(I haven't done one of these flavor of entries in a while....)
I was having an interesting coffee discussion with two coworkers the other day who each reiterated something I've heard countless times from anti-religious folk -- a very negative view of faith, whether that be that it is foolish, stupid, or even evil ( Read more... )

Last week was crazy busy. I had started posting this, but it included another poll on your opinions that got far too long.

My last public entry did not really trigger much debate on this actual question. I think the science poll distracted everyone (except for jeltzzRather than trying to poll you on each and every possible topic one could teach to those ( Read more... )

I tried posting two text posts over the weekend, but neither came through then. I've fixed the problem, but they probably won't show up on your Friends Pages.

Also, I neglected to announce my 1000th post....I was at a retreat this weekend. More on that later, but as I am behind, I'll post some short entries inspired by an astronomy talk given ( Read more... )

I think you all know what I'm talking about -- that strange and more common than ever expected experience of seeing someone you know from another far away place or time at random places and sometime far a way places from each of you. For example, running into someone you know from another state than yours while stopping at a rest area in yet ( Read more... )

More about me since I've already broken my usual patterns[1, 2]I rarely had nightmares growing up. One of the exceptions was a recurring dream I had that consisted simply of a spot that kept getting smaller and smaller and smaller... until I could not take it anymore and I woke up. I think that my young brain simply could not handle the idea of ( Read more... )

I have nothing interesting of my own to say, but this article was cool....( Read more... )

One thing that forever changed my view on things epistemological actually occurred in elementary school when I was taking Geometry, long before I ever studied world views or philosophy. Geometry is said to be all about proofs, but geometry could not exist without its assumptions -- its postulates and definitions. A postulate is something proposed ( Read more... )