Today's Activities

[atomicpoet]

A couple of things of interest happened today. Very good things happened, in fact.

I attended BarCamp. Probably the most productive, interesting, and educational conference I went to this year. Basically, it was the big get together for hackers, coders, designers, marketers, and enthusiasts. There was no pre-ordained schedule, if you had a topic you

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[seymour_glass]

"It also made me think of religion, and how man people think the world would be better without it. However, as this film implied, maybe it's better to think about heaven than the other alternative: empty nothingness."

i would argue that it's neither here nor there...you can only know what exists in this very moment anyway...things either are or aren't...and things that may come to pass have an equally likely chance of not coming to pass...and even if a concept such as heaven exists who's to say that whatever we define of "ourselves" as being will be the same entity after the moment you perish...only time will tell, then again maybe it has nothing to tell...

[atomicpoet]

Well, whatever happens when we die, we don't have to be accurate about it. The point is, it's far better to have a little imagination about what happens in the afterlife than to have no imagination at all.

[seymour_glass]

i've never been a big fan of pascal's wager myself...but i'm not adverse to imagination about what may come after we perish...i think i'm more concerned for those who live their lives based upon what never may be...and impose those beliefs on those of us who just want to enjoy what we know to be, that is this moment...i personally think religion has caused far more problems than it has solved...but i'm fine with people believing if that's what makes them happy...as long as they don't try to make me live under those same parameters...

[tomato_greens]

That's really cool, actually! So what do you do that lets you go around and understand all this computer nonsense?

...By nonsense I mean that I think the internet is AWESOME in most respects, and I wish I were able to teach myself more than basic CSS and HTML so that I could contribute to that awesome. Programming is pretty awesome, too, but it is entirely beyond my reach.

[atomicpoet]

I'm a social strategist for Invoke, the company behind HootSuite. I'm not a coder, but I try to be an expert on how to use all the amazing technology being developed. I blog, beta test, do market research, customer service, and optimize content for search engines and social media. The closest I come to hacking is social engineering. Funny enough, my newfound presence on LiveJournal has partially to do with this.

[seymour_glass]

we should have some interesting discussions...you are nearly my antithesis...ha ha...

[atomicpoet]

How so?