Regarding this video winding up on a Facebook Feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbEJom2HJEg&feature=youtu.be

Response:

Speaking as someone who writes opinion articles for a Canadian news site, while this video is edited and voiced over with a professional ( Read more... )

 From everything I've gathered from religious conservatives, Hell is not only going to be awesome but we'll have unbeatable social policy.

Heaven, on the other hand? That's not going to end well. Or ever.

 It's a shame that creationism and cosmology usually don't get along. For me, the Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis makes me reconsider the existence of a designer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_censorship_hypothesis

It even has an out - "Okay, fine, curious sapient creatures, you can look inside a black hole, but you can never come out again... ( Read more... )

In response to a thread about science horning in on religion

As someone who finds a sense of religious awe in *the discoveries made possible in the course of scientific research* (rather than in the scientific method itself - see my recent posts), and who has a relationship with gods of learning and discovery, I'm a bit perplexed as to what the ( Read more... )

 Someone broke into my car and made a giant mess. This was not a Moriartian feat as it's sitting on the driveway uninsured with the doors unlocked for when the battery goes dead.. They popped out panels (looking for drugs?) and spilled out the contents of the glove compartment.

I guess they found nothing they thought fencable. But they left an DC/ ( Read more... )

After we pitched the pilgrimage, I saw you. I felt you, this morning: electric. Mercurial. A god at my back.

I still wonder what you want. The cat seems to have some ideas.

It's hard to have a tete a tete with the divine when I feel that doing so is the antithesis of busy ( Read more... )

To take fiction and make it fact.

You know the kind of fiction we read, watch, hear or or act-out and wistfully, enviously, or hopefully wish were true?

", if only there were a safe, kind place like that."

"If only people really did put on masks and help people (rather than do violence to them)."

"If only there were tricksters that fought oppresion ( Read more... )

Review of The Taqwacores

The Taqwacores is a low-budget comedy-drama based on Michael Muhammed Knight's book of the same name. (not to be confused with "Taqwacore," the documentary)

The story is one year in the life of Yusef, a square medical (or veterinary?) student who moves in to a dilapidated all-Muslim house in Buffalo, New York, not ( Read more... )

Question 9: Rerdanging into your gender identity, do you ever wonder/fear/think you'll get to a point where you just want to say "Fuck it", discontinue (if even for a brief tme) anything you are doing to maintain your chosen gender appearance/biology, and just exist as you are (or have come to be)?

From conversations with another trans friend, this ( Read more... )