A friend in her early 20s is agonising because she's under a great deal of pressure from her mother and (mostly) her mother's partner to move out of home. While I empathise with her feelings, especially with her feelings of being unwanted and forced to leave her home, part of me wants to tell her 'the world is not a secure place, and you need to ( Read more... )

This speaks with great depth to me, and how I feel about The Big Questions. No religion could ever give me the sense of amazement, wonder, and humble marvelling at the beauty and overwhelming, thrilling, fantastic complexity of the Universe we exist in.

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I look at religion, and I see out-dated, inflexible rules for living, dogma to be manipulated ( Read more... )