The following stream of consciousness narration is taken from the novel “Homo Faber” by Max Frisch. It takes place the night after the commercial airplane the protagonist was aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in the middle of the Tamaulipas desert because of engine failure.

"I’ve often wondered what people mean when they talk about an ( Read more... )

“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one [innocent child]… and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?”

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• Grab the nearest book.
  
• Open the book to page 56.
  
• Find the fifth sentence.
  
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions if you want to.
  
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

So, I got this buddy of mine named Vinnie. He’s good people, but He doesn’t like it when people question Him or His motives. Let’s just say it’s in Vinnie’s nature to get awfully angry when people aren’t on His good side.

Threats? Oh no, I’m not making any threats. I’m just letting you know that you ought not make my buddy Vinnie mad, cause you know ( Read more... )

We're in a revolution just over evolution.
The battle of ages is on.
Some scientists have claimed
We're human just by name,
That monkeys and men are the same.
But Darwin's theory doesn't sound good to me.
I might have monkey manners
But with him I can't agree.

You can't make a monkey of me.
You can't make a monkey of me.
There's not a monkey in my family ( Read more... )

One of my professors at school today wrote up a one-dimensional spectrum of religious belief from left to right on the blackboard that went:

• Theism: The belief in the existence of one or more divinities.
• Agnosticism: The suspension of belief concerning the existence or non-existence of divinities.
• Atheism: The belief in the non-existence of ( Read more... )

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"I don’t mind whether people masturbate with a chicken or whether they believe in God - as long as it’s not my chicken."
- Dr. Patricia Smith Churchland, May 29, 2008