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Writing Update #8

Posted in Beginnings, Contagion Phase, Mind Master Chronicles, The Pretender, Thoughts of the Day, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

It’s about time for the Smashwords Store sale, which is starting July 1st and lasts all of July. All my books, including my new one, Contagion Phase 1: Biosphere, will be free.

Break the Leg to Bend the Knee: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1415973

Contagion Phase 1: Biosphere: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1545993

Mind Master Chronicles: Labyrinth: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1353449

Mind Master Chronicles: Puppet on a String: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1386746

Meanwhile, the typing up of Contagion Phase 2: Beginnings is underway. And I’ve completed the first round of editing of the Mind Master Chronicles: The Pretender (Book 3). Here is the summary:

The Mind Master emerges from the shadows in order to play a game. Only it’s not the game he sold to his contestants online. No, that was a simple reality TV show, a promotional tool for their futures. In reality, the Mind Master’s game is a battle of wits to the death.

The editing for Mind Master Chronicles: The Pretender is going faster than it did with Biosphere. I had to make a lot more content changes with Biosphere.

I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like. I read an article recently on budgets — how you can focus on the interest rate or on the balance as your primary goal. I’m an interest rate person since it is the most efficient. Still, when you chip away at a lot of things rather than get fewer things done faster, you oftentimes don’t feel like you’re getting anywhere. And that can affect your morale. Still, I’m planning on continuing to try to do two pages a day per book because it keeps the pacing right for a book length story. Trying to add content later if you find the book is too short tends to harm the book. I will just have to dig deep and try to resume my schedule. Yes, I believe in taking breaks on occasion when I hit blocks. Putting too much pressure on yourself just creates anxiety. But you do have to prod yourself from time to time as well in order to keep the momentum going.

Update: Amazon is again offering up to $3.00 per transaction for Prime No-Rush and Amazon Delivery Day Rewards. The amount of Digital Rewards given seems dependent on the quantity of items purchased and what day of the week you purchase the items. It seems you need to buy four items at a time to qualify for the $3.00. The books I write qualify for Digital Rewards, so in theory you can get one of my eBooks if you get the $3.00 maximum reward once.

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Pseudoscience as the Dogma of Wokeism

Posted in Thoughts of the Day, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Pseudoscience as the Dogma of Wokeism.

10/05/23

There is a new science in town. It is not like the old science, which at its best was viewed as a quest for the truth. This new science has been decided, and it has been decided by bureaucrats and authoritarians. It justifies and excuses political agendas and inhumane policies such as depopulation. It cannot be questioned or challenged. It’s given up one of the fundamental foundations of science — that theories cannot be proven only disproven.

Apparently traditional scientists are feeling the burn. They are now being discredited for holding fast to the old science and not embracing the new. The fact is the new science is not science at all, and it has been co-opted into the religion of wokeism as its new dogma.

Ironically, some of the same scientists who are now being pilloried were the ones who championed for the absolute credibility of science, and for its supremacy over religion in the past. They basically used science to try to steer people away from a belief in God and toward what they believed to be a more rational and, therefore, in their minds correct belief system. It seems to me that their version of utopia is one where the cold rationality of science replaces religion.

Therefore, these scientists are horrified to find that a new religion has taken over science, changing all of its tenets and using the credibility scientists instilled in science to add credibility to its own ideological message. And yet, a lot of these traditional scientists are still clinging to their dream of a world without religion. They are still attempting to discredit Judeo-Christianity and make it out to be primitive and irrelevant. They are still attacking it even though it is the only religion capable of countering the spread of wokeism — which is completely perverting the traditional concept of science.

In other words, they are still treating Christians with the same level of disrespect and condescension that they are complaining the woke are now treating them with. And yet, I don’t see these scientists adjusting their behavior.

The fact is the spiritual realm exists. I’ve even heard of a couple of scientists on a podcast express shock and distress at being sucked into woke propaganda when they’re supposed to be above what they seem to deem as the irrational. But the spiritual is powerful among all people including the self-proclaimed rational ones. And just because you are fine, in theory, with a life devoid of the spiritual and emotional dimensions doesn’t mean that most people are or should be that way. And thinking you’re going to win people back from satanic offshoots like wokeism with arguments of cold rationality is impractical. The only defense against Satan is God. The belief in God and His Messiah, Jesus Christ, is the only belief system that can fill the void people have.

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