Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Defining atheism

Link Factor 9, Mr. Sulu...

Evolving Thoughts ponders the evolution of the term "atheism", and explains why it defines a species wholly different from his own non-theistic type.

A while ago, my own similar journey culminated in my self-description as an Ignostic, which seems to me the best-defined (and easily explained) and most philosophically sound "on the fence" position for one to assume; i.e. there are arguably no strong, weak, positive or negative Ignostics.

This is in part the reason I abandoned my highly popular and world-renown blog, "The Agnostic Monk". I was afraid that, to the uneducated visitor, "The Ignostic Monk" might be taken to indicate the the author was a regular theologian with some kind of rare congenital disorder.


[edited to add: Jings, I've never seen that before. There an add for "Dianetics" in the post-posting page on blogger! Weirdness...]


[edite once more to add: Now it's gone. Bizarre. And another thing: I've been posting old comments of mine to the archives of this blog so that I can a) stop repeating myself, and b) remember my thoughts, which tend to roll around my head like marbles and are always threatening to fall out of my ears. I hoped that back-dating them would prevent them from spamming everybody's Google Readers and what not, but my Statcounter says otherwise, so sorry about that.

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Monday, June 15, 2009

"W H E N in the Courfe of human Events..."

The Revolution Will Be ...


From The Big Picture, www.boston.com

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