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Zen Calculus

September 15, 2009

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about ego deflation in the last couple of days.  I was speaking with a friend of mine this evening, and she passed along this aphorism:  “10% of life is what happens to us, 90% is our reaction to it.” Now, what I’m wondering is if we follow the “kill [...]

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Faith for Christmas

April 30, 2009

Dear Santa, After much deliberation, list-making and sundry other things I’d rather not discuss in public, I’ve completed my Christmas List for this year.  I’m sure your jolly round ass will be happy to learn that there’s only one item on it. Faith. Yes, Santa baby, all I want for Christmas this year is faith.  [...]

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On Being Agnostic

March 24, 2009

I am agnostic.  An agnostic?  Whatever.  I’m open-minded about…well, everything.  Technically, this makes me a fence-sitter:  I neither believe nor disbelieve in “god”. Agnosticism basically says that there’s no way to objectively “prove” the existence or nonexistence of a deity (or deities).  This is not athiesm, which argues that there is no god.  Nor is [...]

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