Have decided that, once demolition is done, the new RE building is up, and we're back to regular discussion group stuff again, I'm going to start doing a once-a-month philosophy topic. And I might even put it into something resembling chronological order. Start with something about what metaphysics is, then go into the pre-Socratics, then the Big ( Read more... )

So here's what happened ( Read more... )

So what I'm noticing the most, as I do these Founding Fathers topic handouts, is how the relationship between religion and government has changed since then.

Today, we view religion with suspicion when it occupies the same sentence as government. Back then, religion was seen as supporting a free government by its very existence. Religion didn't ( Read more... )

Have discovered Google Docs. Am veryvery happy. I still don't have a Publisher-type online thingy, but I may have to make do. Especially as this Sunday's class will be a housekeeping meeting on what to do about meeting space once the Parish House gets razed--which means I get two weeks to play around with Google Docs and see if I can make ( Read more... )

My account on our computer is dead. Of about fourteen million viruses--one of which is masquerading as a virus shield and is preventing me from opening any program other than solitaire. We may wind up simply deleting my account, but for now I'm using hubby's ( Read more... )

I had one Ben Franklin article prepared. I had done Franklin twice over in my class, but both files are, naturally, missing.

Woulda been nice if I'd noticed this before today. *sigh*

Oh, well. Researching old Ben was still fun. Nothing cheers me up like the original American iconoclast.

My Religion and the Founding Fathers series started today! *dances*

Am looking forward to bombing such widespread UU-isms as "The Founding Fathers were mostly deists!" Not to mention the HUGE role certain Baptists (of all the folks UUs love to bash!) played in ensuring religious liberty ( Read more... )

The topic today was "Global Warming as a Religious Crisis." The last article was Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites. The class quickly proceeded to prove Mr. Pilmer correct, without even realizing it ( Read more... )

Am having an attack of insomnia. I went to bed about ten, read for about half an hour, and then when I turned off my lamp, my body decided that sleep was for wimps. So I stayed up playing mind-numbing online games hoping to dull my brain into sleep ( Read more... )

Holy hell! Not only have I completed both topic handouts, but I've also spun out two whole segments of my KotOR story ( Read more... )