JD Adkins

"Communism is the scavenger of decaying civilizations. It makes its way into a country and into a culture, only when that culture begins to rot from the inside." ~Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Take your "May Day" and shove it. Today is the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker.

This fox is a CON MAN by profession. He lies and cheats and steals his way through the movie. The bunny, in the course of her professional duties, has some questions for him. Maybe she starts to question his motives. After all, we're talking about people's lives at stake. She's not trying to profile him, but his friendship with her requires some level of trust and transparency. She was following her instincts. She's watched him lie to people for the entire movie. She goes groveling to him because she needs his help and is willing to throw herself at his mercy and apologize and say I guess I'm "just a dumb bunny". A stupid woman. How dare you question him. (I've written more on this topic of the "how dare you" final act of desperation - don't you know who I AM??) Ignore your instincts, admit you're inferiority and move on. It's the exact same classic final move that every oppressor ever has used. Ignore what you see with your eyes and hear with your ears. The final grip. Politics, Religion...It all hinges on repeating the lie. Saying what they want you to say without ever asking WHY. And then to top it off, he RECORDS IT!! He records her admitting her inferiority as if he's going to blackmail her with it, or at the very least, take pleasure in listening to it again and again, like he gets off on it, and then he looks at her all smug and treats her like she owes him some big favor now. It just has this HUGE ick to it that any woman (and hopefully emotionally mature/protective men) cannot unsee once you see it.

Every ancient culture had its gods, and every god had a job. The god of the sunrises and sets. The god of the river floods and recedes. The god of war fights and rests. They were defined by their function, and their function had boundaries. And then a voice speaks from a burning bush on the back side of a desert, and Moses makes the mistake of asking it for a name. The answer he gets back is Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh. I AM THAT I AM. This God, unlike the gods of the past, is the ground of all existence itself. Everything that is, is because He is. You cannot name Him because naming Him would require a word bigger than any we have. And then Jesus of Nazareth walks into the Gospel of John and picks that statement up and puts it in His own mouth. He does it not once but seven times, and each time He is making a claim so enormous that His first-century Jewish audience understood it immediately, even if modern readers who have been stripped of that context often miss it entirely. “I am the bread of life.” “I am the light of the world.” “I am the door.” “I am the good shepherd.” “I am the resurrection and the life.” “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” “I am the true vine.” Every single one of those statements begins with ego eimi, which means I AM. Those are the same words the Greek Septuagint used to translate the unpronounceable name God gave Moses at the bush. Jesus is not using a figure of speech. He is not reaching for a metaphor. He is invoking Exodus 3. He is saying that the uncategorizable, uncontainable, unnameable God that Moses met on the mountain is standing in front of you right now in human skin. And in case there was any ambiguity left in the room, He removes it completely in John 8:58. The Pharisees are arguing with Him about Abraham, and Jesus says, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” He does not say I was. He says I AM. He uses the present tense. And the Pharisees picked up stones to kill Him, not because they were confused but because they understood exactly what He was claiming. He was not claiming to be old. He was not claiming to be a prophet. He was claiming to be the voice from the bush. The I AM statements only work if you understand Exodus. They only carry their world-breaking weight if you know the covenant history, the burning bush, and the divine name that was so holy it could not be spoken aloud. Jesus did not appear out of nowhere with a startup religion and a set of inspirational quotes. He walked into a story that had been unfolding for two thousand years and said He was the one the story had been about the entire time. When you cut the Jewish root, when you treat His heritage as incidental, you sever the I AM statements from their foundation. Those statements are God fulfilling the promise He made at the bush by showing up in person to do what He said He would do. “I will be what I will be.” And what He chose to be was one of us, a Jewish man from Nazareth who carried the unspeakable name in a body that could bleed. That is the character of God, and it is the thing that makes the biblical narrative unlike any other religious text on earth. He is not a God who stays abstract and unapproachable, hidden safely. He is a God who came down. He is a God who showed up. He is a God who says I AM and then proves it by becoming someone you can touch. And He is a God that died for all of our sins so that we may be saved.

