I post this as a response to some of the wonderful imagery of the cosmos contained in Chowbok’s post on death: Beyond the planets — the blackness is not an empty void — but a sea of trillions and trillions of cosmic particles bouncing and playing their special dance across the expanse of time. Lit [...]

Dull as DEATH and cold as dirt on a winters day did the diggers dig the hole in the ground for the corpse – expired now; three days long. We came later, following the body. There was a light snow and a light sleet that only New Englanders can know and love. It was immutably [...]

A nice answer to a straight question about his belief in god(s)… ‘I’d rather be a rising ape than a fallen angel’ Watch the 8 minute video at guardian.co.uk

I find it odd that the atheist does not despise the science of evolution as much as the evangelical, because evolution, by its very essence, implies a beginning and also, perhaps, an end. This, I would think, should trouble the atheist. But I guess, like most cults or fads, atheism picks and chooses what it [...]

I heard a good radio interview today: Radio NZ’s Kathryn Ryan interviewing Rabbi David Rosen — a conversation which opened with the question whether the long running Israel/Palestine conflict is in any way a religious issue. In essence certainly not. It’s a territorial conflict … a conflict between two national liberation movements: The Jewish national [...]

Why do we suffer? Why do we have Pain? The answer is simple. No PAIN no EXISTENCE. From an evolutionary standpoint, without PAIN, how would we have made it out of the primordial ooze? PAIN is a double edged sword. PAIN is absolutely fundamental to our being – millions and millions of years of evolution [...]