Nothing to see, here. Have some links and move along.

[wolven7]

From 3QuarksDaily:

'Athiesm is the New Black': A search for a Warm-Blooded Agnosticism

'Getting Duped': Scientific American gets to the heart of two fallacies used by sensationalistic news media, to convince you of things which aren't true.

From NewScientist:

'Swarms of robots that use electromagnetic forces to cling together and assume different shapes are being developed by US researchers.'

Found Through Warren Ellis: Flight 404: all manner of distractions

From my Step-Mother:

'You plug in your industry, job, pay and experience into a calculator on the site to help you set your pay for an interview. (NotchUp recommends a range between $200 and $500.)'

Very pretty stuff, there...

Oingo Boingo - [Gratitude]--- Still having kind of a rough time of it. Motivation, motion, movement, and the understanding of motives hasn't really been working that well, for me. Trying to force the brain into an upright and locked position...

I should go check on the coffee. I set it for automatic brewing, last night, and it should be ready, by now. It may, however not have been using Clock notations for "hour" and "minute," and may have, instead, been using Time notations. This just occured to me, as the button is marked "delayed brewing." Hm...

Electric Hellfire Club - [Broken Goetia]--- Dreams were of large warehouse style stores, like Costco or Fry's. Time loops with X-Men. Graffiti with famous graffito artists (a Chinese Greyhound-And-Dragon painting/sculpture), and forgetting mettings with friends. Sorry.

I'll see you all later.

Comments

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

OMG, that NotchUp thing sounds so cool.

I really enjoyed the "Atheism Is the New Black" article. Here are some specific parts that resonated with me:

If you pray to Jesus when your world is falling apart, or blame Mercury being in retrograde when your car won’t start, you are part of the problem.

THANK YOU. It is NOT wrong or irrational to pray when you are afraid or confused. It doesn't make you a looney or a person without a firm grasp of logic. Logic tells me that if I'm losing my shit, I need to do something to make myself calm down. If that something isn't hurting anyone else and I don't vilify others for NOT doing it, please tell me exactly how the fact that I pray indicates that I am not sane or rational.

“In my interpersonal knowledge… the evidence that someone loves me is hard to measure, but it can be very real nonetheless.”

Exactly. Insisting that there is absolutely no God because no one's proved it yet is just as stupid as insisting the world is flat because it doesn't look all that curvy beneath your own feet. And yelling louder than the rest of us doesn't make you more right or more rational.

I get what the article is saying about part of the problem being that those who argue convincingly in favor of religion being too quick to push a specific dogma or agenda. I sort of think that's analagous to what happens if you, as an individual, totally blow off or invalidate everything that another person is trying to tell you. Eventually, they're going to resort to screaming and being more and more ridiculous because they know they're not being heard. Or something.

I don't know. Modern atheists annoy me, partially because I feel like way too many of them only claim to be atheist because it's the hip thing to do.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see that analogy. It's reactionary, and dangerous, for all involved.

And I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling that way, lately, about the Hipster Atheist Scum.