My grandfather taught me two great things:

A real man grows a beard out every year in the Fall/Winter”
Never argue with an idiot because they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

You can’t argue with a fool who believes the literal “End of the World” which will look ridiculously like the whole [...]

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This talk given by Krishnamurti is something I read often on Sunday mornings.  It’s as close as I’ll ever get to going to church.  This text was obtained from this site where you can read many of Krishnamurti’s works (and I highly recommend that you do). I’d recommend buying the book also.
The Function of [...]

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I have been kicking around how to respond to Infidel’s comments the other day in my post about how atheists are just as brain dead about God as theists are.
This is a really hard distinction to make–pointing out where the atheist is wrong because they are right about so much that it really seems like [...]

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I’m close to finshing Dawkins’s book The God Delusion and I haven’t come away with much more than I started with.  I’m already a believer in Natural Selection (which I knew has nothing to do with random chance as so many religious people ignorantly claim).  It just makes sense to me that over time, species [...]

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In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a paragraph and murdered religion.  Sure, it was a slow death but a death it was.  He wrote:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet [...]

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The reason behind terrorism in our world today lies embedded in the movie Fight Club.
Fight Club was a movie that had an enormous impact on me when it came out. It was revolutionary in a pre-9/11 era. It was the definition of terrorism as we knew it back –white faces wrapped in aviators [...]

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I finally became so fed up with the amount of junk lying around my house that last week, I arranged for a 15 cubic foot dumpster on SUV wheels to be delivered to my house. This past Saturday I hauled hundreds of pounds of useless junk up my basement stairs and threw it into [...]

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