Archive for September, 2007
Burma
I know I sometimes live under a rock but have emerged to find all this stuff about Burma (or Myanmar) turning nasty. I had heard there was something going down but didn’t realise the extent of the violence. My prayers are with them.
Posted: September 30th, 2007 under Social Justice.
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Stargate vs Fundamentalism
Since I set up the MythTV a few weeks back, I’ve been catching up on some late night SciFi. it’s taken me awhile to cotton on to the new stargate villains which are actually a fundamentalist religion kind of. The premise behind it is a bit boring but the outcome is that the [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2007 under Culture.
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Thoughts after the Australian Blogging Conference
I wanted to post this last night but ended up getting a migraine and going to bed. I’m a bit sad that I wasn’t able to just head on down to the Normanby after the conference for drinks with the blogosphere but I have a toddler at home who needs my love too.
During the [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2007 under Blah, Culture.
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Thoughts before Australian Blogging Conference
I’m on my way to the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT Kelvin Grove today. The conference is a fairly informal chat with some successful bloggers from around Brisbane mostly. I’m looking forward to meeting a few of the people behind some of the blogs on my RSS list. I’m also a little [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under Blah, Culture.
Comments: 1
Why I’m Voting Democrats
My friend Murray is running for the Democrats in this election in my electorate. This is probably not reason enough to vote Democrats and I think I might have even voted Green last election. The time before that I voted Democrats because I read all their policies and agreed with them more or [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under Moralising, Culture.
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Enter the atheists
I’ve just finished reading Ken Mcleod’s excellent post on 21st Century Atheism from back in July. I only recently found Ken’s blog and I’ve been working my way through the 30 or so links from that post to a lot of discussion of the so called New Atheists and their books (you know: God [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under Big Questions, The Competition, The Institution, Culture.
Comments: 2
What’s your God concept?
Everybody knows that the image of God as an old man with a beard sitting above the clouds is way out of fashion. But what kind of God do you think of in his/her place? For a long time, I’ve had this kind of idea that God is sort of a disembodied being [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2007 under Big Questions, Spirituality.
Comments: 2