27/3 – 2/4/23 – LGBTQ, Armageddon & Nazare

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world.

Jim Jefferies on LGBTQ Community (High & Dry)
Comedy video excerpt at Pod Hardcore Fan

Geoff James Nugent (born 14 February 1977) is known professionally as Jim Jefferies. He is an Australian comedian, actor, and writer

‘Excellent, raw, objectively honest and very funny‘.

(Watch entire comedy excerpt here)

The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End
Video interview by Michael Shermer at Skeptic

Shermer and Ehrman discuss: Ehrman’s religious journey • Who wrote the Bible and why? • how to read the Bible and the book of Revelation • Who wrote Revelation and why? • why Jesus spoke in parables • why worry about climate change if the world is going to end soon? • David Koresh and Waco • Reagan and end times politics • how Jesus became a capitalist and militarist • faith healers, televangelists, and other Christian con artists • Christian ethics and what Jesus really said about the poor and needy.

Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity and a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (View entire video interview here)

Nazare: Love and Pain on the World’s Biggest Wave
News article at BBC Sport

Since it was first surfed, a little over a decade ago, the Portuguese town of Nazare has become the undisputed home of the world’s biggest wave.

The stretch of sand, the salt haze, a spike of cliff and a scarlet lighthouse.

Most of all, Cotton can see Nazare’s waves. They are small today, relatively at least, but there is still a backdrop of bubbling white water and churning white noise.

When the swell is right and the surf is up, it is a different story on a different scale.

Nazare, a small town 60 miles north of Lisbon, is where towering waves – some the height of 10-storey buildings – crash to shore. (Read entire news article here)