… 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: Skepticism
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
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 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
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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
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Tagged Agnosticism, atheism, musings on religion, personal views, Science and Religion, Skepticism
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Evidentiary Skeptic
Listening to skepticism related podcasts one quite frequently hears luminaries from the skeptical movement pontificate about how awful it is to express skepticism regarding claims which cannot be tested. “Them who does it,” they say, “ain’t be true skeptics”. While … Continue reading
Meditation
This was originally written for the Skepticaly Blog on July 15, 2008. I doubt many people read the original in its entirety since it was rather long. I edited the content in an attempt to make it more palatable to … Continue reading
Something to take its place
Winding my way up Ute Pass on the way to work, I heard Philip Escoffy make the following statement on Episode #69 of The Skeptic Zone; as skeptic we need to replace what we take away with something else. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged harsh truth, Positive Thinking, reality, The Secret
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