The Blind Leading The Blind

Nameless despair is man’s only reward for living and toiling under the temporal sun of mortal existence. Am I right?

Top 5 Reasons Why You And The Dude Should Read The Urantia Book

So dude— how’re those New Year’s Resolutions working out for you. . . Still weigh the same? (Me too.) Still self-medicating too much? (Yeah.) Still not exercising (bowling is not exercise) every day? (Me either.) Maybe you should just read a great book instead. A real l l l l ly great book.

Cosmological Questions For Lunch.

Day 24,510 On This Planet But first: Remember:  On average, stars are no closer together than say, a dozen oranges would be at maximum equidistance from each other inside the volume of the sphere of the earth. Please answer, if you can: Where and or how did time and space originate? Who (or what) created the universe(s)? What is reality? What is life, and how …

The Certainty Of Religious Faith

In this time of relative scientific enlightenment, many evolutionary religions are struggling; but religious faith is just fine, thanks.   LIKE MANY RELIGIONS, Pastafarianism is a parody religion, only intentionally so.  As such, it uses satire to provoke debate over various religious creeds and doctrines of other religions, as a way of pointing out the “absurdity” and lack of “sustaining …

Let The light In

On a billion screens like yours, a billion people are watching the technology of search transforming millions of isolated books into the Library of All Human Knowledge. The old saw has been turned on its axis: a lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Reality Bites

More galaxies than grains of sand on every beach of this world. Taken with the Hubble Deep Field, January 15, 1996 Since it’s a lovely morning, why don’t we take stock of a few things that most of us take for granted. Let’s start with some practical aspects of “reality.”  Here we are— billions of us— whizzing through time and …

The Real Audacity of Hope

Andy: “. . .That’s the beauty of music; they can’t get that from you. Haven’t you ever felt that way about music? Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it, though. Didn’t make much sense in here. Andy: Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don’t forget. Red: Forget? …