Problems weighing you down? Stress taking its toll? Huge obstacles standing in your way? This week’s edition of the celebrated Hump Day Hiatus may help put things into perspective. It may be the most profound Hump Day Hiatus of all time. This demonstration project has been making the rounds of late, but if you haven’t seen it yet, it definitely …
Hump Day Hiatus
This video is a splendid reminder that there are still wild and untamed and beautiful places out there waiting for us to visit, whether in person or only through the mind. We may exist in a world dominated by a cubicle, a long and dreary commute, mind-numbing routine, or unrelenting stress and pressure. With that in mind it’s nice every …
Church of the Infinite Chasm
When contemplating the whole creation versus evolution debate, I sometimes think a good argument in favor of creation is that faith in a creator is harmless. A person could reason, “If there is a God, I’m covered. And if there is no God, no harm, no foul.” That’s pretty shallow reasoning, actually, but it’s also begging to be attacked: belief …
Church of the Infinite Chasm
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Legend has it that people thought Columbus’ voyage was doomed, destined to sail right off the edge of the flat earth. That popular notion isn’t quite true; for centuries before 1492 people had largely accepted the spherical shape of the earth. Many religious leaders of Columbus’ day (and earlier) not only …
Church of the Infinite Chasm
If you attend Church of the Infinite Chasm regularly, you know our mission statement. The gist of it is that there are several infinite chasms. One is between the teachings of creation and evolution. At the risk of stating the obvious, you can’t believe in both. Yet many people do exactly that. (So we’re wrong; you can believe in both. …
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Let us hope not. Why would anyone who cares about his health be a smoker in the first place? As posted yesterday, though, there is no shortage of people who seem to have little concern for their own (and their family’s) health and well-being, and then display further disregard for everyone by tossing their butts out the window to pollute …