“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss,…
Time for some fun with biblical interpretation! The Bible is a weird, psychedelic collection of books. Take, for example, Ezekiel Chapter 1, Verses 4-24. Is the author employing a parable or analogy to describe some event of great importance? Is he using the limited vocabulary of his time to describe an extraterrestrial spaceship landing in…
“I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.”~ Jules Renard “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”~ Thomas Paine Just because I don’t…
For years, adherents of Christian fundamentalism have insisted that “the gays” should not be allowed to marry, as it is clearly forbidden in the Bible. It is a great sin, they say. God has declared that homosexuality is wrong, and you shall surely burn in Hell. The passage most often cited to support this rhetoric…
Structure is what we dream of. We create governments, write laws, invent organized religions, arrange ourselves into neat little family units, and go about our lives assuming that everything is in order, just as we wish it to be. We are Homo sapiens, and we feel that our large brains and opposable thumbs set us…
Approximately 8 billion years from now, our great star will become a red giant, doubling in size, engulfing the Earth, and life as we know it will cease to exist. Of course, we don’t have to worry about that. In the next billion years, long before it burns out, our star will continue to grow…
Chaos challenges our need for control and order, but ancient philosophies and modern science suggest it’s integral to growth.
the chaos section 