So a week or so back, I saw on Tumblr a post about H.P. Lovecraft having been a racist, and an unusually vocal one for his time. I may have even reblogged it, I dunno.

I was thinking about that post again today, and remembering how it was calling for a boycott of Lovecraft’s works because of it.

Um… my basic thought to this is what would be the ( Read more... )

I admit, I’m a fan of a lot of things that other people consider odd, because I make my own decisions about things and I don’t take anyone’s thoughts on something at face value. My dad is the same way, at least in some regards. Among the books in his collection were things by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, a man whose hypotheses were once dismissed as ( Read more... )

Before I go on, let me just state (so you don't get bent out of shape) that while I am very scientific and rationalistic, I am not a fundamentalist materialist. I am spiritual as well as scientific. I reject Creationism, but not necessarily intelligent design. Like scientists are SUPPOSED to do, I keep an open mind. I'm kind of agnostic, and so I ( Read more... )