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“Take the risk of thinking for yourself; much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.” —Christopher Hitchens

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  • I don’t miss God — so what?

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    It’s been well over two years since I made any attempt at prayer or tried to “experience” God. And I don’t miss him one bit. I don’t feel any loss in my life. No hollow feeling inside. No sense of loss or loneliness. No fear and loathing. What does this mean? I believe it can only mean one of… 

  • Bible interpretation

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    I saw this comment recently on a forum: One of the things I have always found strange about the fundies is that they don’t follow all or even most of the actual teachings of the Bible. ie. generally they would rather join the NRA than “turn the other cheek” and don’t even think about “It is harder for… 

  • Life’s purpose

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    It is assumed by most religious and philosophical minded folks that there is a purpose to life, to the universe. But to me this is yet another of the Sacred Cows that needs to be tipped over. (I’m not talking about the purpose of an individual’s life, as defined by that individual — that’s another matter altogether and I still see… 

  • The human agency detector and destiny

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    Evolution has been good to humanity, having endowed with with gifts that make us unique among the fauna of Earth. But along with all the cool features, a few bugs have crept into the system. I want to discuss a couple of these. Humans evolved in an environment where it was far safer to assume that the rustling… 

  • Who am I?

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    Since my goal here is to remain anonymous, I won’t go into any biographical information. But I thought it might be interesting to reveal some of the life events that led me to start this blog. I have spent the better part of a half century locked into a fundamentalist Christian prison of my own making. Though, to be fair, I was…