… him who writes this stuff …
Writing forces me to examine my views as cold words on a page.My views are borne out of my experiences on this world.
My experiences are slowly adding to the short story that is my life.
While I still can, I choose to share some for anyone who might find them useful, or perhaps just entertaining.
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Category Archives: Religion
Hartwick Professionals, Inc. Joke(s) of the Week – Part 3
Edited to Add: It occurred to me cartoons, even if clipped from the newspaper, are copyrighted material. Ignorance is no excuse for using them without permission. I could try and get permission from the authors, but it’s difficult to get … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Musings Stuff, Personal, Politics, Religion, Skepticism
Tagged cartoons, comics, Hartwick Professionals, Jokes of the week, Musings, personal musings, Personal reflection, quotes, writing
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Free Will Redux
(This is the second post on free will. Read the first one HERE) A few weeks after the original post about free will I wrote a follow-up . No, I had not solved the problem. I wanted to instead voice some … Continue reading
Scientific Naturalism and Free Will
This is a post from August 2009. Again, it’s from one of my largely ignored FaceBook Notes, but was originally posted on my Skepticality blog (now defunct). It’s still a topic I’m interested in, although I am no closer to … Continue reading
The Star Trek Universe
Recently I’ve had a small surge in the number of people who subscribe to this blog; they came lured by posts relating to photography. I did tell the first few new subscribers they should look at the rest of … Continue reading
Hartwick Professionals, Inc. Joke(s) of the Week – Part 2
Edited to Add: It occurred to me cartoons, even if clipped from the newspaper, are copyrighted material. Ignorance is no excuse for using them without permission. I could try and get permission from the authors, but it’s difficult to get … Continue reading
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Tagged cartoons, comics, Hartwick Professionals, Jokes of the week, quotes
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Debating Gun Control and Religious Belief -Part I
I had not engaged anyone in discussions about topics such as religion and gun control for a long while, but recently I engaged in both. “So, why now?” you ask. Good question. At the face of it such discussions are … Continue reading
Hartwick Professionals Joke(s) of the Week
Edited to Add: It occurred to me cartoons, even if clipped from the newspaper, are copyrighted material. Ignorance is no excuse for using them without permission. I could try and get permission from the authors, but it’s difficult to get … Continue reading
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Tagged cartoons, comics, Hartwick Professionals, Jokes of the week, quotes
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Agnosticism – the non-neutral position.
Very recently, and against my better judgment, I’ve again bit at the lure of discussing agnosticism. When I was young I once characterized agnostics as atheists without balls. I am deeply ashamed of this because it showed an unconscious bias … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Musings Stuff, Religion, Skepticism
Tagged agnostic, Agnosticism, atheism, atheists, belief, Musings, myths, personal opinion, religion
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Conversing with the Faithful – Part 3
Some time ago I was friended in Facebook by Amer. He was raised a Muslim, and currently uses a mixture of reason and religious belief to find his path through life. He is active on Facebook where he posts many … Continue reading
Conversing with the Faithful – Part 2
This link: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/151241 was in another Facebook post that initiated a thankfully brief exchange. For those who will not bother to click on it, the above link takes you to an article listing the author’s opinion of the ten scariest … Continue reading
Conversing with the Faithful – Part 1
Most everyone knows I am an atheist. I don’t flaunt it, I don’t hide it. I just am. Long ago I used to engage people of faith in conversations in an attempt to understand what it was they understood that … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Musings Stuff, Religion, Skepticism
Tagged atheism, religion, Skepticism
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Atheism and Skepticism Redux
I have written before regarding my own opinion on the skeptic/atheist discussion. However, two recent items prompt me to revisit the topic. One is Podblack’s post The Conflation of Skepticism and Atheism – Fact or Fiction?, and the other is … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Rational Thinking, religion, Skepticism
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Atheism and Skepticism
Note (29June2010): Today I listened to the Skepticality Podcast #132 (I’m a few weeks behind), and I was surprised to hear at least some of the points from this post echoed back at me from the past (go ahead, read … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Musings Stuff, Religion, Skepticism
Tagged Agnosticism, atheism, musings on religion, personal views, Science and Religion, Skepticism
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Odds and Ends
So, I’ve been gone for a bit. Well, not gone . . . absent. As usual, life makes demands one is hard-pressed to ignore. But I have a few minutes, and I figure I would unload thoughts which have been … Continue reading
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Tagged fertility, Great Flood, immigration law, Monster Talk, race, writings, young earthers
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Choosing a Religion
Religious membership is based largely on the accident of birth, and the culture one is born into has a significant role in shaping one’s eventual beliefs. There are a small number of people who do make a voluntary choice, but … Continue reading
