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Something that may not be clear from my writings on this website is that I have not, in fact, been a Catholic.

I am not an expert on prayer.

As much as I have written in the past about reading and studying, you might find it surprising that I would entitle an article “Stop Consuming Books.”

Before anyone can discuss capitalism intelligently, they must divorce the notion of consumerism from capitalism.

As I have posted in the past, I like old vehicles.

Disclaimer Frankly, I’m still a beginner.

Because I simply do not have enough things with wheels, I bought another car.

When it comes to cars and other mechanical activities, the temptation to get things working right is to just throw money at the problem until it goes away.

As I posted previously, my Ford 3.03 transmission was toasted.

The above heading is often declared by mid-wit philosophers as if they are speaking of something truly remarkable and profound.

There is nothing more hopeless than suffering from ignorance.

One of my favorite things to do is make something useful out of something useless, whether that be my rustbucket F-100, old wood from broken furniture, or cutting small trees to make fence posts.

A curious quality of being human is that we are never satisfied.

Ask the average person and they will tell you that the internet is superior to plain books in every way.

I have half-heartedly hunted for a few years now, but I finally put some real effort into it, and with a lot of luck, it paid off.

I recently realized that the majority of works that I have been reading are quite dry and boring to the average reader.

Is there any concept more misunderstood than freedom?

Since I have a vehicle that only gets about 12 miles to the gallon driving like a grandpa, I decided to look into what vehicles are very fuel efficient.

In the modern world, we are regularly bombarded with approbations to not be ashamed of whatever actions we commit.

In response to many anti-consumer practices effected by large companies, many a naive capitalist will respond with, “Well, you should vote with your dollar!

I have a friend who made a very simple and concise point about “the fourth of July:” “Don’t call it “The Fourth of July!”

As a child, I did not understand this commandment, and frankly not many adults who taught me it understood it.

While I have already written on the topic, I think it is necessary to further show issues with any sort of skeptical doctrine.

Here we go again!

I have wanted to write this particular article for some years, but have not been properly equipped to do so until now; further, there are hardly any good write-ups about this topic on the internet at all.

I have done many things on this old F100 that would be considered difficult jobs, but nothing compares to the simple afternoon job that is replacing the radius arm and axle pivot bushings.

This is my documents page which will be the source for some documents and ebooks that I either find interesting or will refer to in articles and essays.

Introduction to this Essay I was contacted by a reader who proposed that human free will was just an extension of the Divine Will.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about money, what it is good for, what it is not good for, and its relationship to wealth.

More successes than ever before and only one big disappointment for today.

My name is Brett Lindler.

An issue with skeptics of free will and other such topics is that they make some unwarranted assumptions to justify their two-cause universe that are ultimately contradictory.

It is no secret that I enjoy tinkering on cars and trucks, but despite that, I am not much of a hotrodder.

One of my occupations is as a musician.

In contrast to the overly positive views often presented towards the word ‘yes’, I think we underestimate the power of the word ’no.’

I wish to assert this point: in order to gain faith in God, you must first divest yourself of faith in everything else.

It is entirely too easy to hate.

Oh boy, do I have a fun little adventure to describe, but that must wait until I detail some of the work done on the green machine.

If you’re anything like me, you find yourself struggling to justify old yet juvenile libertarian opinions once held but now condemned.

Today, I must critique one of those sacred cows of learning that causes the average intellectual to cringe; that is, of course, reading.

Part of why my old site is defunct and why I have been so infrequent in posts is due to this little project.

I think many will agree that there is a such thing as sexual immorality and that it is rampant.