End-of-Year Roundup

 

The year 2025 comes to an end. I saw a meme with an award for making it through the year. Seems appropriate. We live in interesting times. There were some definite improvements over the past few years. But there were also some, I guess we would say disappointments. And also some tragedies.

I’ve been using the last post of the year as a reminder of what the Spherical Model is, as well as a highlight of some of the year’s posts. And I’d like to do that today.

 

Spherical Model—What It Is

The Spherical Model is an alternative way of looking at ideas in the political, economic, and social spheres. 

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King of Kings

A Christmas Message

Back in 2011, this was one we didn’t use for the Christmas card,
but I still like it. My granddaughter was two at the time.
Photo editing was done by my DIL.

 

I’ve been listening to a podcast called The Ancient Tradition, presented by Dr. Jack (Jaqueline) Logan. She started them around 2022, and there are 60+ episodes. These are comparative religion studies, and her premise is that, if you look at the many ancient texts and traditions, from ancient (and sometimes modern) cultures around the world, you will find patterns. And from these patterns you can discern the original story, what she refers to as “The Ancient Tradition.” In my understanding, this would be the original religion given to Adam and Eve and passed on to their posterity.

It takes some open-mindedness to look at stories we’ve always considered pagan and see parallels to Jesus Christ. I’ve heard from some who visit ancient Egyptian landmarks that they have come across these parallels as well.

The episodes are cumulative, meaning you’ll want to start with the first one. You can listen to any one, but you’ll get more out of them, if you’ve got the prerequisite background. Also, besides all the podcasts, with transcripts, you can get additional background material on the website. 

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About Those Six, and Other Beasts

This is another post about those Revelation 13 beasts: the worldwide cabal and the propaganda that upholds it.

We’re starting with that video put out there by what are being called the Seditious Six.  I mentioned it in a previous post. And then it got a fair amount more attention. I would have written about it last week, but… Thanksgiving.

So there’s more to the story now. But I want to start with a closer look at what they were doing.

The video, called “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” is short, so here’s the transcript, so we can deal with their actual words, instead of just commentary about them....

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Uncivil Divide

There are a couple of small stories today, followed by a thought exploration, all of it related in some way to the possibly irreconcilable differences we are facing.

The Kenyan-American Nurse

We spent a week in the hospital. I’m fine; I got to go home to sleep and take care of the dog at nights. My husband got a toe infection after a surgery, and we needed some intervention to save the toe—which was successful. Anyway, we had a lot of nurses coming and going at all hours. There was a night nurse one night who had some time to stay and chat for a few minutes. I wish I’d been able to record it. She was a delight.

She has been a nurse for 18 years. She’s from Kenya and came to the US for nursing school—and then stayed.

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This Is Why Pure Democracy Is a Bad Idea

Tuesday wasn’t a good election day—in New York City and a few other places, and also here in our local school district. But, as a friend reminded with a meme, “There’s no crying in politics.”

Shared on a friend's Facebook post

What to do instead? At such times, I turn to Philippians 4:8:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

So, I’ll personally be enjoying other things, before getting too involved in upcoming primaries (early voting starts mid-February). And for this post, I think I’ll try to uncover some truth and see if it can be useful.

First we’ll look at the Mamdani win. And then we’ll take a somewhat closer look at the school board.

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Follow-up on Texas Prop #3

I wrote on October 11 about the ballot propositions, based on what information I had available to me, and limited by the time I had to study the issues. After that, I learned that my good friend Mark Ramsey is adamantly against Prop 3, which I had indicated I was for.

So I thought I’d do some more study, just to understand the issue better. Some people think aloud; I think by writing. So, as I begin, I’m not sure whether I’ll change my mind, or even reach a final decision by the end of this piece.

One thing I’ve found is that good conservatives can disagree on issues. Hopefully, we’re all keeping in mind foundational principles as we think things through and make our decisions.

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If You Can Keep It

We have a school board election upon us, here in northwest Harris County, Texas. Early voting is October 20-31. Election day is Tuesday, November 4. I wrote about the ballot propositions here; the only other items on my ballot are three school board races. 

This is going to be a ridiculously long post. I'm sorry. But I figured, if you're here to find out who to vote for and who not to vote for, you'd want it in one place. Feel free to scroll to information you need, but I'm trying to offer valuable context to the decisions. The extremely condensed version is: vote for the NRG slate.

The NRG slate: Natalie Blasingame, Radele Walker, and George Edwards,
image from their website

The State of the School Board

Our school district is Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD, or Cy-Fair ISD). We’re one of the districts that led the nation a few years ago in overturning “woke” leadership and replacing it with conservatives. This took two elections to accomplish. We elected three conservatives in 2021, leaving us still a 7-3 minority. Then in 2023 we got three more, giving us a 6-1 majority. Now the question is, can we keep the board conservative—maybe even make it more so.

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