One of my emerging themes

I realized, while at work today (humming, off and on, the Melissa Etheridge song), that I can actually see two themes emerging in what I’m talking about so far on this blog. This is one: behavior wise, we’re all essentially the same (This is the one that wasn’t inspired by the Etheridge song, just to [...]

Atheists and afterlives II (or, Death and Other Wounds)

Carl Sagan wrote, in The Demon-Haunted World,
My parents died years ago. I was very close to them. I still miss them terribly. I know I always will. I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about them, are — really and truly — still in existence somewhere. I wouldn’t [...]

Silent Legacy

I have to go to work now (though there’ll be another post in a while, woooo woooo), but for now, I just wanted to share this, my favorite Melissa Etheridge song:

The “Video” is boring, the song isn’t.
I share this mostly because of the realization that, as I write this blog and [...]

Religious wounds

Hemant Mehta shares an email that’s heart-breaking: a woman who has lost faith but finds herself guilty about her sexuality, asking for advice. I wish I had advice, other than what some commenters have already said: get therapy, so she can work through these issues and find self-acceptance.
Skeptics often get asked, when dealing with issues [...]

Atheists and afterlives I (or, Static Equals Unlife)

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
– Carl Sagan
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In Letters from the Earth, Mark Twain’s Satan tells his angel pals,
…the human being, like the [...]