20,000 people deliberately introduced boredom into their lives and generated 41% more breakthrough insights within one week. Yes, Dr. Manoush Zomorodi demonstrated what neuroscientists long suspected: "deliberate boredom boosts creative output and strengthens the brain’s capacity for original thinking." In that study, 20,000 participants added periods of unstimulated time to their routines, and experienced 41% more creative breakthrough moments within seven days. Your default mode network operates like a background processor that only runs when conscious attention stops demanding resources. During unstimulated moments, this network begins cross referencing every memory, skill, and experience you've accumulated, hunting for patterns your focused mind missed. The insights we call "creativity" are actually sophisticated pattern recognition happening below conscious awareness. Modern humans have accidentally trained themselves to interrupt this process every time it begins. The average person checks their phone 96 times per day. Every notification, every scroll, every background podcast cuts the neural pattern matching short before it completes. We've created a civilization where the mental state required for original thinking gets treated like an emergency that needs immediate correction. Watch people in waiting rooms, elevators, or checkout lines. The moment external stimulation drops below a certain threshold, hands automatically reach for phones. The discomfort they're avoiding is literally their brain attempting to do the background processing that produces breakthrough insights. Evolutionary biologists argue boredom developed as a survival mechanism. Animals that could sit unstimulated and let their minds wander were more likely to notice environmental changes, recognize new food sources, and develop innovative hunting strategies. Boredom forced our ancestors into the mental state where novel solutions emerge from existing knowledge. We've pathologized our most important cognitive function. The corporate world talks endlessly about innovation while designing work environments that make innovation neurologically impossible. Open offices with constant interruption. Back to back meetings with no processing time. Performance metrics that reward immediate output over deep thinking. Then companies spend millions on creativity consultants and innovation workshops, trying to artificially recreate what the human brain does naturally during sustained boredom. Participants in Zomorodi’s study generated more ideas and also described a welcome shift: during quiet, unstimulated moments, answers to long-running challenges often came into clear focus. With fewer distractions, their brains kept working on the underlying patterns and had the space to bring that recognition to completion. The quality gap between stimulated and unstimulated thinking becomes stark when you map it against major discoveries. The pattern repeats across every domain: breakthrough insights emerge during mental downtime, not during intense focus. Modern neuroscience explains why. The default mode network draws connections between brain regions that don't communicate during focused attention. Areas responsible for memory, emotion, sensory processing, and abstract thinking create novel combinations only when executive control relaxes. Constant stimulation keeps executive control active, blocking the cross domain communication that generates original ideas. Silicon Valley understood this before the research proved it. Google's famous "20% time" and similar policies were more thsn just about employee satisfaction. Companies discovered that structured boredom produces more valuable innovations than structured brainstorming sessions. Engineers who spend one day per week on self directed, unstimulated projects generate patents at higher rates than those focused solely on assigned tasks. The pharmaceutical industry treats boredom as a symptom of depression and prescribes stimulants to eliminate unstimulated mental states. Meanwhile, the same industry struggles with declining innovation rates in drug discovery. The connection isn't coincidental. Educational systems double down on the same mistake. Schools pack schedules with back to back classes, eliminate recess, and assign homework that fills every unstimulated moment. Then educators wonder why creative problem solving scores have declined for three consecutive decades. Students arrive at universities neurologically unprepared for the kind of open ended thinking that produces original research. The economic implications compound across generations. Industries that depend on creative problem solving hire workforces trained to avoid the mental states where creative problem solving occurs. Then they implement productivity tools and collaborative platforms that further fragment attention and eliminate the sustained boredom where breakthrough solutions develop. Zomorodi's experiment succeeded because participants actively resisted their conditioning. They scheduled specific periods of deliberate understimulation. They sat without phones, music, or conversation. They allowed their minds to wander without redirecting attention to productive tasks. Within days, their brains remembered how to complete the background processing that constant stimulation had been interrupting. The 41% increase in creative output came from creating better conditions for creativity to flow naturally, supported by replacing unhelpful habits with more supportive ones. Most people reading this will agree intellectually but continue reaching for stimulation the moment boredom threatens. The addiction to constant input runs deeper than conscious decision making. Your brain interprets unstimulated time as a threat that requires immediate correction. But those breakthrough insights you've been waiting for are sitting in your default mode network right now. They've been trying to surface for weeks, maybe months. Every time you reach for external stimulation, you're interrupting the neural process that would deliver them. Your next original idea is one boring afternoon away. The only question is whether you'll give it the unstimulated space it needs to emerge.

The Age of Aquarius, made famous by the 1960s musical, gets the astronomy wrong. The vernal equinox will not move into the star field of Aquarius for another 300 to 400 years. We are still in Pisces - and Randall Carlson points out that the fish symbolism saturating the Christian tradition is not incidental. It is astronomical. The founding of Christianity coincides precisely with the precessional age of Pisces. Follow me and I will make you fishers of men. The feeding of the multitude with fish and bread. Disciples who were fishermen. The Jesus fish displayed on the backs of cars across the world. Every one of these symbols encodes the same astronomical reality - that Christianity emerged at the moment the vernal equinox moved into the sign of the fish, and that the religion's iconography reflects the age it was born into, whether its founders understood that consciously or not. The people driving around with a Jesus fish, Randall notes, are unknowingly acknowledging the precessional age that shaped the entire tradition.

"Judge not" is the most abused phrase in the modern world. It is not a shield for degeneracy, no matter how many times it is used. People use this verse to silence any criticism of bad behavior or lack of standards. But the full context (Matthew 7) warns against hypocritical judgment (the beam in your own eye), not judgment itself. Later, we are told to "judge with righteous judgment." A man without judgment is a man without standards. You must be able to discriminate between good and evil, beauty and ugliness. The command isn't to be blind but to ensure your own house is in order so that your judgment of the world is valid and ordered towards the greater good.

If Abortion wasn’t used as a form of birth control; we wouldn’t be seeing number as high as we do. The number of abortions skyrocketed after they were permitted. There are alternatives- they just need to be considered PRIOR to sexual activity. 21 year olds know better. Also, the circumstances of the parents do NOT determine the humanity and dignity of that conceived child.