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Or else, what?: Regarding that xkcd comic

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Or else, what? Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Regarding that xkcd comic. About finding answers when dealing with serious illness was posted on xkcd recently. One of my brothers was recently in the hospital for a while and I have been thinking about him. I like the comic. I like science because my job holds me in tension between concrete, observable facts, and the fact that scientific knowledge is always changing; what we know is reliable but we're always learning surprising new things. Pedicures and Black Eyes.

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The Sinister Red Sofa Is Watching You: March 2010

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The Sinister Red Sofa Is Watching You. Sunday, March 14, 2010. Live Free Or Pi. Today, March 14th, is Pi Day. For those who are unfamiliar with the tradition of Pi Day (about 84.324% of you, give or take), you celebrate the constant pi. Originates. Those people should be reminded, however, that Greece follows a little-endian date format in which they write March 14th as 14/3. So for it to be correct in Greece, Pi Day would have to be on the 3rd day of the 14th month. (Smarch? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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The Sinister Red Sofa Is Watching You: September 2009

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The Sinister Red Sofa Is Watching You. Wednesday, September 23, 2009. Derek Webb - Stockholm Syndrome. Movement of the past century has its great, bald spiritual leader. The Indian independence movement has Gandhi. The Church of Satan has Anton LeVay. Gen-X, alt-rock-loving perpetual grad students have Michael Stipe. Hit the stores earlier this month, and it's got many folks a-talking. Matthew was buzzing about it. He's much more of a Derekologist. Than I am. Tim recently put out this post. Shakers and G...

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Or else, what?: June 2007

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Or else, what? Friday, June 22, 2007. Fixing the Mac Trash Can UI. In Mac OSX, there is a trash can that lives on the dock. One of the neat things about Mac OS is how it emphasizes that everything goes from somewhere to somewhere - a file doesn't get deleted, it goes into the trash can, and you can pull it back out again, which I do sometimes, because I get overzealous and throw things away that I ought not. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Fixing the Mac Trash Can UI. I write when I feel ...

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Or else, what?: Link: The Process Of Leaving

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Or else, what? Friday, June 3, 2011. Link: The Process Of Leaving. Lauren, who recently found my blog and contacted me, is now writing at The Process Of Leaving. About her process in leaving the church. I think that readers of this blog may find her account interesting; she's describing how she feels as she has conversations with people that are important to her as she leaves. June 8, 2011 at 1:37 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Link: The Process Of Leaving. Pedicures and Black Eyes.

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Or else, what?: August 2007

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Or else, what? Thursday, August 16, 2007. He must really like hiking. We got our backpacks because some guy died. Dad bought a sailboat from the widow, and she threw in these ugly, uncomfortable, faded orange backpacks, mainly to get rid of them. Links to this post. Wednesday, August 15, 2007. Whenever I open a new package, maybe it's shoes or luggage, and I find a silica gel packet, I can help but think, "mmm, delicious.". Links to this post. Wednesday, August 8, 2007. Footprints poems for non-Christians.

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Or else, what?: On "Why Are Atheists So Angry?"

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Or else, what? Tuesday, March 15, 2011. On "Why Are Atheists So Angry? Rabbi David Wolpe wrote Why are Atheists so Angry. Atheists are angry because we are members of a cultural out-group. We're not in as bad of a situation as, say, racial minorities, in that we have the choice to keep our mouths shut. We're are an out-group, though. How many atheist characters do you see on TV? Atheists aren't necessarily stodgy, we just look for the unknown in things that can be studied, rather than beyond the material...

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The Sinister Red Sofa Is Watching You: May 2009

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The Sinister Red Sofa Is Watching You. Thursday, May 28, 2009. Religious school. For most people who grow up there, it invokes memories of being paddled in the buttocks by French-speaking nuns. But my family just couldn't afford those prestigious Catholic private schools. Or even the Lutheran ones. So how did we avoid the cistern of the public school system? That was unsurprisingly popular at my old stomping grounds. That one came before my time, but I do vividly remember the Second Coming Scare of 1994.

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Or else, what?: On "Life as a Leaver"

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Or else, what? Tuesday, February 8, 2011. On "Life as a Leaver". In Anna Scott's Life as a Leaver. Is ostensibly in response to The Leavers: Young Doubters Exit the Church. By Drew Dyck, but her article stands on its own. For its frankness and the all-too-rare "I don't know" from a thoughtful religionist:. And what does that say about God? Shouldn’t this be relevant to any discussion of disbelief? Moral compromise was not a factor in my departure from belief in God, and, if Dyck were to interview me, it ...

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Or else, what?: Response to bittersweet and brave

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Or else, what? Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Response to bittersweet and brave. The following is a comment on Matthew's brave and bittersweet. This is part of an ongoing conversation outlined here. Regarding secular hope. Here, I want to respond to a couple of points that Matthew raised in brave and bittersweet. I posed the question:. Which is the better source of hope: this world, small, and often backwards as it is, but certain, or transcendent meaning and eternal life, known by invisible evidence? Is, I ...