In Bad Faith, Part 5: What’s Missing?
[caption id="attachment_3885" align="alignnone" width="590" caption="Abandoned Christian Science Building 3 by Maxwell GS"][/caption]Dawkins wrote in The God Delusion that all experiences of "Faith" are delusions, that there is no god out there "talking" to you. He wrote that anyone with an ounce of intelligence recognizes that there is no "man behind the curtain," and that the stories in the Bible, for example, should have been given up when we gave up on our belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. It all seems very logical. But something is missing here. Conversely, I love that, for the fundamental or conservative Christian, ...
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Some of my thinking lately has reminded me of this article that I wrote in the late 1980s about rediscovering the power and need to be emotionally alive. This article was part of a column that I wrote called "The Editor's Wild Hair" for a little print newsletter that I inflicted upon friends and family called, "Air, Dirt & Ink." [Sigh], the good ol' days. Journal Classic: Following the Logic of Feelings Heart, why are you pounding like a hammer? Heart, why are you beating like a drum? Heart, why do you make such a commotion when I'm waiting for my baby to come? Oh heart, ...
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In Bad Faith, Part 4: The Evil Media
A few months ago I saw this comment on my Twitter feed: "RT @vavroom: Sometimes, small minded Christianity really saddens me. (via @kubke @snowded @annemcx @euan )" - Christine Morris (@CMoz). And attached was a link to a story from the Telegraph in the UK about how a film about Charles Darwin was having difficulty finding a distributor in the US because the film's subject, Evolution, is too controversial. The Telegraph story was written in September (2009) when the film opened at the Toronto Film Festival. What the story failed to mention was that this was one of those ...
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In Bad Faith, Part 5: What’s Missing?
Abandoned Christian Science Building 3 by Maxwell GSDawkins wrote in The God Delusion that all experiences of “Faith” are delusions, that there is no god out there “talking” to you. He wrote that anyone with an ounce of intelligence recognizes that there is no “man behind the curtain,” and that the stories in the... [Read more of this review]
Following the Logic of Feelings
Some of my thinking lately has reminded me of this article that I wrote in the late 1980s about rediscovering the power and need to be emotionally alive. This article was part of a column that I wrote called “The Editor’s Wild Hair” for a little print newsletter that I inflicted upon friends and family called, “Air, Dirt &... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 4: The Evil Media
A few months ago I saw this comment on my Twitter feed: “RT @vavroom: Sometimes, small minded Christianity really saddens me. (via @kubke @snowded @annemcx @euan )” – Christine Morris (@CMoz). And attached was a link to a story from the Telegraph in the UK about how a film about Charles Darwin was having difficulty finding a distributor... [Read more of this review]
Moving Media Around the House
By definition, this is a “first world” problem. In the news gap between CES and the Apple event next week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I might manage my media collections between all of my computers. The buzz around the Boxee box and anticipating the need to have most of my working data in the cloud so that I can access it regardless... [Read more of this review]
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Just saw “Up in the Air,” and don’t know if I should be depressed or not. Ryan Bingham, played by George Clooney, is the quintessential road-warrior, who spends over 300-days a year business traveling and he loves it. He’s a firing expert who works for a firm that gets called in when it’s time for lay-offs. The job isn’t... [Read more of this review]
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