tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61600882012-02-16T22:31:21.377-05:00Dealing with the Harsh Reality that you might just be a bag of chemicals with delusions of consciousness.Attilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03916671156204823263noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160088.post-91504995681514952232009-11-25T23:04:00.002-05:002009-11-25T23:13:45.373-05:00

One solution of how to say grace around the Thanksgiving table.It comes full circle. First on this blog then made as a YouTube video now embedded here.

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So thanks now to Teh Professor we find out they that the "museum" security must have been photographing our cars. And according to Ken Ham we need to be prayed for because:Actually, I believe some of these messages really do reflect what the devil offered Adam and Eve in Genesis 3, “you shall become as gods . . . .”So Mr. Liar for Jesus, did you photograph all the license plates that had any

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So for the basics met this gentlemen Keith at the Creation "Museum" and one of the conversations was on Intelligent Design. He agreed it was a bad idea. Although for different reasons that me. While we can have completely different ideas on the development of life on Earth at least we can agree that Intelligent Design arguments suck.

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Attending the creozerg at the Creation "Museum", one of the first things that happend is I ended up in a conversation with a couple. I am there in a jacket with my Skeptic pin and my Out Campaign T-shirt. I was photographed in front of the green screen. Normally attendees at the "museum" get some dinosaurs added behind them, for a nominal fee. Somehow it was more ironic to just leave it green. So

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On Friday I attended the Creation "Museum" along with about 285 other Atheists and Agnostics from the Zerg that PZ Myers created by posting his planned visit on his blog, Pharyngula. It was suggested the we take as much photos and video as we could of the place. I picked up a Flip video camera and this was its maiden voyage. Talk to the right people about the Tricerotops, and the above clip just

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I was sitting in a mall food court of all places a couple days ago and this thinking is there a proper grace for atheists to say over a meal. This is what came to me:We give thanks to the sun and the ashes of stars. The sunlight for growing the food the nourishes us or that fed the animals that nourished us. The ashes of stars that provided the matter of the solar system and ultimately us. In

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The forces of evil are all around me even at work. In this case it is what could be laughably called the company health fair. This is what happens when you have a crediphile who is a pilates instructor and a believer in too much new age B.S. help organize. And it clearly shows how much critical thinking skills the HR department has.OK, so what exactly happened. First the good, you get some

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Some time back I heard 2 coworkers talking about how to talk about death to young children. And it just put the fingernails on a blackboard sound in my head. From the bits of the conversation I heard, it sounds like someone’s Grandmother had just died and her 4 year old asks. "Well Jesus rose from the dead, when will my grandmother."Gee, a fairly young child expecting internal consistency from

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Took the day off work today. Took it as a religious holiday. So what kind of religious holiday can an atheist take? The Winter Solstice, for while no one can necessarily agree on what the truth is. We cannot argue where the Earth is around the Sun. The nice thing about making your own holiday is you can choose how to celebrate it. I used it to let go. I have spent a long time grieving over

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I am back in the US. I was at work today and all I could hear was everyone who went to vote this morning telling me. "Man, I went to the polls early to avoid the long lines, and still had a 2 hour wait." I couldn't help but gloat and say, "I voted absentee." So far I have not been hit, but the day is not over yet. There is something good to be said about the long lines though. For the longest

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Well, for me anyway. I will be flying back from Hungary on election day. So I have just finished punching my absentee ballot. Yes, I said punching and yes there were instructions not to leave any hanging chads. I didn't. I will say this was a good experience. I had a chance to sit down with the absentee booklet, and just sit in front of Google, and look up all the more obscure candidates.

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Or: Open Mouth Insert Opponent's Message Here Or: Computer Literacy for World Leaders If you followed the Vice Presidential Debate last night you might have heard Dick Cheney defend his record at Haliburton by referring people to factcheck.com, pity the actual site is www.factcheck.org . What is factcheck.com? Well for a little bit it was one of those annoying advertising sites that

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Well, it seems the politics were fairly quiet yesterday. Everyone took 9/11 to be a respectful time. Although for the people who didn't know, yesterday was Patriot Day. Today, however is not Patriot Day so now we can be free to make some comments about it. In what seemed a a good idea at the time by a joint resolution of Congress and the President's signature on 9/4/2003. We have another

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There have been harsher realities we as a world we have had to deal with then September 11, but today it is hard to think of them as we remember. What I want to remember is what you might call the beauty of 9/11. Of course you are all saying, what beauty? The beauty is in what happened in the rest of the world on that day. The set of spontaneous memorials that happened all around the world. On

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How much do you want to bet she's voting for Bush. Wait just a minute now, doesn't that imply that prayer doesn't work. I mean you have an all powerful god that answers prayers, but you are still going to vote. I mean isn't that just a bit presumptuous. You also have all the religious people that will tell you sometimes god's answer is no. Hey, maybe the answer is no or maybe it just doesn't

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I recently attended The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas. While attending Penn and Teller's Vegas show. Penn Gillette pointed out a very good point Vegas is actually built on bad math. Where else would you consider a 98% payout a good thing. The harsh reality is that Vegas might be a little more interesting if it was based on a little more sin. I spent the off time from the conventions roaming

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I have bad news. You have a terminal illness. It is called life, and it is 100 percent fatal. You will tell me you already knew this, but you choose not to think about it or dwell on it too much. Then I have some worse news for you. There is no afterlife. That nice white light at the end of the tunnel people with near death experiences talk about--random firings in a brain partially deprived of

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