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Creation
Creation always involves violence. Conception of life or an artifact may start in a moment of quiet tenderness, but gestational changes wreak havoc. Whether you enter the world via the birth canal or are surgically removed by cesarean life begins in the throes of pain. There is always blood, sweat and tears. Stars are born and they die in massive ( Read more... ) -
Lessons
Sometimes the hardest lessons I've learned end up being the most obvious. It's taken nearly half a century to figure out that my beliefs are really nothing more than the opinions I'm most attached to. These are the ideas that are so entwined with my sense of identity and reality that I fear examining them. If someone dares a differing opinion it ( Read more... ) -
My Three Companions: Death, Uncertainty and Curiosity
Throughout my life I’ve been joined by two traveling companions - Death and Uncertainty. It might have been a bleak situation and, indeed it has been at times, if it weren’t for that strange little fellow named Curiosity that we met along the way. Curiosity has an infectious way of sharing his awe over this bizarre experience called life. He likes ( Read more... ) -
The Rhetorical War on Critical Thinking
Congress is waging a rhetorical war on the people they are sworn to serve. Their principal tactic is propaganda laced with distorted truth and sometimes lies argued from outrage. The success of this war depends on whether or not Americans start using our natural capacity for critical thinking, to wit checking out the facts before we cast our ( Read more... ) -
Al-Anon: Atheism and the 3rd Step
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
~from the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
I’ve been told by some well meaning and some not so well meaning people over the years that my atheism is a distraction to other group members who are serious about their recovery, the implication being ( Read more... ) -
Roots of An Eating Disorder
I used to believe that eating disorders was a female psychological problem. But, that is incorrect. Men can have them too and I most certainly do. My attitude toward my body and my relationship with food has put me up and down the scale. Just over a year ago I tipped the scales at 265 pounds. This morning I weigh 190. Just over a week ago I was 184 ( Read more... ) -
Fitness Week
This is fitness week. I have become concerned over my relationship with eating, food and health. This will be deeply personal at times as I use myself as the subject for these explorations. Let’s see if we can find a better way to live.
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Writer's Block: Pros and Cons
The real challenge in respect to technology is that its advancement often outpaces our ability to ethically cope with it. It only betters or worsens things in the world to the extent that we struggle with the ethical questions that it presents us. Technology can save lives, but we can often use that technology to kill or destroy lives too. ( Read more... )
