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A Gift Universe: When you need a myth

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. When you need a myth. My pregnancy with Miriam was a pretty miserable time for me emotionally. I was overwhelmed, hormones made me depressed, and I felt completely out of control of what happened to me. I just don't know how to think about pregnancy. It seems unnatural, which is odd considering that nothing could be more natural. I keep thinking, if I had to explain pregnancy to an alien, they would think it was pretty weird. What, a new person grows inside your body. I began to s...

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A Gift Universe: October 2014

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Friday, October 31, 2014. 7qt - hymns, Halloween, new projects. The election is NEXT TUESDAY. Good golly. That means, of course, that every day from here to then is packed to the gills with work. John is taking off to man the polls; I hope he remembers to give me a chance to get down there and vote for him! For Halloween, the kids are going as Zak and Wheezie, from Dragon Tales. Two t-shirts from Goodwill: $4. Cardboard and tinfoil: already lying around the house. Construction paper: maybe a buck? Being ...

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A Gift Universe: Religion and morality

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Some people think morality comes from religion. What their religion tells them to do, that is what is moral. Others think religion can be proved from morality – conscience is innate, and its universal existence proves the existence of God. The first one for certain I don't believe. If my morals came from my religion, why do I periodically get morally offended by God's actions in the Bible? Shouldn't I instead base my view of morality on those actions? 8221; If you could throw all...

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A Gift Universe: The trouble is witness

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The trouble is witness. I keep thinking I should write fewer posts about religious stuff. I have lots of other things to share: my recipe for the best potato salad I've ever had, an explanation of discipline tactics that work, pictures of my garden if I ever take any. I write them in my head when I'm trying to sleep, and then the morning comes and it's chaos all over again and I just don't have time. Latin and gardening, people! That is not a combo you see every day! To go to M...

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A Gift Universe: 7 quick takes

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Friday, May 8, 2015. The kids are having a blast playing outside all the time. The boys often go in the back yard to play in the dirt pile and I don't hear from them for an hour at a time! Then I peek out and find that they have poured dirt in the chicken food or all the water out of the chicken waterer or have coated themselves in mud, and think, well, all quiet from children comes at a price! Did I show you this? It's the TARDIS I made for Michael's birthday.). Jupiter." "Is Venus the biggest? She's no...

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A Gift Universe: There is no such thing as religious freedom

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Thursday, April 23, 2015. There is no such thing as religious freedom. I will freely admit that my personal experiences make me less than objective when considering the question of the truth or falsity of the Catholic faith. But I also insist that those same experiences make me particularly knowledgeable about what religion actually is, how it functions. And I'm fascinated by it - how it works, how it fails to work, how it works excessively well at times. I say moral indoctrination. The only reason we th...

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A Gift Universe: Myth: fact or fiction?

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Sunday, May 3, 2015. Myth: fact or fiction? One of the things I've been thinking about a lot lately is whether there is room for a kind of belief that doesn't require evidence or certainty, but is still useful. But can it be right - can it even be possible - to say, the evidence is not in favor of a certain theorem, but I will hold it anyway? To me, saying "the evidence isn't in favor of x" is the same as saying "I don't think x is true"! But the other only as myth. Everyone I have ever known who believe...

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A Gift Universe: Meditation

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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Funny how some topics seem to follow you around. The past couple of weeks I keep hearing about meditation - specifically, a sort of secular/Buddhist variety. My first exposure to meditation was when I was maybe six years old on a long car trip with my family. My brother told me that when he got bored on car trips, he would meditate. I asked what that was, and he said, "Well, you just think of nothing.". You can't ever think of nothing," I said. By Dan Harris (no relation). And if ...

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A Gift Universe: April 2015

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The trouble is witness. I keep thinking I should write fewer posts about religious stuff. I have lots of other things to share: my recipe for the best potato salad I've ever had, an explanation of discipline tactics that work, pictures of my garden if I ever take any. I write them in my head when I'm trying to sleep, and then the morning comes and it's chaos all over again and I just don't have time. Latin and gardening, people! That is not a combo you see every day! To go to M...