I get a little annoyed when people talk about the elderly like they’re shocked these folks have lived lives. They’re not teddy bears, they’re not cartoon characters, they’re human beings with vastly more experience on this planet than the people patronizing them. That said, I *do* understand why it can feel a little embarrassing/funny/I-don’t-know-what-to-do-with-this when,...

I come from a relatively buttoned-up Midwestern family – we don’t talk openly about things like sex or…life, especially not with our grandparents. But if Reddit is anything to go by, I’m practically alone in that. Look at this post: My grandma once chastised me for wearing underwear to bed because I need to "let...

Life is a weird road, and along that road we often find ourselves taking turns we didn’t expect, or even that we swore we’d never approach. It’s a tricky business to untangle, but Reddit tried to do just that with this post from user Deskarthus: When did you "become the very thing you swore to...

Admit it, we’ve all been there. We passionately declare our strong distaste for this thing or that, maybe we even come to build a portion of our personality around our opposition to it. And then…at some point…we look down and realize, we are now a part of that system. We are now doing that thing....

I went to a bit of a strange private “university model” religious high school where I graduated in a class of nine people. Needless to say, I’ve got some complaints. And…stories. Nevertheless, there is one element of that education for which I will truly and earnestly be forever grateful. My sophomore year there, I took...

You ever see that show Crossing Over with john Edward? It was really popular around the early 2000’s, though it probably shouldn’t have been. In it, self-proclaimed psychic Edward would use a series of what are basically just parlor tricks to make it seem as though he was talking to the dead. Boring. I’d be...

There have been countless religious traditions which have their assertions about what happens when we die. Some say paradise awaits you, or torment, or a cosmic waiting room – maybe you’ll be reborn as another person, or as an animal. Or maybe, the First Church of Gamerism is the true path forward, and THIS is...

There’s an ancient superstition that says if you see at least ten good memes in one day, and you make a wish upon the tenth one, you will have good luck for the following seven weeks. Usually I don’t go in for superstitions, but considering this one came about in ancient times when there were...

If there’s one thing we can rely on in this crazy, mixed-up world, it’s probably memes. There’s nothing certain in this life except for death, taxes, and memes, after all. They are ever-present. Ever-growing. Ever-multiplying. And we can step outside into the digital atmosphere and catch them on our tongues like binary-coded snowflakes, each unique,...