Atheists should not be seen or heard 11 Mar 2009 According to this cartoon, hat tip to Tangled Up in Blue Guy : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CtVhVImBM&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Humor Religion
Cognition 50 words for snow 3: what are phenomena? 27 Sep 20171 Mar 2019 Series Conceptual confusion The economics of cultural categories What are phenomena? What counts as sociocultural? Species Constructing phenomena Explanations and phenomena If experienced observers are trained to observe natural phenomena in their environment, pace the “interference” of cultural accidents, what is it they observe? As I mentioned before, we are not… Read More
Religion On evolved morality 6 Jan 2008 Larry Arnhart has a post up on how Huck Finn’s moral quandary about turning in Jim, the escaped slave, as good religion said he should (at the time), when he has come to know and admire Jim as a man, displays the evolved nature of morality. I tend to agree… Read More
Humor Heather Graham – it’s true what they say about blondes (in Hollywood, anyway) 10 Jun 2009 My next ambition is to teach myself to levitate. So far I’ve only succeeded in my dreams. I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you’re meant to lift off the ground. It hasn’t happened yet. I’ll manage it one day. In fact, I’m aiming beyond levitation. I… Read More
Thanks for the link love, John. I had forgotten to properly attribute it to Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta. I think that the ads are properly representative of the views of strong agnostics, apatheists, weak agnostics, weak atheists and the like. Ottowa’s City Council voted to approve the ads on their transit system, and some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses.
Thanks for the link love, John. I had forgotten to properly attribute it to Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta. I think that the ads are properly representative of the views of strong agnostics, apatheists, weak agnostics, weak atheists and the like. Ottowa’s City Council voted to approve the ads on their transit system, and some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses.
[…]some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses. Now that is a kind of protest I can get behind, even if I disagree! Orders of magnitude better than the usual petulant whinning…
[…]some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses. Now that is a kind of protest I can get behind, even if I disagree! Orders of magnitude better than the usual petulant whinning…