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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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Alex's essays: Chronic conditions

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011. At five in the afternoon last Tuesday, I was walking to the bathroom and I paused and rubbed my eyes with the heels of my hands and I realized that the reason why I had had trouble getting work done was not because I was lazy or just generally distractible but because I have bipolar disorder and an anxiety disorder and so I have bad mood days sometimes. June 14, 2011 at 6:27 PM. June 14, 2011 at 6:47 PM. I dig the Freud quote. June 14, 2011 at 8:36 PM. June 15, 2011 at 11:18 AM.

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Alex's essays: Bedtime for Regina

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. After that, she understood how those kitchen stairs worked and knew that the best hiding place around is under the kitchen cabinets, so I have to put up a baby gate to keep her out of the kitchen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Silly and contrived bits of folk theology. Pedicures and Black Eyes. OnePeterFive-Gaia Church: Love the Earth, Heaven Can Wait. I write when I feel like it. A handful of sand. The Sinister Red Sofa Is Watching You. No Rest for the Wiki'd.

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Alex's essays: July 2011

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Pennies in the parking lot. I hadn’t eaten lunch and it was five. I had some toaster-oven pizza, and then I took a shower, packed my things, and headed up toward Philadelphia, to visit my girlfriend. On my way, I was still hungry, so I stopped at Burger King to get a veggie burger. I played Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent. As I ate. My throat was sore from the stress, so I had some ice cream for dessert. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles). I went to Grilled Cheese and Co. I’m gonna be. And a...

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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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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 ...