October 2005
The Archives
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addiction, civ, games, recovery
Nursing my addiction
10.29.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsA new version of Civilization came out this week, so I may disappear for a while. Fortunately, there is help.
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Muhammed depicted; death threats ensue
10.29.05 | Permalink | 4 CommentsA Danish newspaper is receiving death threats for publishing a series of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammed. Local Muslim groups are demanding an apology for the toons. The paper has hired security guards for the first time in response. Sigh. One Plastic poster put it this way: In any other religion it is possible […]
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america, davidson-loehr, facism, liberals, recycling, strategy, tactics, trash, victims, vision
Washing liberal trash
10.25.05 | Permalink | 13 CommentsPhilocrites’ recent post on the possibility of impending US fascism has got me thinking. Are we headed down that road? Are the Bush Administration’s recent (and coming) stumbles a dead end for that development? Perhaps so on both accounts. But I don’t think we can stop the rise of “political fundamentalism” just by winning the […]
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Contra theism
10.22.05 | Permalink | 7 CommentsSupposing that the-one-god does "exist," does he have a position on his existence? Is the fact of his existence important to him? Does he insist upon it? What sort of a character is this? What would we think of him if—having deprived himself of the appearance of all divine qualities so that we thought him […]
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Anybody for un-theism?
10.22.05 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI’m tired of atheism. It’s just too damn snotty. Take a recent column by Sam Harris over at Huffington Post, snottily entitled "There is No God (And You Know It)." He writes: Only the atheist recognizes the boundless narcissism and self-deceit of the saved… There is another possibility, of course, and it is both the […]
