For the most part the Watchtower and Awake! magazines stick to selling their views and managing the members of the Jehovah’s Witness community. Every once and awhile, however, they decide to take a pot shot at the nonbeliever. The latest Watchtower magazine in it’s article “Is It Possible to Build Faith in a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nature’
O The Humanity!
Early on in my life as a secular humanist, my father and I were having a discussion in which he asked me how I could think that looking to humans for answers to the worlds problems could ever work. After all, he pointed out, humans were responsible for most of the problems in the first [...]
Why Do Americans Fail To Understand Science?
This morning I was listening to the Minnesota Public Radio Midmorning podcast. In particular, I was listening to a discussion of the topic “New polls indicates a dim view of U.S. scientific achievement” (listen to it here). The short of it is, there is a new poll that found (surprise!) the vast majority [...]
Natalie Goldberg and the Accidental Buddhist
I just started re-reading a book I haven’t read in at least 20 years, Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. I find it absolutely kick me in the nuts jaw droppingly amazing that despite the fact that I haven’t read this book since 1989 I remember it. I remember everything in here. [...]
The Week In Tweets
At First Ave, watching Grand Ole Party, awaiting Yeah Yeah Yeahs! #
Karen O is a force of nature. #
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
I have been a fan of Yeah Yeah Yeahs since their first album. I love the energy, I love the pop sensibility, and after catching them at First Avenue once, I LOVE Karen O. I mean, for my money, she’s this current generation’s greatest female performer. Others may be able to sing better, but her [...]
Journaling, Blogging, Gardening, Hiking, Biking, Geocaching….
In the last eight years, my online writing output has ebbed and flowed, changed tone, changed subject matter, and basically followed my life. What started as a diary to allow me to vent a little about my little life turned into a social platform for connecting with my friends, then a place to share my [...]
Small Journeys
When I was a kid my father used to take me into the woods to hunt. Usually he was after some sort of game that I wasn’t quite qualified to tackle like grouse or pheasant or (if he came across one) woodcock. He and I would walk into the woods until we found a nice [...]
Dawkins
The stupid Wordpress app for the iPhone needs landscape mode. What is wrong with them?
Anyhow, I rode my bike to the bus stop for the first time of the year this morning. I can’t believe how tired that made me. I’m pooped and I only traveled about 3/4 of a mile. It’s amazing how [...]
Substance (Part 1)
A recent post I made in which I recommended we all get off our asses and do whatever we can to get Obama elected provoked a response from a commenter named Andy (Hi Andy!) who suggested that I was a “nothing more than a blindly faithful Obama supporter who is full of hate”. Now, admittedly, [...]
