That’s a Lot of Hate You’re Walking Around With
Can’t be good for one’s mental health.
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Life After Death, The Christian Heaven (and Hell), Etc.
FWIW, I have never mentioned this subject to either of my two kids.
I figured a) my integrity forbids my teaching them something I don’t believe, and b) they’ll have ample access to religious indoctrination through friends and school, and can deal with the topic as they wish.
Why All the Aggression, America?
Here’s another example of how aggressively meat-eaters deal with vegans. Is this really necessary?
Deer-hunters who eat what they kill and thin a herd that would ultimately starve to death are 100% fine with any sane person, regardless of their dietary habits.
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Why So Combative, America?
Needless to say, our society is divided on many issues, and a lot of this makes sense. For instance, Trump supporters are not likely to support socialized medicine and free college tuition. I get that.
But now we have meat-eaters who bear a seething hatred of vegans, and nuts like the one whose truck is pictured here. Why does he feel that EVs are “electric shit?”
Craving a Personal Peace?
FWIW, I don’t feel this way at all.
With Trumpism on the rise, we live in a time of great peril, not only for the United States, but for the entire planet. If this goes the wrong way, we have world fascism and a baking planet.
I doubt there were many people who felt this way during World War II, when the future of our whole civilization was at stake. The same is the case here and now.
Are We Experiencing the Worst Group of World Leaders in Human History?
The answer to the question above really could be yes. World fascism/authoritarianism is a real possibility.
Some might say that if it can happen in the United States, it can happen anywhere.
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Our Earth Is an Insignificant Dot in Space
The caption: The Earth and Moon as seen by the Cassini probe from Saturn’s orbit. All of humanity in one small dot in space.
A reminder of what Carl Sagan said about a photo of Earth from space he called the “pale blue dot,” which begins:
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
It continues here.
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Trump and God’s Will
My thanks to the reader who suggested this to me:
Is it possible that God’s will actually is being done?
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Trump Supporters Won’t Budge
That a president tried to overthrow the government is not particularly surprising. Those in power have a natural inclination to remain in power, and this type of activity happens constantly in countries all around the globe.
What’s amazing is that tens of millions of American voters either dispute the clear and compelling evidence that this actually took place, or simply don’t care. Our democracy is teetering on the edge not because a criminal conman happened to come along, but because of a nation jam-packed with hateful idiots.
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Religion and Science
Good advice to religious leaders: Don’t promote the mutual exclusivity of faith and reason.
Go back to the good old days where religion and science were compatible. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz were collectively known as the “rationalists.” Good times!
Do you really want to say that God sometimes says irrational things? Bad idea!
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