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Please see group keywords if you are in doubt. en Vox Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:46:59 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6981ea80004.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Charmagne Coe) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6981ea80004.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6981ea80004.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:46:59 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fa968500be0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fa968500be0002-50si" alt="I don&#39;t know you, but we will love forever" /></a> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6973b570005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6973b570005-50si" alt="I don&#39;t know you, but we will love forever" /></a> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fae8c9962d000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fae8c9962d000b-50si" alt="&quot;Wounded&quot;" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I've been purposefully meandering on a spiritual path for several years now. I know there are things that I have left behind maybe for a while, maybe permanently, pieces of religion that confused and debilitated my life. I've come across so many i... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6981ea80004.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a306d9cb8f00fad6981ea80004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> family painting love watercolor god spiritual pastel eternity india ink heal universalism maternal freedom from religion artistic process http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696f0a90005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Koios) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696f0a90005.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696f0a90005.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:38:35 -0700 I often use terms that seem to really bother people: nothingness, chaos, suffering, meaninglessness, despair, etc. Why do these terms, which are so embedded in my philosophy, bother people so much? Well, most people seem to thing that there is so... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696f0a90005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696f0a90005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> religion hope life love happy philosophy atheism andre meaning atheist depressing suffering cheerful spinoza meaninglessness comte-sponville http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fad697a7200004.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Snowy) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fad697a7200004.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fad697a7200004.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:23:42 -0700 http://www.alternet.org/rights/90292/?page=entire Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Stop the presses! Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture! Hitchens announced ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fad697a7200004.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fad697a7200004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> hitchens http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fa968488be0002.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Snowy) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fa968488be0002.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fa968488be0002.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:21:23 -0700 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23968711-7583,00.html Nirvana out of American reach Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large | July 05, 2008 THE energy, financial and political woes that grip the US signal a decisive shift in wor... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fa968488be0002.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142cb7986a4700fa968488be0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> u.s. politics http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b8e90005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Koios) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b8e90005.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b8e90005.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:47:51 -0700 "If God does not exist, everything is allowed." Dostoevsky's character, Ivan Karamazov, said this while discussing theology around the dinner table in his father's house. Not surprisingly, Ivan is an atheist. Only an atheist would say this, rig... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b8e90005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b8e90005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> religion death love philosophy god foundation andre nietzsche atheist morals morality comte sponville http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96850b100003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Koios) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96850b100003.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96850b100003.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:47:20 -0700 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are close... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96850b100003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96850b100003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> spirituality religion philosophy atheism mysticism atheist religious spiritual mystic http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c225240e418fdb00fa968380fe0003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Christianity in the Raw) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c225240e418fdb00fa968380fe0003.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00c225240e418fdb00fa968380fe0003.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:52:26 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225240e418fdb00fad695ef340005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c225240e418fdb00fad695ef340005-50si" alt="Jack K2" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I haven't been blogging a lot -- we did the tag sale, i am now staying at the house with the dogs, and Jazz in July starts next week.... also, i took a little time with this one, and still i didn't finish it. Sigh. I was thinking of Jack Kerouac... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c225240e418fdb00fa968380fe0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> hipster jack kerouac norman mailer ginsberg the beats http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b3010004.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Koios) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b3010004.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b3010004.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:53:09 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398e40c69000500e398e48fb80005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00e398e40c69000500e398e48fb80005-50si" alt="The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Up until my freshman year of college, I had never questioned religion or tradition. All I really did was go with the flow: listen to the preacher, listen to the teacher, listen to my father, etc. I was never very religious, though--I didn't care ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b3010004.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e40c69000500fad696b3010004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> existentialism spirituality book life god atheism andre dawkins meaning atheist harris worldview comte sponville http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398d5bb27000500fad695c1a80005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Sheri) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398d5bb27000500fad695c1a80005.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398d5bb27000500fad695c1a80005.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:43:16 -0700 In Washington Post's section On Faith, columnist Susan Jacoby responds to data from the Pew Forum that indicates that 21% of Americans who identify as atheists say that they believe in a God. Wait... what? Susan responds with a complaint about t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398d5bb27000500fad695c1a80005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d5bb27000500fad695c1a80005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96838f8d0003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Koios) http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96838f8d0003.html?_c=feed-rss http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96838f8d0003.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:19:07 -0700 Society is a dialectic phenomenon in that it is a human product, and nothing but a human product, that yet continuously acts back upon its producer. Society is a product of man. It has no other being except that which is bestowed upon it by huma... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thought.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96838f8d0003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398e40c69000500fa96838f8d0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> existentialism spirituality religion life islam evil christian richard truth god muslim society christianity dawkins jew cycle atheist religious stages subjective objectivity four horsemen