Postmodern Renaissance Culture Revolutionary

This sermon is part of the ongoing effort to clear my mind of the funk/existential crisis/emotional upheaval I experienced in the earlier part of this year. It is not, as my oldest son presumed, a sermon on what ticks me off (his assumption was that he would feature in a large portion of a sermon with that topic). What Makes Me Tick JUST A WORD OF WARNING!!!! There will be a little bit of undressing (nothing distasteful).

That title is not an imperative sentence. It is a description. It is who I am. I am a geek. I love all forms of geekiness. Computer games, comic books, action figures, Dungeons and Dragons, sci-fi movies and television shows. I am a broad based geek. How did it start? How far back does it go? Where did it all begin? This is my origin story. I don't remember much about my childhood. There are scraps here and there. I remember traumatic events. I remember a few mistakes. There aren't many "happy" memories. I don't know why that is. It is one more thing I'm sure a therapist could help me discover. But there are some things I do remember. Geek things. I remember television shows that were my favorites: Superfriends, Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica. Batman, Space: 1999.  Star Trek, the original series is one I don't remember watching. I remember movies that I watched: Star Wars, Buck Rogers (yeah, it...