A day in the mind
I'm still getting over the fairly hard-hitting cold that knocked me out last week. First time I'd been sick since November, and I'm fortunate enough to be able to throw low-stress rest at it, but I'm still taking a few hours extra sleep each day and a good sit-down after exertion.
I'm wrestling with ideas, sometimes. Other times I'm haphazardly herding them together to see what agglomerates. As an example, today's journey included comfy cardigan patterns, NZ police dumb or wraparound smart in contaminating Megaupload case?, gender construction in imagined societies, communal child-raising, kibbutzim, Westermarck effect, marae, Centrepoint, natalism, providentialism, Quiverfull, Quiverfull recovery, legal models for multi-party (including more than two parties) marriages, PZ Myers, Blake's Law, ACA, Facebook defriend limits and whether mine include people who whine about the ACA, Ann Druyan, Cosmos follow-up due 2013, Guild Wars 2, back to Quiverfull authoritarianism as a subset of D/s alongside (but separate from) religious orders... who on earth can I talk this idea out with?
There will, I think, be something crystallising about a kinder, gentler atheism: one with space for cultural stories and group ritual. My (selective) evo-devo kick has me thinking a lot about understanding what it means to be a mammal-primate-human, and using that understanding when choosing and channelling how we live as animals as well as as consciousnesses.
Yon mid-life reassessment proceeds apace. ;)
I'm wrestling with ideas, sometimes. Other times I'm haphazardly herding them together to see what agglomerates. As an example, today's journey included comfy cardigan patterns, NZ police dumb or wraparound smart in contaminating Megaupload case?, gender construction in imagined societies, communal child-raising, kibbutzim, Westermarck effect, marae, Centrepoint, natalism, providentialism, Quiverfull, Quiverfull recovery, legal models for multi-party (including more than two parties) marriages, PZ Myers, Blake's Law, ACA, Facebook defriend limits and whether mine include people who whine about the ACA, Ann Druyan, Cosmos follow-up due 2013, Guild Wars 2, back to Quiverfull authoritarianism as a subset of D/s alongside (but separate from) religious orders... who on earth can I talk this idea out with?
There will, I think, be something crystallising about a kinder, gentler atheism: one with space for cultural stories and group ritual. My (selective) evo-devo kick has me thinking a lot about understanding what it means to be a mammal-primate-human, and using that understanding when choosing and channelling how we live as animals as well as as consciousnesses.
Yon mid-life reassessment proceeds apace. ;)