Homo sapiens idaltu

If I had to give one reason why religion, as we have it, leaves me cold, it would be summed up in — inevitably! — something Carl Sagan said:
We’ve tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we’ve not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, [...]

Gay Science! (no, not Nietzsche, you philosophy nerds)

I love The Onion: it: [EDIT: Idiot, it's not The Onion]

via Dispatches from the Culture Wars

cruelty to pigs

via The Friendly Atheist comes this link: Rochelle Weiss’s “What is a Good Righteous Person?” She asks 12 questions and says, basically, that Jesus lets down the side. Some of it is stuff I’ve said — the cruelty to animals thing, ala the pigs he so casually kills, has always bugged me. I liiike pigs. [...]

Two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl

A walk on part in the war
I knew this great guy some years ago, an Evangelical Christian. Sweet, sweet dude. Sadly, life took us in different directions. I should really look him up sometime. But we had a lot of great conversations about life, religion, atheism, writing, literature, you name it.
And sometimes, you [...]

Andre Breton Sutra

Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.
– Andre Breton
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I finished watching Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man this week, and boy howdy am I in love. I get it folks, I totally get it. I get why this series is considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, science series [...]