Oh the Humanity!

Before I happened upon Anchor, I recorded a couple of episodes in Garage Band and felt like they're worthy of including into this new Anchor pod by way of import. Share / Export podcast to disc, and then we get an m4a file. I didn't select mono though, but at 3.3 MB it's not too large I don't think. In this episode I touch on maybe 8 or 9 chapter titles such as: Have I been Catfished and SYOTOS. This episode serves as an introductory talk, take 2 :)

Rather than always going back to 2015 when I started writing this monstrous project, I decided that today why not read from the most recent chapters I've written? The latest is called The Original Extremists, and just before that was The Blind Leading the Blind? That latest chapter ponders why such over the top language was used to describe God and Hell, and then considers attending a Creative Writing class with that assignment. The Blind chapter discusses leading a person out of one major religion right into another one. Whoops!

A friend wants to talk with me about something very important. Well, surprise! He wanted to share with me about being a Mormon. In our discussion it came to light that I didn't believe in God, so he argued that I must be retarded. His words, not mine. In this episode I discuss that and the chapter that came about as a result: Book of Moroni, which is an actual book title in the Book of Mormon. (Not the Broadway play.)

In this episode, Richard reads from the 8th chapter of his book which compares the story of Lazarus to Texas Hold 'em. He also notices how rapidly the story of Hands Up Don't Shoot traveled across America and wonders, did something similar happen back in the time of Jesus? He also confesses publicly that he no longer believes in God after 30 years as a born again believer, and 20 years as a professional Christian musician. He also explains the story of how he began writing every morning about this for over two years as a way to work things out, since writing is his way of understanding his own thoughts.