Hey, folks! I just claimed this here blog on Technorati (MINE MINE MINE! I said.). So, ya know, if you want to help the Rise of Atheist A Go-Go, you could fav it on Technorati. Just sayin’. There’s even a handy little button just to the right of here, underneath the Big Red A.
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11 August 2008
World Domination Plans: Minions Alert!
11 August 2008
The Villa of the Papyri
The Australian has a great article about the excavations at the Villa of the Papyri, the continuing attempts to decipher the charred scrolls that have been found, and what it all could mean. It’s a great read. (via Reddit)
I am particularly pleased by the strong emphasis on Epicurus and the Epicurean philosophers, and their impact [...]
11 August 2008
Movement angst
I don’t do movements. Let me explain:
You may have picked up, perhaps from reading the handy About page, that I’m a vegan. Let me qualify that — I’m a sorta vegan. To wit: once in a great while, some dairy finds its way into my body. I also could give a bee’s ass about the [...]
11 August 2008
Religion, nationalism, and other irrationalities
Some thoughts floating through my headache-rattled head after writing the Olympic post –
It strikes me — I’ll admit this is not terribly original — how similiar religion and other belief systems actually are. Take nationalism. Nationalism can be described, crudely, as a worship of nation. One puts absolute faith in the Motherland/Fatherland, my country right [...]
11 August 2008
Thank you, Rebecca, for saying it for me
Rebecca at Skepchick hates the Olympics.
I can only second, third, and fourth what she says. For me, it’s a matter of the massive exploitation of the athletes, including the ugly example she gives, namely women’s gymnastics. I could add to the list the massive amounts of graft, which essentially has turned the Olympics into organized [...]
11 August 2008
Fear and religion
If you ask the average atheist, I wager, they’d say that religion is mostly about fear. The idea goes like this: long ago, our ancestors knew very little, and thus were very afraid of many things in the natural world, and so they turned to religious ideas as a way to combat that fear.
[UPDATE: Please [...]
