A geek and a father tries to empty out the mess that is his brain. Watch your step - it’s messy in here…
I’ve tried to shy away from all the religious talk. All it manages to do is alienate anyone who believes anything other than what I believe. Considering that’s 99% of the world, it’s just counter-productive.
But I put a lot of thought into God and religion and right vs wrong and morality and perspective and social [...]
My mind is a mess. It’s nothing new.
But my son is practicing the piano.
The election is tomorrow. I can’t wait until it’s over. All this anger from so many sides. Anger that so often leads to blatant stupidity. I hear the bleating of millions of idiot sheep in my head, and it wants to drown [...]
It recently occurred to me that basic mathematics has an argument against some of the core religious teachings of today.Not math itself, but a very small part of math that a very small number of people seem to understand.
Infinity.
This is a specific concept in mathematics. It means “time without end” or “immeasurably or inconceivably great [...]
My sister-in-law is a lesbian.
My sister-in-law has curly brown hair.
My sister-in-law has a pretty smile.
These are all simple truths. There does not need to be any emotional-adjustment to any of the above. There is no “getting-used-to” any of this. It is a simple concept, really.
Actually, it can be much harder to get past the pretty [...]
A little while back, someone surprised me. Usually that’s a good thing. In this case, not so much.
We were outside, doing some late-night drinking with the neighbors, and I made some jovial comment about evolving from monkeys or some damn thing. One of my neighbors, a funny, intelligent, educated, successful man, got angry and irritated.
“Oh [...]
Worship scares me. At least what modern man has come to consider worship. If you change your perspective a little bit, it can be downright creepy.
I’m sure many people are already dismissing me at a deluded atheist, but that’s just not the case. I’m just trying to gain some insight by taking a new perspective. [...]
That title sounds like Obi-Want, doesn’t it?
“What I told you is true… from a certain point of view.”
But I believe that statement to be one of the wiser lines from that whole set of films. (Right below Padme’s “So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.” But that’s a whole different conversation.)
This is a [...]
I love movies.
Well – I used to love movies. Nowadays I generally like movies. I love the occasional movie. But most of them are the same drivel over and over again. I have irritated the snot out of my wife more than once by telling her how the entire movie is going to roll out [...]
This article has been included in Be Conscious Now’s Carnival of Truth #4.
A few weeks ago, I posted an older blog in a religious blog carnival. I received a couple of comments from another Tom at thinkingchristian.net. One of which said “Much of what he rejects about Christianity isn’t actually Christianity–I would reject it too!” [...]
I typed this earlier as a response to a friend’s blog about religion. But I realized if I left this buried as a comment, I might not get to offend as many people as I normally do when I get into religious discussions.
So, since I’m in a mood, and for the sake of pissing everyone [...]