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Archived Entries posted Sunday, August 3, 2003 » Tom at Plasticbag writes: At one stage while I was at University, I went through a bit of a phase of reading other people?s books on why they didn?t believe in ?god? either. These books were routinely extremely boring, because fundamentally the intellectual labour involved in making a highly convincing ?anti-god? case is so fundamentally trivial that it feels out of place in the mouths and books of scholars. Or at least that?s how it feels to me. Bertrand Russell?s Why I am not a Christian was one of those books. I read it to see if I could find a new way to translate the obviousness of atheism to the people I routinely found myself in argument with. But fundamentally, it was the same as everything else. Obvious. Self-explanatory. Tedious. Repetitive. I still, to this day, don?t understand why religious people just don?t seem to get it.
Austen on War Simply perfect: It is a myth universally accepted that a people suffering under a single despot in possession of a good moustache must be in want of invasion.
Favorite Chrisonom-icon  I now have an icon that will appear in several browsers when you bookmark the site, thanks to Jonno, who is now fully, happily returned to the blogsphere. He created two icons I can choose between, shown to your left. He's cool like dat.
Placate Channel Surfing Tendencies I've been cavorting aimlessly through the WWW this morning, following link after link, pausing along the way to take in a bit of content here, a picture there. It bothers me that most people surf the web like this. There's just too much information to take in, so we become accustomed to taking a taste of everything like channel surfing. There's a lot of stuff to mention in the blogging community, lately. For instance, Nikolai's annual Bloggies are fast underway (vote for your favorite blogs using the link above). New people are jumping on the blogging bandwagon every day, including my friend Dianna and a few of Chris' friends. Jonno is posting about Marmite once again. The number of websurfers and webloggers are ever-increasing. Could it be that in the wake of terrorism, war, recession, and Marmite, people are retreating to their homes and looking to the web to satisfy their need for connection?
Visuals for SF Adventures I can't believe it's almost been three months since I visited San Francisco. Everything is still so clear in my mind: the Labrynth-like maze of buildings; the damp smell of the city after rain; the boys; the wind (as you will notice in the pictures). Jessie took that damn camera everywhere we went. After a while, it melted into his hands and taking pictures became as innate as breathing.
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