You go girl Wendy! ;0)
So this what things still like around these parts? Or did someone just have a very crappy monday morning…?
Great to see you pumping these out. xoxo O

Earth films from the space station? Sounds more like extra-terrestrial emigration to me. ;0)

Well where do we find this “serious writing” of which you speak. is it going to involve paper and bindings and a year long editing process then an annoying wait while my amazon pre-order gets filled?
Man, I don’t have that kind of time anymore.
Nor the attention span… ;0P

I think one question is whether Obama himself thinks he is acting in accordance with the law as it stands. And one indication would be whether he’d be happy with any other administration following the same OLC guidelines. The mad scramble to restrict the relevant interpretation of the law in case of an incoming Romney [...]

It is only when imminence is no longer imminence to anything other than itself that we can speak of a plan of imminence. -Obama’s gone all french philosopher nincompoop
thats the fuss…

Ha! Ok then, replace “deepak chopra” with “dreams of my father” in that sentence. ;0) Any nombrilistic self-fictionalization parading as elevated philosophy will do. Oops I did it again, didn’t I… ;0P Q?! Whats that man up to? He shows up in my twitter feed every now and then. He’s either developed some really sophisticated [...]

I read internal emigration as a turning away from the world, turning inward. I.e. Start reading Deepak Chopra instead of the Guardian. Deciding politics is “uninteresting” and using “spirituality” to spackle over any cracks in your conscience…

Haha! See now, I’m sitting in a train trying to get this commenting softw ;0)are to work on my android phone. so I type blind. Great to see you still churning em out Wendy!
How’s it hanging?
You still not been banned from this august company?

No no, on the contrary. I’m just trying to pay tribute in my own klutsy way to the overwhelming neuronal stimulus wendy’s post has produced in my otherwise severely understimulated brain. I’ve been swamped with work for months now, chasing money, fighting off creditors fighting to keep employees on the payroll, swamped in a way [...]

Ah Juliana,
Ask not what money can do for you but what you can do for money.
Or scratch that. we don’t want the laboring masses asking questions at all, do we?
;0)

Nah, research shows that the only solution to the current difficulties is to cut the deficit by privatizing entitlement programs, reducing the cost of labor, freeing Wall Street from the shackles of misguided socialist constraints so that the true spirit of h;0)uman enterprise can thrive in the form of casino capitalism. ;0)

Lovely collage of insanity and inanity, desi. You’re a master! ;0) I love how in a rundown of the great figures of Britain’s illustrious history they go with Mr. Bean, James Bond, and Voldemort. That country has really given up taking themselves remotely serious. Dunno if it’s a good thing, but it’s pretty endearing. By [...]

LOL. Not sure what you think my secret agenda is, Ludwig. But anyway, thanks for your first comment above about emotions not needing to be directed at *persons*. Useful.

When were the atheist crusades?

Stalin’s expansion of the Soviet Bloc?

Much like the crusades, an ideological figleaf for the goal of material gain.

believing in the planet as a live being implies giving it the status of Supernatural

No, that’s not what I meant. I consider my ficus a ‘live being’, but I don’t think that it has any supernatural essence. Supernaturality comes in when we ascribe agency to something, and when we have interpersonal attitudes to Mother Earth, [...]

DW, you said

belief unexamined … lends itself far too readily to a form of spiritual hubris, which, at its extreme is expressed in the phrase, often uttered when this nation attacked both Irak and Afghanistan, to wit: “Kill them all and let God sort them out.”

My problem with this worry – as directed at [...]

I’m not sure what you are stipulating Margaret. Dawkins’ God Delusion is a long argument that God is a bad theory of the world, and in particular, life as it exists. Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker is a direct argument against Creationism – the theory that God created life in its current form. I could link [...]

Interesting stuff on the difference between spirituality and religion, RaggMopp. Wendy Davis has raised that distinction before, and I’m not sure I get it. You say you have a love of Mother Earth, while eschewing ‘supernatural’ entities. But here’s my problem: You clearly don’t love the Earth *as* a big rock. You’re imbuing it with [...]

Fascinating stuff, Ohio Barbarian. Thanks for this. I really enjoy these stories about the early church and how Christian doctrine was tortured this way and that before we ended up with the odd-looking tenets that exist now and somehow seem to sit uneasily with scripture, as far as I can see.

Ludwig, interesting objection:

Was he afflicted with a personified resentment? Or rather, can’t we say now that Amerikkans have a resentment towards the delusion that was America, or crapitalism? Certainly, some root perpetrators should be identified, but as genocide prosecutors will tell you, the guilty are more numerous than can be tried. Anger likely serves some [...]