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RT @evilray: Knob red? No wonder! Bonk!

March 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Though I am very happy that there is another Bad Religion album out.

March 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Hey @DoctorGraffin, what was the population of the Earth in 2010?

March 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

If pagan philosophy is introduced to Christian mythology and that strengthens its consistency doesn't that discount the mythology outright?

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

You could say "what I believe may not necessarily be true" but then you're contradicting someone who says "what you and I believe is true."

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Whatever your religion, freedom of religion is freedom to make false assertions as different religions make different assertions.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

But freedom of religion which is presumably an undeniable ethical freedom is freedom to make false assertions from a historical perspective.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

As an atheist, you're told in emphatic terms, 'this religion is right in its assertions...etc.' When the assertions prove to be false...

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Since people don't generally choose their culture.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Does that mean that there are a few with the lucidity to choose their religion while the rest blindly follow whatever they're brought up as?

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

You have on one hand, 'religion is a cultural phenomenon' and on the other, 'everyone should be free to choose their own religion.'

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Also, Milton's Christian Homeric epic, Aquinas's Christian Aristotlean arguments...dunno how any of this makes sense with either mythology.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Not to mention Dante's odd 'King Minos in hell' bit.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Augustine showed how much stronger Christianity can be when you marry it to the Greeks. Theologically a bit weird, but an undeniable result.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Narnia is just as Christian as everything else he wrote, but he had some classical mythology in his Christianity (also very traditional).

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I'm guessing that people like C.S. Lewis these days for Narnia, rather than the Screwtape Letters or his scifi. I could be wrong.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Who was it who listed 10 female authors and C.S. Lewis as their favourites? I thought that was funny.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

That's interesting...the weird patchwork you see when flying over Oregon is what mountains look like from above. I'd never realised that.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Any project seems so difficult as to not be worth attempting before it's begun, and so trivial it doesn't seem worth doing when completed.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Tired of the idea of a comfort zone. There's the 'existable' zone and the 'absurd unexistable' zone.

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I want to be so scared of change that change happens and my mind just snaps. Why compromise?

March 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Twitter reminds me of Paul's 'pray without ceasing'.

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I don't think they'd worked out what beauty was 'til the 1940s. At least, they had to rely on cultural perspectives rather than an absolute.

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Oh, turns out it's perfectly okay to end a sentence in a preposition. Hemingway did it.

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Lol, "it is impossible to cross a chasm in two small jumps...", I wonder what kind of uses that phrase has been put to.

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

RT @LynnBeighley: Roller coaster in the water after Hurricane Sandy... I need a high quality pic for cover of http://www.ohsandybook.com/ pls RT

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

In which 'Assassin Grrrl' passionately argues for a more principled approach from 'Moe Lester'. The Internet hasn't changed that much.

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Open source and free media groups must not be afraid to discover stars. Everyone-gets-a-go-ism is sweet and kind but can be harmful.

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

"In order to love your enemies you must first hate your friends." --Nietzsche, paraphrased

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Or rather, your wife will shoot you in the head when you overcome your natural cowardice and discover a new self-assurance.

March 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share