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By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:50:23 +0000

To proclaim yourself an aetheist in this day and age is very brave. I have a couple of aetheist friends who are teaching me the art of unbelieving…

Bless you!

By: ian

ian — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:15:38 +0000

Jesus saved my soul….ONLINE

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:20:17 +0000

Thank you for CRON-o-meter! It is a beautiful design and a comprehensive database. I never would have paid for it but since it is free my nutrition benefits! Thank you so much. Happy Thanksgiving.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:17:12 +0000

Don’t realy believe in the whole god thing either… I used to, but was just blindly following it due to being in a catholic school.
Now I read and educated myself, I don’t see how there could possibly be a god, everything is pointing against the idea. Can’t wait to read dawkings book!

By: Eddy

Eddy — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:15:13 +0000

John Wise… this is via. via a hello fron Eddy

By: d

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:58:21 +0000

“In fact, it is extremely unlikely that [the flying spaghetti monster] exists.”

You blaspheming bastrad! You are going to wallow in the festering noodle bin for all time! Repent, you rotten smelly slime mold.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:40:10 +0000

Amen, brother.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:28:23 +0000

Well since everybody is sharing…

Sometimes it just seems TO ME like everyone’s got these identities and ideas about all that esoteric biznaz, that apparently make us all so individual and has a profound effect on our individual conscious experience, yet, for all practical purposes our systems of understanding do nothing to transcend us from our very regular human nature, i.e. finding some food to eat, getting out of bed and doing something.

I identify as a ___________: I have no fucking clue what the fuck is going on, and having a solid idea of what is going on would make no apparent difference to MY life. Gawd or no gawd (in the most ambiguous sense), I still gotta wipe my own ass, everyday and forever.

Thanks,

By: bill

bill — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:12:00 +0000

Heya John!

Nice to run into you on Aaron’s blog. We should get together here more often, trade news, yak a bit, crack jokes ….

By: John Wise

John Wise — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:38:36 +0000

Hi Aaron! Checked out Bill’s site,and voila,there you were. I’m not an atheist,but I was a long time ago. I guess now I’m an agnostic with certain memories. The memories are of the most powerful experiences of my life,most of them lastin g only a few moments,in which my perspective was radically altered,and in which terms like reality,truth,and meaning became intensely personal. What I experienced was “realer” than “normal” in all the ways that I judge what “real” is. I can’t adequately describe these experiences,nor do I expect or want anyone to take my word for their legitimacy,but they are in the deepest parts of my self and connect me to something more.

On the subject of Richard Dawkins,a friend loaned me his book “The Ancestor’s Tale” which is kind of a trip back in time,starting with humans,on a pilgramage to the “first species”. It’s full of fascinating accounts of the adaptations of different organisms,with lots of cross connections and clever observations. He does stumble badly at one point in a chapter called “The Peacock’s Tale” in which he is trying to explain why humans are hairless and bipedal. It seems that at mating time the peacocks perform their mating display for the peahens,and,all else being equal,the peahen always picks the male with the most splendid tail. There is no discernable genetic advantage to mating with a splendid tailed peacock. Dawkins suggests that this is just a case of “whim”. Similarly,though many theories as to why humans became hairless and bipedal have been offered,none really hold up to scrutiny. He suggests that,like the peahen,one of the human genders simply had an aesthetic preference for hairless and or bipedal mates. Hmmm. I don’t think you can be a rational materialistic atheist evolutionist and posit “whim” as a motive or mechanism in the evolutionary process. Whim,aesthetics,etc. are part of the irrational,the mysterious,i.e.the spiritual.
For me the air went out of his balloon at that point.