I learned some things the hard way. Watch out for the following pitfalls when forming a company in Liberland as a U.S. Person. — (This article originally appeared in Liberland Press on 06 April 2023) 2023–05–22 Update: The IRS has approved my Form 8832, Entity Classification Election filing. Today, I breathed a sigh of relief as I put a 5mm tall stack of paperwork into a USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate® Envelope and sealed…

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After more than a decade of studying the Bible as a Christian, I saw my own bias and chose to prioritize objective facts and my own sense of reason above that which I may wish to be true — Dear friends, family, and random people on the Internet, On Feb 27, I posted that “…after more than a decade of studying the Bible, I have become an agnostic.” Since posting that, I have been flooded with hundreds of comments and over a dozen direct messages from Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox…

“Is COVID hastening the Second Advent?” — After announcing the “protest against Satan,” Pr. Batchelor responded to a couple of questions about current events and their effects on Seventh-day Adventists. He also clarified his intent with the protest announcement as one of good-natured humor and not as a means of “evading” COVID-19 laws. The following is an email exchange reformatted to a conversational style for the sake of smoothness.

Here is what the evangelist had to say… — UPDATE— 08/17/2020: Pr. Batchelor contacted the author of this article to reiterate that “this…was a cheerful parody to our members here,” and that, “It had nothing to do with ‘evading bans on church gatherings.’ ” During this time of COVID-related bans on assembly, one pastor in California is encouraging Christians to “exercise [their] First Amendment rights” by “peacefully protesting against the devil, sin, lawlessness, hate, and evil of every kind” in his church’s parking lot.

“That’s a bad idea.” — On Friday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Tweeted a sage warning to Michiganders, saying, “Just going to leave this here: “Do not consume or inject disinfectant. That’s a bad idea.” - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer This Tweet comes as Michiganders are upset with Whitmer’s authoritarian policies regarding the COVID-19 lockdown, and shortly after President Trump made a sarcastic question, according to the Washington Post:

Is such terminology acceptable? — Over the last weekend, Frances Floresca, a recent graduate of the University of Utah, wrote an opinion article in The Salt Lake Tribune in defense of both the term “Chinese Virus,” and Utah Congressional Candidate Kim Coleman’s blaming of the Chinese Communist Party for the COVID-19 epidemic. Floresca’s article drew…

That solution is worse than the problem… — In one of Ayn Rand’s novels, Atlas Shrugged, there is a character named John Galt who “promised to stop the motor of the world.” While the story is fictional, it seems as if an element of that dystopian story is at least somewhat similar to today with COVID-19 spreading around…

The school shared the facts with me… — Andrews University told me that it is enacting a “temporary furlough” on employees due to the “significant national and global financial threats” caused by the novel coronavirus. The school said that it is “taking temporary measures that are provided for within the government stimulus opportunities for the nation as a whole, and for higher education in particular…”