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Slow bus to Descanso
Trans disssenter, the forbidden Lyon's Peak
The place is 100 years old, but full of life
Slow bus to Descanso
Laughing my ass off at the recent Tin Fork (“Descanso Junction: Unchained lunch”, Tin Fork, Jan. 30, 2025) warning that bus service to the Descanso Junction Restaurant is “very infrequent.” That’s an understatement! You can take route 888 from El Cajon on Monday to eat there, and continue eating as a return bus won’t come until Friday! Or you can venture there on Friday, and dine throughout the weekend until a return bus on Monday!
Transit Maven
La Mesa
Transgenderism not real
I’d like to comment on the article about the San Diego School District affirming and welcoming LGBTQIA+ students (“San Diego School District affirms status as “welcoming” in wake of Trump’s election”, SD on the QT, Jan. 30, 2025). The fundamental underpinnings are one of worldview. Nancy Pearcy in Love Thy Body builds upon the dichotomy articulated by philosopher Francis Schaeffer. He compares it to a home’s two stories. In the upper story are values or morality and in the lower are facts or science.
Transgenderism is a postmodern worldview of gender as a product of social forces over the modernism of sexuality as a material form or body. It doesn’t correspond with reality. Pearcy writes, “Contrary to what postmodern gender theory says, there is greater diversity and inclusivity when we anchor our psychosocial identity in the scientifically knowable reality of our biology as male or female.”
The historic Christian worldview assigns greater value and dignity to the body. We don’t need the upper story of subjective freedom from our bodies to find our true selves. We should celebrate our bodies as a good gift from God. Instead of escaping from the body, we should live in integrated harmony with it.
Mark A. Peter, MA
Solana Beach
We're here, with gear, let us hike it!
Same, yet different. ("The sherpas of YouTube", Roam, Feb. 6, 2025) Wm. Wilson is not alone when it comes to his frustration regarding forbidden peaks of San Diego County. I moved to Encinitas about three years ago. From my east facing back patio, perched high on a cliff, I have an amazing view. I can see 5 different mountain ranges. More specifically, when sitting in my outside lounging chair, there are 19 distinct mountains on the horizon to the east.
They range in size from about 1500 feet to 6500 feet. Using an app on my phone, I identified each mountain and set out to hike them all. Now, I have done 17 of them. Not necessarily to the top of each (no trails, windfall, snow, poison oak, other excuses), but near the tops or as close as I could get. There are two mountains I haven’t hiked. One is El Cajon Mountain, known to be an 11 mile up and down and up and down butt kicker. I’m working up to that one and I’ll get it done eventually. BUT, the other, Lyon’s Peak, which is (I would argue) the most visible peak to the south, is off limits to hikers. While technically on Federal Land (tax payer, Cleveland National Forest Land), the beautiful mountain is ringed by private property and no trespassing signs (although the road to the top is Federal land). A history of confrontations between hikers and landowners on the Google shows even violent confrontations. A movement toward freeing Lyon’s Peak should be created by all San Diego County hikers. Hikers Unite.
Jim Settle
Encinitas
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Slow bus to Descanso
Trans disssenter, the forbidden Lyon's Peak
Slow bus to Descanso
Trans disssenter, the forbidden Lyon's Peak
The place is 100 years old, but full of life
Slow bus to Descanso
Laughing my ass off at the recent Tin Fork (“Descanso Junction: Unchained lunch”, Tin Fork, Jan. 30, 2025) warning that bus service to the Descanso Junction Restaurant is “very infrequent.” That’s an understatement! You can take route 888 from El Cajon on Monday to eat there, and continue eating as a return bus won’t come until Friday! Or you can venture there on Friday, and dine throughout the weekend until a return bus on Monday!
Transit Maven
La Mesa
Transgenderism not real
I’d like to comment on the article about the San Diego School District affirming and welcoming LGBTQIA+ students (“San Diego School District affirms status as “welcoming” in wake of Trump’s election”, SD on the QT, Jan. 30, 2025). The fundamental underpinnings are one of worldview. Nancy Pearcy in Love Thy Body builds upon the dichotomy articulated by philosopher Francis Schaeffer. He compares it to a home’s two stories. In the upper story are values or morality and in the lower are facts or science.
Transgenderism is a postmodern worldview of gender as a product of social forces over the modernism of sexuality as a material form or body. It doesn’t correspond with reality. Pearcy writes, “Contrary to what postmodern gender theory says, there is greater diversity and inclusivity when we anchor our psychosocial identity in the scientifically knowable reality of our biology as male or female.”
The historic Christian worldview assigns greater value and dignity to the body. We don’t need the upper story of subjective freedom from our bodies to find our true selves. We should celebrate our bodies as a good gift from God. Instead of escaping from the body, we should live in integrated harmony with it.
Mark A. Peter, MA
Solana Beach
We're here, with gear, let us hike it!
Same, yet different. ("The sherpas of YouTube", Roam, Feb. 6, 2025) Wm. Wilson is not alone when it comes to his frustration regarding forbidden peaks of San Diego County. I moved to Encinitas about three years ago. From my east facing back patio, perched high on a cliff, I have an amazing view. I can see 5 different mountain ranges. More specifically, when sitting in my outside lounging chair, there are 19 distinct mountains on the horizon to the east.
They range in size from about 1500 feet to 6500 feet. Using an app on my phone, I identified each mountain and set out to hike them all. Now, I have done 17 of them. Not necessarily to the top of each (no trails, windfall, snow, poison oak, other excuses), but near the tops or as close as I could get. There are two mountains I haven’t hiked. One is El Cajon Mountain, known to be an 11 mile up and down and up and down butt kicker. I’m working up to that one and I’ll get it done eventually. BUT, the other, Lyon’s Peak, which is (I would argue) the most visible peak to the south, is off limits to hikers. While technically on Federal Land (tax payer, Cleveland National Forest Land), the beautiful mountain is ringed by private property and no trespassing signs (although the road to the top is Federal land). A history of confrontations between hikers and landowners on the Google shows even violent confrontations. A movement toward freeing Lyon’s Peak should be created by all San Diego County hikers. Hikers Unite.
Jim Settle
Encinitas
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