My recent physics class involved a book written by a very preachy author. I have come to the conclusion that text books should be written by multiple authors to avoid this sort of problem. Conceptual Physics, 11th Edition, by Paul G. Hewitt is filled with his advice about non-physics related things like politics and biology, which he makes clear ( Read more... )

Ganga

You scored 19 intellect, 2 prosperity, 6 sexuality, and 27 goodness!
Ganga's outstanding quality is that she is good. She is a river goddess - the goddess personified by the largest river in India, in fact. When the people of the world were left without water (long story why) she agreed to fall to earth as a ( Read more... )

Part of this was cross-posted to the Wobblies community, because someone was mentioning recruiting red-staters to become liberal, kind of in the fashion that Evangelists recruit people successfully. So I shared my story about some people I find particularly vulnerable. I remember this one guy I talked to on IM had an ex-girlfriend who had a weird ( Read more... )

I'm slee-py. My calico kitty is sleeping on my couch with her white belly-fur up, and she makes these part-snoring grunting sounds when she sleeps. It's so cute ( Read more... )

I love to post my messages and emails to other people, because most of my writing talent comes out in my letters. Just kidding. I hope. Anyway, as an OKCupid freak, I take a lot of tests, and I am especially attracted to the ones with spiritual or political content. So it turns out that the questions on the test seem to assume that you believe in a ( Read more... )

“So you think you can tell…heaven from hell, blue skies from pain.”
Those words have spoken to me for some reason. And I’m not interpreting them the same way that some people might. I connect them with my life, and think, there are so many people who do think they can tell, think they’re better than others, who are so self-righteous about things. I ( Read more... )

A veritable blend of all the pantheons and perhaps a dash of a few other religions as well, you're the versitile Ecclectic Pagan. You have no problem wearing an ankh while setting an offering to Herne on your alter just below your image of Hera. You don't believe in coloring within the lines, and are a bright free-thinker. While you respect the ( Read more... )