on Gods & Skepticism
Musings on Life and Deeper Meaning
My Beliefs In which I try, and fail, to talk about the things I believe.
Against a Fine Tuned Universe
I discuss my take on the anthropic principle, and the general ideas of why I do not think the universe was fine tuned for us.
The Dark at the Edge of the Campfire: a short prose ramble by Doug (23 Jun 2009). I talk about the way that light and dark strike up different ideas in us at different times, and ponder, basically, if we are amazed by the night-sky because it has so many lights...or so much darkness?
The "Just One Thing" paradox (30 Jul 2009). I attack the concept that we can fix "just one thing" and solve our problems. Things are part of systems. Also some musing about how this links backs to our religious mind.
Understanding luck as Brownian Motion in our lives (28 Jun 2010).
On Rituals and Symbols
The Peace Sign and Nero's Cross, aka What does it all really mean? (16 Sep 2009). Is the peace sign really an under-the-table worship of the Devil? All signs point to no (pun-intended!).
So, about the whole "Me and Christmas don't get along" thing (23 Dec 2009). I write about why I get so testy about Christmas, and how it's not just some Scrooge effect. Partly, sure, it was retail that did it to me. But it's also the sheer madness of the whole thing.
On the Bible and Related
It Is (Not) In the Bible
A collection of oddities
The Slippery Slope of Pascal's Wager
Where I point out some flaws.
Why do Christians hate Evolution?
Not that I can speak for anyone, mind you, but doesn't precisely stop me, now does it?
On Talking and Arguing About the Big Things
NAWF - Never Argue With a Fundamentalist, The history and reasoning behind the phrase (25 Dec 2009). I discuss why I came up with the phrase and why I still stick behindit. Why you should to. Though I'm not going to really argue the point. *rimshot* Seriously, though, it will save you time.
On why the URL says "Mythologies"
There are no doubt some who will, upon reading the URL of this page, assume I am being an asinine blasphemer. I promise I am not. While the chance that I believe exactly what you believe are fairly small, and while I do not quite subscribe to the "no funnies on it if it is sacred"; the URL name was chosen for brevity. This is not a page about "gods" nor a page about "God". It is not a page about skepticism. It is a page about all sorts of things: belief, religion, faith, hope. One person's world-view is another person's heresy. Mythology, which now is equated with "lie", is a powerful term: the ability of humans to describe the world around them in terms they can understand. I felt it just summed it all up the quickest.
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