Lately all I see is a shade of color

Christian clubbing is going to be the biggest and baddest…oh my goodness, who am I kidding? CHRISTIAN CLUBBING?!?!

Silent Star Wars

There’s Harlem. And then there’s 13-Gigapixels Harlem. Wonderful, wonderful!

This is the ugliest New York Times info-graphic I’ve ever seen. In an article titled, Eternity For Atheists, the New York Times examines how the idea of an immortal life, or life after death, became such a big deal to people who believe in it and people who do not believe it in.

Curiously, the doctrine of immortality is more a pagan legacy than a religious one. The notion that each of us is essentially an immortal soul goes back to Plato. Whereas the body is a compound thing that eventually falls apart, Plato argued, the soul is simple and therefore imperishable. Contrast this view with that of the Bible. In the Old Testament there is little mention of an afterlife; the rewards and punishments invoked by Moses were to take place in this world, not the next one. Only near the beginning of the Christian era did one Jewish sect, the Pharisees, take the afterlife seriously, in the form of the resurrection of the body. The idea that â€œthe dead shall be raisedâ€ was then brought into Christianity by St. Paul.

I could say that my love for Ferris Wheels was revived this past Summer when I went on the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island. It’s scary and exciting, and despite all the yelling I did (Corey too! Hahaha), I still enjoyed the ride around on it. Those swinging cars on the Wonder Wheel are so crazy. I love Coney Island!
Check out the NYT slideshow presentation on the Ferris Wheel’s history. There are some great photos there.