It's not a terribly unknown secret that I consider religion - all religion, not just those tiny self-important corners which will automatically assume I'm talking about them - to be little more than a species-wide psychological flaw. I figure it's the same one that gives us celebrities and nationalism (and harder structures like the military), and ( Read more... )

So Sunday, princesskessie, megpie71, and I went to a local carol service which was put on by the local church, as they have done for many many years previously. I even have family involved in the whole thing, although I personally tend to keep religious institutions and their activities at arm's length because such places push my "the species still has a few bugs to be ( Read more... )

I picked up the three books a little while back but hadn't got around to reading them. Just in the last day or so, I zipped through the lot in one go. Impressions ( Read more... )

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Slept in for most of today, after last night's local carol/picnic thing with megpie71 and princess_kessie, which was almost rained out. I'm really starting to feel a bit iffy about this particular annual event, as it's directed and produced by the local church and the continual reinventions and reinterpretations of the inevitable nativity play get less ( Read more... )

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Well, the new posting format sucks. Fixed-width text entry box means all my writing is over on the left half of the screen, and the lines wrap every half-dozen words or so. Bah.

And so, megpie71, princess_kessie and I turned up at the carolling service on Sunday night. We managed to arrive at just the right time to get a nice location picked out, and bought plenty of ( Read more... )