Saturday, January 11, 2020

RIP Neil Peart

Heard on the radio this morning about the death of Rush drummer Neil Peart.  Since nobody can imagine a Rush concert with another drummer, I'm thinking this is the end of Rush as a band.  See here for more.

Very sad, as I was a drummer back in the 80's and wore out my "Exit Stage Left" tape for 4 years every day after school, trying to be a Peart-clone.  Peart had a full life and made a positive impact on others, and an existentialist farewell is exactly what he would have wanted.  "we're only immortal, for a limited time".

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Bart Ehrman, like thousands of other skeptics, uses Mark 3:21 and John 7:5 to argue that Jesus' virgin birth (VB) is fiction.  Jason Eng...