words an individual had made up their mind that I was a Democrat (or a liberal, not sure which as he seemed to use the two interchangably, which […]

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This is the time to talk about it. (Love Anyway Blog)

[The views expressed here may not represent those of everyone in the Christianity Without The insanity community.] This is the time to talk about gun control. Indeed this is the only time to talk about it because within a day or so our collective amnesia will kick in and we’ll move on to the next […]

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No, my intolerance of your intolerance doesn’t make me a hypocrite (Love Anyway Blog)

“Tolerance means accepting everything.” they might say, “So you have to accept my point of view.” Have you heard that one? It’s f’ing BS. Tolerance does not mean you have to accept everything and anything as equally valid. The US being what it is, people have the right to say and believe what they want. But […]

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Let’s talk about depression (Love Anyway Blog)

I have a condition known generally as depression. I have a disease specifically known as Clinical Depression. To be even more specific, my brain doesn’t produce or process some chemical causing something something yadda yadda, blah blah blah. I have to take pills. Over the years, decades actually, I’ve used different pills. Prozac, Wellbutrin, a few […]

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I FREAKING HATE EVERYTHING

ARRRRGH EVERYTHING SUCKS BURN IT ALL TO THE F’ING GROUND! I HATE MISSIONARIES THAT COME TO MY HOUSE I HATE ALL THE F’ING LAUNDRY I HATE THAT MY FEET SMELL LIKE CHEESE AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH

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Some positivity today…

Things to remember when you’re having a bad day: Groundhogs aren’t really predictors of season change. Spring is coming. The days are getting brighter and warmer. Good music exists. With online streaming, you can find just about any kind of music to play on your phone or computer for free. Find something that lifts your […]

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It’s so hard…

I’m 50. I have chronic health issues that have rendered me disabled. I’m a husband of 30 years, a father of just about the same amount of time. I have 8 kids. 2 out on their own making their way in the world. Another going through a terrible separation and (probably) divorce who has come […]

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Why are we always looking for things to be angry about? (Love Anyway Blog)

I have a morning routine that I follow. Coffee, a little prayer/meditation time, manage the Facebook pages I admin, check twitter for news. Part of that is sometimes making a new image post for this page (Christianity Without The Insanity). Sometimes serious, sometimes satirical, sometimes just for fun. But lately, I’ve gotten into this pattern […]

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