RanTom Thoughts

This article is a stub. I'll get around to lengthening it when I feel like it :)

This part of the wiki is for Tom's Rants and whatnot. Feel free to give feedback / comments on the talk pages.

Current Rant

Global Warming Winter has decided that Spring was being presumptuous. There are some days when you step out your door and the wind striking ice crystals against your jacket sounds like Rice Crispies on speed. On days like that you really want to forgo the rest of the day and just turn around, go back inside, curl up next to the <insert heat source here> and just read a book. Today is one of those days. Now for the rant part. (And so it begins) I'm really tired of Hollywood over-pimping the whole Green Agenda. [edit: I'm specifically addressing Global Warming in this article, not the whole "Green Agenda". Perhaps some day in the future I'll comment on a couple of other issues.] more >> -- Tometheus (talk) 10:26, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

Recent Rants

Ellen White on Swine This is for all my Adventist friends out there... Other people may not be interested in reading it, since it deals with Ellen White, which really has no meaning for people who never grew up in the Adventist church. [quote in extended version] So basically, this direct vision from GOD said that telling other people to abstain from pork was Satanic. Apparently when 1T was written, God didn't know what he was going to show EGW 5 years into the future... Specifically calling this an "Error in Diet". So, what is the test... that God will reveal the policy on swine to the entire church, not to two or three. So what changed the policy, creating the Adventist prohibition on pork? ONE person's vision! You may tell me "oh, but Ellen White was human, she makes mistakes", but remember, this is claimed to be a direct vision from God himself. Talk about someone on a power trip. When someone else comes up with an idea, it's evil, but when she comes up with it later, it's DIVINE LAW. more >> -- Tometheus (talk) 05:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Bahá'í House of Worship GRE, Great Food, Greeters, and Goodbyes I took my Physics GRE Subject Test yesterday. Reviewing classes you took over a decade ago is not a fun task, so I took a few weeks off of work to prepare. Last time I took the test I had just come out to Chicago, so I didn't have any of my textbooks, all I had was GRE Physics - The Best Test Preparation for the Graduate Record Examination Subject Test by REA. This time I bought a new copy of the book to see if they corrected the two mistakes I found last time. After the test, I discuss my adventures in Chicagoland on a CTA day pass, including such wonders as the Lucky Platter, and the Bahá'í House of Worship. more >> -- Tometheus (talk) 00:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Links to Recent Rants

• 20070411 Global Warming
• 20060225 Ellen White on swine
• 20051212 GRE, Great Food, Greeters, and Goodbyes
• See the listing in the Category for older rants
• More to be moved over from DiaryLand soon...