Off the Mark

Sunday, 18 Nov
Norman, Richard. “Holy Communion.” Eurozine [First published in New Humanist 6/2007].
Discusses New Wave Atheism and how it is aggressively antagonistic to religion, which is the wrong way to proceed. I most certainly agree with this.
When recent books by Dawkins, Hitchens and others began coming out I was excited at first. It was good [...]

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[Disclaimer: I do not mean to offend anyone's personal views. My only aim here is to share a love of word play with others who may also appreciate it.]
Earlier this week I did the copy cataloging to enter this book into our library. I found the juxtaposition of the the title and the subject heading [...]

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Sunday, 15 April 2007
The first 3 items are from my Bloglines backlog and are all also from the wonderful 3 Quarks Daily.
Smith, Justin E. H. “Selected minor works: Where’s the philosophy?” 8 May 2006
This is absolutely brilliant and if I start quoting it I’ll just have to reproduce the whole thing. So just go read [...]

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You won’t often find me linking to internet video because I don’t watch much of it. But if it were all this funny—luckily it’s not—I’d get no work done at all.
This is some of the absolutely funniest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life. “Swear by mr.deity.”
To my friends who don’t appreciate religious humor, [...]

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I have been watching a couple movies during this break. Maybe I could be doing more productive things, but my mind also needs a break, time to do some leisurely processing in the background. So movies it is.
I have mentioned some of them already, but would like to flesh them out with wsome mini-reviews.
Friday, [...]

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The Solitary Monk
You are influenced 84% of the time by Spiritual callings and 46% of the time by Religous beliefs!

You have a firm understanding of the beliefs and workings of the universe. You also agree with some religous practices and traditions. You are often upset by the Occasional and tend to dislike the Religous [...]

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[Title courtesy of CSNY]
I had some wonderful discussions with my daughter today.  Issues she is having with her mother came up and, thus, we got into parenting.  Seems Mary (the ex) is sorry about some of the things we did or did not do as parents. 
With Sara graduating from college soon and entering "the [...]

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Hehehe.  Now I’m really cracking up!  I’m about to write a post about how "The Fall of Man" led to dinosaurs becoming carnivores but first I check my stats and what do I find?  Someone found a post of mine with a misspelling of ‘apple’ so I go to fix it and what is it [...]

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You fit in with:
HumanismYour ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife, and therefore, are committed to making the world [...]

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It looks like I struck out on a ‘definitive’ (pun intended) explication of ‘confessor.’
It seems that ‘confessor’ is used for both the one confessing, as in the normal use of the -or in English, and as the one, usually a priest, to whom confession is made.  I discovered this Sunday evening when I was replying [...]

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