Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Twits on Twitter twit it out. Clouthier points to it.
My thoughts:
Belief in nothing is belief in something: Yes, of course it is. This poor fellow who likens it to a non-sports fan being a sports fan, has missed the point. There is stuff. It is here. If you choose not to believe in a deity, you have to explain how all the stuff got here…unless, of course, you don’t. In which case you’re just being incurious, which pretty much renders your beliefs or lack thereof entirely irrelevant.
Founding fathers were (mostly) deist: I doubt it. I doubt it not because I have evidence they were not, but because I hear so much that “most” or “all” of them were, and when it comes time to make a list I hear the same small handful of names recycled over and over again. With lots of passion, and personal ego investment. These are red flags for me, when they arrive without too much hard data. Another thing — this was pre-Darwin, and the term “deist” had a far different meaning from what it has now. That’s a point that doesn’t get mentioned very much at all, and it really should, especially if you buy into the (not articulated outright) idea that all the gentlemen who signed the Declaration of Independence were deists.
“In order for someone to discover they must first be open to discovery.” Beautiful. Says it all. And you’ll never convince me otherwise.
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Have you ever come up with anything else that some people insist so fervently in fact does NOT exist?
Thought not. Because admitting that there really is Someone waiting to judge you in the next life would have some pretty profound implications. Implications that a lot of people would as soon not think about, lest it impair their “free choice” in this life.
- cylarz | 01/10/2009 @ 00:42